Milestones Weigh In!

4 pounds this week!


It's Sunday. That means weigh-in day for me! Click here if you don't know about my milestones project. This week clean eating and a couple of workouts seem to have really paid off! I got to move 4 stones. So far in all that's 8 pounds down, 42 to go. This week my goals are to drink more water and eat more veggies! Wish me luck! :)


I can't do any upside-down crunches yet but this picture is.so.true! - Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

Fire Horse Questions

I was given a very interesting "mission" to answer these questions today!  Head over to The Fire Horse to read responses from some great bloggers!


1. Tattoos: Will they remain fashionable forever? How will you handle your kid getting one? And if you're kid-less, how would you handle your dog getting one?

    I do think they will probably be fashionable forever.  (Unless one of those cancer studies is done on them.  At this rate, pretty much everything causes cancer.  I can't believe I've gone off on a tangent this early on into the questioning! )  I don't have children so I can't say for *sure* that I won't change my mind later, but my hubby has a tattoo that doesn't bother me at all.  As long as my children are adults when they make the decision to have one, I'm pretty sure I won't mind. 

2. The worst boss or teacher you ever knew.

    Worst teacher *ever* still probably lives in this tiny town so I will try to be careful with this one!  Let me just say that they didn't care about their job at all!  Showed up in ripped jeans and stained t-shirts, let the students run wild and make fun of each other, never checked our homework, and taught us nothing.  I still hate the subject to this day!

3. Who will play you in a movie about your life and how will it end?

    Hands down Melissa McCarthy!  I have ABSOLUTELY no idea how it will end!  It better be happy! 

4. What's going to be your retired look when you're as old as Betty White or Dick Clark?
   
     When I'm old I'm going to wear crazy things and there's not going to be anything anyone can do about it.  One day I was shopping in JoAnn's Crafts and I saw this octogenarian-ish looking woman wearing a purple velor tracksuit with pink rhinestones on it and TONS of huge jewelry you could tell she made herself.  She had this huge hair and lots of blush.  I have never forgotten her.  She is totally who I want to be when I get older.  I'm not saying I will wear purple tracksuits, I'm just saying I'm going to do whatever the heck I want!!

5. You're allowed to loot for a day - any city, any store and you don't have to fight zombies or rabid dogs.

    Alright, I'm sure most people may pick a very fancy place for this one but I'm going to have to go with one of those big box stores that everyone hates!  I'm talking Walmart, Sams, or Target!  Think of all the useful things I could get for my family and friends!  Computers, TVs, appliances, clothes, shoes for all the kids at the school where I work, food, free diapers, the list just goes on!

6. The world is at peace - what comes next, boredom or mayhem?

    I don't care as long as it means the political commercials will stop.

7. What drink goes best with a luscious sunset?

    I am no drink expert!  I only drink a couple of things so I'm no good at this.  Will you believe that I have NEVER had a drink while watching a sunset?  I need a bucket list!

8. If you could take credit for writing one book, composing one song and accomplishing one life achievement what would they be?

   I'm assuming the Bible is out as a choice for answering this....This is the only one I'm skipping out on because it's too hard!

9. What famous people share your birthday and what traits do you like or dislike that you have in common?

   I looked up my birthday and after I quick scan of the list one of the only names I recognized was Fabolous.  Since he's a rich and famous rapper, we don't have tons in common.  We ARE both human.  We both enjoy breathing air and being alive but I'm not sure we share much past that.  I read a wikipedia article on him and he's prone to twitter arguments.  So I would say we are both prone to emotional, public, over-reactions to things others said.  That's all I got. :)

10. A mistake or regret you hope your kids will never repeat.

    I can only choose ONE?  hahaha!

    ***Don't ever change yourself for someone else!***

11. You are commissioned to write the story line for "Where The Wild Things Are," for the screen. Let's pretend the Spike Jonze version never happened - we never made it to the end, anyway.

  um....pass?

One last thing:

Today was like

a punch in the face. Ugh...Mondays!

 It was stressful!  It seems like Mondays are always the time when personal family stuff collides with work stuff and life stuff and caffiene cravings and .....AAAAAARRRRGGGGHH!!

Oh, ok...calming down now.  I really do get myself worked up much to easily.  Let me give you an example.  Today, all day I dreaded going to pick up some wrestling trophies for Dustin.

 Reason being that the ladies who make the trophies live on my parent's street and I haven't seen them in forever. 

When you've gained weight it's no fun to see people you haven't seen in forever!  Just another reason I need to lose it! 

So anyways, I freaked myself out over it all day long.  I even had to call a friend to give me a little pep talk (suck it up and get into the store!). 

 I was also freaking out because for some reason I was thinking they may ask if I'd had any kids since I've been married for a few years and for some reason I always feel weird, like some complusion to explain that I have a couple of bum ovaries.  (Don't ask me why I would tell random people about my ovaries.  I'm an over share-er)

Pitter Patter

So, after all that mental trauma and HORRIBLE agony I put myself through?  What happened do you ask?  How was my life forever and irreverseably changed due to this one trophy-picking-up experience?

It. Wasn't. 

As usual, I got myself totally worked up over nothing.  They didn't even recognize me.  They just said, "Can we help you?"  and I said, "I'm here for the middle school's wrestling trophies" and she said, "OK, that will be $90".

Most un-exciting conversation. Ever.

Do they even make a medicine for this kind of crazy? I'm still giggling at myself!  Oh well, as I've been telling myself a lot lately, tomorrow is a brand new (and hopefully calmer) day.

Milestone Weigh-In

Lost another pound this week! Yay! I decided to use 'having more fun' this time. I hope everyone has a productive week.


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Saw Beauty & The Beast 3D w/Dad!

Definitely going on the list as one of the top 10 evenings of my life! I love this movie! Danced to the music with Dad at my wedding! Thankful for memories and my father.

{Milestones} Weight Loss Motivation Idea

Have you been seeing all of the great weight loss ideas on Pinterest lately?  That's January for you.  I started seeing marble jars similar to this super cute one popping up all over the interwebs:

 from: www.hotmessprincess.com

I wanted to add a little twist and meaning to mine, though.  I wanted to remind myself of all the positive things I was going to *gain* by losing this weight!  I needed to encourage myself with some positive thinking. 

So here's how it works!  There are 50 stones in my start jar.  One for every pound I need to lose (get rid of, conquer, stomp out, whatever!).  As I lose them, I move them over to the milestones jar.  Stones?  Get it?  haha.

This is my favorite part.  Every stone has a positive message written on it.  I love it because I will be able to look through them and remember all the reasons I'm doing this.  When I want to give up, I can look through all of these reasons.  AND I can remember that all my friends and family helped me think of them and they believe in me!  My husband even wrote a few.  These are things that are personal to me so you'd have to make up ones that will work for you. 

I've already lost 3 pounds!

1st pound, I never give up, and willpower.

After reading Hot Mess Princess's Post, I decided to add a jewel to represent my last pound.  Let's just call that one "getting my sparkle back!" 

Bad. Dog.

Thanks for looking at my little project everyone!!

I'll be linking up with:

 

Warrior Dash

See that countdown over there on the right? 

Told you I was going to shake things up! :)

I decided to do the Warrior Dash!  It's a kind of crazy, muddy, obstacle-filled running event.  Here's a short video example:

So I made a facebook page to convince some friends to join me.  There are 5 of us locked in to go so far.  I think we'll have a lot of fun!  Everyone else is already training....I just have to wait a few weeks until the doc says I am cleared....cross your fingers because I have a feeling it is going to be sloooow progress at first!