Weekly goals and a new mat :)

Yesterday I bought a new mat, a thicker one. So I can be more comfortable doing abs and arm raises when doing my 30 shred workout. I have not gone on the scale in a little while but I do see my arms, legs and abs getting more defined. So even though this DVD is kicking my butt leaving me so sore the next day, I love it and it's working! :)

This weeks goals are:
* 5 days a week of home cooking ;) (I'm doing really well with this goal)
* 1300 - 1600 daily Calories intake (Tracking on Iphone "my fitness pal app)
* Limit Sweets, use 3 bite rule (Not really working out well, so I need this reminder)
* No FRENCH FRIES (yes, I still need a reminder for this)
* 3 days a week basement work out (Jillian Michaels 30 day shred video)
* 3 days a week 10000 steps on the pedometer
* loofah body scrub to enhance circulation (my skin is becoming verrry soft :)

Cookie deliveries for Haiti Relief

Sunday I helped my sister with her cookie deliveries. She raised $500 and donated it to RedCross for Haiti Relief Check out her Blog Here

We had a fun day traveling the city, chatting, spending time together and visiting friends and family.

We hardly took any pictures but we did take this pic at a red light ahah!

At one of our stops to my lovely cousin, we also received a little gift!Blueberries! She bought us both a delicious pack of blueberries. Yum! They made a yummy afternoon snack for me today:)


Short post today. Tomorrow I will post my weekly goals. I ate fast food this weekend :( I will do much much better this week. Hope you all are having a good Monday!

Happy weekend! Here and There.

Why do I have a BAG of chocolates! I know it's terrible! One of my amazing cousins brought my mom a big box of chocolates and when I went over to visit she gave me a bag to take home. How could I resist! I did however empty it a lot. There was at least 10 Areos in that bag, I took out 5 haha! This was Thursday night and so far I have not touched that bag :)


My sister over at Amandascookies4hope had a great idea to raise money for Haiti. She asked family and friends for donations and if they donated she would give them a box of her free homemade cookies! Well she raised $500 this week and I am going to help her make the deliveries tomorrow ;) Fun!

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I wanted to show off my new booties, my aunt gave them to me and I thought they were so cute. (don't mind my awkward stance ahah)

Happy Weekend everyone!

Psst. Watching Julie & Julia for the second time, love this movie!

The WINNER IS!!!!

AND THE WINNER IS!!!! EYEGIRL! @ http://www.lifeaseyeseeit.com/ Congratulations you get to get your butt kicked buy the 30 day shred!

I was going to use Random.org but since I had some people that did not want to be entered I thought it would be more fair to do it the old fashion way and enter the names in a hat!


Thank you all who entered! Give Aways are fun!

Happy Weekend!!

Wordless Wednesday and Update

I only have a wordless picture along with words below on my diet update :)

30 day SHRED OMG! I'm still on level 1 and I still can barely walk the next day after I workout. I do it 3 times a week and I'm feeling my muscles toning whoohoo!

(Don't forget to enter in my giveaway HERE.)

This week I am doing really well on my calorie counting so I am proud of that and I'm not having any grumpiness either! I do however feel tired, but then again I have been going to bed really late. I'm so busy when I get home from work and then finally I get down time later in the evening and I love reading my blog friends posts so I end up staying up so late. zzzz I need more sleep.

Coffee>>Before the holidays I really started to kick the coffee habit but because of the holidays I started drinking more of it. I currently have only 1 coffee in the morning but I find myself craving it in the afternoon, I rarely give in to that crave but really why am I craving another coffee!. (hmm obviously because I'm soo tired but still - So strange.)

Well I'm glad it's Thursday well in 20 mins. I'm really looking forward to the weekend.

Hope you are having a great week!!

Weekly Goals

Don't forget to enter the GIVE AWAY ABOVE! You Have Until Friday!! :)

Last week I was having a hard time with my calorie reduction. I started feeling really down and tired. When I finally increased it at the end of the week, I felt more alive. SOO weird! I'm trying really hard to find that balance and today I feel like I'm on the right track. I'm still going to aim for 1300 calories a day, but allow for 1500 even 1600 when I need. Today I'm on track for 1300 and don't feel at all hungry.

I brought cantaloupe and carrots and clementines for snacks, instead of crackers and nuts that have higher calories.

Dinner I made Chicken Parmigiana with olives. YUM AND I still have calories left for a piece of Apple pie and glass of milk :)

The weekend was very mild so I was able to get a LONG walk in. I can't wait for spring to get my jogs/walks back on track.


Here are my weekly goals:

* 5 days a week of home cooking ;) (I'm doing really well with this goal)
* Limit carb intake at dinner.
* Limit Sweets, use 3 bite rule
* No FRENCH FRIES (yes, I still need a reminder for this
* Cut coffee as much as possible and replace with Green Tea (coffee has crept back in ugh!)
* 3 days a week basement work out (Jillian Michaels 30 day shred video)
* 3 days a week 10000 steps on the pedometer
* loofah body scrub to enhance circulation (my skin is becoming verrry soft :)

30 Day Shred GIVE AWAY!!!

Last week I started thinking how fun it would be to start doing my own Give Away's!

I never did this before so I hope it goes as planned. Since I have been blogging about the 30 Day Shred I thought, how cool would it be if one of my blogger friends can win the DVD and do the workouts with me! And if you already have it, play anyway and win it for a friend!

So last night I went out and bought the DVD for today's Give Away!

All you need to have for this DVD is a MAT and HAND WEIGHTS :)

Ok, So this Give away is only offered to Bloggers and here are my rules :)

1. You must be 18 or older to enter.

2. I will ship anywhere in Canada and USA only (sorry to my other blogger friends, once I have more experience with Give away's I will have no boundaries)

3. The winner will be announced next Saturday (01/23/2010) and will be notified by email and also on my blog post.

5. Winner will have one week to respond with an address, or a second winner will be selected.

6. Now this is all you have to do:
a) Follow my blog
b) Comment on this post (if you already follow just leave a comment on this post to participate)

Please enter only once with your comment on this post.

Comments will be accepted here until 11:59pm EST 01/22/2010.

Please make sure you comment here and not on future posts.

7. Lucky winner will be chosen by http://www.randomizer.org/form.htm . On Saturday morning ;)

Good Luck!!!!!!

TAG I'm IT

New bloggy friend http://marlieandmommy.blogspot.com/

just tagged me to participate in this fun game.

The rules of this tag are that I must describe seven things about me that you don’t already know and then tag­ seven oth­ers to do the same.

I think I may have mentioned some of these things before not sure, I will try and think of new things I haven’t mentioned.;) Am I the only one that finds these games really hard to do??

OK 7 things I don't think I ever mentioned on my blog... hmm...

1. My 2 front teeth are veneers, Got hit by a flying rock(aka 13 year old boy throwing rocks and I was in the way)

2. I have a tattoo that I got after my dad passed, its sentimental but I’m not really into tattoos and it reminds me of a crazy time in my life, soo I’m considering getting It removed. (personal choice, I have nothing against tattoo’s ;)

3.The one thing that made me smile even harder than anything at my wedding was my wedding cake… oh wait, that's not something new ahah is it weird that anything with food makes me happy.. It was strawberry shortcake inside mmm mmm

4.I type with 1 hand. Trying to break the habit. I can use both but feels so uncomfortable, so I stick to 1.

5. I still have 4 of my childhood diaries.

6. I always straighten my hair, even if I put it in a pony tail. ahah

7. Ive had 2 operations, removed a cyst on my hand at 12 and my tonsils at 14.

Good thing it was just 7, took me a while to think of things! ahha!

Below are 7 new bloggy friends, check them out!

http://www.thehoneyb.com/

http://fattofitorsomethinglikethat.blogspot.com/

http://ourlittlemiraclekyliemarie.blogspot.com/

http://marlieandmommy.blogspot.com/

http://jennymayandswede.blogspot.com/

http://rockymountainmemoirs.blogspot.com/

http://lizssavvyseasons.blogspot.com/

PS. I bought the Giveaway prize today! I will post it this weekend!

The Sugar Doll Award!

Sweet Kimberly over at Terra del sole gave me another award! ;) The Sugar Doll award. Kimberly i a very smart and inspiring down to earth woman. I'm learning so much from her and just love reading her blog and her sweet comments too.

The rules are I have to tell you 10 fabulous things about me. I then give the award to 10 people.

Hmm 10 Fabulous things huh.

1. Zoe loves me! I know, call me crazy cat lady, but I only have 1 :) and she think I'm her mom soo she thinks I'm fabulous!

2. I love nature, parks and trails and Ocean and Sand...

3. I love my husband and very grateful for everything I have I thank God everyday

4. I have a loving family, we have been through tough situations and lost my dad when I was 21 but with time it only made us stronger. ;)

5. I find the cemetery a very peaceful place and is a place I can gather my thoughts (I swear the wind stops when I'm there and it's very soft and still)

6. I try my best to help others when I can, even if it's just lending an "ear".

7. I'm growing and learning so much every day.

8. I started working at 13 years old, I worked part time through high school and college. (not so fabulous ahhah) I have a WIDE range of experience. (Ice cream girl/Nail tech/Lab tech/Customer service/Qa analyst. Fun! ahah!

9. I love makeup, I always wear eyeliner and mascara :)

10. I love blogging and love all the amazing people I have met AND I introduced many of my friends to blogging and that makes me happy!!! :) So see below!

Some fabulous blogs!

Alessandra http://18stepstohappiness.blogspot.com/

create design inspire http://vxn3.blogspot.com/

Ant http://confessionsofadiet-aholic.blogspot.com/

Eyegirl http://www.lifeaseyeseeit.com/

Jessica http://farfallafiori3.blogspot.com/

Stephanie http://www.believinginserendipity.com/a

Amanda http://www.Amandascookies4hope.blogspot.com

Brittany http://brittsbeat.blogspot.com/

Nancy http://nancygrayce.blogspot.com/

Steph http://nottheoxygen.blogspot.com/

Found that pic on google and that is how I pretty much look and feel.

Last week I cut my calories by ALOT and started counting my calories in my Iphone app. Last week I did really well and this week I have been on track. However since Monday I have been grumpy and tired and totally not myself. I pretty much look sick too, people at work are asking me if I'm ok (ahah, no I'm NOT, I'm hungry! GRR) I even got not 1 but 2! cold sores, gross I know I get them when I'm overly stressed and now I guess when I'm overly hungry too ahaha.

From writing on my blog in the past I know I need to find that balance, I've talked about it before but It seems I keep trying new things and they end up flopping.

So today I decided to keep doing everything I'm doing just increase my calories a little bit more so I don't feel so starved!.

Next week I will start again with taking my measurements as well, that way I can track my total progress :)

Fun!

psst. I just had a cookie mmm mmm love my sweets!

Kimberly at Terra del sole gave me a bloggy award! I will post on that tonight.

And I'm still thinking of a giveaway that I want to do this weekend. I have some ideas ;)