Last part of the crazy 2 weeks!

1. 5k
2. Trip

3. Sickness

4. Weight loss!

So as I sit here eating some form of cookie dough blast 2.0 ice cream, I have some exciting news. No I am not one of the 1000 people that seem to be pregnant, so get rid of that idea right now! My news is way better, for me at least! Over the past month or during all of January I have lost 10 pounds! 10 pounds! Super exciting!

No crash dieting or diet pills, just good old fashion eating better, working out and trying to be healthier. I really want to loose like 80 more, yeah I know 80lbs sounds huge, but I would also me happy with 50 or 60! I think I might keep a little ticker on the side to keep myself accountable. 

Something I am going to change a little, is my commitment to MyFitness Pal. I really need to get better about tracking my food, because so many times I wake up thinking “why has the scale not moved? I didn’t eat anything today that was bad or crazy?!” I have to remember that even “healthy” eating has calories. I have to remind myself it is al relative. To be honest I have been eating a lot of ice cream lately with rob at night and that totally has to stop. Yikes! Also, when I get enough courage I will post my starting weight, current and goal weight. I mean no one reads this thing anyway, but I am still a little hesitant.

That treadmill is also calling my name, but I really have been to weak and sick to use it. =(  I am going to try this weekend! I have a lot of things going on this weekend, so I hope I can get that done.

Alright guys have a good night!

Crazy last two weeks! Part Deux!

So I am breaking my last two weeks up into multiple posts, because so much happened! The first one was about my first 5K and is here. Numbers  two and 3 and be really written together,since they happened at the same time lol.

1. 5k
2. Trip
3. Sickness
4. Weight loss!

So! My amazing little brother, Mark, is graduating from college in May, but because it is super expensive to travel to San Antonio during that time, and with Lena being 2 at that time means extra cost for flying =(. So, that being said we decided to take Southwest up on their offer on the 3-day sale and got a smoking deal for January! I am so happy Mark understands and gets that we had to do it this way, but he knows how proud I am of the future DENTIST!

So 48 hours before we left for San Antonio, Lena thought it would be the perfect time to get sick with an upper respiratory situation!SWEET! The first couple days of the trip were loaded with Mucinex and the Nebulizer with Albuterol! Thank the Airline Gods, because we got lucky, and there was always an open seat! BOTH WAYS!

While there we shopped and saw some cool things, hung out at my bothers house, saw the Alamo, went on a night time “Princess” horse carriage ride and chilled in the room. By Brothers House! Ha! OMG so funny, especially since 5 boys live together and it looks like that too! It actually makes me miss college, and not having responsibilities. However I taught them a few things while we were there! 1. How to cook in a crock-pot 2. How to open a Beer Bottle with a lighter (amateurs)  3. That they should always have protected sex, otherwise they will end up with a Lena! All the most important things in life. =) It was totally nice to get away and have some fun. I was stressful, because Lena was super sick and I started getting super sick. I think rob was getting a little frustrated with the mucus fest,but who can blame him right?

We did have one awkward situation happen to us. You know how you would do anything for your child when they are sick to make them happy?!Even if it means turning the extra walk in closet into “Lena’s room” by putting her car seat in there, covering it with a blanket, setting up a box as a “table”and hanging the potable DVD player from the Ironing board? I mean she though tit was cool and the whole week she kept going in there and saying “my room” or “ok bye mama and papa, my room” and even making me serve her food in “her room”. Weeeellllllll………so room service came one day to drop off some food we ordered, and Lena had closed the door and was trying to open it to get out and see who came by, and it sounded like she was locked in there on purpose. The room service guy gave me this really weird look and we both looked at the door, back at each other,and I yelled” well if you didn’t close the door on yourself this would not have happened” then I looked back at the guy and said “yeah, we Harry Pottered’ her!”he kind of gave this nervous laugh and took the check and left. I seriously though CPS was going to come LMAO! OMG!  Haha it was so funny! Well here are some pictures for you to enjoy!

Oh and to top it off I have Laryngitis!

Lena in her "Room"

Mark, Lena and Lana!

Lena watching her "Princess" ride

Little Model

Seymore the Horse

The Alamo by Rob

The Alamo by Rob

On the way home

Crazy last two weeks! Part 1

Hey everyone, sorry I have been MIA. However, I have much to go over! I am going to have to split these post up, because it is just too much to go over! So here comes number one!
1. 5k
2. Trip
3. Sickness
4. Weight loss!

So! I am so super proud of myself because I finished a 5K! A FREAKING 5K! Almost everyone that i talked to about the 5K said things like "you can walk it right?” or “Really, you think you can do it?”  Which is totally understandable since the last time I had to run a long distance was in HS and had to run the mile, or when one of my best friends Gigi (follow her blog! she is an AMAZING Stylist)made me freaking do run/walk sets to lose weight. What I am mostly proud of is that I set myself a goal and said I would do it no matter what. It was my thing and no one was going to tell me otherwise. I asked Gigi if she wanted to do it with me and her reply was “fuck no!” which is hilarious, because if you saw her you would wonder why not, especially since she is in AMAZING shape! Frick! Then I TOLD my husband that he HAD to do it with me. Like he really had a choice?!
I started training by running a little here and there and mostly walking on my treadmill to get my stamina up, since my number one priority was to first walk more than for 5 min. Then I got an awesome gift from my in-laws: The Forerunner 210 with heart-rate monitor! LOVE THIS THING! I track everything on Daily Mile, which you can see all the way at the bottom of this Blog and follow me!

The most amazing part about the 5K is that on the day of the COLOR RUN, it was pouring, and I mean like dumping on us, without avail. It was the worst. Rob looked and me and said are you sure you want to do this? I said “Shit Yes! I signed up for it, paid for it your parents donated towards it and I made it MY GOAL!” It was not easy, but I did it and it was the best experience of my life! I was so proud for not giving up and quitting, when so many people did. The extra 20 pounds of wet clothes totally did not help, and that I was freezing didn’t really bother me.

I am so happy for all the people in my life that texted me and FB’d me, telling me how proud they were of me that I finished. Thank you so much to my Husband who totally did not want to run on that rainy day and still did it, whilst voluntarily wearing bright neon socks so that “he could match me”.

Our Gear!

My next 5K is the Retro Run! Its March 2^nd in downtown Scottsdale, Lena will be joining me in the stroller this time!

After!