Weekly goal recap and new weekly goals

The week went pretty well, I am still tracking food on myfitness pal and having some decent success. I saw a slight loss on the scale this week would have been more had I got some more workouts in.


1-Log everything in to myfitness pal this week. I have had good and bad thoughts from this app over the years but I am going to give it a try again. I found a couple friends on there who I know will be supportive and deleted the negative from there. Logged food every day I didn't log food last Saturday or Sunday I watched what I ate but didn't need the extra stress of hang on while I log this during a day shopping with my cousin and then attending her bachelorette party.
2-Continue staying away from soda I have made it 15 days. Last week tested that with stress I really wanted a soda. Still soda FREE YAY!!!!! Stress levels were all time high with my office job this week but I still refrained. In fact it doesn't even sound good any more. I have my water all day, coffee in the mornings and then spark in the afternoon if I need a pick me up.

3-Get in a couple lunch time walks this week. Got in one on Tuesday before summer made an evil return and temps were 100 with heat index of 105 by noon each day. Saturday I did take the kids swimming and we were at the pool for 5.5 hours and I was in the water with the kids all but maybe 2 hours of that.

4-Bring my lunch daily which goes well with goal 3 if I walk at noon there's no time to grab fast food. So bring lunch and walk and its a win win. Success on that! Only had fast food once for lunch and made sure it was healthy.

5-Take time with each of the kids each night weather cooperating may do a few short bike rides. Time with kids yes, bike ride nope been way to darn hot they don't even want to go out. After a long day at school and hot school bus ride they are wore out when we get home.

6-Start stretching more regularly not liking that my flexibility is not what it was a few years ago. Improvements here for sure. I have taken time to stretch while at work trying to release tension from stress. Sat in the floor one evening while folding clothes and stretched my legs. I need to search some stretches and yoga poses I can do easily of a morning or evening.

Goals for this week:

1- Eat healthy 85% of the time for all meals and snacks. Finding that I am craving crap less and less which is good but now need to find some variety of foods to eat so I don't burn out on the few things I like.

2- Spend time with the kids find things to do with each of them every night.

3-Continue to stretch and research some new stretches and some yoga poses.

4-Track all foods and exercise in myfitness pal.

5-Try and find ways to manage stress better and not end up broke out in hives each day at work.

Weekly Goals

I haven't done a weekly goal post for quite sometime. But after realizing I had been putting everything and everyone else ahead of me its time to refocus. The weekend left me feeling like I have been run over a dozen times not real sure if I am getting sick or just the weeks of constant going non stop is catching up with me.

Goals:

1-Log everything in to myfitness pal this week. I have had good and bad thoughts from this app over the years but I am going to give it a try again. I found a couple friends on there who I know will be supportive and deleted the negative from there.

2-Continue staying away from soda I have made it 15 days. Last week tested that with stress I really wanted a soda.

3-Get in a couple lunch time walks this week.

4-Bring my lunch daily which goes well with goal 3 if I walk at noon theres no time to grab fast food. So bring lunch and walk and its a win win.

5-Take time with each of the kids each night weather cooperating may do a few short bike rides.

6-Start stretching more regularly not liking that my flexibility is not what it was a few years ago.

That's enough goals to get me started but not overwhelm me. Myfitness pal food tracking will be a challenge but one I am ready to tackle in the right positive way and not let it affect me negatively. If any of my readers is on myfitmess pal please find me would love to have more friends on there.

I will do a post later about my day with my cousin and her bachelorette party.

A brief catch up, pictures and soda........

Office job has been crazy busy before I left on vacation and even worse after I got back. But I have decided to take a mental break from the piles of files and post on my poor neglected blog....

The weekend before we left on vacation we had Blake's birthday party at the Fugitive Beach. We had an awesome time had a great pavillion that was right on the water and wasn't real crowded where we were. Blake loved it and it was a nice get away for all of us. I have tons of pictures on my camera that I will upload and post later but here are a few from my phone.

Here is Connie going down the big water slide its over 60 foot long. She was the first of many from our group to go down it. I passed not a fan of that kind of thing not to mention that location has bad memories....

The water is dyed blue and is sooo pretty.

Thankfully Blake wanted a simple cake. He really wanted a camo/hunting cake but liked the chocolate icing with orange writing and target on there. We had bought lots of pizza for everyone to eat as well.

 

 



On Blake's actual birthday I was off work, I had taken the Thursday and Friday before we left for vacation to destress and pack. So I took the kids to the local pool to swim both days!

 

Hard to believe Blake is 9!!!!! And Nathan will soon be 5!!!!!!!!
Blake had his last baseball game the night before we left, he definatly LOVES playing and can't wait until next season starts.

I got a Vienna paper on Thursday while in town and looking thru and came across something I didn't expect but was super sweet to see....

Connie thank you for the nice note to every one who helped that day. I am glad I was able to be there even tho it wasn't easy on any of us there and I wished so bad that I could have been able to do more for you and your family that day.

Saturday we left on vacation to Colorado. I haven't decided how I will do the posts for that yet may wait until all pictures are uploaded on to the computer then do a few breaking it up in to events and things we did while there.

And for soda.... Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE LOVE LOVE fountain Dr. Pepper and really want it when I am super stressed. However after a lot of thinking I have decided to give it up totally for now. Been having a big cup of coffee in the mornings with sugar and creamer but still figure one cup with sugar and creamer is less calories and icky ingredients than two big fountain sodas.

I haven't set a goal on how long I will stay away from soda just taking it one day at a time. I had my last soda Saturday morning and yesterday was the worst day I had awful headache! Monday night working all night and doing two back to back transfers I wanted one soooo bad. Thankfully the two people I was with don't drink soda which helped tons.

I also want to find a race to start training for something that will challenge me and make me find a plan, would love to find a friend who can help keep me accountable and be supportive and push me when needed.

Checking in

I have been MIA for a few weeks. Sorry about that but I do have some posts coming up. Blake's 9th birthday party, baseball as well as our vacation we took. I just haven't had the time to sit and put it all in writing. 

Catch up on life and 4th of July weekend

So it's been a long while since I posted. Last week was crazy busy I pulled a 100+ hour work week in 5 days. 66 hours at ambulance from Sunday to Friday morning and then my regular job. Was so glad to clock out 8am on Friday and know I had 3 days away from both jobs.

I told the boys I would take them swimming even tho I wanted nothing more than to take a nap we packed up and headed to the pool. 

The boys loved the pool. We met some of their friends from daycare there a well as kyler their cousin. They all had a great time and didn't want to leave. 

They didn't want to take a picture with me but I got one anyway. Nathan decided to take a break on my lap in between swimming. 

He shared some nachos and well had cheese all over. We finally convinced the kids we needed to leave and told them we would stop at yokidoki wish I would have thought to take a picture. It was the first time for them to have frozen yogurt and actually I didn't tell them until after. They thought it tasted just like ice cream. 

We went home to rest a bit then headed for the carnival I may or may not have been living off soda to keep me awake. The kids loved riding rides then playing games. I got to catch up with Kathy while she was working the pull tab booth. 

We watched the fire works then headed home. 

Saturday started out ok kids slept in which was so nice! I had to be at the fire dept to load up stuff as we were going to cook at an all school reunion in St. James that evening. We got there got everything set up and our pagers went off. The call was quite a ways from where we were Donnie and I stood there debating on going, his dad who's the chief said two could go and two could stay. Well Donnie said that he and I would go and take my car. Do I drive fast no not real fond of it even in the ambulance however he is since he's a deputy. So I flew and nope didn't look at how fast just held on and drove. Still not really sure how to put in to words about that call. I do know that I was glad we went glad I knew the area glad to have made a phone call to get a friend with a truck who also knew the area to help us get down to where we needed to be. I know all things happen for reasons and most time reasons we don't understand. I was glad to be a familiar face to my friends who are like family to me to be there to comfort them as much as was possible in that situation. It was also my first time to step up take charge of a call and get things done that needed done. At the time I didn't realize I was the leader, I didn't have seniority over our fire fighters there, but I was the one who stepped up I don't think anyone else knew what to do or wanted to do it. There was a lot of firsts for me that afternoon/evening things I hope to never do in my career again (even tho I know things like that will I can only hope its not involving close friends). We stayed as long as we could afterwards I felt bad leaving but knew we had to get back to help cook at the function in St. James. The way back to town felt like it took forever we decided to stop at Mobil and get us a fountain soda and got two small bottles of american honey to put in it. Not sure it helped either of us but it sounded and tasted good. I sat off to myself most of the rest of the evening wasn't sure how to process what happened going over what I wish I could have done but knowing deep down the outcome would have been the same. 

Comfort Zone

It's been a while since I posted between both jobs, boys  having ball practice and games I have lots on my mind but none that seems blog worthy.

Anyone who knows me knows I don't venture out of my comfort zone, I like my little bubble where I know how and what will happen and know I can handle it.

This week has been one where I have fallen out of my little bubble and tried some new things. Earlier in the week Nathan's tball coach told the assistant coach that he couldn't do the practice this week. She asked me if I would help her ha... Um I have never coached anything let alone be out on the field with up to 15 3-4 year olds showing them how to play. Lets not forget I never played ball in my life and sure didn't know much about it. Thankfully there aren't many "rules" in tball they hit the ball and run there are no outs or strikes.

So Wednesday night Nathan and I went to the ball fields and met the rest of the team. Up until then Nathan had been clingy during games not wanting to be on the field without me. We talked on the way about how he would have to be out there with his team as I would be helping all the kids. He did awesome he batted great with me then he went out in the outfield and I saw him interacting with other kids I was one proud momma!!!!! Now the real test will be if he can do that same thing tonight for the game...

Last night I didn't think I would have anything going on could go home and relax. However mid afternoon got a text from a friend saying they were a couple girls short for their co ed softball game that night. I had never ever played softball on a team for a real game. Sure we played some in highschool and junior high in gym class. I have always wanted to play but never gave it a try. So last night I sucked up my courage met the team. I only knew two of the players and thankfully they aren't real competitive team they do it for fun.

To say I was nervous is a huge understatement but I went out in the outfield and played right field. And yes I had to ask where that was! The rules are WAY WAY different than regular baseball and even different than Blake's bantam ball. But I just listened to the team and did what they said. I was the only left handed batter on the team. Fun fact... I am right handed at everything except batting and golf (only played golf once but found out I was left handed). I hit the ball each time up to bat and always made it to base!

Mid way thru the first game (we were playing a double header) the team asked if I could come back next week as they were short a player. I was shocked apparently I played well enough I was wanted back! We won the first game and lost the second, pretty sure that was the first game that team had ever won! About a quarter of the way thru the second game Kenny and the boys showed up to watch me. Blake and Nathan thought it was cool and well Kenny said I needed to run faster. Ha running on concrete or treadmill is way different than loose dirt plus I had old shoes on and I really need my good ones that have better support.

After the game the coach came up to me and said I really hope you can come back for the rest of the games this season! So I guess next Thursday night I will play another double header. I think this weekend and this coming up week I will work on running sprints and on my batting stance.

I never in a million years would have thought I would be a on a softball team but it was super fun and one heck of a workout! Not to mention doing something that makes your kids excited and them proud of you is pretty darn neat!

Vega Sport Review

This is the first time I have had the opportunity to receive a product to review and then blog about it. I am apparently bad about remembering to take pictures after a workout or maybe I am just insecure about pictures of just me. Which ever way I did post one to facebook before I forgot last week.

So thru being a Sweat Pink Ambassador I was able to review and try Vega Sport Pre Workout Energizer. The box said to mix the packet with 8oz of water and drink 20 minutes prior to workout.

I am not usually a big fan of these type of drinks however I was impressed. It took a bit of getting used to the flavor. I had never tried acai berry flavored anything before. It seemed to mix up well I did mix it with about 10 to 12 oz of water. I drank it and then went outside to play baseball with my boys. I tried this on a day that I was running off very little sleep (and little sleep for whole week) and was exhausted. Within half hour of drinking it I was full of energy and able to keep up with the boys. We played for over a good hour me pitching the ball to them and running after it and playing catch. Even after we were done outside I was still full of energy and was able to get some cleaning done in the house.

I would defiantly be willing to try out more of their products as they are all plant based. The drink mix i had was only 70 calories so very doable if you are watching calorie intake.

I didn't use my whole box of yet so I plan to use it again soon for a lunch time workout. My workouts lately have been outside with the kids running in the yard playing ball and riding bikes. However I think that the drink would be a great thing to have right before a race or even during a race if it was higher mileage race.

I liked that it gave me energy but no crash later, didn't have the shakes or my insides feel like they were going crazy. Defiantly recommend the product!