Just ordered a month gym membership.

I WILL be someone that in the end, people look to for motivation with weight loss. Because I am starting my weight loss journey for the last time and I am going to kick its ass. :) Heading out to the store to buy some stuff to set up a cute little motivator. Pictures to come! What? I am ACTUALLY going to post pics on my blog..I know right?! I will also be taking a before picture. I am going to find an outfit. And I am going to take it. Then I will keep the clothes and take an after photo with them. I am doing this ultimately for MYSELF, but I think I may even put in on pinterest with a link to my blog in the end. You never know who will see it and maybe start their final kick to their weight loss and healthy life journey!

Inspiration

So I had a friend on Facebook post a free 7 day clean eating challenge. I met her at OSU, we had a couple classes together there. I signed up for the challenge and it was fun. The online community was great, even though I didn't know any of the people, it was fun!I am not sure how much weight I lost on it, but I weighed in one day, and 17 days later (this would be half way into the challenge) my scale told me I had lost 5 lbs.!!

It was such a nice surprise! And I have been getting pretty excited about eating healthier and trying to start working out, that I am thinking that this may be my time to finally get where I want to be physically!

I should add in that I have been diagnosed with TMJ. So another good motivator is the fact that for my jaw's proper healing, I should be eating soft foods and liquids for the next month...maybe longer. I found a good daily vitamin and protein powder. The protein powder and my blender cup are on their way in the mail. I cannot wait for a nice easy breakfast to go. And it will be perfect for post workout!!

So, I would commit to trying to blog every day, but I think I will just start with eating healthy and eventually getting to the gym. Baby steps. I think one of my problems in the past is I try to jump in too far, too fast...and it leads to me back to junk food and not working out.

I am going to focus a LOT on stretching before and after workouts this time around too. With grooming and needing to be able to pick up 120 lb dogs some days and hold dogs down, I will need to not be in terrible pain. Hahahaha, so wish me luck with that!! Oooohhhh, I bet warm bath soaks after working out will help too! And get rid of the gym staaank. Hahahaha :P

Tomorrow is my first day at physical therapy for my TMJ, so we will see how that goes too!

ZUMBA...

Kicked my butttt tonight. I was TERRIBLE today and only ate once before it at like 1 om today. work was super busy...I worked from 5 am to about Noon and only got ONE ten minute break. Since I THOUGHT I was going to get a lunch today (because I SHOULD HAVE LEGALLY) I didn't eat on the one break I got at like 8 am this morning.

I was very careful while in Zumba to pay attention to if I got light headed or not, so don't worry. And this is NOT normal for me...I love eating. Anywhoooo, after the gym, I went to Market of Choice to get some ingredients for a pasta salad, and TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT LARA BARS!!!! OMG. I was so excited to find a coupon for them and they have a new (to me at least) line that is called ALT. It is packed with extra protein! So you bet your sweet bottom that when I got out to my car I RIPPED that puppy open and consumed it.

What are Lara bars you might ask...they are delicious and every one of them is vegan! So they are kinda like a sports bar (some are, others are purely just a healthy wholesome dessert alternative i.e. the Chocolate Hazelnut one I also bought haha) I am just so happy that I remembered about them! I have an energy bar that I have a HUGE selection from....I don't even know how any flavors they have now! The first time I got one they had mayyyyybe five...and now I would have to say there is AT LEAST 20! But back to the point, I can have any of them, and not have to worry about nasty extras that aren't necessary and I know that they are vegan. There aren't many things in the vegan world that are that easy! LOL, so it is super nice!

Do I regret not doing the other workouts? NO WAY!!! I can tell that from 30 minutes cardio and then an hour of Zumba was at least equal to five of those videos. Would the videos take less time? Sure, yeah they would....are they as fun? NOPE! I really love Zumba!!

Anyways. I gotta get to bed for early wake up.....tomorrow is my FRIDAYYYY!!!! Woop woop!

Goodnight!

It has been a little while....

So I have decided to stop doing the Hiit workouts. On Thursday I went to the gym with my friend Maria. We did an hour long yoga class and then about 35-40 minutes of Zumba right after! OH, and since I was so early, I did like 12 minutes on this weird almost elliptical machine...But, either way...that was WAY more of a workout. I do believe that for people who are short on time that the Hiit workouts are great. For the results I am reaching for though....12 minutes isn't a real cure. So, Monday through Thursday, I will be attending yoga and zumba each night! Plus, it is way more fun to do it with someone else!

Yoga is something I have been wanting to get involved in more for a while, so I am excited to become more and more flexible each class! I did have a hard time towards the end with not moving around and staying still haha. Annndddd I definitely hurt my right knee, but luckily it feels better now! I think I shifted too much weight onto it in a pose or something.

I won't lie.

Yesterday I didn't do the Day 4 workout. So now I have double work to do today!

I had the worst day at work ever today and wished I could have just put my two week notice in right then and there. Days like this are when I wish I was a YouTube beauty guru so that I would love my job (Do they even make money? I assume so?!). Hahahaha. Too bad I am not cute enough for that!

Short post today. I am still trying to pump up my mood and I don't want to be a Debbie Downer on here :)

Day 3 complete.

Today was harder mostly because I am still sore and had to completely take out one of the exercises due to lack of equipment. But like the last two days, I have made modifications and kept moving. :) I am preferring the trainer Melissa so far but mostly because of the fact that her 10 second rest isn't a rest, it is a 10 second plank! And I have enjoyed her exercises more, like Spider-man kick throughs! Those were a lot of fun hahaha.

But I have still only been doing the one video. I think for another day or two I will stick to that to get more comfy..then I will through some extra stuff in :) My muscles have been hurting so I am nervous that I may injure myself from over doing it.

OMG! My Bobble water bottles should get here tomorrow!!!! Thank you Amazon Prime shipping!! :)

Now I am off to watch another episode of Scrubs and get to bed so I can rise early and shower before work! And by that I mean get up at like 3:30 am since I work so early! o.O

Bobble!

For Christmas I got a gift card to Amazon.com from my stepmom's brother. Just the other day I went to get a glass of water from our tap...and ohhhh myyyy GOD. It was awful and had a slight bleachy taste. So that was where I drew the line of not having some sort of water filter in the house!

I was looking into the filtered jugs like Brita...but then I thought, water about the filtered water bottles?! I found out about Bobble bottles (they also make a pitcher I was looking into) So basically I was sold on the Bobble jug, but then I did the math of how many liters of filtered water we would get through the jug versus having our own water bottles. For the price the individual water bottles will get us WAYYYY more filtered water!

I decided to use my Amazon gift card to buy them and I found a killer deal! Two water bottles each with a filter, as well as two EXTRA filters! Only $24.99 with FREE shipping through Amazon Prime! :) Normally the bottles are about $20 each and a two pack of filters is about $10, so I saved 50%! :) Oh and the water bottles are 18.5 ounces each, so it is a good thing that the filters last for a while!

I will still be using my 750 mL Camelbak water bottle at work since I can get filtered water there, so my Bobble will be saved for use at home so I am not drinking nastiness.