What an exhausting past few days it has been! I can't believe that I can actually say that next week I will be out of Kodiak and leaps and bounds closer to my son in Florida! It absolutely makes my heart skip and beat and my stomach just do a flip in there! Ahhhhhh. Kodiak has been a place of torture, boredom, beauty, strength, hate, lonliness, tragedy, love, and imprisionment. I have met people that I'd rather never see again, I have made a friend or two for life and I have learned how to appreciate what I have and the things that God has offered us in this life. Finally my husband and I will be able to have dates where we don't have to hike the same mountain or watch a lame movie just becuase and actually have a choice! I will be able to play outside with my children more often than not and my child will be able to expierence what the world has to offer. Don't get me wrong though I am very happy that I was able to miss all of the things that the world had to offer because I was stuck here with a big pause button on my life, but I was able to truly dig deep inside myself and change for the better and have become a person that has grown over time.
Off to another note. I like to workout at home only because I don't feel like I am getting stared at with googly man eyes! Or being judged by girls (I am not being talked about in the sense that I am too skinny). I think I made one girl uncomfortable and she walked out today it was rather weird I think she was about to lift weight and then opted not too. Oh yeah I went to the gym today! HA HA. The movers packed away all of my workouts that I had set out to do on the road trip. I had to re-order another set of only one that I'll gift to my sister or something LOL but I needed something if not I know that I'd gain weight. It did feel good to pump some iron and run......not so much on the treadmill because today I felt like a hamster but still it felt good to get my heart rate up! I haven't done a solid workout since the movers came and it was REALLY Nice to get some stressful energy out!
BAH On ANOTHER note I totally was looking into the Ultimate Reset that Beachbody offers. It seems like a pretty solid program, you get to eat 1500 calories and you just totally reset your body. I have this devil of a craving for sugar and it is getting pretty out of hand to the point where I am now realizing that I am SUGAR CRAZIE ha ha! I really need to stop that but I think I am going to get started on this bad boy here soon! No more energy drinks and a better overall look at the foods that I am ingesting and how it is going to effect my life in the long run.........I'm kind of excited to see! I think I am going to order it now and toy with some of the recipes so that I can get adjusted and prepare! I can't wait to start it! I have never done anything like this so.......no excuses July it's happening :D
May 21, 2012
May 14, 2012
Moving!!!!
Being in the military enables my family and I to move around and after being in Kodiak for the past three years I can REALLY say that I am glad the military moves us around!
Boy it is stressful though! We are going to be without our belongings for 2 months almost so we have to decide what to bring with us and what we can stand to be away from for the next 60 days while we visit with family and friends and drive clear across the country! What a feat! I have to make sure that we have everything that we need in additon to making sure that it fits in the car because our beginnings of travel will be sans the dog and the last leg we will have Kona with us......(UGH).
We live in a house that the military provided us and one of the worst things about it is that we have to make sure that everything is SPOTLESS but this isn't a normal type of spotless this is military spotless which is CRAZY!!! I mean it is just tedious the things that they have on their checklist.....take grass off the fence in the backyard......is that really necessary? ha ha.
Working out is going to be my saving grace and my go to thing to do when I get too stressed out. I used to smoke and drink a lot but I feel that working out gets me to think and I am able to analyze what to do next which calms me down and lets me refocus.
For nowm I am literally a wreck and now I do understand that moving is a very stressful moment it life. I am very lucky that we have movers coming to pack all of our things, which takes one less stressful piece off my plate. I have pretty much set up my families move on my own which I feel accomplished for, but man it is one big ball of stress that I am under. Making sure of everything is a pain. I can't wait to be on the road driving far away from the stresses that moving and living in Alaska has brought us.
On a different note I have a photography session today with a family that has wanted me to take pictures of them! I couldn't be more excited to take pictures of them!!!! It will get me away from the mountain of things that I have to do around the house which now is a God send!
Boy it is stressful though! We are going to be without our belongings for 2 months almost so we have to decide what to bring with us and what we can stand to be away from for the next 60 days while we visit with family and friends and drive clear across the country! What a feat! I have to make sure that we have everything that we need in additon to making sure that it fits in the car because our beginnings of travel will be sans the dog and the last leg we will have Kona with us......(UGH).
We live in a house that the military provided us and one of the worst things about it is that we have to make sure that everything is SPOTLESS but this isn't a normal type of spotless this is military spotless which is CRAZY!!! I mean it is just tedious the things that they have on their checklist.....take grass off the fence in the backyard......is that really necessary? ha ha.
Working out is going to be my saving grace and my go to thing to do when I get too stressed out. I used to smoke and drink a lot but I feel that working out gets me to think and I am able to analyze what to do next which calms me down and lets me refocus.
For nowm I am literally a wreck and now I do understand that moving is a very stressful moment it life. I am very lucky that we have movers coming to pack all of our things, which takes one less stressful piece off my plate. I have pretty much set up my families move on my own which I feel accomplished for, but man it is one big ball of stress that I am under. Making sure of everything is a pain. I can't wait to be on the road driving far away from the stresses that moving and living in Alaska has brought us.
On a different note I have a photography session today with a family that has wanted me to take pictures of them! I couldn't be more excited to take pictures of them!!!! It will get me away from the mountain of things that I have to do around the house which now is a God send!
May 1, 2012
Kodiak
Exercise
I have not always been a fan of exercise. When I was younger I didn't have too. I could eat what I wanted and I didn't gain a thing even though I REALLY wanted too. Then I went into the Army and turned into a bad ass workout junkie because I HAD to! It's all good though I didn't mind at all I got paid to be in shape.
THEN I had kids.......I am definitely taking my workouts more serious now that I have had enough with my baby belly and I am so bored here in Kodiak that I decided that I could keep gaining weight or I could lose it so I opted to lose and be the best me that I could be.
So how do you turn that light bulb on? I don't know what you have to do but it has to come within you. When you exercise it HAS to be something that YOU enjoy doing. Don't follow a trend. If you like dancing find a dance class or a dance DVD or throw on the Wii. If you prefer something low impact than go walking or do yoga. At the end of the day you have to do something that you ENJOY. Working out shouldn't be a chore it should be something that you enjoy. I started out with running because the Army made me, when i was losing weight on my own I did the elliptical at the gym and used the Body for Life Women book (I felt silly carrying it with me in the gym) and I did the exercises as described and I learned the principles of weight lifting and I was hooked. I have tried many things hiking, rollerblading, walking, running, Zumba, P90X, Taebo, The firm, Brooke Burke. I have done many it's trial and error and you have to figure out what fills your workout happy tank!
I would suggest thought at least 45-60 minutes and at least have 3 days of some type of weight lifting in there. Don't be scared it won't make you look like a bodybuilder. You have to work out a specific way and eat a certain way to gain they type of body. :) I know.......because I am a personal trainer
Until next time........
THEN I had kids.......I am definitely taking my workouts more serious now that I have had enough with my baby belly and I am so bored here in Kodiak that I decided that I could keep gaining weight or I could lose it so I opted to lose and be the best me that I could be.
So how do you turn that light bulb on? I don't know what you have to do but it has to come within you. When you exercise it HAS to be something that YOU enjoy doing. Don't follow a trend. If you like dancing find a dance class or a dance DVD or throw on the Wii. If you prefer something low impact than go walking or do yoga. At the end of the day you have to do something that you ENJOY. Working out shouldn't be a chore it should be something that you enjoy. I started out with running because the Army made me, when i was losing weight on my own I did the elliptical at the gym and used the Body for Life Women book (I felt silly carrying it with me in the gym) and I did the exercises as described and I learned the principles of weight lifting and I was hooked. I have tried many things hiking, rollerblading, walking, running, Zumba, P90X, Taebo, The firm, Brooke Burke. I have done many it's trial and error and you have to figure out what fills your workout happy tank!
I would suggest thought at least 45-60 minutes and at least have 3 days of some type of weight lifting in there. Don't be scared it won't make you look like a bodybuilder. You have to work out a specific way and eat a certain way to gain they type of body. :) I know.......because I am a personal trainer
Until next time........
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