Cats Out of The Bag!

The absence of posts here is definitely related to the absence of my motivation and will power to do, well, anything at this point. The last couple of weeks have been tough on several fronts, so I am going to spit the basics off to bring us up to speed.

Last Monday, one of my best friends from high school had his first son! Went to visit him at the hospital and take him and his new family lunch.

Got food poisoning from said lunch and spent Monday night dying in the bathroom and Tuesday and Wednesday re-cooperating and losing about 5 lbs!

Broke down and joined a plus size boot camp, wasn't all that is was cracked up to be. Attended the Monday session, missed the Wednesday session due to death by Taco Deli and attended the make-up session on Saturday, which happened to be a different class. The class was Tabatas and it ruled and I've switched to that class on Tues/Thurs/Sat, SUPER EXCITED. This is my red face after getting my ass kicked.

So as of lately, I am trying to eat things like this...

and these yummy Kix to crave my appetite. Probably not the BEST choice, but a vast improvement from before.

I'll keep you posted. :)

A Week In The Life...

This blog has a cloud hanging over it. To lift the spirits around here, let's talk style! Here is a week in the life on my inner-pinner. This is what my wardrobe would look like if I could recreate my pinterest finds!

Monday

To shake the weekend mode off and get back into the swing of all things work related, I would adorn myself in a sweet and sophisticated number like below. The structured shirt tucked and belt look keeps me crisp, but that animal print skirt says I had a FUN weekend and the FUN ain't over yet!

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Tuesday

Tuesday puts me back in the swing of things and my black pants are screaming for a POP of color on top. I may be working like a dog, but there is LIFE in this little mama.

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Wednesday

Wednesday means it's almost over and to celebrate I WILL be meeting my girls for some hump day cocktails. To keep my high spirits in tact all day I'm sportin' an eye catching outfit. Peplum is HOT and who can take there eyes of that neon skirt!

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Thursday

Thursday puts me that much closer to FRIDAY! I am letting the lax of the weekend slowly slip into my mood and my wardrobe. A relaxed fit top and some cropped slacks fit the bill nicely.

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Friday

Oh it's FRIDAY! And the throwback college girl in me is ready to the throw the hair up in a messy bun, pull the jeans on and a cute top and chillax it all the way to 5 O'clock. So I do just that in a workable manner.

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Saturday

Hot date night with my main squeeze...enough said.

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Sunday

And Sunday commences with cute but minimal effort for whatever happens to come our way! A little Home Depot, maybe Bed Bath and Beyond...clearly we don't know if there will be enough time. ;)

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The LONG Road Ahead

I am going to refer back to my very first post and wonder WHY ON EARTH can't I be one of those weight loss bloggers who decides to change and sticks with it? What magic piece to this puzzle am I missing? I think it goes without saying that I did not stick to my goal of walking five times a week, for two weeks straight. My choices are I can beat myself up about it or, I can accept that it didn't happen this time, reflect on why it didn't happen and make changes accordingly to give another go, right?

I have noticed, especially these last two days, that I am VERY dependent on Vance to help me achieve this goal. I need to work on being more self reliant. He's been feeling a little off this week and opted out of walking on Tuesday and Wednesday and surprise, surprise...so did I. I couldn't just leave him on the couch all cute and cuddly!

Please excuse our dirty laundry!

I like when Vance goes for a couple reasons. One, I'm kinda partial to him, two he pushes me to walk longer and three, we seem to have some pretty good convo's on our little walks. We make all sorts of plans... money plans, budget plans, dinner plans, weekend plans, 2nd house plans, its a planners dream!

When I walk I tend to max out an an hour. On average, I'm good for a solid 45 minutes. When Vance comes with me, I'm guaranteed a hour and a half, it's brutal, but I do it and it feels somewhat miserable great after! Needless to say, he is a valued asset, but I need to start relying on my own assets, I have plenty, to accomplish my goals.

So it seems the long road ahead just keeps getting longer. :( I don't know how many washes I am going to give myself, as of right now, it seems like as many as it takes. So I will call this week a wash, reset the goal and  hope for better results next week.

What are you guys doing to stay on track???

I'm Here

Hello all! Just wanted to drop in and say I'm here. I've started about 4 or 5 posts and quickly deleted them for lack everything, basically. I have only walked once in the last 12 days, which is TERRIBLE. I had a birthday in between now and then, which sent my schedule into a whirl wind and haven't quite been able to get it back on course. But we went for a pretty lengthy walk last night and it left me missing it. So hoping the progress will continue through the week.

That's literally all I've got for now. I think I've found myself in a bit of a funk and desperately trying to make my way out of it.

Let me know how you guys are doing!!!!! I need some positive peeps right about now.

Keep on Rollin'

After my two hiatus last week, it was SUPER important that I quick jump back on the bandwagon, as to not lose any momentum. I spent the last hour of work on Monday, mentally preparing myself to get home, eat dinner and then WALK, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk. As I shut down my computer at about 10 til 6:00pm and headed out to the parking garage, I was confronted with this...

The storm was rolling in. Thunder, lightning, and sideways rain! Not quite sure how I didn't hear or see this while in my building, but it looked horrendous. I drove home as quickly as possible, but with most of the drivers going a whopping 30 mph, it took a little longer than usual. The trip from my car to inside my house left me dripping wet from head to toe. Which is only about 15 feet. And the lovely weather proceeded to hold up for the next several hours. End result, no walk. :( That made three days in a row and I was starting to get a little perturbed. So perturbed in fact, that I managed to not get to sleep until 3:52am on the dot. 

That left Tuesday a blurry mess. I surprisingly shot out of bed at 7:00am all bright eyed and bushy tailed and made it through lunch with no problems. But 30 minutes after I got back, I was ready for bed. For the remainder of the day I was did everything I could just to stay awake, it was sad and miserable. You can imagine my enthusiasm of today being the day I had to start walking again. We ate a terribly delicious dinner of delivery pizza and then I literally dragged myself from the couch to my bedroom to change. It took a good 20 minutes to find my motivation and mostly it was found in my super cute socks. Aren't they cute!!! Hey, it's the small things.

Because of all the rain on Monday, it was so muggy outside. Disgusting, really. And not to mention I pretty much whined the whole time. Lucky Vance. But with his help, I made it through. It was even probably the longest walk I've done. And left me looking a little less than pretty. I glistened, and not the good, sexy kind.

All I can say is I did it. Not an hour after I got out of the shower, washing the ugly off, it started to pour again. Hopefully the rain showers are over with for a while, all though it's worked wonders for our yard.

Now onto my next little obstacle, this guy...

He's been starring at my for quite some time. I don't like the scale for all the obvious reasons, but the main one being is I don't want to become focused or obsessed with a number. My goal here is to be healthy and happy, not 100lbs and a size 0. At the same time, I want to be able to watch and track my progress. I know I have even begun to change my eating habits, but I know adding this cardio into my life has to be having some sort of impact, right. I mean to go from NO physical activity to walking for 45 minutes or longer, 5 times a week has to be making a change. Not sure what I'll decide and how often I'll decide to do it.

What do ya'll think. Any suggestions on the scale issue?

Lazy Weekends

Our weekend can pretty much be summed up like this...

We had every intention of making our way back down to the lake this weekend. Friday we were just too tired to make the trip after work. We had dinner with some friends and then enjoyed a very mellow evening at home. Vance on the couch watching terrible tv and I in the bed intently reading. At around 11pm, Vance joins me in bed and at about 11:30am he shoots out of bed and runs to the bathroom. I barely have the energy to muster, what's wrong? Not only did our sewer line back up, but it has backed up so much so that our shower and bath tub were sitting rivers of SH!T. I'm not sure how we didn't notice or smell in until then, but soooooooooooooooooooo glad that he did, when he did, because we were VERY close to things being WAY more difficult then they already were. Vance worked his handy man magic and was able to get the standing shit sewage of out the shower and tub. We slept with one ear and eye opened for the rest of the night.

The next morning we called our local plumbing specialist, ABC Home and Commercial Services, and we were quickly put into queue. Needless to say we weren't all that willing to leave the house for the rest of the weekend, for a couple of reasons. 1.) A plumbers visit to your house on a Saturday is not the most inexpensive ticket items and 2.) The thought of coming back from the lake house to a flooded house was not at all appealing. So we stayed in town and laid low and it was actually quite relaxing. We had a little visit to the puppy park, I did a little birthday shopping (which I wasn't supposed to be doing) and we visited with a few friends we hadn't seen in a while. All in all, a unexpected GREAT weekend.

What DIDN'T happen, I hate to inform you, was my 5 days of walking. :( The holiday I think threw me a curve ball. My week went a little something like this.

Monday: Walked

Tuesday: Walked at lake house

Wednesday: OFF

Thursday: Walked with New Shoes :)

Friday: OFF

Saturday: Walked MILDLY at the puppy park

Sunday: Walked around the mall. ;)

So at least I didn't just lay horizontal, I didn't really suit up and give it my all either, though. :( On Thursday, the new shoes were giving me a little grief, which made me walk a little weird, which made me hurt a little more than usual. I'm a wuss, I know. So I think the lacked couple of days might have been a good thing. But I am shaking off last week's track record and jumping right back in this evening.

How was your weekend???

Hairrrrr Did

First things first, let's get the standard items out of the way. It may have hurt like the dickens to swing my arms back and forth for an hour, but by golly I swung 'em. Walk number four, check! GO, ME. One more to go and I will finish out the week successfully. The new shoes need to be worn in a little bit, but I looked pretty freakin' fly in them, and that's all that matters. Tomorrow we are headed back to the lake for a little more R and R and a lot my family time!

Now to the real subject at hand.

Anybody want to take a swing at what's wrong with this picture...

Here, let me help you...

Look at those ROOTS. Ignore the greasy/frizzy issue that is going on simultaneously, that one is actually fixable, on a good day. Next week I have a much anticipated hair appointment. I LOVE my hair appointments, for several reason. 1.) I am obsessed with the smell of hair color chemicals, 2.) My hairapist is like my therapist, so I always feel a bit of clarity when I leave and 3.) I look fly as sh!t when she's done. I am a bit of a hair whore. I can't seem to pick a length or a style or a color and stick to it, I want them and love them all. I grew and grew and grew my hair out for our wedding and simultaneously lightened it.

 About a month before the I do's, I decided I wanted to be a dark brown brunette for the wedding, good by hard work. 

Upon immediate return from the honeymoon, my hairapist freed me of my lovely lock burden and once again I was a length I was much more accustomed too.

Then we had a few phases.

We went red...

We went two-toned, my favorite...

And we have ended up here, with bangs!

So that has been my hair trends over the last two years. And guess what, now I am wanting to go lighter and go it back out. Here are the color choices I am leaning towards.

Via Pinterest

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So what's your vote? I apologize for the lot of me post, but I just LOVE talking about hair!!!!!!