I WON!!!

I won my first giveaway!!! I have entered quite a few, but I finally won one!!!!!!


I guess because tomorrow is my birthday! YAY for birthday luck!!!


I won the

 

giveaway for a Ruffles with Love tank!!! I am SOOOO excited!!!! :)

 

 

Thanks Kassie  and Elle Noel !!!!

 

 



Workouts and Weigh In's Wednesday

I forgot to weigh in this morning, I didnt go to sleep til late last night and Belle my lovely lab puppy ( 9 years old this summer ) is terrified of thunder and storms, so she woke us up multiple times last night starting at 1... I overslept a little because of that, so was in a hurry to hit the road and forgot it was Wednesday!

Its my birthday week, so I can be exempt from the scale! With what I ate for dinner I may not want to know anyway... I worked a late yesterday because I have alot going on and then the hubs picked me up and we grabbed dinner before heading to the airport to get my sister, her flight landed at 7:45, and its in a sketchy area, so I wanted him to come with me...

I did great all day yesterday, til dinner... Jake got pizza... and I got a bison burger, lettuce bun, with sweet potato fries, so not TERRIBLE, but high calorie, just under 700 according to MFP, I was still only at 1380 with this for the day so I would have been great had I stopped there, but then we went to Restoration Hardware, LOVE that store... and there is a Sprinkles next door... so we decided to go to the Cupcakery in Rice because if we were going to get a cupcake it would be our favs!

I am glad its my birthday week, that is how I justified my yummy cupcake... and my sister was so happy to be greeted at the airport with a cupcake! She did the cleanse with me, so she reacted to all the sugar the same as I did... but it was delicious!

 

 

 

Workout Summary:

Wed- rest

Thurs- run

Friday- walking around rodeo

Saturday- upper body weights

Sunday- walking around rodeo

Monday- spin 16.7 miles

Tues- bootcamp class

 

 

I havent been to that bootcamp class in over 6 months, and man does she kick your bum... burnt almost 700 cals in an hour, and did the class with 10lb weights! LOTS of sprinting done too- VERY sore today, going to stretch alot prior to my run!

 

 

Workout plan:

Wed- run

Thurs- spin

Fri- bike ride

Sat- 5k neon run

Sun - bike ride

Mon- run

Tues- bootcamp

 



MS 150 Training/ Recap of 2010 Ride

I have been slacking on my training... I FINALLY got clip in shoes and pedals put on my bike two weeks ago and went for a training ride, and I have been going to spin here and there, but I am in NO way ready for biking 150 miles over two days and its all happening in 30 days!!!!!!!!!

I made a training schedule yesterday- I dont want to slack off on my running because I still have another 10k Easter weekend AND I want to do a half this year, but I need to get better about my biking and start adding in more weights to strengthen my legs.

Went to spin for 45 minutes yesterday and tackeled 16.7 miles... felt good, but not ready for 75 a day two days in a row. I made sure to add a few 2 day in a row rides over the next couple of weeks because I remember the shear pain of trying to sit again the morning of day 2 the first time I did the MS 150 three years ago... it took me 30 minutes just to finally sit down all the way! I do not have a small rear end and those seats are made for people with small booties!!


A few pics from 2010 when I rode for the first and only time I have ridden so far...

with one of my old coworkers

 

lunch day 1

 

 

morning day 2

 

 

in AUSTIN!!!

 

 

FINISHED!

As you can see, this is the even that initially hurt my knee, I was 120 miles in and I dont know what happened but it started hurting, BAD, I sagged into the next rest stop and put biofreeze on it, took some ibuprofen (it was the strongest stuff they had), and wrapped it so that I could finish- I was not going to quit when I had done 120/150 miles of the ride... and its been messed up ever since... but I felt like I am strong enough to try this bad boy again- why not bike from Houston to Austin right? It is for a great cause- raising a lot of money for multiple sclerosis- my personal goal is $1,500 - $10 dollars per mile I am going to be biking, and my teams goal is $100,000! Feel free to make a tax deductible donation at my page: My donation page


I am excited for the next month of training and hope to keep my knee in good enough shape to finish out the ride!

Weekend Updates- Including GEORGE STRAIT!

Today there are going to be ALOT of pictures, this was a super fun weekend and we were pretty busy having a blast, my calories Saturday and Sunday werent great, BUT I was good all meals but dinner both nights- we went to a wedding one night and the rodeo the next... so I consider the weekend a victory!!!
Friday night we went to eat before the rodeo so I was able to get grilled salmon and veggies- we went to see the rodeo and Blake Shelton... two girlfriends and the hubs went with me!

 

 

 

bronc riding

 

 

Blake!

                                                

 

our seats were great!

 

 

Christina met one of the ropers and they chatted a while..

 

 

 

We spent Saturday morning at home- I was going to run or go for a bike ride, but I got the worst charlie horse in my left calf, so much so that its still sore this morning!?!? So I did the upper body workout I had posted on here last week and upped my weights. Then we watched some tv and relaxed and got ready for Suzy's wedding.

 



my baby boy at home trying to play online...

 

 

 

dinner time!

 

 

about to head to Suzy's wedding

Mr and Mrs Horne!



 

 

me and the bride!

 

 

 

me and my groom! :)

 

 

Sunday morning after church we hung out around the house til it was time to leave for the concert! I was so excited to have gotten these tickets its not even funny! I love George AND Martina!!!

We had to stop by the livestock show to see all the baby animals and visit the petting zoo again, because taking me to the rodeo is like taking a 4 year old! :)

 

All these were less than a week old!!!!

 

baby cow

 

baby sheep

more baby sheep



 

 

a 5 day old calf up close... so cute!!!

 

 

then the concert!!!! George even came up to our seats to visit us!!!! He chose us out of the 180 THOUSAND people there!!!!!! AMAZING!

 

 

 

 

Martina- she played for about an hour, Randy Rodgers only played 20 minutes... and both left you wanting more, but you knew they were making way for the man himself, so it was ok!

 

 

GEORGE!!!!

 

He was awesome... 

 

 

He started at 8 and it finished at 10:30 and as we were walking out we heard him come back for an encore, but since I had work today we left anyway... we think we heard him finish around 10:45 when we were walking to our car... its hard to NOT hear 180 thousand people screaming!

 

I have videos from the performance, but I am not sure how to do videos on here, will have to upload to youtube and try that later...

 

What a great start to my birthday week! Friday is my 29th birthday- I am working on a list of 30 things to do before I am thirty... anyone have any good ideas???

 

 

 



Advocare Results!

Official Advocare 10 day cleanse results:

weight loss 6lbs
inches lost 2

Pictures (before is on the left, after on right) - its a different shirt, I should have made sure to wash the other one, but I had worked out in it and didnt get to wash it yet, but its close!

 

I am VERY happy with my results and I will be eating cleaner from now on and just allowing myself a cheat meal once or twice a week from now on!

 

 

Yesterday  I had a doctors appointment so I got to leave work early, I sat and waited for the doctor for 2 HOURS! I was livid.... so after I went to the mall to pick up my James Avery charm bracelet that I had dropped off to get my Christmas charms added to it and I happened to go into Macy's by the shoe department and they happened to have  a HUGE sale... shoes below HAD TO BE BOUGHT!

 

 

Purple and gold tiger stripe shoes.... YES please!!! They were Guess brand, $110 shoes, I would NEVER pay that for them, they are fun, but not practical, but they were on sale.... for $25 AND I got an extra 20% off, so I got em for $20!!!!!!!! LOVE THEM!!

 

 

 

and since my appointment was in the afternoon I had a late lunch with my love around 1:30 before my appt.... cheat meal after the cleanse... CHUYS! we split steak fajitas- I only had 10 chips, and two corn tortilla filled fajitas, but was so stuffed the rest of the day, I didnt eat again at all yesterday!

 

 

 

Also got my first 10k's pictures emailed to me... most of them are horrible but these arent too bad...

 

 

 

crossing the finish strong, so glad to be done!!!!

 

 

Last Day on Advocare Cleanse!

I feel great, although I have always done best when I allow myself at least one cheat meal a week... so I am going to take what I learned this cleanse and eat healthier most of the time now, but I will go back to allowing myself a cheat or two a week- I actually want to do the "This is why you are fat" plan- which allows two cheats a week, but you eat super clean other than that and I like that idea, if I have a cheat meal to look forward to - it helps power me through tough days!


Food journal for yesterday:

I will be weighing in and taking measurements tomorrow. I am excited, I feel smaller and I know I have lost weight... I will definately do this once a year or once every 6 months. I will be eating clean most of the time from now on though. I feel AMAZING right now and I really believe its because I am eating clean. I know my calories have been low, but I usually have greek yogurt and cheese and that boosts them! I will try to eat more nuts or something today! I even had carbs with dinner to try to help yesterday! I made home-made sweet potato "fries" - I sliced my sweet potato in fry like strips and baked them in the oven with salt free Tony C's - they turned out really good considering they werent actually fried!


Also, my hubs comes home today!!!!!! I cant wait to see him!!! The past two weeks have drug on and on and on, I love and miss that man so very much!!!! Although my babies try to keep me happy and loved without him around:

Hank and Belle snuggled with me on the couch and Maddie kept coming by and giving kisses occasionally last night while I watched Biggest Loser on DVR and Millionare Matchmaker! ( LOVE reality TV- I need mindless tv when I get off work )

And then next weekend my sister comes in for my last 20 something birthday ever!! I cant wait!!! She sent my present early and I opened it on the phone with her last night:

one of a kind hand made card- she is so artistically talented!

 

and a silver TIGER ring! perfect!!!! :)

Advocare Day 9- and 43 miles!!!!

 

I started using Daily Mile in July of last year when I started training for my first Tri and I get weekly report emails giving me the total distance covered, calories estimated, time, and number of workouts... and I was pretty pumped to see the number I did on this email: 43.24 MILES in one week!! Thats biking and running, but still!!! I am excited about it! Just goes to show you that you dont NEED carbs to get in good workouts.

 

 

 

Food for day 8, I forgot to add the fiber drink in the morning. so add 70 calories... I will go back and do it myself, I just dont want to take another picture!

 

 

 

My son didnt think the Bachelor was as exciting as I did last night... he slept through it all, but he IS adorable!!!!

 

 

Speaking of the Bachelor, I didnt see him picking Catherine, but they seem happy, so good for them, I LOVE DES and cant wait til the next season!!!!! She was my FAV this season!!!!