We all do it, so why not blog about it...

Let’s talk about poop baby, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the good things and the bad things that could be… let’s talk about poop!!!

And for those of you who just sang that, you get 1000 dollhairs!

Alright, seriously let’s talk about something that makes all the girls cringe and all the boys laugh… let’s talk about poop!

It is something we all do so just chill out… heck you might be pooping right now while reading this!!!

This is an area of my life that I have always struggled with. I have never had normal bowel movements… ever! They have been so bad that I remember being admitted to the hospital for stomach pains only to have the doctor tell my parents that I am “full of sh*t… literally”. Go ahead and laugh, I will wait.

Now as a grown up, I can go 3-5 days without going to the bathroom and it sucks!!! They said when I switched to a healthy life style things would get better… they lied! My husband, will eat a meal and then within the hour he is MIA (usually found in the bathroom). He sucks and I am so jealous of his mad skills.

And when I do go #2 (saying that made me feel like I was in elementrary school again) it comes like you just opened the damn at the river and doesn’t stop for about a day. I hate living like this. I have been to the doctor and I have had medicine to help me. I eat a clean diet. I workout. I drink my water. I get enough sleep. I just don’t poop (that much).

I got to thinking… does anyone else (besides my mom, hi mom) have this problem?

Do you know if your poop is healthy? Here is a good chart to help you determine just that and it might make you chuckle too…

Back to Boot Camp

My 1^st workout back at 5:30 am boot camp was a GREAT one!!! Here is what we did…

Ran/Jogged up and down a hill (about 1/8^th of a mile)

25 Hammer Curls with 8 pound weights

10 Leg Lifts with a ball between our feet

10 Leg Lifts passing the ball back and forth between your legs and arms

10 Reverse Crunches with ball between knees

24 Walking Lunges while doing Bicep Curls (I did Walking Squats instead)

REPEAT 4 times through!!!

Afterwards, we finished up with this:

25 One Legged Hops (25 on each leg)

25 Roll Outs (Lay on your back, put  your heels on a ball, lift your hips up and roll the ball back and forth)

25 Booty Lifts (feet staying on the ball)

25 Jumping Plank Jacks (on elbows)

25 Mountain Climbers

Stretched

The only part I really didnt like of being back at boot camp was having to see my trainers disappointing face when I weighed and measured... It wasnt pretty (compared to where I was the start of Feb) but it is what it is and I am back now. I can promise you this, come the start of May I will be back to where I was if not even better... March was a hard month and very hectic but it is over now and I am back to my routine!!

It was a great workout for sure!!! And now I am headed back to the gym on my lunch break to burn a few more calories with a couple booty and belly exercises.

I hope you are all having a happy & healthy Tuesday!!!!

No Cheats April

The fire is FINALLY back and I feel better than ever… and that is NO April fools joke!!!

Saturday night I had a mental breakdown in my closet and it looked like hulk went crazy with my clothes. I couldn’t find anything to wear because everything was tight. I will admit it, I have gained some weight since my wedding because I have been so relaxed with eating and working out… heck I could count my workouts on one hand for the month of March.

The breakdown could have either depressed me or re-light my fire… glad it was the latter one! I am not about to go back to my old way of living! Then Sunday my photographer brought over 500 photos from the wedding and I was in awe of how I looked. Not because I am vain but because I couldn’t believe that was really me. All my life I dreamed of looking that good on my wedding day and it happened, I made it happen. Seeing those photos was just the push I needed (along with Saturdays episode) to push me back on track.  

Yesterday I made good choices all day, even turning down Hobby Lobby for the gym and turning down a Nutter Butter that Caleb offered me. I went to the grocery store, stocked up on food and spent the evening cooking all mine and Casey’s meals!

Also, I made a pact with 2 of my best friends that April will be a NO CHEATS month. Yep, you read that right… the month of April, I have decided to not have any cheat meals or any sugary treats. I will still have my diet cokes but only after I finish my water intake each day. I also will not cheat myself out of my workouts. I will work out Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays with my trainer at 5:30 am… Tuesdays and Thursdays I will go on my lunch break and hit the weight room… Saturdays I will team up with Casey and make sure we get some kind of workout in, whether it is at the gym or walking the trails by the lake.

Oh and to keep me motivated, I have set an appointment with my photographer to trash my wedding dress!!! Yep, exactly 5 weeks from tomorrow, I will have to slip back into my gown so I can trash it. It is time to get serious again and to not lose that motivation after the photo shoot. I am a goal driven person so I will continue to make small goals every couple months so I can always be striving towards something. I will not go back, I won’t, I refuse to!!!

I hope you all have a happy and healthy Tuesday!!!

Getting back to before the wedding...

Wouldn’t life be GREAT if weight melted off just as fast as you gain it?

I weighed 161 on my wedding day (March 1^st)… didn’t hit my goal of being in the 150’s but I did hit my goal of being in the best shape of my life! I felt wonderful and like I could take on the world!!!

Then the honeymoon came and went and it was hard getting back into a routine of everyday life. For so long I lived the wedding and strived to be in the best shape of my life for my husband to be. I worked hard to have inches cut out of the dress and for it to be as small as it could be without making me pass out. I strived to be fit and to be skinny. I strived to rock shorts and a bikini on the honeymoon. I achieved all that plus more.

Now, I am back home and everything I strived for is done and completed. I don’t have to worry about the dress anymore. I don’t have to worry about the wedding day. I don’t have any of the planning or stress on my plate, THANK GOD. That also means I don’t have what pushed me the hardest anymore. I have to find something new to drive me and to push me past my limits. I have to train my body to get back on a schedule of going to bed about 9 and waking up at 5. I have to train my body to WANT to work out again. I have to train my body to crave healthy foods and not the crap I have been eating.

And let me tell you… it is hard!!!

The day I got home from the honeymoon, I weighed… y’all ready for this?! I weighed in at 181 pounds!!!! Yep, I gained 20 pounds. How? Well, I gain weight back FAST! All the carbs I ate didn’t help either (the more carbs you eat, the more water your body retains) and I didn’t really drink much water to help flush it all out.

Last Friday I was 170.8, which is a lot better than 181 but still not where I want to be. I feel all flabby and mushy. My clothes are tight and pants don’t even sound fun to wear (I got to a point I loved wearing jeans because they fit so good, now they don’t). I have lost a lot of muscle mass and I hate that part of it all.

It is depressing and I know that without this outlet, without the friends I have in my life now, without my Facebook fitness page, without my 90 day challenge on IG… I would probably swirl into a dark place and just continue the weight gain like I have done before.

But not this time, this time is going to be different! I don’t just want to be in the best shape of my life when I married my husband but I want to be in the best shape of my life for the rest of my life with him. I want to be a healthy fit wife that he deserves. We plan on trying to get pregnant later this year and I want to be healthy going into my next pregnancy, it will not be like my 1^st at all.

I will continue to push on and I will stick to my weekly goals I made for myself yesterday. Next week I start back with boot camp with my trainer. I have also talked my best friend in to starting back up our weekday winner competition to help keep both of us accountable. Basically, we weigh in every Friday and whoever loses the most weight is the winner for the week. It helps us!

I am feeling good today and I know I will get back to where I was before the wedding and I know I will surpass that one day… I just have to keep pushing forward!!!

Time to give it hell!!!

I hope you all have a happy and healthy Tuesday!