I Want To Be A Dirty Girl

First thing is first...

I took my jeans back to Ann Taylor Loft and they were awesome!  Kristy (the nice lady at the store) took back my freshly worn jeans that stretched out to the point of being able to put both thighs in it, helped me find a new pair (which I liked but didn't love), found a cute shirt (size medium), and the best part is they put the money back on my card and didn't fight me with store credit!  

Second thing second...

I don't know why I think I can buy jeans just anywhere!  I have only really had success with jeans from White House Black Market but the jeans there are SO expensive.  I went in with my friend Mel last night, tried on like 5 pairs and then it happened!  I tried on a size 10 (that's right people, a month ago I was between a 12 and 14) and I fell in LOVE with them!  The price I did not love (85 bucks) but at this point I wanted to find a pair of jeans that I felt comfortable in and felt good in!  So, I took these up to the nice ladies there, she rung them up, and it must have been my lucky day because they were $20 off and 5% off of that!  65 smackeroos for jeans that I LOVE...whoop, whoop!  They are adorable and if I don't say so myself they make my butt look fantastic (oh and did i mention they are a size 10)!

Third thing third...

I am doing it!  You can't stop me!  On June 30th this year I am going to do it!  And I am going to do it even if it is really hard for me!  My friend asked me to do it with her!  So you may be asking yourself, "what is she going to do?".  I am going to do the Dirty Girl!  The dirty girl is a 5K race just for girls!  "Why do they call it the Dirty Girl?"...well they have obstacles that you have to do and some of them are MUD related!  I will do this race even if I have to crawl over the finish line!  Here is the Dirty Girl link if you would like to see what it is all about!  I am going to DO IT!

So, it is possible to love your body in jeans (from White House Black Market) and it is possible for me to become a "Dirty Girl"!  Bring It!

Diet Coke and Jeans

There are a couple things that I need to chat to you about today!  Some of this discussion may be to much information (TMI) but I am going to just let it out! So, if you don't want to hear me use a boy body part in my blog...don't read any further!

I told my hubby that when we were out of Diet Coke not to bring anymore into the house! Well, today is that day!  I just got the last one out of our handy dandy vending machine thingy downstairs!  Oh how I love my Diet Coke!  Now you may be asking yourself - can she do it and is she crazy?!  Yes and NO! Although the crazy part is debatable!  I am giving it up during the week and if I am successful during the week I will reward myself with a fountain drink of Diet Coke from the seven gas station (as my son calls it) on Sunday!  However, if I go to the movies you can't go to a movie with out having a Cherry Coke!  So there you go!  On this beautiful day in March I am sitting with my little one outside, enjoying the weather, and drinking my last diet coke in the house!

The second issue I am having is jeans.  I have NEVER found a pair of jeans that I LOVE!  In fact, jeans in my opinion are one of the hardest things to shop for besides bras and swim suits!  So I went to Ann Taylor loft and tried on some jeans and guess what....not so bad!  In fact I liked them a lot!  So I have worn them for 1 day....Take a look at the picture to the right!  Is there something wrong with the way these NEW jeans fit......YES and here are the problems I am having with them:

• If I would have turned around you would have noticed that it looks like I have 5 butts because the tush is SO baggie!
• The crotch is sagging down to the middle of my thigh!  I have been calling it "stripper penis" because when I went with my sisters to see "Thunder From Down Under" in Vegas that is how far down they were hanging!  I know it is a crazy picture that I have painted but it is true!
• I can pull out the sides of the legs because they have stretched out so far.  I could probably fit both of my thighs into one leg....

None of this seems right after wearing them 1 day....Do I still have the tags?  NOPE!  Do I have the receipt?  Yes!  So tonight I am going to make my way to Ann Taylor and use my dad's best salesman approach and see if I can't either get my money back or try to find something else!

My Taste Buds Were Having A Party At Lunch

I am NOT a huge lunch lover...in fact if I could skip it I would!  I have never really liked cold meat sandwiches, salads (when eaten in an over abundance) can be tedious, and well peanut butter and jelly is only good with potato chips or Doritios crunched in it and I can't do that anymore!

So today I just decided to use what I had in the fridge and pantry! 
Here is what I came up with:

• cut mushrooms
• sliced onions
• broccoli
• cilantro (probably my new favorite thing to put in EVERYTHING)
• olive oil
• garlic and sea salt (just a pinch)

I sauteed these ingredients in a sauce pan and also made a cup of white rice.  When the veggies were done I tossed them over a 1/2 a cup of rice!  You want to know something....I have this combination of veggies all the time but never with cilantro!  Let me tell you my taste buds loved me today!  Just gave it enough for my taste buds to have a little party this afternoon!  Whoop Whoop!

I Love Chocolate

Who doesn't love chocolate?  Well, maybe the people who are allergic to it, but I don't have that going for me so I will tell you that I absolutely LOVE it!  I love chocolate ice cream (and even better a hot fudge sundae), Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, a brownie with vanilla ice cream, oreo cookies with a huge glass of milk (I love to dunk them), oh and with Easter candy out it is hard for me to stay away from the blasted Cadburry Eggs!  I LOVE those things and a few years back they thought it would be fun to fill them with a Snickers filling.....
What were they thinking?

So in order for me to fill up my sweet tooth through this whole process I found an wonderful little treat courtesy of Pinterest.  The website I got this from even put in white chocolate chips which are one of my favorites!  The serving size for chocolate chips is 23 (I probably would have eaten that many at one time, but not anymore) and I only have at the most 10 of these little yummy treats!  It just hits the spot and it is really easy to make!  Take a chocolate chip and stuff it into your raspberry!  That's it, there you go, and pop it in your mouth!

I "Pumped It Up" on Saturday, took yesterday off to hang with my family outside as it was such a beautiful day, and plan on hitting CX and Sha'bam for a little dancing tonight!  Hope you enjoy these little treats to give your sweet tooth a fix because if you love chocolate like I do...you just gotta have it and what better pairing then with a raspberry!

Blog About "Skinny" Jeans

I am going to tell you right now that I have decided that I probably will not update everyday....because let's be honest, most days are pretty uneventful around here!  I will post when I have a great new recipe or yummy healthy drink or when I have an awesome work out that you just have to know about!  I will update when I have a weight loss break through or my "skinny" jeans (you know the ones I have been saving for almost 11 years now) start to fit again without a muffin top hanging out!  Those types of successes need to be blogged about, don't you think?!

I ate leftovers for lunch yesterday!  Or should I say I ate 1/2 of the leftovers because my youngest LOVES turkey, broccoli, and rice so she hovers over me and has to eat what I eat!  Which I should be thankful for, but she ate 1/2 of it and I was left with 1/2 and was starving at 3.  Solution....have a cookie, NO!  I had a blend of raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries (and yes I actually ate the blueberries raw and not in a smoothie).

Bare with me on posts and celebrate the ones I am successful in and encourage those when I become discouraged!  Because I know with exercise and healthy eating there may be times where I am like....UGH!  Right now however, I have more energy and LOVE the way I am feeling right now (a little sore, but it is working).

"Blog About "Skinny" Jeans"

Pump You Up

My day was really good yesterday.  I have yet to measure myself, but did get a new scale that I need to get out of the box, program, and stand on.  You know just standing on it takes tons of guts especially when you know that you are heavier (by a few pounds) then you were when you got married!

I had a great eating day today:
Breakfast: I had a Stephanie Smoothie and a hard boiled egg.
Lunch: I had a bowl of turkey chili and 1/2 a can of green beans.
Dinner: Turkey on the grill, a little bit of rice, and broccoli.
Snack: I had a fiber one bar with a little bit of chocolate and peanut butter on it (it came that way) and it was delicious, yummy, and just what I needed as far as chocolate goes!

Do you remember these guys from Saturday Night Live?  Hanz and

Franz were muscle loving non-girlie men who wanted to be stronger then everyone else!  When they were on the show they were there to "PUMP YOU UP"!  Well, yesterday I had my own Hanz and Franz friends: Kristy, Sarah, and Darci.  I went to a class called Pump with them and it was intense, heavy, body shaking!

The discription in the book at my gym says:

Body Pump: A total body strength training class using barbells and weighted plates. Space is limited: Sign in at the Service Desk up to 1/2-hour prior to class. 

It is a very popular class and there were young people (younger then me, I know hard to believe) and people who were grandmas in the class.  It lasts an entire hour and if it hadn't been for some Aerosmith and RUN DMC I probably would have crapped out!  The beat of the music just kept me going!  Thanks goodness for Steven Tyler!

Also, the instructor Donna H. was fantastic.  She took the time to make sure the "newbies" were doing everything right and made me feel like I had a successful workout!  She came up to me afterwards and said, "now you may have a hard time getting up and down stairs...all you have to do is go down backwards or sideways and then it won't hurt" and she also said, "you may need to hold onto something when you get  up and down from sitting and standing".  I know she is telling me this because of the killer squats that we did.  She also told me she would see me on Saturday!  So not only do I have my great mama friends cheering me on, I now have Donna H.

"My name is K, and I'm hear to PUMP.......(clap).......YOU UP"

Bet You Didn't Think I Would Be Doing This Tonight

Let's just be straight up tonight!  Yes, I am watching American Idol!  What happend to going all out and to the gym all the time!  Well, let me tell you what happened...CRX the ab class! I woke up this morning thinking I might puke from the way my body ached, any way I moved "ouch", and getting up and down off the floor after changing diapers and playing - "double ouch".  So I just spent most of the day on the floor!

Do I love the way it feels...I think the answer is "yes" because if I didn't feel like this way I would know that I didn't push myself hard enough during class yesterday!  So bring on the crazy aches!  Each week will improve as my body decides that it really does like to exercise and feel really good! So, tomorrow my friends are cheering me on to join them for PUMP which is incorporating weights into the class!  I am looking forward to trying something new and I am sure my arms will love me for it!

Well, I am off to watch American Idol...

I can't even believe they are making the ladies sing Whitney Houston. 

I mean seriously, NO one can touch Whitney!

Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle

Today is the day where I weigh myself and take measurements! Dooms Day....maybe or maybe not!  Today is not going to be one of my favorite days, however I feel like you need to have a starting point in all of this crazy healthy madness so that you can look back and say "I'm Sexy And I Know It".

Last night during my Jam session we were supposed to wiggle!  Well, I don't know if I was wiggling or jiggling!  I would have to say that it was probably more of a jiggle then a wiggle!  There are a few places on my body that are sligthly (ok that is being nice) bigger then what I would want and they jiggle (just saying).  So my goal is to go into Jam class with more tight wiggle then flappy jiggle!  Do you get what I am saying?!

I want to feel sexy and fit...I want to be able to sing the LMFAO song, "Sexy And I Know It" and totally mean it!  So, I found a little inspiration and humor from my good friends Jimmy Fallon and Bruce Springsteen.  Just click on their names, find the video, push play, and enjoy a little "Ode To My New Theme Song" and "Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle, Wiggle" a little bit!

If you want to see LMFAO do it here you go...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKxx5QC0ewc

Off To The Gym

To be honest, I was going to wait to go to the gym tomorrow.  However, my friend Darci had another idea.  She read my blog this afternoon and I got a text from her saying, "Hey there, "Where'stheskinnymama"! Want to go to CRX and/or Jam tonight out by you?" 

Here we go, this is just what I was talking about...being held accountable! So, I text back asking what time, she texted back 6:15, so I got my butt together and scooted to the gym to work out with my mama friend!  Here I go being honest again...I don't think I have done a sit - up since college and this CRX was all abs and butt workout for 30 minutes long!  To say my abs were burning like hell is quite and understatment!  Burn baby burn!  I also learned that balance is not my thing!  I knew I was clumbsy, but not that clumbsy!  I was falling all over the place on different moves!  Probably very humorous for the people behind me!

Then I stayed for Jam!  Jam is all about the dancing and everyone knows how much I LOVE to dance!  It was my first time doing this routine and I am ready to jump back in!  Cathy is our instructor and she is so enthusiastic and loves what she does which makes it easier for me to love what I am doing!  It's like a dance party in a club on Tuesday night!

When I got home, I realized that I didn't have supper and I didn't want anything really heavy so I decided to go with a little Cheerios, banana, and strawberries!  Tell me, when you have a workout that starts during supper and goes until 8, when and what do you eat?!

Stephanie's Yummy Breakfast Drink

I bought an individual blender just for a special, yummy, healthy breakfast drinky drink. My sister Stephanie had mentioned that she drinks this yummy concoction every morning and it is delicious!  So, when I ordered the "Pink Diet" and saw the same recipe in there i decided to give it a try! 

I would love to share it with you:

Stephanie's Yummy Breakfast Drink

1 Scoop of Vanilla Whey Protein

8 oz. of Almond Milk

Berries

This morning it was: Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, and Banana

Sometimes I add ice to make it colder and chunkier (is that even a word)

I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!  It is filling, yummy, healthy, delicious, easy to make, quick, colorful, and I drink it every morning!  You can make it your own and add whatever you would like.  I know some people who have put in yogurt?!

Here is a secret: I HATE blueberries but love them in my morning smoothie!

And We're Off

Let me set the background for you to let you know who I am:

• I am 35 years old.
• I was married in 2000 to my neighborhood friend, moved 9 times in 7 years, and really put myself to the side while trying to balance a new life and new jobs in each town!  We got comfortable and well, I just let myself go!
• Mama of 2 beautiful children.
• I weigh the same I did when I gave birth to my second child and that was almost 2 years ago.
• I want to show my children that healthy eating and exercise is extremely important in life!
• I have seen my mom go through 2 battles with cancer (and win) and my dad suffer a massive heart attack and live.  And because of that I know that I need to be in my best shape ever so if I get sick I am able to fight back strong like my parents continue to do everyday!
• I just found out this week that i have degenerative arthritis and a bone spur in my neck probably from a cheerleading fall when I was 18 years old that I have just been living with for years!  And i just found out that my B12 is very low.
• I love to sing, laugh, dance, golf, go on dates with my husband, go for drinks with friends, go back to my hometown and spend time with family, travel, and watch reality t.v. and be grateful that that lifestyle is not my life!

You may be wondering why I would put this process of my becoming a "Skinny" mama for the world to see?  Well...I need to be held accountable for what I put in my mouth and how well I keep up an exercise schedule.  I also am taking inspiration from my friend Mel and her detication to becoming a runner again!  I am no runner, but I love to dance! So with the awesome dance aerobics classes that I haven't attended in awhile I am hoping that I can become a healthier me!

In this blog you will find a ton of humor because that is how I roll...