90 day challenge!

Back on Decmember 1st I joined a 90 day challenge with my friend Doug! It's an easy challenge. There are about 20 of us doing it and we are trying to lose a total of 500 pounds. I myself have a total of 80 pounds to lose. We are doing this as a group to help push each other and keep each other going. I'm also starting drinking 2 meal replacement shakes. They are full of vitamins and protein. They are heart healthy, gluten free, lactose free shakes. They have melted 10 million pounds of fat in the past 2 years. They taste awesome also!

If you are interested in finding out more about the product please email me jessicastrack@yahoo.com

Jess

WHY???

Last week I took my 15 month old son in for a well check up visit. While I was there one of the ladies up front says "Oh you're expecting again"! She must have said she's sorry about 10 times after I told her I wasn't expecting. One of the ladies at the library said this to me not to long ago also. Why do people keep thinking I'm expecting.

OH MY WORD! We took my 7yr old out for her birthday dinner last night, of course all 5 girls had to go potty. While in the bathroom I get a good look at my full body. I look like I'm EXPECTING!!! No wonder people keep thinking I'm having baby #7.

I'm so upset and keep tearing up. I can't believe I let myself stop working out last year. I was doing so good. I'd lost 21 pounds. Why did I stop? Why can I not seem to get started again? Why am I not right this second writting down a plan to get in shape? Why have I not started some sort of workout program?

Jess

Doing it!

Yesterday I tired my hand at the eating every 3 hours think. I'm trying to give my metabolism a boost. Did pretty good until I had a cleaning appointment when I was suppose to be eating. Hard to eat something while your getting your teeth cleaned:)

Today I will be home most of the day, so far I'm doing good. I've had Greek yogurt (and friend said try this because it has over 10g protein), part of a banana, peanut butter & Nutella bagel and an apple. Lunch time is around the corner. Not 100% sure what I'll be having then.

A friend posted the weather for next week (as of right now) and it's going to be a beautiful day to get out and walk. I'm waiting on my baby sitting schedule for next week so I can sit down and write down the times and all that I'm working out. Oh and what I'll be doing. I've lined up a friend to go walking with me, so no backing out there:)

Put a fork in me I'm done being fat! Time to melt away the fat that has taken over my body. I'm ready to be "one hot mama"! Time to get the party started! Gonna make me sweat til I bleed. Gonna bring sexy back. Ok enough with the songs. Need to update the songs on my exercise track on the Ipod!

Jess

Doing better

I've been doing better getting my 8 glasses of water in every day. Some days and better than others. Yesterday wasn't so great. I had all the kids home due to a snow day. Yes we had a snow day on March 5th. I was working on a knitting project also, which got me all off track.

Today I'm starting on cutting back on the amount of food I eat. I'm not ready to go full force Weight Watchers again, or start counting calories etc. I'm going into this slowly. I had oatmeal for breakfast and plan to get some fruit as a snack here in a few.

I've still got to sit down and figure out a work out schedule of some sort. I'm going to have to do this around my husband's schedule. As my 15 month old doesn't like to be away from me or Daddy. This is going to be interesting to say the least. I wish that warm weather would get here and stay. It's much easier to put the little ones in the stroller and go. I will get this figured out!

Jess

Why do I get off track?

Why do I keep getting off track? Life and kids are the only two things I can come up with. I got off track before Thanksgiving and Christmas. I had my surgery in January, spent Feb not allowed to lift and recovering. Now that it's March it's time to get back on track.

It seems like I always lose about 20 pounds and then get off track. I looked on my Spark people page and noticed I've gained 4 pounds since my post in September. I know that I was down more than that though. I'm sick of being fat, but I can't seem to get myself going.

I keep thinking to myself "My husband doesn't have a problem with my body, why should I". The problem being is that I'm not happy with my body. I need to get back to the pissed off phase that I was in when I lost all the weight before I had my 4th child. I need my Dr to say something to me like he did before. He wasn't ugly when he said it, but I was pmsing and it just pissed me off. I need that again. Maybe I should call up my beloved Dr. and get him to say it again.

I need a workout buddy. Someone who depends on me to be there and push them and they will turn around and push me as well.

I need TIME! Having 6 kids, having 4 of those 6 home all day every day,homeschooling,  a hubby who works night shift and a strange schedule at that, baby sitting and just every day life things I'm having a hard time fitting in exercise. Not long ago I homeschooled my oldest which was nice because she could baby sit while I went to the gym for an hour or so. She's back in public school so that's a no go. I've got to sit down and think of something that is going to work for me. I'm thinking I might have to sit down and do this week by week as my baby sitting schedule changes weekly!

Today I'm starting over by drinking my 8 glasses of water a day. I've been only drinking 1-2 glasses a day. That's horrible! I'm starting with this and will figure the rest out as I go!

Jess

Surgery

Since I've had surgery to remove my gallbladder I've had to take a break from exercise. Not that I was doing much before surgery. Although I've been up and moving around some after surgery. I read that this helping you recover quicker. So the day after surgery I walked as much as I could stand around the house. I've been getting stronger and stronger each day. Still trying not to over do it though. I haven't done much walking outside the house. Just to the car and into the gas station to get my papers for coupons LOL. If you know me well you know I'm not missing my newspapers!
Anyway, once I have my follow up appointment I plan to get back to at least walking.

Jess

2012 here we go!

I've been HORRIBLE! I've got to get back on track. I've got to figure out how to get exercise back into my schedule. I was homeschooling my oldest which worked out perfect because I would go exercise during nap time and she would watch her siblings during nap so I could work out. I've put her back in public school which means no sitter during nap time:(

Now my oldest is wanting to lose weight and get in shape, so I need to help her with this. Got to figure out a way to get it so we both get in exercise.

One good thing is that I've only gained a few ozs since falling hard off the wagon. With all the holiday goodies I thought for sure I had gained weight. So thankful that I didn't gain a ton of weight.

Now to figure out some sort of schedule and get myself back on track! I'm coming back people get ready!!!!