HappyHappyJoyJoy!

Okay, so I just LOVE watching the Biggest Looser and watching other people work out like crazy.  I love the people on the show, I love the trainers and how they constantly push them to the point of madness, I love the 24 hour fitness workouts they do, and I especially love the trainer tips they give to us. My husband and I always look for ways to apply the show to our every day life, and we love to use this show to inspire us to get up in the mornings and work out.  And well, last night, I actually heard Jillian say something directly to me and it struck every chord in my body!  While she was pushing Brittany hard - not to give up, I thought about my own situation.  Short and simple: I’ve lost 10 pounds about 3 weeks ago. And now here I am at three weeks later, still working hard and eating right, and I cannot loose any more pounds!  I’m stuck at 172 and feeling wigged out (LOL~) because the scale will not go down anymore!  On Monday I felt like giving up and just allowing my body to stay here where it is comfortable.  And I don’t like that.  172?  Come on body - what’s wrong with 170 or even 165.  Why does it have to be stuck at 172??    Well, when Jillian said that, I felt guilty, like she was talking through the TV directly to me.   And she’s absolutely right - I cannot give up now!  I know what my buddies on BuddySlim would say, and I need to cling tight to those words of encouragement you have always given me.   (And oh, I can’t let those M&M’s win, LOL~)   I need to be tough, and make Jillian proud…  ;-)   I’d like to be proud of myself too, for a change. Wouldn’t that be nice?

With that said, I hope you are all having a happy happy joy joy day. Smile lots and don’t give up.  Life is good.  And….

Pride on three - 1, 2, 3 - PRIDE!      (LOL, don’tcha just love the Biggest Looser?) 

It’s madness, I tell you! It’s madness!

Okay… so I thought my body and I were on the same side. I thought we both wanted to be skinny, and fit, and healthy again. I thought we were partners in crime, and that we’d stick through this together. Right?? Well… perhaps not so much. Today I learned that my body sometimes has a mind of it’s own, and sometimes it goes against everything that I’m trying to do!  Silly body ’o mine! LOL~  About an hour ago, my body literally forced me to plunge into a bag of M&M’s!   I kid you not, the craving for chocolate came so quickly and so strong, it practically hurt. I needed it more than I needed to breathe! (Okay, so I’m exaggerating just a little) but in all serious, I could not deny myself the taste.  I couldn’t talk myself out of it, and therefore I gave in.   My body challenged me today, and I lost the challenge. I gave in. 

Mean, bad body!  Mean!  Big bully!! 

Okay, so I know it’s not too big of a deal.  A small bag of M&M’s couldn’t hurt a fly, right?  Well, that’s what I said the time before, and the time before, and the time before… and so forth - hence, ME looking the way I look today.  ;-)   Not so good, right?  But at least now I recognize what’s happening, and therefore hopely become stronger and learn to do something about it.   (Darn those M&M’s anyway. What a weakness of mine! I think I blogged this all before in the past LOL~) But what do you all do to overpower the needs and desires of your body to fit the needs and desires of your heart and soul??  How do you keep your body and your brain on the same side at all times and in all places? Any thoughts on the matter?

I guess acheiving our goals wasn’t meant to be easy, huh. But someday I hope it will all  be worth it. 

And that’s the kid’s babbling for the day!  ;-)   I go now to read your blogs and to gain more wisdom from your experiences. Happy Happy Joy Joy!!!!

Tis a perfect Saturday morning. a good day here in Denver ;-)

Can I just tell you how much I love being at 24 hour fitness? It’s becoming an true addiction in my life, an illness, even a disease that wants to stick and not go away!  I can hardly stay away from this place now.  Hubby and I just came home from almost a 2 hour workout, and I cannot even begin to tell you how good I feel.  He’s been training one on one with a personal trainer named Brian, and now - he is able to teach ME everything that he knows so we can both reap the benefits.  Wow, I’ve never worked out so hard before in my life - my arms, my shoulders, abdominals, thighs, legs, even my ankles and wrists feel sore.  It was so much fun!   We came running out of there, our blood all pumped, ready to face an active, healthy, sunny day here in Denver.  I almost didn’t want to leave, especially the Eliptical machine.  That is one bad-ass fun puppy!!! (LOL~)  I love it so much we’re thinking about investing in one for our home.  Now how would that be???

Anyway, with my energy pumped, I’ve blogged away to continue my good habits, and now, I look in the mirror and realize that I can and I WILL get my old body back!  Ahhh, what a feeling. I hope everyone is having a great weekend, and that you had a good LOVE fest day over the past couple of days (LOL~ LOL~)  Boy, do I love Valentine’s Day now

Tis a good day here in Denver~  Happy Happy Joy Joy!!   

I don’t know why I’m in such a good mood today.  After all, I haven’t been to the gym since Monday.  The scale hasn’t gone down a wink. My husband and I haven’t been able to spend one ounce of time together in the past 48 hours.  Work has been flat out boring.  Mom has cancer and will begin her Chemo shortly.  No money in the bank, practically broke.  (Payday is days away!) My hair doesn’t look right, so I pulled it back in a dry pony tail, ugh!  My Elvis watch is broken.  My sister in law has the flu. My brother in law can’t find a job to save his life.  I’m hungry.  My friend Mary here at work just lost her mother and we presented her with solemn flowers.  I’ve gotten no email today. (waaaaaah!)  And quite honestly, if you couldn’t tell already, I have nothing really exciting to blog about. 

So why the heck am I so happy then???    ;-)   LOL~   I haven’t a clue. 

I’m weird… I guess I must be weird.  I guess it’s easier to smile than it is to frown and feel sorry for myself.  Valentines Day is coming up, a holiday that I never particularly enjoyed before I got married, but fun nevertheless.  I don’t miss eating chocolate and I intend to avoid it completely tomorrow.  But I have a day off coming up on Friday that’s making me even happier, a day which I intend to sit at home on my tushy and do absolutely nothing else but write my novel.  I need to get my novel finished, or else how am I ever going to end up on Oprah?  ;-)   So much to do, and so little time.  I’m not very good at managing my time.  It’s a skill I lack.   But that’s okay, I’ll get better at it someday, right?

I guess things really aren’t that bad.  I can go back to the gym tomorrow.  I can look forward to falling into my husband’s arms and we will appreciate one another after being apart for so long.  Mom will start chemo and fight the cancer with determination.  I’m here at work to put money back in the bank, and if I’m bored, then I should look around for something funny to do or say.  So what if my hair never looks right - at least I have hair.  I can fix my Elvis watch, maybe. My sister in law won’t be sick forever.  I can get something to eat so I won’t be hungry anymore.  I can write someone so perhaps they will respond and I can get some email.  And I can see the smile on sweet Mary’s face and realize that despite our trials, life goes on and we make the best of it.

They say writing and blogging is therapeutic.  I believe they’re right.  ;-)  I feel even better now.  So I’m off to explore your blogs and your thoughts and your successes now.  Hope everyone is happy, happy, joy, joy despite the world falling apart around us.   Oh well, at least we have each other, right? 

Aloha Nui Loa~

The Kid~ signing off.

Actually, I think it was me who said that…   ;-)  But I was totally and completely wrong!  Wow, and I will actually admit how wrong I was, for a change? Amazing… LOL~

So this morning, hubby and I woke up at 4:30am and decided to hit the gym.  We’ve been working dilligently on our Body For Life fitness program for the past 5 weeks and we’ve both pretty much been stuck at our current weight for the past couple of weeks.  Kinda depressing. So rule #1 when you aren’t getting quite the results you want?  Change something about the routine cause something just ain’t working right!   Right?  We’ve been working out in the afternoons and finally realizing that it hasn’t quite been working for us.  So we decided to try something new and get up early to work out first thing.   It sounded like a horrible idea at first!  After all, I am not a morning person. I love my bed, I love my cuddle bug pillow, and I hate waking up before the sun comes out to greet me.  Know what I mean?  But I did anyway, and guess what?   The gym wasn’t crowded.  The morning news was on.  And my eliptical smiled at me, happy that I was there to be with him (or her, whatever the case may be LOL~)   It felt so good, and now I have this undescribable energy that I haven’t had this early in the mornings before - EVER.  I had plenty of time to shower, relax, read my scriptures and have a good breakfast.  Wow, what a wonderful morning!  I am therefore happy and content.

Think this will last long??   At this point one can only hope… (he, he!)

 So we’ll try it for a while and see if this can help produce the results we want.    ;-)    Only time will tell, right?  Burn, calories, burn!  I don’t want ya anymore!!

(Oh, and horrray for the NFC taking the Pro-Bowl!!  Dont’cha just love Hawaii????)

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!!!! 

I was on the eliptical machine, fast and steady. I was thin, healthy and beautiful. Everyone was looking at me and smiling. I had so much energy - my blond hair flowing behind me as I worked out.  I was wearing the prettiest shorts and a pink tank top showing off my incredible body, and I could see my legs looking more like they used to when I was in high school.  I felt so good, so happy and had the world at my feet…

And then I woke up….in bed.  Looked over at the mirror, and I still looked the same.   Blast!!! 

Okay, so I have never dreamed of being at the gym before.  Kinda strange, but something is definitely happening to me.   LOL~ I need to go back to the gym right away.  I’m craving it right now.  Is it because I don’t want to be sitting here at work in front of my computer?  Quite possibly.  However, the gym would be so much fun right now.  I need to make my dream that I had last night become a reality!  The Jen reality show.  =)  Buddies,  I’ve never been so silly about anything in my entire life, except perhaps wanting to get my fiction novel published, or when I craved to marry Bob more than anything.  But at this moment, more than ever, I want my body back.  The body I was born in, the body I was meant to have, and the body I was always proud of.  I want it back!!!   =)  This body that I have now is just something to motivate me to get the old Jen back.   

Does my babble make any sense today?   =)   If not, I apologize.  If it does, then more power to me, and to you…LOL~   It’s one of those days, and I am happy.  Hope you are all happy, having fun in your body, being at the gym, (or wishing you could be at the gym right now), having weird dreams maybe, and doing what you can to get your perfect body, the one we’ve always dreamed of.  

Okay, I go now… have a great weekend buddies!  Dream on kid!!  We can do it!!!   =)

The kid~

Why, previews, why??

So… is there anyone else who gets irritated when you’re sitting there watching “The Biggest Looser”,  and before each set of commercials come on, the announcer says “Coming up next…”  and they show you previews of what’s to come?   And because they do this, it tends to ruin the excitement and the anticipation of the next part of the show that is truly coming up? You kinda get the idea of what is going to happen, and all because of that stupid “coming up next” voice??

Does anyone know what I’m talking about?  =)

Last night it annoyed me! At the ending (and I don’t wanna ruin the show for anyone who hasn’t watched it yet)  they actually give you hints and clues as to who will be voted off when the commercials are over.  My hubby and I looked at each other in shock and wondered why in the world they would do that??   They also show previews for the following week, and kinda give things away there too.

I’ve decided that I don’t like that. It bugged me.  So I had to share.  =)

It also slightly bugs me this morning that I can’t seem to shred off that last couple pounds that I’ve been working dilligently on for the past couple of days.  I’ve been sitting pretty on the scale at 172 after having gone down 10 pounds in one week.  Now I’m working out daily, eating right for the first time in my life,  crunching off with hard crunches at bed time, and my scale seems to be stuck in the same place.  Hmmmm…. do I need to return it to the store? (Kidding!)   I guess my body has gotten too comfortable over the years with this darn 172, and I’ll need to work even harder to get it off.  Any suggestions?

24 Hour fitness - I’m not giving up on you, baby!!! 

Love ya buddies.  Talk to you soon. Have a terrific day 

The Kid~

1.  The Eliptical Machines at 24 hour fitness.  (I’ve found a new love!)

2. The 24 hour Fitness building itself 

3.  Warm food

4. Snow outside my window

5. That the Giants beat the so called unbeatable Patriots in the Superbowl!  (And the fact that I won $125 from the football pool!!)

6.  My handsome husband

7.  My comfy couch

8.  My birds singing in their cages in the doorway entry.

9.  My family

10. A good laugh that makes my sides hurt  (complements of my cute friend D’Nae!)

11.  And my Buddddddies at BuddySlim!!!    =)

 An exciting post that means something?   Nah, not really!  It’s just fun to feel happy, healthy and grateful!  And that’s all I have to say about that.   =)

Peace to all!   Jen Jen

Sooooo…. you wanna hear how mean some people are?   I decided last night that I wanted to swim for 20 minutes at the Recreation Center that I work out in.  So I rinse myself off in the shower like a good little gal, and I go out to the pool where all the swimming lanes are full.  (You have to lap swim in this pool, unfortunately.)  There were many people so I decided to wait my turn.  Of course I’m dripping wet and dying to jump in, but I practice learning patience right?  So…. I sit, and I sit, and I sit, getting slightly dizzy watching people go back and forth, back and forth.  FINALLY one of the men smiles at me and jumps out of his lane.  Relieved, I go towards the lane only to have a girl (with a butt slightly larger than mine, not that that makes any difference)  jump into the lane I was about to enter.   Say what? I don’t think so honey.  I look at her and say, “Wait a sec!  I was waiting to use that lane.”  She smiles up at me and says, “I’m sorry.”    

Okay buddies. So my first impulse is to dive into the water in the shape of a bomb, splash my big butt in her little fat face and say “ooops I’m sorry.”  But the signs around me say no diving, right?  The lifeguard is just a kid. And I would rather not have my butt bruised from the bottom of the pool, huh.   So that was out. My second impulse is to get in anyway and start swimming - I’m freezing cold and I just want to get some exercise.  Simple right?  I could go to the Lifeguard and tell him that a b- (female dog) is swimming in the pool and he should get her out.  But nah, I’m not that mean, and kid lifeguards don’t need to hear dirty words anyway.  So what did I do?    I got my towel and my sweats, cursed the pool and walked away.   Walked away! 

Okay, so call me a wimp… but really I’m just plain fed up with that place.  Just because I’m not a professional lap swimmer, wearing goggles and fins, and swimming back and forth in full speed doesn’t mean that I don’t have a right to be there.   I simply want to tread water and exercise my muscles.  After all, I’ve lost 10 pounds and I’m feeling so good.  But alas… I lacked the assertiveness and the patience, and I decided it wasn’t worth it in the end.  The recreation center was too expensive anyway, people were often rude, and I didn’t want to be there anymore, period.  So I left…  

My husband was shocked to see me so soon, and he was so pissed off that people could be so rude, mean and just downright stupid.   After some warm, affectionate kisses to help me feel better, (yum!) we drove to 24-Hour fitness!!    Not only is this place cheaper and close to my home, but they have a pool!  A pool!  And not for professionals just to swim laps - but for treaders like me.   And look at all the machines and TV’s to use, pretty people all around, and not to mention the sponsers of the Biggest Looser.  It was an amazing place, and perfect for my hubby and I.  So we eagerly signed up, got our new T-shirts, opportunities for training, vitamins and protein shakes.  It was awesome, and I am so excited and PUMPED.  I can wake up at midnight and go swim if I want to.    I love this new gym!! It’s terrific!

And the moral of my story?  Well, okay, I don’t really have one.  But it’s still a story to tell. Perhaps I may lack assertiveness at times to stand up for myself when rude people get in my way.. but look at the good that has come out of it.  Thanks, female dog for making my day!  You helped more than you realize, and I hope and pray you are not reading my blog…. (LOL~)  However, if you are, you better go home and remember that when you are mean and unkind to your fellow men and women, you loose some of the blessings that come from loving and serving others.  And that’s the truth…ptthwhhwhwhwwhhwhhwh!   (Sorry, I don’t know how to spell that.)

 And with that said, here’s to more weight loss this coming week!  And here’s to 24-hour fitness!  YAY!!

Have a happy happy joy joy day, buddies!!!   =)