Jess 2.0

Have I mentioned just how much I hate writing these posts? I hate them. Every bit of them. Mainly because I find myself busy enough with life. After all I work 40+ hours each week. Add in my travel time (two days a week I'm in the city), taking care of my son, cleaning/cooking (because lets face it, I'm busy), and guess what, I'm at the gym almost every day for 2 hours a day. The last thing that I want to do is sit here and write my blog. I mean, I can be painting my nails and watching them dry in this time! But here I am, another week in and I'm writing. Now, my scale hasn't changed in 2 weeks. At all. Not a single budge. And I cannot begin to tell you how frustrating this is. When you put so much effort and work into something to not see a damn change, it really gets to you. It hurts in ways that I don't think people would understand. I take a lot of pride into my fitness. I've been working really hard at it. Two hours. Thats two hours ev...

Hello, hello, hello! And welcome to the fact that I suck at keeping up with my blog. I technically should have blogged last week, but because of my brilliance I ended up pulling a muscle in my arm/shoulder/chest area leaving me OOC for a good week and change.  But since then, I have put away my Superman cape and realized that I can't start off lifting heavy.  I mean common sense states that, but when you're wearing that Superman cape, you tend to believe you can and will do just about everything.  But this past week, I've been following the Jamie Eason's LiveFit Trainer Program from www.BodyBuilder.com . It's a 12 week program that lists what you are to do each day, as far as exercising.  And after a week, I can honestly say that I've used muscles in ways I've never used before with this program. Which is a good thing! You want your body to be able to gain overall strength.  I still tried to incorporate cardio with my weight training. I mad...

So, it's been almost a whole year since I've blogged about my weight loss journey. And since my last blog, it's had its up's and down's like any journey. I ended up being as low as 160 lbs, but life hit hard the last 3 months. And naturally I've gained some of that weight back. I wouldn't say that this is about a new me journey this time, because I know who I am, and I know exactly what I am capable of. But, I would say that I'm back on track to better myself so I can become the best version of me. This time around, I've joined an actual gym. A gym that I love! I know exactly what I need to do nutrition wise. But now that I have more tools and resources at my fingertips, I have to figure out how to utilize them. I've found some online programs that state what exercises I need to do, and I think that I will be following it. I'm not 100% sure, but its something that I'm willing to try. In the past, the most of a program that ...

These past 90 days have been a journey that I never was sure that I was strong enough to endure. I never thought that I was strong enough to go through with it. But I did... I did it, and I finally made it all the way to the end! I won't lie, there were many times where I thought that I couldn't do it. There were many times where I thought that I couldn't go on. But I finished out my 90 days. My starting weight was 224.4 lbs. I was very easily wearing a size 20 and I really should have been in 2X clothing. Today... I weigh in at 183.5 lbs. I have lost a total of 40.9 lbs! I am currently in size 14/15 jeans. I wear large tshirts and dresses (for the most part - a few small xl's I fit into and a few large mediums I can wear). 90 days..... 40.9 lbs! I didn't think that I would be able to do it. I really didn't. I thought it would be a long shot of being down 30lbs. But add an additional 10lbs?! I'm floored! I still have my moments where...

So life happened and I didn't get the chance to type up my blog for last week. I know... shoot me now!  I'd like to say that it will never happen again, but I will never make a promise that I cannot keep. Naturally I do not have the measurements from last week. But on Monday March 9, 2015 I weighed in at 190.2 lbs!!! On Monday March 16, 2015 I weighed in at 185.9 lbs !! I have lost a total of 38.5 lbs !! I am sooo close to the finish line for this 90 day challenge, and I am sooo close to hitting the 40 lb mark. Tuesday was Saint Patrick's Day, my CHEAT day! Goodness gracious was I looking forward to it! I had corned beef, cabbage, carrots, potatoes, and Irish soda bread for dinner! I look forward to this meal all year round. The whole thing! Minus the carrots because I'm really not a fan of cooked carrots. And later that night I was going out to have a few beers!!! EEEEKKK!!!!!  I missed my beer sooo much! Before this challenge I would be foun...

So, even after this weekends trip to Hell, I mean Florida and back I weighed in at 194.5 lbs!! I guess the road trip didn't mess me up too much after all! I'm so close to getting down to 190 I can almost taste it! I'm also so close to hitting that 30 lb mark too! While this week I didn't give myself a running challenge, I did however average about 3.75 miles an hour for this week. This was a very difficult week for me hormonally. I'm never this bad, but I can only assume that its because my body is so used to producing "X" amount of hormones for my size.  But with me losing weight I think I produced too much and it really got to me. Luckily, I'm a woman of logic (or so I like to believe) and I tried my best to rationalize my feelings and warned all souls that came across my path if I started to act irrational. This was also difficult for me, because on Saturday (March 7th) we celebrated my best friend's birthday at our normal Saturday N...