Don't be afraid of lifting weights girls!

Love Love LOVING my 90 day workout program, ChaLEAN Extreme.  Each month it changes, 3 month program with a 90 day money back guarantee. Losing weight, and lots of inches. Feel great and stress level is WAY down.

Get strong and fight like a girl :)

Life always changing

Life is always changing, yet staying the same in ways. I am finding myself changing and the way I address problems changing with it. Stress gone? Hardly, however it is not longer the center of my life. I am learning to deal with what I can, what is out of my control is just that, out of my control. Stressing over things I cannot control is bad for me and I am getting rid of that.

I cannot save the world, I can take care of myself and be stronger for others when they truly need help to change. Until then, they can keep their stress. I cannot stop their negative behavior, only they can.

I am getting back on track, once again :) and putting ME FIRST. Not to be selfish, just to be stronger and better and healthy. I really enjoy helping others and I will continue to do just that. I will just make sure those I choose to help are ready for change because if they are not, there is nothing I can do.

food? goals? i just dunno

I am a bad little blogger! I am always writing things down, journaling (why does spell check not know this word?), recording, then forget to put them here.... all those good ideas that should be shared with the world HAHA.  I would put it on my TODO list if I could ever remember to look at that list I work so hard to make!

Today I found a post with a blog that has tons of good recipes so I thought I would share it:

http://teacherbakermealmaker.blogspot.com/

She uses pretty pictures, that makes me happy!

I do not know why that is lavender in the background but trying to fix it hurt my head.

As for me, I have been working hard to keep on my goals I have set and have made some progress YAHOOTIES... slacked on the workouts for a couple weeks HOWEVER I kept eating good, didn't gain anything back. Jumped back on my workouts tonight and was very happy to see I could still do all my pushups! (flashback.... October 1... start of new workout... barely eeked out one pushup... fast forward to November... 13 pushups and 4" off my ass OH YEA!)

This month I am focusing on getting some easy, healthy, veggie filled recipes we will all like. Hmmm.... now I just came up with a new/old goal... MAKE MY OWN COOKBOOK of family favorite recipes. I started one I write the yummy and easy recipes out and save them for when my son moves out on his own.  Time to get back on that one!

Then again, if I give them all to him does that mean he will never call again? Yea, he'll call when he runs out of food!

2012 is a long way from 2011

That time of year to reflect on what last years goals were and set new ones or see if old ones need to be revisited or discarded.  I gave up on resolutions, the word GOAL gives me focus and reminds me to think of WHY I made the goal and what STEPS I am going to take to achieve that goal.


Last year I was getting to a pretty dark place and knew I had to step up and take charge of my own health. I never look back until I'm getting ready for the new year, so this year I was very surprised and MOTIVATED to see I had achieved my goals WAY ahead of schedule and that proves I can do MORE! I am healed and I am ready for this!!


First I will share last years goals. I don't have an official routine however it tends to follow a pattern of some kind. There are basically 3 things I wind up doing. 


What are the priorities in my life?
Vision Board, collage in journal and computer.
List, which I tend to expand on over a month or so. 
WHY... why do I want to meet this goals?


My WHY and goals don't work unless I make sure that my goals are in line with the priorities in my life.


I make a list of goals of what I need and what I want (not considering any obstacles, just do it). Then I look back over it slower and cross off anything that just doesn't fit with what my priorities are.  Sometimes goals look like they don't fit, for me they do.  For example, my priorities are Health, family, spiritual.  One of my goals is to get my home organized and de-cluttered.  For me that goal helps with family and spiritual, I relax much better when things are done and I have a clean spot of my own to relax.


Here is some of my goal journal with goals I set for 2011. The focus was totally on me as I was falling apart and needed healing in a big way.


First I made my vision on the computer, at this point I had never heard of Shakeology or Team Beachbody, later I learned 2 of the logos I used are from their producs

Vision Board

Next I wrote out my basic list, categories I guess, then later added to them. Somewhere in this process a friend told me about Shakeology and I added it with a question mark by it because I had no idea what it was.

Red was first category, blue I added later.

Lots of thought and writing goes on for about a month, and all I could come up with is this:

So as you can see, 2011 I was not setting specific goals that I could measure or track in anyway, I just needed to change and change ME fast. I did it! I am happier and healthier and ready to kick it up a notch or two!

2012 is coming and I'm getting a jump start. I originally signed up to be a TBB coach for the discount, I mean really, I am way to fat and insecure to be taken seriously by anybody, hell I didn't even take me seriously.  Well if I didn't take me serious how could anybody else?  I mean look, I've come a long way! I'm off all prescription meds, down about 40 pounds (would be nice if I could say that was it, but still going baby... and I WILL MAKE IT), I got laid off from a job I had for 15 years and managed to pay off my house anyway 8 years early. I'm feeling cocky baby so look out.

I'm still working on my computer vision board for the next year, however I have my handy dandy kindergarten style collage I do in my journal here:

Then my little list, which will be tweaked a bit because I realize I need to think bigger, so this is now considered my rough draft:

Yea, some is blacked out, after all a girl does need some privacy ;)

common sense

the problem with "common sense" is that we expect everybody to have the same COMMON and the same SENSE. What is common and sensible for one group of people may not the the common or sensible thing for another different group of people.

get it? i do. finally.

late night thinkings

You are the only one responsible for YOUR choices, YOUR actions and YOUR reactions. Quit wasting time blaming others and take responsibility. YOU cannot change anybody but YOURSELF. Put your focus where it belongs. Those who hang on your every whining and crying word, are only looking for gossip. MOVE FORWARD and do something POSITIVE! anamaree ordway

Random strange thought for the night that has my head spinning.

Every generation has a theme. Every generation has a war. Ever generation has a problem.

When living in that time it was/is all you hear about. Communists, hippies, disco, rock and roll, dancing, satanic cult killings, sex rings, teenage mass murderers.  Then years later we learn, yes sometimes those things happened however many innocent people were convicted of crimes they did not commit because of hysteria. Lives destroyed, the innocent criminals and their families. All over what law enforcement and the media convinced us was an epidemic.

I'm not saying these things didn't happen, but did they REALLY happen on such a large scale as was portrayed?