Five on Friday!!

Linking up with Darci for Five on Friday!

 

 

 

 

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1. I did two days of professional development this week.. I.e. getting up early and I feel like I'm dying. I am SOOO not ready for summer to be over!

2. In love with this mascara right now, and it smells good! Weird!

3. Hollywood Game Night has got to be the best new show on TV right now.

4. My bed. Bought this baby off of Overstock and when you come to my house you must lay in it. It's the best bed ever.

5. I can't get enough of the Zig Zag Stripe right now! Quit selling such cute clothes!

Fantabulous Short Dress   <--- Click on this link and go check out one of my favorite new dresses they posted!!


Happy Friday Y'all! Have a great weekend!!

Finish the Sentence Link-up

Linking up today with Holly and Jake for Finish the Sentence!!!

If I had one extra hour in the day.. I would sleep! Can we say TWO YEAR old!?

I wish my name.. was Princess! There was a student last year that we had whose name was Primcess. Do you know how awkward it is to say, "Princess get in line." "Princess raise your hand." I want it to be super awkward for the nurse at the doctors office to say, "Princess time for your appointment".

I think anything chevron is pretty much amazing. However, I tried to chevron a wall in the playroom.

 

Epic Fail!!

It wasn't a Skinny Meg masterpiece that is for sure!

My last nightmare... I'm always falling off something.

Sometimes.. I randomly fist pump while driving when a really good song comes on. I'm pretty much the next big thing.

My last meal on earth would be sushi! I'm addicted!

I'd much rather be fat with boobs than skinny with a chest bone sticking out.

Mayonnaise is a must on a B.L.T. Sandwich!

10 years ago, I didn't think I would have a two year old.

Selfishly, I love laying in the bathtub and catching up on blogs while the husband puts the Princess to bed.

My favorite TV show right now.. I can't even decide. I puffy heart Real Housewives of New Jersey and the O.C.  I am also addicted to Pretty Little Liars, Jimmy Fallon, and Ellen!

30 Day Shred Level Two Hell

I started level two last Monday because I was feeling crazy! I was doing AWESOME!! until Friday came.. I decided to take the day off because I was dying. I felt really light headed and was having super bad headaches. Well one day led to another, and needless  to say I haven't done the 30 day shred since Thursday. So even though today is July 17th, I'm only on day 10 of the challenge.

EPIC FAIL!!

However, today is a new day so I'm up and at em'... Today I will do the 30 day shred level two, run a mile, track my food, and drink my water. I have learned this past year that just because you fall off the wagon, it doesn't mean you have to give up and quit. Just get back up the next day and get with it. I felt so much better when I felt like I was dying at the end of everyday because I know that meant that my body was changing.

So remember, even if you feel like giving up or that you have screwed up too much, get back up and get on that horse and get with it!!

Weekly Goals and Updates

 

Good Evening Y'all! I'm a day late for my weekly goals, but I had a busy day yesterday and this is the first time I have been able to sit down and write.

I am doing the 30 Day Shred Challenge with Amber from a A Crafty Healthy Mom, and don't want to brag but I KILLED it last week. I bumped it up to level 2 on Monday ahead of schedule because I wasn't sore anymore and felt like I needed a challenge. It was definitely a challenge! At some point in the video Jillian says she wants you to feel like you're going to die, and I DEFINITELY did!

 

On Wednesday of last week I decided I wanted to run that evening. So I laced up my shoes and just started to run. One of my July goals is to be able to run a half mile without stopping and down and back on my street is a half mile. I started running and it just felt different. It felt easier, I wasn't winded, and even though my legs were SOOO sore from the 30 day shred I just kept going. I RAN A HALF MILE WITHOUT STOPPING FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THAT I CAN REMEMBER!!!!  I have never been so excited in my life. I almost cried! I stopped running then at the half-mile, but totally felt like I could have probably gone longer. On to Thursday, it was a super nice morning so I got up and busted out ONE MILE!!! I stopped once to take a drink, but then went right back to running. I'm so proud of myself to have accomplished this. I hadn't really been running, since doing the 30 day shred but I really feel like it has helped improve my lung capacity and endurance.

I took Friday off from doing anything because I have been feeling super light headed, but Saturday I busted out a mile and a half. I will get back to doing the 30 day shred today since I kind of took a hiatus, but honestly I can feel my body changing. I didn't lose any weight last week, but my monthly friend came to visit me on Saturday so I'm hoping it was making me retain water or something.

Today I'm linking up with Operation Skinny Jeans for my weekly goals!

Goal One: Do level two of the 30 day shred every day this week! Monday-Sunday. We are almost done with the 30 days and I HAVE to finish strong!

Goal Two: Drink Water! I feel like I have been drinking a lot of water, but in reality it is only like 8 cups a day and for my body weight I need a lot more!

Goal Three: Make good food choices and track everything on MyFitnessPal!

Low Carb Recipe: Sausage, Peppers, and Onions

One of my goals for July is to make and blog about 5 healthy recipes. Tonight I'm going to show you one that I kind of made up after visiting Silver Dollar City during Christmas time. If you have ever been there you know they have AMAZING food! Last time we ate there we got this skillet thing that had all sorts of potatoes, peppers, onions, sausage, and spices in it. It was amazeballs (I feel like an official blogger now.) So I decided to semi re-create the meal.






   I started cutting up the peppers before I remembered I was going to blog about this, but I use green, red, yellow, and orange peppers and about a half of each of them. Slice them like you would for fajitas.

 

 

These are the sausages I used. They are the Italian mild sausage from Aldis.

This would be way healthier if you bought the turkey sausage.

I use cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, salt, and black pepper to season the sausage to taste. I LOVE spicy food so I use quite a bit.

 

 

 

Cook the sausage with a little bit of olive oil until it's near done.  

 



Once the sausage is done drop in the peppers and onions and cook until they are soft. Seriously the best thing you will ever eat!


Hope you enjoyed the recipe. It's pretty easy! Sorry if the pictures are a little blurry. Sometime we cook potatoes and add that .

Calorie Content for 1 Serving of this meal is about 300 calories. It would depend on what type of sausage you got.

Email me if you have any questions! Check back tomorrow for my 30 day shred update!  Follow me on Instagram and MyFitnessPal at cdecker0

Weekly Link Up

Linking up with Operation Skinny Jeans again this week for my weekly goals!

Last week I sat some pretty lofty goals for myself, especially since it was the 4th of July. I didn't exactly complete all of them, but I didn't eat fast food! Which was big for me! I did however have it tonight for dinner, so Thank Jesus that this is a new week! I did drink alcohol, which was against my wishes, but as my BFF said, "I think our forefathers would have wanted you to drink." So I took her advice and down the hatch it went. Even though I didn't complete all my goals, I did complete 5 out of 7 days of the 30 day shred!

So here are my goals for this week:

Goal One: Finish strong the next 5 days of the 30 day shred level one. I will move onto level 2 on Sunday.

Goal Two: Drink Water!! I did pretty well last week with eating healthy lunches and working out during the Princess' nap time, which helped with the drinking water thing!

Goal Three: Cook and blog about two healthy meals and recipes! I plan on cooking sausage and peppers this week sometime, as well as something with chicken.

Keep coming back and reading! Follow me on Instagram and MyFitnessPal at cdecker0

Hope y'all have a great week! Keep up the work ladies and remember that one bad meal, doesn't equal a bad day.

Saturday Weigh-In

So even though it's Sunday I weighed yesterday before heading to STL for the day. I told myself that no matter what the scale said I wouldn't let it ruin my day. I am down 1.4 pounds! Finally a loss!!

We went to see the Cardinals play the Marlins yesterday so by the time I got home I was pooped. I'm pretty sure I sweat so much I had to have lost at least 5 pounds! Needless to say I skipped the 30 Day Shred, but I got up this morning and kicked it in gear. I didn't want to and my legs and arms were shaking, but I know that is has to be done! I'm a little behind so tomorrow will start day 6 of the shred. My plan is to start level 2 workouts on Saturday.

I will leave you with some pics from STL! Hope y'all have a great weekend and finish strong!