As promised

Hello my friends! As promised I have finished my workout calendar for December and I am rather proud of it! Now I do need to finish up my home/gym workout routines and my wildcard slips that I will put in my jar but other than that it's finished! In less than 2 days I will start the biggest journey of my life! 60lbs by October 1st! I am excited also because Brian and I will be deciding on when in October we will be traveling to Hawaii! I found out I actually get 2 weeks vacation that will accrue per year until I'm there 2 years then it goes up from there so we may be able to stay in Hawaii longer than last time! 10 days would be nice so maybe we will stay an extra day who knows! Either way here is my calendar check it out and tell me what you think :)

Lets get pumped!!!!!

Alright so when I originally started this blog I had 40lbs to lose to get to my goal weight of 125ish well since I gained most of my weight back (i'm still 10lbs less then I originally was when I started my weightloss journey but 20lbs heavier then when I started the blog) I am now at a goal of 60lbs in 10 months, its totally and completely doable, for those who cannot do math that is only 6lbs a month. Brian and I are going back to Hawaii in October next year and well I want to be back down to a size 4 and I wanna be healthy, fit, toned, skinny whatever you wanna call it. So in an attempt to motivate myself I bought a new pair of nike's (on clearance and I scored!!!!!!! Nike has 2 great deals that can be combined at checkout! 25% off of clearance AND free shipping!! just use codes movemore and justdoit for the clearance items and free shipping :) i'm so excited! I need a black pair also but those can wait) and I am buying myself an actual gym back as well that I can keep in my car so I have no excuses! So here is the details of my plan, I printed out blank calendar for the month december and i'm going to color code my workouts i.e.  cardio days, gym days, work out at home days, and throw in a couple twists and turns just to keep it interesting because lets face it, everyone likes routine until they don't then they want spontinaity and then they want routine. So I am giving myself the best of both and i'm taking it month by month. I'm actually really excited about my idea and maybe just maybe it'll motivate others, so here are some ideas I have for the wildcard days, i'm going to have a jar or a cup or something with a whole bunch of random exercise routines written on them and I will throw in a couple of suprises like motivational stuff like have a cookie after you do 150 sqauts or buy yourself a new sports bra, tshirt or something like that just to keep it exciting. But here is the kicker there will only be 1 of each of those in for a month so i'll only get one treat in a month and i'll only get to buy one goodie in a month. If you think about it it is a totally brilliant idea because I will want to obviously get to the treat or goodie, obviously there might be a chance that I get it on the first time or second time but if that happens I will put it back in and shake it up because lets face it thats not motivating at all! So thats the plan, will I make mistakes? Yes, will I feel crazy because lets face it I work 4 10's and i'm on my feet all day (I probably sit a max of 1 hour in my shift total) so I get good cardio at work but it's not enough, and its not consistant enough, every single day is different which is why I love my job (did I mention that i'm going to be able to go in on C-sections and deliveries???? of course its up to the parents but most of them like having another familier face in the room and most I have known or will know them through their entire pregnancy! Needless to say i'm getting off topic but lets face it as a medical assistant you are constantly on your feet trying to stay one step ahead of your doctor, rooming patients, vitals, minor surgery, the list goes on and on, for example on Monday we were completely booked and slammed, my doctor works on 15 min and 30 min time slots and well every single 15 minute slot was booked it seemed with only a couple 30 minute slots in between so I roomed approx 30 patients that day, and thats a lot when you only have 3 rooms to rotate between.....ANYWAYS lol the point I was making is that i'm constantly on my feet so that does count as cardio, the bending, stooping and basically bending over backwards also counts too, haha I love making my doctor happy and she really appreciates the little things which i'm totally not used too!!! Anyways off subject again. So yeah I will post an update once I finish the calendar that i'm working on and here are my new workout/work kicks!! Aren't they awesome????? $52 and some change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I finally chose a simple workout bag too its a cute black and white chevron print :) well my friends Happy Thanksgiving!!! i'll update when I finish my calendar!

30 Day Squat Challenge

So I'm on day 3 of my 30 day squat challenge, i'm feeling good about the whole process, Since I can't get back into the gym until next month i've decided to just do a challenge at a time, this coupled with the fact that I am very active at my job, yes I mean active, i'm a medical assistant so i'm constantly moving. But of course this also poses a small problem, like for example right now my neck is so tight and I have a huge knot in it, this knot which I have not been able to get rid of actually caused me a migraine a couple weeks ago. That literally took me off my feet for 3 days and not even tramadol and flexeril would make it go away, Brian tried rubbing my back and my neck to get the knots out and well lets just say I ended up bawling in tears because the pain got so bad. Anyways back to my squat challenge, I like this one because it only goes up 5 squats a day which is completely doable, I did 60 today, tomorrow is a rest day. Once I finish this challenge up i'm going to start my ab challenge and finish up with an arm challenge! I will let you guys know how it goes!!