Our Beach Body Journey

I haven't blogged in a very long time!  I thought I should start back up again to talk about our new journey that we have started! First I want to say why we started! Then I want you to know what it is...Then I want to talk about struggles!!!

Why Start Beach Body!!!

 Ryan and I love food!! Shoot who doesn't!!!  We have been eating really bad food! I can eat chips, cookies, chex mix!! Like nothing people!  Cookies! They are easy for me to eat!  We also don't really gain because we workout like crazy people!!! Its this silly little cycle!!! We want results but we aren't eating the things that we need to get the results!!!  On the workout part we both needed something to push us and be a change!!!  So I thought well hell lets give this a try!!!

First what is t25

Shaun T the guy who made insanity came up with a new program.
Its a series of dvd that are 25 mins long!!! Everyone struggles to find time to workout!!!  But everyone can find 25 mins!!!  Monday through Friday you have a dvd to do.  On Friday you do double...Saturday is rest and sunday is stretch!

Nutrition!!! The program came with shakeology which is amazing! So amazing I will have to just write a blog just about it!  The program came with a fast track that has everything for the week planned for you so you just got to go buy the stuff!  The next week you have another cook book to look through!  The first week you learn exactly what you should be eating!!!


Our progress!!!
Beach Body is a really neat program set up for you to succeed! I love the program!  Would recommend this program for any level of fitness!  Any program is what you bring to the table! if you eat bad and you don't do the workout full out then you will not get results!!!

The first week was a change for us!!! Yes you still want burgers, fries, chips, etcs!!!  This isn't a diet its a life style change!  We have to train our bodies to show them good foods!!!  I have tried food this week I would have never thought to eat!  We also got a food scale to measure our food!!  We have meal planned!  I know people say omg  so much work! It actually has saved money on what we spend on food!!  The fact of the matter is if you want result yes you have to work!! Its called sucking it up and putting your big girl panties on!! Nothing is a quick fix! you gotta put in time and things happen!!!

The workouts!!! Kill me yes! I feel like Bridgett Jones trying to do some of the moves! I can't do a push up! sometimes I feel like I'm dying!  I know on facebook I'm always saying we got this!! Well I still struggle! I still get my butt kicked!  But you get up and you do it again until you can do it!! I also have those days where I just want to give up!  But I look at my pictures I remind myself of my goals and I keep just pushing!!!

Our first week we lost a total together of 14.7 pounds!! Amazing! I know this week will be smaller!  But its the right directions!  So if you are someone and you are looking for inspiration!  Find some pictures...print them out!!! Remind yourself that you are in control of your life!  I feel if you really want something then you will do anything to make it happen!!!  My goal this week is two pounds!!!

I wanted to post some of the things that inspire me!!!

My friend Amanda who just finished a half a marathon!!! She is amazing inspiration to me!

My beach body Coach and Friend who reclaimed her body from having a second kid!!

Jenny a military wife and was a sailor!  She changed her body soo much! She prob doesn't know shes
Shes an inspiration to me but she is! Her Arms inspire me!!!!!

My biggest inspiration is my husband!!! Without him I would not be where I am!!! 
Support team is what makes me successful!!!  My husband believes in me when I
Don't believe in myself!  With someone like that by your side you can do the world!
I am also something that inspires me! I look at how far I have come and it pushes me every
day to keep pushing!

This blog is random!  Prob crazy grammar but I hope it inspires someone out there to
just get moving!  Or just to pick up better food!!!!!

Covergirl

This is not going to be a blog about me really... It's something I want to share with you.... I've recently been doing modeling...Throughout the process it's been interesting.  Modeling you are surrounded by people who have great bodies! As we all know I have lost a lot of weight which you would think would give me such confidence!!  But when you are surrounded by beautiful bodies you start to doubt your abilities!!! 

The other day I posted a status saying I didn't know if modeling was right for me... After posting it I actually felt bad about it!  You think when you loose 100 plus pounds that you would have some major confidence lol hahah not me! I'm working on it soo hard!  I've been reading Ellen's new book..There is a chapter that I would like to share with you... I'm going to type it out on here it's a little long but it really spoke to me and help me realize that I must believe in myself!  That there is beauty in me!  Even if I don't have a perfect Body!

Covergirl By Ellen Degeneres


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:
Beauty is only skin deep. 
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Throughout my entire life, I have belived in these sentiments.  I've belived that true beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are.  True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.  And then in 2008 I was finally able to throw all that hogwash out the window because I was named the new face of CoverGirl cosmetics!  Take a bite out of that, world!  Check out these cheekbones!  I'm abeauty queen!  (This is where flashbulbs go off and I turn my head from side to side, posing like a supermodel.  It was apparenttly too expensive and not possible to put mini lightbulbs in every book, so you're just gonna hve to imagine it.  I'm sorry).

The truth is, I still believe that above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside-to have a big heart and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.  (Actually , most people's insides are disguesting.  Even pretty people have very unattractive insides.  Have you ever seen those surgery shows on Discovery?  Not pretty)!

To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin  It's about knowing and accepting who you are.  I'm happy being who I am.  I'm confident, I live honestly and truthfully, and I think that's why I was chosen as the first fifty-year-old, openly gay Covergirl.  It's just a bonus that I have devastatingly blue eyes.

But we really are a society that focuses so much on physical appearance.  I realized this recently when I accidentally looked into one of those mirrors that magnify your face to five hundred times its actual size.  They sell them at Bed Bath and Beyond in the "Things That Make You Feel Bad About Yourself" ailse.  They're right next to the bathroom scales, usually on a shelf you're to short to reach.  I'm sure you've all looked into one of them at some point.  On one side, it's a totally normal mirror.  And then if you turn it over to the other side, your face looks like the surface of the moon. 

Portia and I have one in our shower.  I never look in it because it's usually blocked by the person who washes me.  But for some reason I looked in it one day and, oh Lordy, that is a horrible invention!  Who invented that thing and why haven't they been jailed?  Those things need to come with a warning.  Car mirrors have warning that say, "objects are closer than they appear."  Magnification mirrors should have warnings that say, "objects are not as attractive as they appear."

They show you things you didn't know were there, that no one can possibly see.  I looked at my hairline and I found a family of doves living in it.  It was shocking.  The only people who need to see things that close up are surgeons who are performing delicate operations and jewelers.  That's it!  No one is gonna see youthe way oyu see yourself in those mirrors unless you're married to a surgeon or a jeweler and they ocme home from work still wearing that apparatus.  "Honey, I'm home.  Oh my goodness, your pores are huge!"

I don't know why we ever need to look into those.  They're not accurate.  They point out every single one of our flaws.  We don't need that.  That's why we have mothers.  The fact of matter is that everyone has flaws.  No one is perfect, except for Penelope Cruz.  Our flaw are what make us human.  If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

I feel the same way about age.  I've never been someone to lie about my age.  I don't understand it.  Actually, I don't know how people can lie about their age anymore now that the Internet exist.  Not only can people easily find out what year I was born, they can find out what time, what hospital, how long my mother was in labor.  I wouldn't be surprised if there was footage on youtube of the doctor spanking me.  The only reason there isn't is because youtube didn't exist when I was born.

Our age is something we have absolutely no control over, it's just a fact of who we are.  I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.  I'm happy for example, that I no longer eat paste, like I did when I was 24.  And I'm happy that in a few years I'll be able to get half-price tickets to movies and museums.  Considering how often I go to the movies and museums, I could save upward of thirty dollars a year.

When we were kids, all we wanted was tobe older.  When we were seven and half and someone said we were only seven, we were furious.  We probably even cried about it.  Canyou imagine doing that now as an adult?  "This is Marsha.  She's forty-two."  "Forty-two and a half!  You always forget the half!! I'm practically forty-two and three quarters!" I don't know at what age people stop wanting to be older.  People seem to enjoy their twenties and thirties.  It mustbe around forty, when you're "over the hill.  I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing.  When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future!  That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned. 
People seem to be shy about their age through their fifites and sixties, but then once they hit seventy or eighty, they start telling people again because it's such a huge victory to have made it that far.  No one gets to one hundred and  tells people they're only ninety-five.  So I dont know why anyone has to lie about those middle years.  We should celebrate every year that we made through and every year that we're happier and healthier.  Because honestly, that's the beast case scenario.  And the bottom line is we are who we are we look a certain way, we talk a certain way.  I strut because I'm a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun.  When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us.  So be who you really are.  Embrace who you are.  Literally, Hug yourself.  Accept who you are Unless you're a serial killer.

I know it seems easy and breezy for me to say but trust me..it's okay to be you.  If you had called fifteen years ago and told me I was going to end up being a CoverGirl, I would have said "No way" and "How'd you get this number?"  But look at me now.  I'm totally myself and I'm an internationally know, widely sought-after supermodel.  I even went to Paris one time!


Reading this made me think!  I am who I am!  I am beautiful, and smart!  I may not have the perfect body!  There is no one in the world who is me and that's what makes me beauitful!   I wanted to share this with you!  Because no matter what size, shape, color you are beautiful!!  When you are having a bad day and you are hating what you see in the mirror remember this from Ellen!

Almost 30

So tomorrow is my birthday and for the first time that I am actually feeling like OMG  i'M almost 30!!!

I am very proud of how far I have come in life. I have a wonderful family!  I love what I do teaching!!!  I couldn't be happier in my relationship!!!  So blessed and lucky to have a wonderful husband.  I found this post the other day online and it got me thinking of something I need to start cracking down on lol!! So if you are getting close or you are thirty it may be neat to think about and funny.

By 30, you should have ...

1. One old boyfriend you can imagine going back to and one who reminds you of how far you’ve come.   (eh don't have anyone I'd like to go back to!  But I know one that reminds me of how far I've come!  So blessed with the awesome husband I have)


2. A decent piece of furniture not previously owned by anyone else in your family.
(I have a sectional that I bought all by myself! So Yes I do have furniture that no one in my family has owned!!!)


3. Something perfect to wear if the employer or man of your dreams wants to see you in an hour.
(I love clothing so that I think I have down!)

4. A purse, a suitcase, and an umbrella you’re not ashamed to be seen carrying.
Oh man def got a purse and got about seven umbrellas that I love!)

5. A youth you’re content to move beyond.
(def after loosing all this weight I'm def content with moving on with the person I use to be)

6. A past juicy enough that you’re looking forward to retelling it in your old age.
(I think I have some good stories!!!)

7. The realization that you are actually going to have an old age -- and some money set aside to help fund it.
(def need to work on retirement!! Being a military wife and teaching all over the place it's hard!)

8. An email address, a voice mailbox, and a bank account -- all of which nobody has access to but you.
(yes all ove the above!)

9. A résumé that is not even the slightest bit padded.
(can def say that my resume is not padded...shoot maybe I need to lol)

10. One friend who always makes you laugh and one who lets you cry.
(oh def have a few lately who do this!! My husband and Abel def do both)

11. A set of screwdrivers, a cordless drill, and a black lace bra.
(I have a cordless drill and black lace bra...guess I need a set of screwdrivers that are just mine)

12. Something ridiculously expensive that you bought for yourself, just because you deserve it.
(This is something I do not have....I'm not smeone who goes and spends big money...so I need to do that! ha...I wonder what they consider expensive)

13. The belief that you deserve it.
(I have def learned that I deserve it! Life is too short!)

14. A skin-care regimen, an exercise routine, and a plan for dealing with those few other facets of life that don’t get better after 30.
(skin care regimen ehhh no I don't, exercise yes I believe I do.....hahah there is always plastic surgery lol)

15. A solid start on a satisfying career, a satisfying relationship, and all those other facets of life that do get better.
(def have a solid career that I love but def would love to get a masters and move up.....counseling is something I'm really interested in...Satisfying relationship!!!  Check plus there!  Married my best friend!!

By 30, you should know ...
1. How to fall in love without losing yourself.
(This is a goal of mine to always remain myself!  If anything Ryan has brought out the best out of me!)

2. How you feel about having kids.
(this topic has been coming up ...everyone has been asking us!! We haven't even been married for a year....maybe in a couple of years)

3. How to quit a job, break up with a man, and confront a friend without ruining the friendship.
(yep def know how to quit a job, break up with a man but don't need to know that anymore,, def know how to confront a friend without a ruining it but my best friend and I have never gotten in a fight)

4. When to try harder and when to walk away.
(def know when to try harder...could work on knowing when to just walk away)

5. How to kiss in a way that communicates perfectly what you would and wouldn’t like to happen next. (hahah I think I do)

6. The names of the secretary of state, your great-grandmothers, and the best tailor in town.
(yes just not a tailor in town!!!  I need one)

7. How to live alone, even if you don’t like to.
(this one I know very well... going through a deployment I had to live alone it sucked but it can be done)

8. Where to go -- be it your best friend’s kitchen table or a yoga mat -- when your soul needs soothing. (def...in my car listening to music and in the gym)

9. That you can’t change the length of your legs, the width of your hips, or the nature of your parents.
(learning to have to embrace that I will always have big hips no matter how much weight I loose!!  I love my parents and in laws... I love the weird and crazy parts of them)

10. That your childhood may not have been perfect, but it’s over.
(yes, my childhood was awesome!  Minus my dad leaving me my mom created the best life I could have imagin!  My family is incredible)

11. What you would and wouldn’t do for money or love.(yep!)

12. That nobody gets away with smoking, drinking, doing drugs, or not flossing for very long.
( hahah but we can try lol... I hate to floss!!)

13. Who you can trust, who you can’t, and why you shouldn’t take it personally.
(I think I learn this everday...and even after thirty I will learn this!)

14. Not to apologize for something that isn’t your fault.(do this alot sometime...getting better_

15. Why they say life begins at 30 (we shall see when I get there)


All this got me thinking!  I guess age is just a number!!!  I will pretent like I'm 21 till im 70 then to heck with that...I'm going to be Paula Deen and make everything with butter and not care about anything!

PLEASE HELP ME!

New Years Resolutions have become what we call a joke these days!  I have one and I would like you to help me with it!  Facebook to me has become a page where everyone complains, argues about stupid shit or just stirs up drama!  I would like to change it for me!  My new year resolution is about finishing things that I want to do in life!  My main goal this year is to do a five k...I know many of you who would say that is cake! Some might say heck no I hate running!  I hate running with all of my life!  I have  a friend who has done 6 marthons!!!  That to me is so amazing!!!!!  She's also very fit and trained hard to do it!  Go Maria Go! 


My resolution is to create a team of people who are my friends to do a 5k together in San Antonio...if people want to do it in Pensacola I will do two!  We would do a 5k in the summer in San Antonio as a team!  For those who hate running and are beginers and think hell no!! Know that I hate to run!  Second this is a team thing where we will all go the slowest person pace!  If you are someone who says oh gosh I can do that in my sleep...its a chance for you to be inspiration to someone and to do something positive!  I'd like to create the page with a team name!  Everyweek we would have goals ....for example...jog a mile without stopping... then post the pic!  Shoot even I started my training pic of you on the tredmil or just outside jogging

The facebook page would bring together people from all ages and all fitness levels!  It's a place to post inspiration goals!  To work as a team for a common goal!  It would also have people come together and bring each other up instead of the mess that happens on a daily bases on facebook!

This is not a weightloss page but a page to finish something!  Getting together with people to say hey I'm worth fighting for my life and getting fit!

You may wonder what is inspiritation for this page!  People tell me from time to time you are so positive how do you get yourself in the gym!  I tell them people inspire me!!!  That big girl in the gym who is embarassed and is in the gym going at it!  Tells my legs to run faster that I can do it! 
My biggest inspiritation is that I have always said I wanted to do this!  I also make excuses!!!  Excuses equal failure!!!  I figure if I have a team "a family" that I can do it!  You can do it too!!

So for all of you out there!! The woman who just had a baby and wants to get fit!  For you who use to be fit and have started being a bum!!!!  For the person who is a beast in the gym and can climb ropes!  Please join this group!  Let's change our lives!  Shoot change your life! 

SO IF YOU CAN HELP ME WITH MY NEW YEARS RESOLUTION THEN COMMENT ON MY FACEBOOK !!  SAY I'M IN!!!