Weight Loss Monday

Here we go!

Starting Weight: 176.4

Previous Weight: 176.4

Current Weight:172.2

That's 4 pounds lost in 1 week people!  Now, I'm assuming I'll slow down a little and just lose 1 or 2 pounds a week.  I think my body is just in a little bit of shock right now.  I've basically just cut down my serving sizes and quit having seconds, when it comes to food.  I'm also trying to find alternatives for things.  I haven't really found any yet.......but I'm looking.  I try to drink at least 72 ounces of water a day, which is really pretty easy.  I usually drink more because I drink it whenever I get the urge to snack (which is a lot).  This last week I've done at least 30 minutes of cardio for 4 days, which is a big thing for me, AND I did most of it on the treadmill, which is quickly becoming the bane of my existence.  Everything hurts after.  My feet, ankles, knees, and hips are taking a beating, which is sad since I'm only 20 years old.  I also do some stretching before and after I run which helps the pain and feels great, and then I do some push ups which is probably the hardest part right now.  Every night before I go to bed I do 75 crunches and then I do 50 as soon as I get up in the morning.  I'm already noticing that the earlier I work out the better, and then I feel great for the rest of the day.

I'm also trying to find yummy, healthy recipes for my picky self that my family will enjoy too.  For lunch a few times I've eaten 1 serving of wheat thins with a can of the chicken that you use for chicken salad.  It's not as plain as it sounds, but I got the idea from the teacher that I used to work for.  She had it for lunch all the time, and she looks fantastic.  

I also love my mini Crock Pot.  I mix 1 small can of tomato sauce, 1 can of black beans, 1 can of chicken, and about 2 cups of corn that I froze this summer.  I have put cheese in it before, which was AMAZING, but I try not to put very much because I know that cheese isn't the best thing to be eating all the time.  I think it's delicious and it lasts me about 3 days because no one else likes it.  I just put the leftovers in the fridge and microwave it.

Take THAT writer's block!

I'm having serious writers block.  I've had it for a long time.  And it's pissing me off.  So let's see how this goes.....

I went running last Thursday.  It's the first strenuous activity I've done since before I was pregnant.  That was 2 years ago, and I'm paying for it.  Ever since Friday I've had like weird, awful, contraction like pains all around my stomach, and my legs feel.........swollen?  But they're not?  I don't really know, but I can't go up or down stairs or sit down without.......whimpering?  Yeah, I guess you could call it that.

Uhh......yesterday I froze 114 ears worth of corn OFF the cob, which is definitely not as wonderful as corn on the cob, but I guess it will do.  It took me like 5 hours and I only got like 15 quarts of corn.  And I gave 2 quarts away because, well, I'm a good person like that.

OH!  I had a nail appointment yesterday with a 10 year old haha.  She did a pretty good job, and it was definitely worth my 2 dollars.  She even gave me a punch card and my 5th appointment is FREE.  She was ridiculously professional, for a 10 year old.

I'm watching the original version of the movie Arthur.  It's different, but it's still pretty funny.  I still love Russel Brand and it's kind of weird that the original Hobson was a man, but I'll get over it, because I've decided that I love Liza Minnelli.

Wellllll, I shouldn't really be blogging because I have to make 10 or 12 (I haven't decided yet) soft baby blocks before Saturday because I have two baby showers to attend.  I'll put pics up because they are fabulous.  Maybe a tutorial???  Hmmm.......I've never done one.  But if you want a tutorial, leave a comment and let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Peace out for now, bitches.

Weight loss Monday from my bedroom

I've been hit with this insomnia crap ever since I really started dieting and exercising my ass off and it's annoying. I think it actually bugs Cangrejo more than it bugs me, because I stay up and do stuff in bed...........stuff like.......well blogging.  I made you this short little video.  I'm sure tomorrow morning he won't remember any of it.  Anyways I hope not.

Is it inappropriate that I make vlogs in my bed???

Maybe.

Do I care???

Ehh not really.

I would laugh my ass off if someone else did it.

Let's just hope my husband's sense of humor is as good as mine.

Stay tuned for the next week or so.  There could be some big, exciting changes coming my way, and I'm sure you all find me VERY interesting and you want to know everything that's going on in my life.

For real, though, people.  BIG CHANGES.

(NO I'm not pregnant.)

For Real This Time!

So, after several months of zero progress in my whole weight loss crap, I'm finally bucking down and forcing myself to do it.  It's hard, and I'm hungry.  It's not like I'm starving myself either.  I've made a profile on MyFitnessPal and it's GREAT.  It helps me keep track of not just my calorie intake, but also carbs, fat, and protein, and my daily exercise with the approximate amount of calories burned.  I can also keep track of how much water I drink daily and chat with other people that are using the site.  I think I finally found something that can work for me!!!

The only problem I'm facing. . . . .is my husband.  I don't really understand why, and I probably never will, but Hispanic men (most of them anyways) DO NOT CARE if their wife is a Fatty McFatterson, and he thinks that I'm starving myself.  I was getting a little hungry about an hour ago and said I would just sip on some water, because I hadn't had enough today anyways.  He insisted I eat something.  I still had some calories/carbs/protein/fat left for today, so I decided I would have a slice of bread with some jam.

He didn't see me eat it.

5 minutes later he came to see if I ate it, and then continued to check underneath the couch cushions and under the chair to see if I had hidden it instead of eating it.  I finally convinced him that I DID eat it and he left me alone, muttering to himself that I should have at least had a bowl of cereal or something.  OH WELL.  I'll work around him somehow. . . . .


Another feature on the website is a Body Mass Index calculator.  I know that that isn't 100% accurate, but I think it can give you a pretty good general idea of where you stand.

I think the formula is like, height times weight divided by 2 or something like that, but anyway, this is the key:

Underweight-18.5 or less
Healthy-18.5-25.0
Over-25.0-30.0
Obese-30.0 or more

I score a 30.3, and I was generous with my height.  Yeah.  Call me Mrs. McFatterson.  My target weight range is 104.4-141.1.  While I think 104 lbs is REALLY low for my body shape, somewhere in between those 2 weights would be AMAZING.  My goal is 125, which will be 31 lbs lost, and if I make it, Mama is treating herself to a nice big shopping spree, because my fat pants are gonna be a little baggy.

Here's my ticker :)  I'm only going to update my weight every 1 or 2 weeks, so I'll have that stuff coming on Weight Loss Mondays.

P.S.  I learned how to do a Fishtail braid today, and I'm really excited.  I just had to tell you.

Shakira vs. Tabernacle Choir

Sooo I didn't post for my weight loss shit this week, and this is why: I was to busy busting my ass at dance practice.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I will be dancing to Waka Waka by Shakira at the USU Freedom Fire fireworks show at Romney Stadium this Friday.  A friend from the university was in charge of the group of girls dancing do it and out of 20 girls, like 14 of them dropped out of the dance.  Pussies.  So I got recruited Sunday night (because, not to brag or anything, I really know how to shake it)  I find it kind of ironic that we're dancing to a song that's originally in Spanish, about the World Cup tournament in Africa, that's sung by a Colombian/Lebanese woman at a 4th of July celebration, but whatever.  Welcome to the melting pot that is the United States.

Believe it or not, I do have quite a bit of dancing experience.  I danced from the time I was 4-11 on just a performance team and then when I was 12 I started dancing at a competitive level.  I quit when I was 14 because my parents couldn't pay for it anymore. (Poop).  So the last time I performed in front of a lot of people was 6 years ago and I miss is like crazy.  And the most I danced for before was maybe like a few hundred, but Friday night, they're estimating about 10,000.  Am I scared???  Not even a little bit.  I'm more like. . . . .psyched!!!  I think I'm driving Cangrejo crazy because I'm so freaking excited and I dance around the house constantly singing the song (actually I'm pretty sure he likes the booty shaking.)  So yeah, in short, I'm happy and my body is exhausted from practicing.  But it will be so, so worth it.

Here's the song for those of you that haven't heard it.  This is the English version.

OH YEAH!  I almost forgot, that at the end, all of the performers are supposed to take the field and dance together to This Land is My Land.  Nothing choreographed. . . . .just freestyling it to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  I don't really know how that's all gonna turn out but. . . . . .whatever blows their skirts up I guess.

Mambo Number 50!!!

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, this is post numero 50 for Mental Traffic. . . . .there's not really that much traffic, but I think it's a great name and it has some significance for me.  Since I've made it to 50, I feel like I should set a goal or something.  Having said that, I noticed that for the last three months I've put up nine posts every month, so my goal is to put up at least 11 posts a month!!!  (Baby steps, people, baby steps.)

Seeing as it is Weightloss Monday (I'm still trying to think of a better poopy sounding name for it), I'll share with you that I'm still a fat ass.  It's starting to get to me.  Even my fingers are fat.  When I got married my ring barely stayed on and now I can hardly get it off.  This is a problem.  I am trying to walk every day though.  Today I went for two walks and they were so very different from each other.  Same route.  Different speeds.
First I went for a walk with Cangrejo and Isabel.  It was a moderate speed and I got a little bit more than toasted.  Later in the evening I went for another walk, but this time with my dad and Isabel.  Every since my dad had a triple bypass last year, his exercising habits have change a lot.  When he walks, he really hoofs it.  My short little midget legs were just keeping up with his.  (And even though he's about three.....okay four inches taller than me, my legs are about an inch longer.  We've measured.)  I have to say I enjoyed the burn in my calves, but I didn't really enjoy the chaffing going on between my thighs.  That shit has got to stop.

Enough of that sadness.

Since we're on number 50, and that's exciting, I want you to all feel as happy as I do (gag).  Watch this video.  Even if you don't like the music in it, watch it for the drunk guys that are dancing.  Keep an eye on the one in the khaki pants, he's my favorite.  And watch what he does with his belt.  I never, ever, ever get sick of this video.  My students showed it to me a couple months ago, and I still watch it repeatedly.  So, enjoy.  It's only 2 minutes of your life, and it is definitely worth the sacrifice.  Especially if you're having a bad day.

Poop on weightloss.

Welcome to stupid ass weightloss Monday.  I'm becoming kind of bitter about the whole thing.  Probably because I'm still fat and I can't blame anyone but myself.  (And my mom because she keeps making really yummy things.)

P.S. I ordered my new shirt from surropa.com.  I am not being endorsed in anyway and all opinions are my own. 

Weightloss Challenge Monday.....and some other stuff

First of all, happy Memorial Day, people.  I hope you had a good one.

HOLLA!  To my new FOLLOWA!  Haha, hello, Kendra.  Ladies and gentlemen I've known this chica for quite a few years.  She pretty much rocks.

So, it snowed today.....Yeah.  Memorial Day and it freakin snowed.  Not where I live, but we drove like an hour and a half to wear my dad grew up in Idaho and it freakin snowed on us.  Refrickindiculous.  And it rained here all weekend, but this week is supposed to get nice so I'm crossing my fingers.  And toes.  7 months of winter is too much, folks.

I'm kind of bummed because tonight is the season finale of a novela that I LOVE.  (A novela is like a soap opera, but it's in Spanish.)  It's called La Reina del Sur (The Queen of the South) and it's about this Mexican lady named Teresa Mendoza that becomes a narco (drug trafficker).  I haven't watched it from the beginning, so I'm not 100% sure why she became a narco, but I think it has something to do with her ex-boyfriend who was killed in a car crash.  Or he was shot.  I dunno, something like that haha.

Teresa is played by Kate del Castillo, and yeah, she is as bad ass as she looks.  I can't watch it every night because I don't have cable or satellite so it's not on my TV until 11 pm, and I can't stay up that late all the time.  But last I watched, people were plotting to kill her, she found out she was pregnant (and everyone else found out that her stupid boyfriend is cheating on her), and some crazy drugged up lesbian killed this chick she was in love with because she found out she was a cop.  And then she died.  So even though I have to be to work early tomorrow, I think I'm gonna stay up to see what happens.

Hope ya'll had a good Monday.  Here's my vlog for today :)

And oh yeah...I went to a quinceañera on Saturday with Daysy.

Oh, hot damn.

But that's a whole other can of frijoles that we're not gonna go into tonight.

Weightloss Challenege Monday.....again

Woo-hoo for the Weightloss Monday Check-in.  I think I call it something different every week, but whatever.  You get the gist.  I was going to make a vlog for ya'll today but it kind of turned into a poo on toast kind of day so it's not gonna happen.  

Sorry, I know you're all REALLY disappointed.  

I haven't actually done that much exercise this week, but I've lost a couple pounds because I've been really grumpy and when I'm grumpy I don't like to be around people.  Therefore, I don't go in the kitchen, and obviously that's where we keep the food soo.....there you go.  The times that I have actually eaten though, I cut back on my portions.  And I can't remember the last time I had a mountain dew (cause I've been broke for a long time). 

I have gone to the soccer field 3 days this week though, and I played soccer with all the little kids while their dads were practicing. 

(The whole time I'm thinking.....Why didn't the kids just stay home with their moms???  Whatever.) 

And of course playing soccer while holding an almost 1 year old isn't what I would call easy sooo maybe all that helped me out a little.  I did actually start doing sit ups before I go to bed and I'm starting to feel it.  I guess you could say that I am doing better than I have been and I probably have the warm weather to thank.  

During Utah's 7 month winter I get sooo lazy because I hate being cold, but if it's sunny and at least like 45 degrees I'm outside.  

Saturday I took Isabel to the Health Days Parade. 

LAME SAUCE.  

It was probably the worst parade I've ever seen.  

Seriously.  

It's just turning into an advertisement.  There were maybe 10 floats and then like 60 trucks with some cheesy logo on the side and people walking around handing out fliers.  

Isabel got a freaking tan.  The one thing I will never be able to pass on to anyone, is the ability to tan.  Lucky for her, her dad is a very, very brown Mexican and the combination of our skin colors is pretty amazing.  

We may not be together anymore, but we made one beautiful kid.  

I got an awesome sunburn, which has moved into the itchy stage.  

FML.  

But I only have to put up with one or two miserable sunburns at the beginning of the summer, and then I'm usually okay.  Anyways, that's all for today.

This is me and Isabel pre-sun.

She puts her hands on her head whenever someone says 'Oh my goodness'.

It's a good thing she's pretty, cause she's gonna grow up to be a weirdo like her mama.

Weight Loss Monday 2

Quick question for other people that vlog; Do you do it through youtube?  And if you do; Does it take FOREVER when it says Preparing for Preview?  I feel like I sit here FOREVER waiting to preview it.  And then I NEVER wanna redo it because it takes to long to load or whatever and so I just pray that I don't have a booger or something.

So this week I weigh in at 167.6, probably because I've been so sick, but whatever.  Just watch my vlog or I'll punch you in the nards.  (That last sentence is an actual quote I used on my husband.  Lucky for me, he doesn't know enough English to completely understand what I said.)

Sorry for chewing on my sharpie the whole time.



Am I as abnoxious as I think I am?  And I promise I won't stand up again in a vlog.  You don't need to see that shit.