MIA

It's been quite a while since I wrote on this blog. I've had good reasons! First things first is we moved across the country to a very small town in Missouri. On top of my husband starting medical school and me figuring out life here, I am expecting!

Sooo where does that leave fitness? Well, I am on limited activity as of right now. I can't run, jump, or do much. I try to get to the gym at least 2-4 times a week but I've also been throwing up so much that I am still losing weight. So honestly I am not too concerned with sweating it off since I am not gaining anything. My weight fluctuates between 152-157 right now. That means 10 pounds to pre pregnancy weight. I do not condone barfing as a means to lose weight and I KNOW it's not healthy but to be that close is a crazy thing. I guess that means you can see how much I've been barfing. Yikes!!

My eating is not that great either but I have to eat what stays down. Today that was tater tots. That babe sure loves carbs haha

I probably won't be updating  much but I will be updating my family blog if you are interested. I talk about all things life, will probably throw in some good food, my exercise, and whatever else I am feeling. The site is manda-adams@blogspot.com.

Blogging Break

I guess I should just admit it, I am taking a break. Not from exercise but from blogging both here and on my family blog. Hopefully I will be back soon!

Here we go

Taking a blogging break was actually really nice for me. I miss documenting my progress but I needed a break. Some clarity to help me get other people out of my head and just to focus on me. To tell myself that I am doing enough, I am being enough, because I am enough! I was getting too involved in the blog world and it needed to end.

Currently weighing in at 168.2. Reallllllly hoping to hit 150's by the end of the month. It's a stretch but a goal!

Best part of my workouts lately is that my husband is doing them with me. 2 years into this whole ordeal (1 year of that spent being pregnant) and he finally has jumped on board the healthy train with me. I think it's an understatement when I say I LOVEEEEEE it. Yes, that much.

We got passes to golds gym and purchased a months worth of day care. Every day we get a date and it's fantastic! Plus we are working hard together and it's bringing us closer together. Seriously, the best.

I will leave this crazy random post with a picture of November to now. Makes me realize just how far I've come because whenever I look in the mirror I keep seeing the old me. This is helping me see the new me.

I'm still here

The reason I started this blog was to be able to keep myself motivated and to talk about one of my biggest passions in life: healthy eating and exercise. I wanted to have a space to share my thoughts about it all. I used to talk about it on my family blog but decided starting a second blog would be better because well... I wanted to talk about it a lot! Since hurting my knee a lot has changed for me. In between three injuries, my husband graduating, all of us getting sick,  having the most amount of orders in my shop ever, and me hurting my back, we moved.

Eating and exercising took a back seat to it all. Once we got settled we bought gym passes and daycare so we could hit it hard. It's exhausting juggling 6 healthy meals a day, work schedules, running a business, gym time, and family time but we are doing it. Slowly we are getting into a routine and hopefully I'll be back blogging about it all. I know only like one person even reads this but I hope to help motivate anyone who does!

No slip headbands!

Some of you may know that I have a little business making mostly children accessories and items. Well someone asked me if I sold no slip headbands and so I figured it out and decided to start selling them.

Let me tell you what. Best thing I've ever done. Seriously I LOVE them and even if I don't sell any I am so glad I made some for myself. Never been happier with a headband before. Especially while doing insanity and running.

I am doing a little giveaway! Check out my facebook page and enter to win 3 free ones if you please :) Share on your blog and let me know you shared if you want a bonus entry. Right now a 2 pack is only $6! Can't beat that!

I am woman

Well I had a huge pity party. Just for myself. Party of one. I felt so dang bad for myself that I was injured again! I think I was becoming too obsessed with my body image and the whole shebang because seriously, I was freaking out about gaining weight. We went rock climbing (what a smart idea. You hurt yourself so go do something that will hurt you more HA! It was still fun though) 

I saw these pictures and just. about. DIED! I picked out every flaw. Look at my round face! My bulging stomach! And don't even look at my butt and legs in that harness!! I seriously wanted to die and erase them all from my husbands phone. 

I had to really think and reflect on why I was being so hard on myself. I seriously have some issues. I am a woman. I birthed a freaking human for crying out loud! Doesn't that mean I deserve a billion awards and for no one to look at me and think I've gotten bigger? Doesn't it mean I deserve to feel confident of my new body instead of ashamed of it? Because seriously, I have been anything but proud of what my body has been through and for that I feel ashamed. 

I am a woman! I am proud of my self. I have given up my body to bring another person into this world. She doesn't care what I look like or my pant size. She cares about me and how much I love and take care of her. That. Is. All. 

I don't want her to get a negative image about her. If I talk bad about myself what does that say to her? I love my body and have had a really good weekend realizing that I look DANG good and I am ok with how I look! 

Loooooove her to pieces!

This is what I saw on the scale this morning. I am reaching my goals the healthy way and I am pretty dang proud of that! (Yes I have flinestone feet.)

I'm Out

A week ago I was all smiles and taking these pictures:

This was me as of yesterday...

(yessss I have a messy home but we are moving and I don't care)

Here are the details. 1 hurt rotator cuff, 1 hurt bicep cuff (different shoulders), 1 knee with tendonitis or what the doc calls jumpers knee. 

I am down. wayyyy down. Pretty upset about not even being able to do anything. I hurt my left shoulder doing Jillian in Feb. Now I've jacked everything up. 

No insanity, no running, squats, weights, jumping jacks, nothing. 

I can't even talk about it. I'm emotional and upset. I can't go back to who I was. I just can't. Exercise is a part of my every single day. I don' tenjoy  my rest days and now I am forced to take a lot of them. 

I start physical therapy Monday and barely talked my doctor into letting me run my 5k next weekend. 

How do you deal with so much injury?? I seriously feel extremely down.