Week 1 of Phase 2

So After tomorrow I will be done the first week of phase 2. For some reason whenever I start seeing results I like I end up not having the motivation anymore to keep going. It should really be the opposite shouldn't it? I should see what I have accomplished so far and want to keep going. Anyways I have been wanting to slack on my workouts but I have kept pushing myself this week. I attended a fat burning class at the rec center here in town tonight with a friend from work. It is a great class and the teacher really knows how to keep you going. The style of the class is like the turbo jam videos with Chalene Johnson which I love and I owe her whole set of dvd. But there is just something about going to a class that makes me push myself harder. I guess because I don't want to quit in front of everyone. I have been using these classes lately to help me get through my weeks worth of workouts. It is like that class makes me push harder for the rest of my workouts because I can see what I can actually do.Anyways I really enjoyed my class tonight and we got our results from last mondays weigh in at work and I am down 2.68% of my own body weight. Not sure what the equals up to in pounds exactly but we have another weight in again this coming monday. I am excited to see how I have done. I have had this knot in between my shoulder blades for a few weeks now and I just can't seem to get it to pop. I figure I will more just the right way one of these days and I will get it. I miss my chiropractor from home, I don't want to have to pay to go see the DR. to get a referral to go pay to see the chiropractor. I will just wait until the next time I am home and go see Dr. Kevin. Anyways I am going to go hit the shower and I am off to bed. Morgan is finally feeling better he got sick after Skylar this weekend so I am glad to have my whole family back in good health. I am also glad that somehow (knock on wood) I seemed to avoid it. Anyways good night.

Continued...

So I was just finishing up the other day when my daughter got sick again. Well she is all better today she slept for like 4 hours straight yesterday and when we asked her if she felt ok she always replied "I'm just really tired" and she would close her eyes and go back to sleep. Well she is back to her normal self today...I don't think she has stopped talking since she woke up this morning. We had a pretty boring day today, Mogan left to go fishing at 5:00 this morning and so I got to sleep in until about 8 when I could hear the munchkins roaming around and decided to get up before they got into something that they would get into trouble for. Skylar is still kinda scared to eat anything because she thinks that is what made her sick. Morgan came home around 10 so we switched off and he entertained the kids while I did todays workout and the workout from yesterday that I failed to do. When I was done working out Morgan fell asleep at about 1:00 and he woke up at around 4:30. He felt fine when he woke up but by about 7:00 he wasn't feeling well either. He has been sick all night since then, and I even ran to the store to get him Dr.Pepper and lemons (he said that always makes him feel better) so I heated up Dr.Pepper and added some lemon juice to it and gave it to him. He says that he is freezing meanwhile I turned up the air to 75 and now I am sweating. So he took some tylenol PM and went to bed. The kiddos are watching a movie and I have time to check everyones blogs and facebook and my e mail. The workouts that I have been doing this week have been very different from the phase 1..it seems like there are more pushups, but I am able to do more so I guess that is a good thing. I am starting to notice a big change in the way my clothes fit me. I am also starting to see a little bit of definition in my arms...thanks to all those pushups. I still don't think I would be able to do a pull up though my back just isn't strong enough for that yet. Not only do I get my good looks from my mother but I also inherited her bones...which is why I am working now to strengthen my muscles and live healthier. Love you mom. I am actually starting to like the yoga workout. It is super hard and I sweat like crazy during the first half but then during the second half is a lot of balance work. I got up at 4:30 almost every morning this week with morgan to make sure I got my workouts in and I think I like getting them done in the morning. I sleep better at night and I have more energy through the day and I seem to have more patience during the days as well. Which is good during registration. Well my kids are starting to realize that they are alone and are starting to get pretty loud. I better go wake them up before they wake up morgan. Will try to post again soon. Good night

Phase 1 complete

Well...ok long time no post.Sorry, but I have still been very faithfull with my working out..blogging not so much. But I have completed Phase 1. Before Morgan and I went to Mexico I was down 8 pounds and some inches. Well once we got back I had gained it all back and then some. So I started again at day 1 and have now worked through the first phase and I am almost back to where I was before mexico. I still need to loose 2 pounds to be back at that weight but I have actually lost more inches this time. So that is enough motivation for me, I don't care so much what I weigh it is how my clothes fit me and right now my clothes are fitting me great. I am going to keep going and I will try to be more faithful with blogging. So I had my rest week last week and by rest week I dont mean that I got to sit and do nothing I mean it was no weight lifting last week. Last week was full of yoga and plyometrics and core synegistics. I have a new love hate relationship with core synergistics...I have also been doing a fat blaster class at least once a week at our rec center here in angleton with a few girls from work. Tonight was seths last baseball game but about 30 minutes into it skylar complained of having an upset stomach so I told her to go try going to the bathroom well she cam back and had gotten sick in the bathroom so Morgan drove us home and she got in the bath and she just got out and says she is feeling better. Opps she is running to the bathroom blog again later.

I HAVE COMMITTED......

Ok, I started all over again. I did day 1 yesterday and so today is my day 2. I have done my workout already for this morning and I feel great. I mean I am sore but I feel great, last night I was actually able to do 4 decline pushups which is great for me. This morning I got up early to do plyo (the mother of all workouts) because I knew that I would be busy getting ready for my parents and sister to come tomorrow. I can't wait for them to get here. But I am going to have to be strong and workout while they are here. But I know my mom will speak up when I start to slack. Anyways I am going to get back to work, but just wanted to let you all know that I am back on track. The biggest loser competition has ended and I ended up in the negatives. I actually weighed more at the end then I did in the beginning. Which is why I am back at working out. I decided that I need to not be so strict with my eating because that just makes me want the bad stuff more. So I am just going to make healthier choices and keep on working out.

Love you all

I've been very bad

Well...I am backa t it again. It has taken me this long after our honeymoon to realize that I need to get back on the wagon. I started again on Monday, not doing P90X but back into the eating healthy. I think we are going to need to wait until Morgan is done school at the end of this month to re-start P90X. He is just to tired when he gets home to give that much effort into a workout. So we WILL start again at the end of this month. The weigh in after the honeymoon WAS NOT good, I have still overall lost 5 pounds, but I gained three back(which put me to number 17 on the charts from number 7) After seeing that I kinda lost my motivation. I told Morgan, after that much of a set back do I just give up or push REALLY hard. So it took me a week to decide that I just really need to push hard. We are going to Hemphill this weekend for Easter (where we got married) to Morgans grandparents house. I love going to see his family and I can't wait to spend a long weekend with them (and beat them in mexican train) I also love eating the food up there. However I am going to be good this weekend. Morgan and I just bough a food saver, so I am going to make all of my meals for the weekend on Wednesday night and put them in food saver bags and then I can put them in a cooler and have all my healthy meals, in the right proportions. All I will have to do is open the bags and heat up my meals. I am just going to have to avoid all of the other temptation that I know will be there. I was doing really good yesterday, and I mean REALLY good until I got home and there was a parcel from my mom on the door step with homemade cookies in it( THEY WERE AWESOME) but I'm not sure if it was just because of the fact that I knew my mom made them. You know I have been thinking about my parents a lot lately, they are just the most amazing people. You really don't know how lucky you are until you live far away and don't get to see them and joke around with them all the time. But I really am the luckiest person ever to have the parents that I have. Anyways I am at work so no crying aloud. Anyways back to my weight loss. I am only up by 3 pounds so it is doable to get back down. I just really need to find the motivation, I really just want to go home and eat cookies and snuggle up on the couch with my husband and kiddos. But I am going to go home and workout, and I am going to bring my vidoes with me to Hemphill this weekend. Pawpaw you will have to make me do them.

Anyways I am rambling.Sorry I haven't blogged in FOREVER, but I am back.

Love ya'll
Jess

Our Honeymoon

Well we are back from Mexico safe and sound. We had a great time, we stayed at the Barcelo La Jolla De Mismoloya. We weren't very impressed with the food, but it was ok. Breakfast was great. I really enjoyed the fresh fruit and fresh smoothies every morning. There was alot of fresh fish, which we both enjoyed. We really only had two days where we didn't have anything scheduled. We got there Monday after lunch, so we didnt really do anything we were exhausted. Tuesday we had a full day to do NOTHING, and instead we decided to take a walk into the town of Mismaloya, we were told to take a right after we left our resort. Well we did and we ended up walking along the highway for about 25 minutes (it was supposed to be a 15 minute walk) so we got a taxi and went back to the resort. We later found out that cross the road from our hotel the road forks and then we go right. But anyways we went into Puerto Vallarta-downtown instead, and did a little shopping, we laid out in the sun for awhile and had dinner. We were pretty much in bed by 9 every night...we are getting old you know. But we were also up by 7 every morning. At the resort you can buy these pots that are unfinished they are just clay and they have a spot where you sit and paint them, after you are finished they take them over night and put them into a kiln and fire them so they come out shiney. So I think we ended up doig a total of 6-7 pots. Well they aren't all pots, we each did a little jar for the kids, we also made salsa bowl, chip bowl, and a small plate,k plus a little bowl for my jewelry. Wednesday we laid around all day getting some sun, and that night we went on the Pirate ship. What a blast. I had done the pirate ship with Morgan family 2 years ago, but it was new to Morgan. I had forgotten that they made three girls to up on stage and sing a mexican song with an ice cube in their mouth. How funny..glad I didn't get picked. Thursday we went back into town to look for some more stuff for the kiddos, and that night we had dinner reservations at one of the restaurants at the hotel. Friday we went on what is called the outdoor adventure, you ride a mule up the mountain, then go down the mountin by zip lines and repelling down waterfalls, and free falling off of cliffs by a rope, and zip lining into rivers and hiking back up the mountain. It was SO much fun. I think that was my favourtie part of the trip. You get to meet some great people. We made some great friends that we hope to keep in touch with on that excursion. Saturday was our last full day and so we celebrated our anniversary that day. We went and had a massage together in the morning on the balcony over looking the ocean. It was wonderful. That night we went to Rythems of the Night on a private beach which is only lite up by candels, no electricity except for the show that they put on. It was so romantic. We also went to the local zoo on Saturday. It wasn't a very pretty zoo but you were able to get so close to the animals. I got to hold and play with a baby panther and Morgan got to play with a baby lion. We got to see lots of animals and get closer to them there than at a zoo here. Anyways you can view the pictures either on facebook or I have more on photo bucket..you do not need a membership to view them here.

The website is http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu47/mjtomlinson/
If you have troubles viewing them let me know.

I love you all. Thanks for all the anniversary wishes.

Yeah ME!!!!

So Today was our weigh in day before Spring break. I was kinda concerned because I haven't been that great at working out last weekend and I have only worked out once this week so far. But as you can see on my tracker I am not officially down 8 pounds. I am down in inches as follows:
Waist- Down 1.5
Abs- Down 2.75
Hips- Down 1.25
Neck - Down 1
My Biceps and Thighs have stayed the same so far but I hear that you loose what you put on last first so that would make sense. Anyways I am so excited I am sure that I can drop another 2 pounds to be under 190 before we leave for Mexico. I can't wait to lay around the pool and sip water and eat fresh fruit and go running on the beach and swimming. I am going to try to remain active. Anyways back to work I go. Thanks for all of the comments Everyone.

Love you all