I'm sorry, I'm NOT sorry! :)

So this is going to seem like perhaps a little rant/rave, and I dont care! :) As some of you know I have begun a new little adventure with BeachBody and I AM LOVING THIS! You all know my heart will always be with running, however, about a month ago I decided to try to kick up my workouts with Asylum AND running. You know, so I can get these chicken wings looking right! :) hahha (and YES, Asylum is CRAY-ZEE, and I love love love it!) I have been at this for about 2 weeks and 3 days, and I am going to go ahead and brag a little but I had set some goals before I started, and this weekend I took my measurements to see where I was half way through, and I hit ALL of them already! :))) It is CRAZY! (Asylum is only 30 days long) And if any of you know me, knows that in college I was the first to NOT want to lift on weight days. But for some reason this is hitting it on the head with me! Obviously I am not about to go try out for the Olympics after all of this. But I just feel a sense of achomplishment seeing how much I can better my body!
*WARNING! WARNING!* This is going to be the rant portion of my blog, but the obesity problem in America makes me so "angry". I'm not sure if ANGRY is the right word... But I dont like it, and I dont care how many times I hear the excuse: "I can't help it,it runs in my family". You CAN HELP it! YOU CAN HELP YOURSELF! I am not sitting here saying every person needs to weigh 100 lbs! I DON'T WEIGH 100 LBS! Not even close. But what I get angry about is the excuses! I work 10.5 hour days EVERY day and sometimes will get suckered into babysitting after. I still make the time! You know why? Because I AM important to myself. I only have one chance to be the person I want to be. I do not ever want to get to a point in my life where I get winded from WALKING up a flight of stairs. I grew up an athlete and I am very competitive when it comes to certain things still. And perhaps that is what keeps me going so fiercely. I really just have a passion for this subject/topic. It is very hard to stick to something such as a workout, or eating healthy, especially when you may have 34895738957 other "important" things to do RIGHT now. But all you need is an hour every day! Use 30 to MOVE and 30 to FUEL! And fueling your body isnt just shoving some crackers in your mouth. I think it was about 3 months ago I saw a clip of Dr. Oz (NO i do not watch that show, I was flipping through and stopped on this) and he was having people guess ingredients in BREAD... and I was amazed by how much SUGAR was used to make bread! And that is what got me to really re-evaluate what I was eating daily. As you may know, I am a nanny to the Children Three, and I am always shocked on Mondays after thier mom has gone to the grocery store... Instead of fresh fruit and veggies, mom will buy "veggie stick chips" and "fruit snacks" instead. But if people really started looking at the ingredients and the AMOUNTS of junk in these "healthy" snacks that DO NOT KEEP YOU FULL, you may start to reconsider what you eat as well... So since my Dr.Oz shock, I have made a big effort to eat more "clean". I very rarely will eat chips or pretzels, instead I buy peanuts and almonds. When I go to the grocery store I will also stay away from the middle aisles that are full of OVER PRICED, OVER PROCESSED junk. And I can hear so many people now saying "eating healthy is expensive"... I wrote my college thesis on obesity in American Cities, I can understand where people are coming from...HOWEVER, no one said you had to buy a 7 day supply of salad stuff at a time. I buy enough for about 3 days. That way I am not throwing away rotten food and wasting money. We have also made vegetable dishes and frozen the leftovers for future meals. (hello gluten free eggplant parm that was so yummy! (: ) While on my little revamp of my food, I stumbled upon a blog of a woman who did a "no spend month", which one month a year her, her husband and daughter only had $250 to spend on EVERYTHING (not mortgage, but food, actvities, gas etc) Her husband and daughter also had celiac and was allergic to dairy. AND she shopped at Whole Foods! AND SHE DID IT! After reading that blog, and seeing Dr. Oz, I have just been trying to simplify, perhaps you may say channel my inner hippy :),  my spending and food and health. I know people think I may be crazy, but this is just important to me, just as perhaps, football is important to one person, or stamp collecting is important to another... I am not here to preach to people either. There are days when I eat some Goldfish because I am just in the mood for them. I am not claiming to be perfect!!! I just want to share my feelings and to let people know THEY CAN change thier habits to healthier ones and its NOT as hard as you may think. It is a mind game, but once you are ready to change, and make yourself important, you can do it! This subject has become a passion for me, and thanks to one of my buisness partners, Nina (among the others)  I am just loving that maybe I can help just 1 person, or 100 people. :) PS Nina is a mother to five, YES 5, young children and she still makes the time! :)
So here was another one of my random rants and raves. I'm sure there will be plenty more to come. :)
But just take this quote for what it is worth:
"You will either find a WAY, or you will find an EXCUSE"...
I'm sorry, I'm not sorry :)))

It's been far too long!

Wow, I just realized how LITTLE I've been blogging! Well the usual excuses are that my summer was busy, I had stuff to do, blah blah blah. :) But I guess it's time to fill you all in on my super exciting life, as I am sure you all have been DYING to hear about it. ;)

I think the last time I wrote I had mentioned some running goals I had. I have run a few races this summer, and they were great! It has been a lot less pressure not training for a full marathon, but I cant lie, in the back of my mind I am wondering if I should try another this spring... Perhaps just to see if I can do better??!? I am still wanting to do a race each month, so I am still trying to figure that all out.
Along with running, I have been sucked back into some strength training as well. If you read any of my old posts, you all know I quickly fell in love with the boot camps I was doing. But this girl is trying to save her pennies and quite frankly my schedule isnt optimal to drive to bootcamp after work... So I tried to decide what to do, because anyone knows that this girl doesnt "lift" at the gym! Come on now! :) So as of last week I started my first round of Insanity: The Asylum, which is the next program after Insanity. And let me tell you, it has been a good year and a half since I last did an Insanity workout and my body immediatly wanted to go into survival mode! But I kept up with my running despite my legs and knees begging me each night to just sit down and watch TV. So for the first time in FOREVER I actually did double workouts! :) I was pretty pumped! And I know my BFF would be proud to know I was doing double duty! :)

But besides that one super exciting tid bit of info, my summer came and went in the blink of an eye! I was able to take some vacations and had one of the best summers of my life! Things both in my personal and professional life are in full gear and I am so so so excited where things may end up within the next year! :) So stay tuned! Perhaps now you are all on the edge of your seat waiting for my next blog as to what is to come next! MUAHAHAHAH :)