Weight:  273.8
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I haven't really been the best at keeping up the workout thing for the past two weeks.  Life has gotten busy with the end of a semester and beginning of new one along with a virus going around our house.  I've been trying to focus on eating healthier portions and I'm doing really well at that.  Since I've not been able to keep up my workouts I've been trying to stay active at least not sitting at the computer all day.  Still making progress on weight loss, thankfully.  I'm hoping to be under 270 by the end of this month and so far it's looking good.

That's all for now, short and sweet, kinda like me. :)

Day 2

Weight:  274.6
Workout Length:  19 minutes
Calories Burned: 141
Total Calories Burned:  223

After getting started yesterday and completing my first workout I went online to checkout the website for EA Sports Active 2 and the different Community things they had and discovered there is a Jump Start Cardio Kick Start Program to get your heart and body in gear.  I was relieved at this discovery and revised my workout program today by going back and "quitting" the original 9 week program I'd started and going into the 21 day Cardio Jump Start program.  I was able to FINISH the workout session today without the struggle I had yesterday and I feel better about my progress.  Also if you notice up there I weighed in 1.4 lbs less than yesterday.  It might not seem like a lot to many and it may be just weight fluctuating from day to day but to me that is a start and that 1.4lbs means a lot, I'm looking forward to turning it into 10, 20, and 100lbs in the coming months.  In other news I'm excited because I told my friend Barb about this and I think she may be getting it so I'm looking forward to having a real person to talk to about it!

Here we go!

I haven't updated in... well... forever.  I guess it's just because I don't really do a whole lot day to day other than play with my mini love and do school work with TV and gaming mixed in.  For awhile now I've been saying I was going to attend Zumba regularly but haven't and that's mostly because the times don't work out very well for me to attend the one at the church I attend.   I had purchased the Kinetic for Xbox 360 for Tj as a Christmas gift and we haven't used it very much but I've been wanting to buy the EA Sports Active 2 workout program made for it and today I did.  This blog is going to be my ramblings about my experiences and progress toward my goal.  I'm going to stop being secretive about my weight which comes from my love of food.  I've decide that being brutally honest with myelf (and now whoever actually reads this blog) is going to be the best way for me to get where I want to be.  We bought the game and bought a scale so here we go...


Starting weight:  276
First Workout Length:  14 minutes
Calories Burned:  82

Journal:
I was excited about buying this workout system and ready to come home and get started, thankfully Jeremiah was sleepy and went for a nap so I was able to set up my Xbox character profile thing and then get into the EA Active 2 workout program.  I set up my profile on the system and selected the 9 week workout program.  The initial ambition quickly dissolved as I started running the track and doing squats and making my way through the workout.  It is no secret I'm a bigger girl to those who knew me but I didn't expect it to be this hard.  I'm not going to give up though, I will do my workouts to the best I can and in time I will get rid of 77 lbs and be at my goal of under 200 lbs.  It's not going to be easy and it will take a lot of endurance and discipline but I can do this.

To my friends who have been wanting to meet weight goals I do recommend this and I would be happy to have workout buddies since there are options on the web site to have workout groups.  Let me know if you are interested and I'll figure out how to set up the workout group and together we'll get where we want to be.

For the first time...

I really meant to write this post sooner but here it is...


Jeremiah is 14 months now and for the first time I left him go somewhere without me.  It was very difficult and emotional for me at first but I desperately needed a few days to just clear my head.  I'm so thankful for his daddy because he really is great to Jeremiah and I and most of the time is willing to do what needs to be done for the better of our little family unit.

I think the hardest part was late at night at times when he is typically sleeping because I kept looking back at the crib whenever I bumped something or made too much noise to make sure I didn't wake him only to see he wasn't there.

Anyway.. the whole reason for my little mommication as we've come to call it is that I will be going back to school starting October 25th and I needed to practice for my placement tests.  I'm really proud of how well I did, my advisor told me today that my scores were the highest and most consistent across the board for all 3 sections which were Reading, Writing, and Math.

To say that I'm thankful for this opportunity would really be an understatement, I'm very blessed that God provided me this chance to return to school for something I'm passionate about and I'm really looking forward to the work it will take to earn an Associates degree in Web Graphic Design and continue after that to earn a Bachelors in Multimedia Design & Development.

Give and Take

This is what life is all about right? Some days I feel so blessed to have a great boyfriend and a beautiful little boy to share my life with... some days I look outside and see the beauty and I'm so thankful and so blessed to have this life.  None of us deserve what we have at all but God is so merciful and gives abundantly and He never takes his blessing from us.

I'm at a really tough place at this moment I'm so furious about a situation that happened so I thought I should just come to the blog and bang it out instead of mulling over it and continuing in this feeling of anger.


On a happy note though, if everything works out with today we'll be going to see Fireworks tonight with my cousins Christa and her family, I'm very excited for that considering we didn't get to see fireworks for the 4th of July and I think Jeremiah may really like them... at any rate he'll get to play with his cousin Stella who is just 3 weeks older than him.

I should plug my camera in so I can take photos tonight... I'm gonna do that.  Thanks for listening, the headache has subsided and I'm feeling a bit better now.

Enjoying Family

I've never been really close to my extended family and this past year I've spent more time with them than I think I have in my whole life to be honest.  I've grown a very nice friendship with my cousins Christa and Alexis who were old enough to have babysat me when we were young but now I'm very thankful to have them in my life.  The 3 of has all gave birth within about a month and a half so our babies are all the same age as well and it's really fun to watch them play the few times we've gotten to get together all at once.

My Gram and Aunt are two more people I've been growing a nice bond with, I really enjoy "unplugging" and going to spend time with them a few times each week.  There is no internet at their house and their cable box isn't working either so there is no television.  My cell gets alright coverage and even on 3g but while I'm there I usually just don't feel like I need to be doing any of these things.  They really love Jeremiah and I can tell that he enjoys going to their house as well.  I'm looking forward to them moving because they will be just down the street then and we can walk to visit.

Anyway, I didn't have any real point to write about this evening I just had a very enjoyable day at my Grams house and it made me think about how grateful I am to be gaining relationships with family members that I didn't really talk much to before and I felt like sharing.

Purpose...

Purpose is a word that I've always been fond of.. I'll explain.  When I was in college the book Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren came huge and spread across college and church youth groups the same.  I was glad to be part of campus ministry with the Gospel Choir at Bloomsburg University where I attended college, it was through that group I was able to go through the book with a group of other Christian girls.  It was a rewarding and challenging time in my life and I wish I'd gotten through the whole book... maybe some day I'll be disciplined enough to go through it all.

Anyway, purpose... I saw many of my friends and people I once was close to lately have started blogging.  I used to blog awhile ago sometime around high school.  I enjoyed it, I blogged using http://www.xanga.com and was able to join groups and things related to what I enjoyed, it was more a blogger networking site.  When I saw so many people I knew were blogging I thought it'd be a nice time to get back into it so here we are...

Half way there

I chose this as the title because well it reminds me of life.  We're always half way to wherever we are going next, I've learned this especially since becoming a mom.  We're always only half way there, it's a weird sort of feeling but it's been my life for the past year since I gave birth to my little miracle that I call Jeremiah.  Before I close this post I'd like to share the lyrics of the song Half Way There.

When the chips are down, back against the wall
Got no more to give because we gave it all


Seems like going a distance is unrealistic
But we're too far from the start

So we take what comes and we keep on goin,
leanin on each others shoulders.
Then we turn around and see we've come so far somehow.

Were halfway there, were lookin good now.
Nothin's gunna get in the way.
Were halfway there, and lookin back now
Id never thought that id ever say, we're halfway there

If we never flew, we would never fall.
If the world was ours, we would have it all.
But the life we live isn't so simplistic, you just don't get what you want.

So we take what comes and we keep on goin',
leanin on each others shoulders.
Then we turn around and see we've come so far somehow.

We're halfway there, were lookin' good now.
Nothin's gunna get in the way.
Were halfway there and lookin back now.
I'd never thought that I'd ever say
We're halfway there
We're halfway there.

How you ever gunna reach the stars
If you never get off the ground
and your always here were you are,
If you let life knock you down.

Were halfway there, were lookin good now.
Nothin's gunna get in the way.
Were halfway there, and lookin back now
Id never thought that id ever say.
Were halfway there
Were halfway there.