Are We Back To This?

Did my daughter REALLY say in her last post that my elliptical isn’t broken?  She wasn’t in the house when it sounded like it was the Little Red Engine That Could but didn’t.  I would say it was me but even her brothers verified that the elliptical was toast, now she says it is working.  Well if it is working now, that is just dandy, since I haven’t worked out on it in several weeks because it faked its death.  I bet you that the moment that damn elliptical sees my face in the room it will roll over and play dead, the thing hates me.  Maybe it just couldn’t handle my steamy Enrique Iglesias play list! ; )

I have been doing excellent on the healthy eating home front this week.  I think that it has helped getting back to work and into a position that I am loving.  Life is good.  Tomorrow night I will be attending my 2nd Citizen’s Police Academy class and I am really looking forward to that.  I am not sure anything could top last weeks field testing of crystal meth (test kits folks) but it should be fun.

Short but sweet!

Cheers!

~Beth

YOU are amazing!

Holy moley, goodness gracious…OVER 200 VIEWS TODAY!!

…is that how you spell “moley”? Or is it “moly”?

Regardless of how it’s spelled, I am speechless, touched, honored, ready-to-do-a-happy-dance excited! While I know my mom has been the one to post more on the blog in the past months, I’m so very glad to be back, and to know that people care about us so much. You guys have no idea how much you have positively impacted my weightloss journey, and I thank you every single day!

Speaking of that good ol’ journey…Today rocked my socks off. I ate pretty awesomely, have ignored gluten’s existence for the past two days, and even did a small work out today, all without wanting to gorge on horrible things. Now that I have solid goals for myself, and that I have made being healthy my absolute top priority over everything, I feel amazing; ney…I feel EMPOWERED. What an amazing feeling that is

So, I did the elliptical today (which isn’t broken, despite what mom seems to think…;) ) for 10 minutes, burning 70.3 calories, and going 665 strides. In that 10 minutes, I broke a sweat, and was huffing and puffing just a bit, but nothing too bad. 10 minutes was great to start with , and I will probably increase it sometime next week. I also did 15 pushups, because woman with PCOS should do strength training often, because muscle burns excess sugars in the body! It’s not much, but it’s definitely better than sitting on my butt for the night! Eating also went well today…Nothing processed, and I didn’t struggle with it at all. I quite enjoyed it! Knowing that I was going to feel good about it definitely helped a ton.

My workout music today was the album “Some Nights” by the band Fun. It’s my absolute favorite album right now, and I have literally listened to it over and over for the past week and a half. These guys are awesome…I recommend you check them out They’re kind of an Indie Rock band, but I think all sorts of people can find them interesting. Youtube them and let me know what you think!!

I think that’s about it for now…I’m going to grab something small for dinner, then it’s off to bed for me!

xoxo

Elysia