Fit and Food....

I have been trying almost 4 years to lose all this weight I gained. Any one who has read my blog knows I have struggled mostly because I love food. I have a love for sweets and salty. I get to wanting something to eat and I will walk in the kitchen opening cabinet doors, pantry door and refrigerator door looking for the perfect snack. I have fruits and veggies but at the moment that is just not what i am looking for. More like a cookie, chips, popcorn, nuts, or CHOCOLATE!!!  Love me  some chocolate. I try not to keep these things in my house because none of us as any sense to stop eating it until it is gone. I know that I am not the only person like this but it is a problem for me.


I have been following blogs, going to zumba classes, doing  21 day fix exercise and I still seem to ruin all my exercise in the kitchen, The struggle is real but I try to remember where I started.

This is at 242 at prom in 2013 

This is before and after from the last challenge I did Taking back your Temple

So now I am at the point were I want to start my own motivation support page on fb with a friend. We are in the process of coming up with a name. I will keep you updated as it comes along. 

I have had a lot on my mind lately and would love to blog about it all. I could because I know I don't have many followers, but the few I do have I don't want them to think I am some kind of whinny woman. Oh well another topic for another day. 

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I am so sick of hot weather....

The older I get the less I like summer time. I only like summer if I have a cool place to be! We have thought about getting a pool many times but I just feel like it would be more trouble than it is worth. Neither of the boys really like a pool either. Our garden is slowing down it has gotten really dry around here again just with a few days in the high 90's.

Not a whole lot has been going on around here since we got home from vacation. The Farmer has been busy getting the chicken houses ready for chickens which are now 7 days old. He has had several things to break in the chicken house so he has had a lot of extra work. Here is a picture of our babies they are peachy color from a dye that is sprayed on them. They looked like little peaches walking around.

I have been in a new 21 day challenge but this week my shoe got caught in the carpet and I fell. I twisted my right leg and my knee has been really sore and I have not exercised since Friday. I did get my new Country Heat DVD I can not wait to start it. I hope it is lower impact on my knees. 

I got a cool picture of an owl yesterday. 

Well this is not much of a post Thanks for stopping by. 

Vacation and Withdrawal

I love the beach. I could life at the beach all summer but I would only want to do it if I could stay there all summer. My love for the beach began the first time my Aunt Shelby took me to the beach. I still remember the excitement of seeing the ocean for the first time. I remember the fear of the draw bridge worried it would open up when we were on the bridge. Here is a picture of me on the left side. I was so tanned.

My love of the beach grew more and more over the years. My Aunt Betty had a house at the beach and I got to stay summers with her at the beach. I would go and stay from the time we got out of school until it was time to go back to school. I loved this so much! I have had summers when I have not got to visit the beach or stay as long as I would like to but I love the beach. I have some wonderful memories that I hope I will never forget! I am so fortunate to have a family that loves the beach especially my youngest son! He wants to stay packed for the beach at all times. 

We have been home form the beach for a week and I am having horrible withdrawal. I missed the beach so bad but the worst part is trying to get back on track to healthy eating. I have done so good and was down to 193.6

I stopped exercising for a week and I ate everything I wanted I tried not to gorge myself but I did eat a lot of snacks. We ate at River City Cafe 2 times Cheeseburgers all the way and little river shrimp fried.I did not eat all of my fries but it was yummy! We had Jersey Mikes, Zaxby's , and chick-fila. But the snacks is what got me into my withdrawal. We had Tropical Trail mix, Chocolate covered almonds, chocolate cover pretzels, and 2 dozen of Hot Krispy Kream Doughnuts. Yummy!!!! 

When I got home I weight and was back up to 198.6 (so sad) but I was not shocked from everything I ate. I jumped right back into my exercise. Wow it was so hard. But I made myself do them everyday.

I started off fairly well at the beginning of the week. Struggling daily for snacks. By Thursday I was back down to 195 but by then the Farmer had caught up on his farm work and was ready to get away from the house. We bought snacks, ice cream, doughnuts, chocolate and other yummy snacks. While in the meantime my support buddies are posting on Facebook how they past over snacks and unhealthy food and I fell into temptation. I am recommitting this week and I need prayers not to fall into temptation. I need to be strong and get through the junk food junkie withdrawals. 

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Here are a few pictures of our vacation.

Family picture under the live oaks

are view for the week

My boys