Yippee Skippy

CONGRATULATIONS to all of you! I am so happy and so proud of everyone. I think with yesterdays eating I gained almost 2 lbs back haha that's ok though I am going to run them all and more off. I can't wait to hear where we are going for dinner! Also where is that Finale picture? I want to see it next to the other one. Tomorrow is our 3 mile run I hope everyone has a good one! Keep up with the blogging while we are training it will be fun. :)

'Twas the Night Before Weigh In...

and I wish you all GOOD LUCK!!! :)

Culvers

Hello gals. I did something really really bad today. I ate a burger snack pack at culvers for lunch!!! I haven't eaten fast food in like 3 months (besides subways and salads). I am just going crazy from never eating out and never eating bad and so all I want to do is eat bad! So today I thought...... I've been at my goal weight for 3 weeks, what's one little snack pack going to do? But now of course I feel crappy and guilty. It's the last week of this thing for gods sake! Couldn't I have waited 3 days?????? I think that was like 800 calories! DO you know how long it takes me to burn that! Darn it!
Anyway.. I will be very good the rest of the week so that I can weigh in Sat Morning.
salmon and veggies on tonights menu. :-)
-Kara

Duluth Report

I did it, over indulged. Too many vodkas = disaster. Headache, stomach ache and bad eating followed. Wasted the entire day today being lazy and recovering. Ugh.

Okay, so tomorrow is a new day, and I will embrace this last week with POSITIVITY!!!

Here's to the end being in sight (for now...). :)

I'm Afraid....

that I'm not going to make my goal.
SCARY!!!

I'm doing okay, but this week has been STRESSFUL and I havne't had much time to work out. So I'm thinking that I'm sliding back up the scale. :(

We're going to Duluth tomorrow night to see Wilco, and we'll be eating out and drinking, so that's going to impact everything too. Boo.

I'm going to go to the gym tomorrow morning, eat really healthy during the day and try REALLY hard to eat healthy in Duluth. Sat. when I get home I'm going to work out really hard at the gym. Ugh.

Anyway, hope you all are doing well, it's going to be one long, tough week for this chica.

I want Cake!

Hi guys,
Hope all is going well with the last stretch here. I am having a hard time for some reason. I am making myself eat well and work out.. But for some reason I am craving craving crappy food! I want French Fries and cake and pizza and nacho's... all in the same meal!
I won't eat that of course, but why do I want it so bad!! WHY.

This is what I ate today: water.
two fried eggs and one light peice of toast.
Ramain lettuce salad with slices of tomatoe and one chicken breast. ranch dressing.
brocolli soup, brown rice, asparagus, 5 oz salmon fillet.
2 squares of graham crackers.

I ran 2 1/2 miles as well.

JEN.. what is the name of the ass kicking instructor? I can't go on Sat, but is her name Courtney? I want to go to some crazy core classes so that I can tone up more.

Good luck to all! Hope I don't break into a bakery this week!
-Kara

Hello my pretties

How are you all doing :)
Kara, Heather told me you were getting to extensions out! It must feel SO wierd!

I like my haircut, but I'm still getting used to it. It has been a little over a week and I still haven't worn it down a full day......eek! :0) Don't tell Heather, I don't want her to feel like she didn't do a good job. She does a GREAT job! I'm just getting used to it :)

Working out and eating well have been high on the priority list! I've been following the diabetic diet very very close so far this week and will work out every single day until the weigh in!

I also joined the membership for Corepower yoga so I am officially signed up to do as much yoga as I want EVERY month! I told Shane that if he agreed I could do yoga every month, I would agree to give him a massage every week! I'm all about that deal :)

Also, I'm SO excited! I just found out that my kickboxing instructor that I used to take classes from in Elk River is a Corepower Yoga instructor!!!!! She teaches a sculpt class Saturday morning at 10 am that I am going to go to! She is a TOTAL ass kicker so I'm SO excited to go! I know everyone has plans this weekend, but if anyone's plans change and you want to join me, the class again is at the Minneapolis studio at 10am on Saturday!

Love to all! Miss you girls! :) Can't wait to see you the 27th!!!
Jen

Tracks are out

hi all.
I got my hair extensions out yesterday. My hair is sooo thin! The extensions did not wreck my hair at all or anythig... this is just how thin it really is. I am not used to it anymore and now I HATE it. You will be seeing me in strictly ponytails for awhile :-)
-Kara

got my ass kicked!

Hi there chica's!
I went to Yoga C2 last night at 8:15, when I got out of class I checked my phone and saw that my hubby had called and left a message at 8:30. I checked it and it seems that our 1 year old was up throwing up! She woke up from sleep in her own puke and was not a happy little camper. She continued to throw up 4 more times. One her bed, pac'n play, bathroom floor and our bed! She is fine today. I kept her home in the morning to see if breakfast would stay down. She seemed totally fine, so I took her to daycare to let them take care of her :-)
Then... I went to St Lious Park to a sculpt Yoga class and totally got my ass kicked! I will look up the name of this instructer and we all have to go at least one time to one of her sculpt classes. She reminds me so much of Jillian it is UNREAL! I've been twice and both times thought I was gone for. She is so so hard. Does ALLOT of cardio.
I am taking the rest of the day off to clean sheet's ect.
My ass has been kicked!
Licked and Lower!
Love you all!
-Kara

Wednesday Food Post

Mapped out my food for today on Livestrong and I had a yummy lunch so I am posting my food for the day. Also after I finish this blog I am going to go do my Jillian video.
Breakfast-
Nature's Pride 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Skippy Natural Peanut Butter
Coffee, Black
Sunkist Navel Orange

Lunch-
Sauteed Tilapia with Salt and Pepper
Steamed Sweet Potato, Plain, 4 Oz.
1/4 cup Low Fat Cottage Cheese

Snack-
Yoplait Triple berry smoothie pouch 70 cal. very yummy

Dinner-
Schwann's White Meat Chicken And Wild Rice Soup 1cup (has 230 cal. 10g. carbs, and 10g protein so not bad)
1 piece Schwann's Multi Grain Loaf Bread

Hope you all are doing well this week.

Lick and lower, licked and lower! ahhh!

Hello all,
I met your favorite Yoga instructer today Beth!! I know this is very mean, but I thought she was pregnant for sure for awhile, then she was doing some moves unsafe for pregnancy.... and I thought NO WAY!! She was huge! And her "outfit" was 8 sizes to small for her.
Then she started counting... lick and lower, licked and lower lick lick lick.... IT'S LIFT LADY!
Anway... ha ha.... now I know exactly what you guys where talking about!
Mean Mean. I hope that does not cause me bad karma for saying all that mean stuff.
Did pretty good today eating/working out. I will try to have a good rest of the week as well. That's the plan. Good eating and excersizing to you all this week as well. Final weigh in is getting close ahhhhh!

Sick kids = Feeling Large Momma

Ugh My plans were to really hit it hard this week however that got derailed by snow, 2 kids with double ear infections who want nothing to do with their dad and are not sleeping, and I don't know how to tell people at work "NO" when they ask me to work for them. This week I will have worked last night, tonight, now tomorrow night, Thursday night, and Saturday morning at the GAP for cripes sakes! Half my problem is that I really wish my gym was open later than 10 because I would totally go workout after working since it takes me awhile to wind down when I get home. I guess Jillian is going to have to be my best friend until Friday night. I am also just trying to really watch what I eat since I am not working out as much this week. This is really giving me anxiety!!!

Anyone up for Yoga somewhere Friday night? I have to drop the kids off at Brant's work at 5 and there is a 5:30 C2 class in Minnetonka that I can probably make it to. Love to you all and I pledge to get back on here and blog again!

Bad Weekend!

Hello all.
I had a very bad weekend for calorie intake. Very bad. The worst I've had in some time.
All was pretty good until about 2:00 on Sat. I went ice Fishing on Sat with Grant for a "date" ( I know you are all jealous of my date becuase it sounds so much fun). While fishing I had 3 heavy beers (165 cals a pop) and some chips. Then for supper we had chicken nacho's with lots of guac and I had some wine at night as well.
So today I added all of those cals up on livestrong and it was like 2200!! With the workout we did, my net cals were around 1800 so that's still about 500 calories over for the day. Not a good thing.
Today has been okay. I am just worried about tonight becuase it's the superbowl and I will want to snack. I'm making 3 different kinds of chicken wings and will try one of each kind. I will also have a bloody mary for sure becuase I am making a bloody mary bar. But those are actually not bad for you, just vodka and tomatoe juice.
So worst weeked ever so far during this challenge.
I will get back into gear and really 'strict it up' for these last 3 weeks (after tonight). You won't see a heavy beer within 90 ft of me! They were kind of gross anyway... really filling and made me feel like crap for even drinking them! Dang Ice Fishing!! (I actually had allot of fun though)
Love to you all!
-Kar Kar

ps. Any plans to work out next weekend? I was thinking of going to Sculpt in EP again at 8:00 on Sat.

Hey ladies,

  When is our last day for this, is it the 27th of Feb?  I thought that was the day, but I just want to make sure.

Here is my progress so far.  I measured myself the other day to see how serious I need to get.  I need to get serious anyways though.  Even with this progress.

My weight has only gone down a few pounds, which I expected.  I am glad I made an inches goal.

Before After

Neck 12------------11.5
Chest 35-----------34 (even with my issues, I guess I don't get minus 5 pounds!) 
Waist 32-----------30 (and yesterday I ate a mushroom swiss burger with sweet potato fries) 

Hips 38.5----------37.5 (i would like this to go down more) 
Thigh 22.5-------22 (I would like this to go down more)
Calf 13.5--------13.5  
Arm 11.5---------10.75

so there is more progress then I thought I would have here.  I could do some serious work these next two weeks, so we'll see how motivated I become and where time allows me to go!  We will also be having chemo within the next two weeks, if Mike is sleeping I'll sneak in some Jillian.

Love you all 

Jen

Goal Weight :-)

Hello!
I've weighed in at my goal weight every day for over a week now :-) Yippy!!!! So now I'm going to try and get below that. Just for fun! And I want a better stomach... also just for fun!!

Long Time Gone...

WOW I haven't posted in a long a** time!!! So, to make up for it, I am giving you all an update/preview of my inches progress. Here is a little chart to show you where I've come:

Neck 12.5 (Nov) 12.25(Now) -.25
Chest 34.5 (Nov) 33.5 (Now) -1
Waist 28 (Nov) 27 (Now) -1
Hips 37 (Nov) 36.5 (Now) -.5
Thigh 20.5 (Nov) 20.5 (Now) No Change
Calf 14.5 (Nov) 14.5 (Now) No Change
Arm 10.5 (Nov) 10 (Now) -.5

I'm pretty happy with that progress, overall I've lost 3.25 inches. It's discouraging to see no losses in my legs, but I guess they're just getting firmer and not flabby, right? That's got to count for something... :)

I had a great time Saturday too, and I can't wait for this Saturday! So much fun, double yoga workouts!!! We crazy!!!

Eating is going pretty well too, although last night I ate at Brady's and had a piece of white bread toast, which I haven't had in a MILLION years (white bread is the nutritional equivalent of garbage) so I felt guilty, but it was only one piece. Overall, staying within the 1400 calorie range, which has been my goal.

Love to you all, and keep posting!!! ONE MONTH LEFT - YES WE CAN!!!!

Had fun on Sat

Hello there,
I had a great time on Sat! Thanks everyone for coming. I thought it was a fun change of pace from the workouts we had been doing together and all our Yoga.
Looking forward to our crazy crazy double class next weekend! Hope I don't completely faint! I might need to change my clothes in between the 2 classes. 2 different workout outfits for 2 different classes. I'm sure I will be completely soaked after sculpt and I don't want to keep that on for to long. See you all soon and have a great week. -Kara

Blogy blog blog :)

Hi girls!
I'm SO excited for Saturday's events! Shane is reffing a game down by Winona that night at 7pm so he won't be joining me for the evening events even though the other spouses/sig. others will be there, but hey, MORE food and wine for us right :)

I'm undecided about the massage for Saturday but we will see, I'm super excited for all of you ladies who will be partaking however :) What a great Saturday afternoon/evening we have planned :)

I am once again at goal weight after fluctuating a bit over the last several days! Yay for me! Now if I can just keep it there and stop stressing out.....that'd be great!

I have been a yoga freak....thank you Kara and Michelle :) I have officially become a believer because I think I'm growing muscles I never knew I had, and never knew existed :)

I've been following a very strict diet yesterday and today:

Breakfast: Key Lime Pie Fiber One yogurt, coffee with cream
Morning snack: Fiber one snack bar or South beach diet Snack bar
Lunch: Peanut Butter Graham Cracker Sandwich and Jello
Afternoon snack: Cottage Cheese and organic fruit "roll up"
Dinner last night: One slice of pizza (eek....not the best choice, but we got home from yoga so late and I just was craving it.....but I didn't eat the thick crust at the end, just the crust under the toppings :)
Dinner for tonight: Cottage Cheese and Herb Crusted Halibut (Thank you Gretchen for the dinner idea, I had this at her house before Volleyball a few weeks ago and its awesome, only 9 net carbs and loads of flavor!)
After dinner snack last night and for tonight: 1 100% Fruit Cream Bar (These are awesome, Shane agrees that it is the perfect fruity snack....:)

Alright girls.....miss you all and can't wait to see you Saturday :)
Muah
Jen

Hi non-bloggers :-)

Hi Guys. I am the only blogger lately!!
I can't wait to see you all on Sat. I am excited to work out and then get a back-rub!! (more excited for the massage than the workout).
Anyway.. I have been doing way better on my workouts this month and am seeing results for sure. In fact, my work clothes look rather large on me these days. I wish I hadn't gotten rid of most of my smaller size clothes a couple of years ago. I was like, I'll never fit in this stuff so might as well clear the way in my closet for new larger clothes. I gave them to good will!
I'm going to go on a mini shopping spree if I reach my goal. Just to get a couple of outfits that fit well.
Grants gone for work for a couple of days so I can't go to Yoga in evenings until Thursday night. But if anyone wants to go to the 8:15 pm class on Thursday, I am going to the Minnetonka studio.
Have a good week. And see you on Saturday.
-Kara

Back-Rub Wellness Party after 1/30 Workout

Hello! I just went to Julie's Fri Morning class. She is a massage therapist and training to be a chiro as well. She mentioned that she does back-rub wellness parties.
I asked her if she could do one for us after our 1/30 workout.
She said for sure!
She will be settingup her table in our downstairs blue guestroom after our Sat workout. Then we can all do 1/2 hour massages with her. She charges $50 for an hour, or $20 for 1/2 hour. I said we'd all prbably be interested in a 1/2 hour. I know I would! A massage person right in my house!! whooo hooo!. Anway. We can eat, drink a bit of wine, and then take turns going down to the massage room!
I hope that is okay with everyone. I just thought it was the best best idea and that the timing worked out perfect. Then we could have a little much needed relax time that day as well.
-Kara