Life As My Phone Sees It 1/1/13 - 1/16/13

1/1/13 (well, actually 12/31/12 too)... New Year's Eve! This was the extent of our party... a couple glasses of Martinelli's and a kiss shared at midnight! Then, off to bed ;)

1/2/13 - This is seriously how the weather has looked for the last couple of weeks, without much of a reprieve. Talk about never wanting to leave the house. Ever. :( So, we drown our sorrows in a delicious, wholesome grilled chicken and fresh fruit salad with a bit of poppyseed dressing! Yum!!

1/2/13 - I normally haven't given Charlie utensils to use to feed himself. I guess I just like to avoid messes. But, the other day, I decided to see if he could use a spoon to feed himself yogurt. After showing him how to do it one time, he caught on and was an instant yogurt-eating-with-a-spoon pro! If I don't watch him closely, it will quickly become a mess... but I guess that's the price you pay to let your child learn and explore! ;)

1/3/13 - Thursday - I took Charlie to Cookie Cutters in Lehi, UT to get his first big-kid haircut, as you've seen. This was my Instagram documentation of the results. :)

1/7/13 - It was a lazy Monday for Charlie while I tried to get some work done. He had a lot of fun walking and playing on the sofa. He's such a wiggle worm that it's hard to capture a non-blurry picture of him! Haha.

1/10/13 - They finished framing the basement of our new house the day before, so I drove over to the house with my realtor to check out the job they did and make sure all was going well. I'm so excited!! :) More info to come on this later!

1/11/13 - Friday - It was the last day of the second week of my gym challenge! I hadn't missed a day and have been thoroughly enjoying it! Although this day I could tell I was getting sick (again...) with a cold, so I was taking it easy. Sure enough, I still have a cold (5 days later... it's almost gone!). Missed Monday of this week due to feeling crummy, and only stayed for 15 mins on Tuesday because Charlie was having a meltdown in the daycare, but I plan on making it up big time on Saturday!! :) Trying to keep going strong despite freezing cold weather, a cold, and a child who just recently decided to be clingy. I WILL DO THIS!! :)

Second picture was of Charlie's bath time on 1/13/13. Bath time is still one of his very favorite activities :)

Gym Results - Week 1

Well my first week of going to the gym every week day has ended! I even went on Saturday! It's so weird... once you start going, it feels so good you can't help but just keep on going!

Some results/observations from this week of working out include:

1. Charlie likes playing with the other kids at the gym while I work out, which is great! 
2. By day 3, I was so sore I could barely move, but it was all gone by day 4! 
3. I like zumba classes. They are crazy, and I've never felt more uncoordinated in my life, but I think I'll keep going back! It's like dancing yourself skinny! :D
4. I'm not so sure about cycling class. There was no happiness there, and I'm not looking to burn 600-900 calories in 45 minutes, cross-train, or lose a lot of weight, soooo I may not be doing that again. Yikes. I don't have the self-motivation for that. The teacher even said I looked pale and wanted to make sure I wasn't going to pass out. Double yikes.
5. I may or may not have lost ~1 pound. Haha!
6. My bum already looks better (a little more "lift" back there) and I've remembered that I have muscles in my tummy! Things are looking up! :)
7. My happiness and energy levels have skyrocketed upward, and I think this is the greatest benefit I've been getting from the gym so far! I'm more productive and it's all really, really good for my life right now.

Anyway, for all you people who didn't believe that I'd actually go to the gym every day (*cough*EVERYONE*cough*)... well... take THAT! I did it for a week, and I plan on continuing to do it because, believe it or not, I am enjoying it! And that's despite the fact that the weather only got COLDER as the week went on. I traveled to the gym in single-digit and sub-zero temperatures! Boo-yah! :P

Gym Resolution - Day 1

Contrary to years prior, I have a few New Year's Resolutions that I've made this year that I really plan on keeping. One of those goals is more a goal for the month of January. I purchased a one-month pass at Gold's Gym that started today and goes until February 10th. From now until then, my goal is to visit the gym every week day! EVERY week day. I get to rest on the weekends. It's going to be intense, but it's going to be worth it! And if I can achieve it, then I'm treating myself to a much-needed massage!

Today was Day 1. Today I weigh about 119-120lbs, I have quite a bit of extra "fluffiness" around my middle and bum area that just needs to GO! I'd also like to fully restore my abs and tone my other muscles. That's the goal. Weight loss? Ehh... I'm expecting 5-10lbs most. More than anything, I just need to take the extra fat, or "bad" weight, and turn it into muscle, or "good" weight! :)

Today I went to the gym from about 10:15am until 11:25am, despite it being REALLY cold and pretty snowy outside! I set out to go to a zumba class, but there weren't classes today due to it being New Year's Day, so I changed my plan. 

Here's what I did:

• Bike machine, 20 minutes, level 3-5, ~110 calories burned
• Lifted free weights (biceps, triceps) for 5 mins
• Stretched and did ab work (crunches, leg drops) for about 10-15mins
• Lateral pull-down machine, behind my head, 5 sets of 10 reps (30lbs, 45lbs, 45, 45, 30)
• Lunges with 5 lb weights all the way across the class workout room and back
• Hip adducter/abducter machine, two sets of each, 10 reps - about 5 minutes

It was a lot of fun figuring out what kind of things I can do there at the gym. It was a little-bit-of-everything kind of day. 

And then tonight I decided to go to yoga as well. They were having their "108 Sun Salutations" class for the new year. Let's put it this way: in a normal yoga class, you would do maybe 10 sun salutations (each salutation is a series of 10-18 specific poses) at most before you move on to other poses, and then maybe another 10-15 of these series intermixed between poses throughout the class. I was worried about finishing this class, especially because I had worked out earlier today. 

A little over a third of the way through, maybe 40 sun salutation series in, I was convinced I was DONE and there was no way I was going to finish it. I was tired, losing energy, and it was getting to my head. But I decided just to keep doing one more and one more and just try to take it easy. I also reminded myself that if I can push a baby out of my body for 2 hours, then I can do this yoga class for 2 hours! :) I had to remind myself that I would be proud once it was over and that I'd have the bragging right to say that I did it! 

And guess what... I DID IT! Yes I did. Boo yah! 

I'm pretty sure I won't be able to move tomorrow. It's going to be interesting. But there's one thing I can promise you: I WILL be at the gym!

Any motivation is very appreciated!