My Makeup Bag

Good Morning :) Two posts in one week, shocker!!

Trista at Stewart Street is hosting a linkup about what is in your makeup bag. 

I don't wear make-up every day but I do feel more put together and professional when I put a little something on.  I am excited to see what everyone posts, go check them out!

My photo editing skills are not awesome, so bear with me. (you pro bloggers, how do you get your pictures looking all fine?)

I love my make up bag! It just came from Target when they do a little giveaway but it is the perfect size to throw in my purse & hold what I use.

I start with this dream fresh BB cream in medium and this bronzer by Maybelline.  I think they are both from CVS.

Then depending on what I am wearing I mainly use one of these two different eye shadows.  Top is NYC with some different browns, or the second is Almay and I think it was for those with green eyes.  Since I am such a goober with eye make up I like the kind that tells you where to put what shadow.

Then I use mascara, I think its Cover Girl? (I really should have brought my bag with me) and then I love, love this eyeliner, it is from Sally's and is purple but you can't really tell.  I think it opens up my eyes well. 

Anyway thats my make up bag.  What type of bronzer do you use? if you use any.

I really like the Make Up Chair on Youtube, she has a lot of great tutorials, check her out!

Weigh in Wednesday & Updates!

Good Morning :)

Today is Weigh in Wednesday with Erin & Alex.  Please click over and read all the lovely ladies who are participating and give them some love!

I weighed in this morning at 238, a good 4 pounds since the last time we chatted.  Good times.  I have lots of excuses, but none of them are good ones.  I once again ate healthy and exercised for a whole 2 days and then started eating like crap and sleeping in. 

Sunday night I came to a realization that it was January 20th of 2013, and I am about the same spot that I was in when I started this journey towards being healthy back in March of 2011.  That. Is. Pathetic.  I have no excuses.  I am educated, I know what I should and shouldn't be eating.  I have all the necessary tools: my fitness pal, gym membership, plethora of work out DVDs.  I just keep losing the motivation and determination I had back then. 

So I feel determined again.  I went to the gym last night and did 30 mins on the treadmill, 20 on elliptical & 5 on the bike. I also logged everything I ate, however some of that was pizza hut, but I was only over by about 200 calories.  I'm looking around for some good weight lifting routines too, so if you have any good ideas for a newbie in the gym let me know!My plan is to make a motivation board this week, with magazines clips and picture of things that inspire me.  I'll post when its done!

In other news, classes started again last week.  My classes should be pretty interesting.  I have a Information Design class which I hope will help me with blogging & expressing myself.  The other class is a Leadership class.  I took basically the same class last semester so it shouldn't be too bad.

Thanks for sticking around and reading, I did lose one follower last week? Man at 25 that's a lot! :)

Whats your favorite routine at the gym?

Weigh in Wednesday

Happy Wednesday All! Today I am linking up from a Weigh In Wednesday hosted by the lovely Erin & Alex. Please check them and all the others participating! This is my first link up as a blogger so go easy on me :).

Anyway I have done well this week with tracking my food.  I have logged every bite since last Wednesday so that's a plus for me, and have done well most days.  Exercising hasn't been great, i have this horrible cold that is going around and work is really busy being the week before classes start.  I have let it fall to the wayside, shocker.  I weighed in this morning at....234!I am happy with that number, but am going to set this huge goal of being at 230 next Wednesday.  I will accomplish that by logging my calories, drinking 3+ water bottles a day and getting a workout in most days. 

Whats your goal this week?

Recap

Wow I managed to post a whole week later :)

My week has been fun, I have been off work since Friday so that is awesome.  Friday I went to the doctor as kind of a check up thing.  I have been having lots of stomach pains lately, about two years ago we thought it was my gallbladder, so i dealt with a bunch of doctors and ultrasounds and scans and the decided it wasn't my gallbladder.  So I continue to deal with pain off and on about once a week or so.  Most of the pain is manageable and I can expect it depending on what I eat.  But lately it just has been worse and more unpredictable.  Anyway the doctor suggested I see a gastroenterologist, so we'll see. 

This weekend was full of glorious sleep.  I love sleep, always have.  Then Monday night stayed at my parents and we hung out together for Christmas.  Only managed to get a picture of my brother and me.

Tuesday came home and did a deep clean of the apartment, which was wonderful! I Love the smell of good pinesol! Spent lots of time blog reading and actually got a workout in :).Did level 1 of Ripped in 30.  Embarrassing how much it kicked my ass and how many breaks I took for a 20 minute workout, but I hey I did it!!

Today was week 2 weigh in for the Biggest Loser Standing challenge, and I was down one pound from last week! Weighed in at 234.8!

Sorry, I cant figure out how to rotate it?

 I thought that was great since I didn't track much or do much in the way of exercising. Anyway that is my week.  My goal is to post again sometime this week.

How was your holiday?

Why Do I Suck at Blogging?

Man I suck at blogging as of late.  I get really excited and into it, and then completely stop.  I guess I feel as though I have nothing interesting to say.  My last blog was like three weeks ago, and I was starting Insanity and so excited about it.  Then shocker, fell off the wagon and made no attempts to get back on.  This is not a post about excuses in the least.  I am single, no kids and work one job.  I have no excuse to not schedule exercise into my life. 

I am participating in The Last Loser Standing competition in my ML Fit Camp.  basically you weigh in every week and as long as you lose or maintain, you're still in.  If you gain, you're out.  We started December 12th and I was 235.  Yesterday was week 2, and I weighed in the morning and I was over by .8 pounds.  Shockingly enough if you eat like crap and don't exercise your weight doesn't go down? I was determined to not get kicked out in the second week, so I drank lots of water all day and did a workout, went home and weighed in. 


Excuse my gross toes.

YAY! Down .2 pounds, which keeps me in!  Once again I am determined to get my ass in gear.  I started 2012 weighing at 221.8.  Pisses me off that I likely will be heavier at the end of the year.  I refuse to feel this way a year from now.  I am off starting tomorrow until January 2nd.  Perks of working for a university. 
In order to start losing weight and being healthy I am committing to blogging regularly, logging my food on mfp (healthysew--add me!), drinking 100+ oz water a day and EXERCISING.

Thanks for sticking with me so far and hopefully I will be a much better blogger moving forward.

What is your go to move when you fall off the wagon/horse?

Am I Insane?

Okay so disregard the dorky title, clearly I'm feeling goofy.

How was every one's holiday? Mine was great, I had almost seven days of no work (yay) Of course I nothing accomplished on my to do lists, but that's okay.

I was feeling inspired this weekend from my lovely Fit Camp girls and I decided to restart  the Insanity program. eek. I bought the program in August, did two days and quit.  I feel as though I am in a much better place now and can't wait to see my results.

I did the fit test yesterday, here are my results & my lovely post workout face :)

Whew that was a killer. And it was on the fit test.  There are a couple lovely ladies in Fit Camp that are starting with me so it will be nice to have the support. Ill keep checking in and let you know my progress!

I'm Back!

Oh my goodness I cannot believe it has been almost a month since I posted last! Thanks for sticking with me and not unfollowing me :)

I have been up to anything too exciting. Just working, taking classes and trying to be healthy. I have been working out a lot more and trying to be more mindful of my eating.  Last Wednesday I weighed in at 234.8 so a 2.2 pound loss since my last post.  I wish it was more of a loss, but hey I'll take it!

This weekend I was super productive cleaning wise, I like to make a list in my notepad and then check them off, I know I'm a dork :).  So here was my list.

As you can see, great with the cleaning, not so much with homework & working out.

After today I am off the rest of this week, I took some vacation time with the holiday.  I have already planned out the week with my workouts and getting some homework time in.  Here is my plan

 Tuesday

-Dr appt

-raquetball

-YMCA workout

-ethics case study

-ripped in 30 L3

Wednesday

-hang out w stretch

-YMCA workout

-supervision case study (2)

-ripped in 30 L3

-blog post

Thursday

- 1 mile walk

- 5k

- EAT :)

Friday

- YMCA workout (open?)

- supervision case study

- ripped in 30 L3

- finish motivation board

- make weekend plan.

Have a great Holliday!