My Heart is Full/Weekend Recap

Top of the mornin to ya! I just came back from a make you wanna puke workout (The best kind in mine and Jillian Michaels opinion!) and thought I'd like up for my Weekend Update

My weekend was filled with love for the 2 guys in my life....and shopping!! Sadly I didn't take a picture of my loot before I hung it all up in my closet, but my very generous loving mamacita, took her youngest out to shop for some clothes for my birthday present (my birthday is 10 days away exactly!) and it was glorious! I know Im not the only girl who loves to shop. Granted, there are some girls who just cant stand it, but I? I love it! I get so excited when I score a hot little something on the clearance rack or if I catch a great sale. Which is what happened this weekend. Kohls is where it's at ladies. Most of the tops I got was the Rock & Republic brand they started carrying, but I got a couple Jennifer Lopez sweaters (sooooo comfy and sex-ay! Sure to warm that special guy in your life haha), and a Lauren Conrad sweater. Oh and I got these

I wanted something that didnt scream mom (Im talking to you sketchers!) and I am NOT on that TOMS train - blah! Sorry, but it's how I feel. Anyways, these are classics and paired with the right jeans and just a casual top? Im in! 

Anyways, here is my handy dandy (you can thank Blues Clues for that) collage about this weekend:

1. This is my little BBQ dude. He cooks up cuteness on the daily, as well as snot - poor dude has a cold. Tis the season

2. This dude is healing from having his meniscus taken out & I cant tell you how much I enjoy doting in him. It helps that he's an easy patient, but our days have consisted of him icing and elevating his leg & me getting him snacks/beverages. So happy for him since now he can actually STRAIGHTEN his leg which he hasn't been able to do in 3 months! Oh, the little things in life. Anyways, he makes me happy and I *did* say in sickness and in health, so Im doing my right to take care of him. 

3. Nick was feeling up to going to the park with our little T Rex and oh Mylanta, it was hot. Troy had a fun time climbing around the pretty sweet playground & the trees. He is normally a wuss when it comes to going down the slide, even tho he says "wee!" when he sees other kids. This time however, he did it a few times! Pretty sure it was cause dad was there :)

4. And lastly, this was a verse I got on my YouVersion Bible app & it's true. I think we (and by we, I mean *I*) tend to think it was us that worked so hard for the privilege of being saved, when really, it was God who saved us. We didn't save ourselves, Christ did. We came to know Him because of His work in our hearts. This was a great verse in humbling. 

Can't wait to see what y'all did this weekend! Link it up, ladies! 

Inspire Me: Heatlhy

G-Morning lovelies! So I skipped last week, but I am back at it this week. So my updates are as follows:

1. I have worked it HARD in the gym 3-4 times a week and have done a workout at home every week

2. MOST of my days, I do in fact finish that 1 gallon jug of water. I'd say 5/7 days I completely finish it and the other 2 days, I get close. 

3. My eating has been superb! I tried this yummy recipe via Skinnytaste on Tuesday night and it was so yummy! Spicy & flavorful. I mean, very spicy. Like, even if you aren't a milk drinker, you better have a glass gallon on hand. 

Low-fat Chicken Enchiladas

Gina's Weight Watcher RecipesServings: 8 • Serving Size: 1 enchilada • Old Points: 3 pts • Points+: 4 pts Calories: 159.5 • Fat: 5.9 g • Protein: 16.2 g • Carb: 17.8 g • Fiber: 8.3 g   

Ingredients:For the sauce:

• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• 1-2 tbsp chipotle chilis in adobo sauce 
• 1-1/2 cups tomato sauce
• 1/2 tsp chipotle chili powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin
• 3/4 cup fat free chicken broth
• kosher salt and fresh pepper to taste

For the chicken: 

• 1 tsp vegetable oil
• 8.5 oz (2 breast halves) cooked shredded chicken breast
• 1 cup diced onion
• 2 large clove garlic, minced
• 1/4 cup cilantro
• kosher salt
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1/2 tsp dried oregano
• 1 tsp chipotle chili powder
• 1/3 cup chicken broth
• 1/2 cup tomato sauce

• 8 (7-inch) reduced carb whole wheat flour tortillas (la tortilla factory)
• 1 cup shredded low fat Mexican cheese
• non-stick cooking spray
• 1/2 cup chopped scallions or cilantro for topping

Directions:In a medium saucepan, spray oil and sauté garlic. Add chipotle chiles, chili powder, cumin, chicken broth, tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5-10 minutes. Set aside until ready to use.Preheat oven to 400 degrees.Heat the vegetable oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté onions and garlic on low until soft, about 2 minutes. Add chicken, salt, cilantro, cumin, oregano, chili powder, tomato sauce, chicken broth, and cook 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.

Spray a 13 by 9-inch glass baking dish with non-stick spray. Put 1/3 cup chicken mixture into each tortilla and roll it.

Place on baking dish seam side down, top with sauce...  Then top with cheese. Cover with aluminum foil and bake in the oven on the middle rack for 20-25 minutes.Top with low fat sour cream or scallions if you wish. (Extra points) Makes 8 enchiladas.

So this past week I've been sorta hoping on the Weight Watchers train. I only really do it with dinner, because I know what I eat and how much I eat during the day are lower calories. Nicky poo is even grabbed a seat on the "Lets get ridiculously hot before Mexico" train. So, since its easy counting wise, he is taking the Smart Ones frozen meals to work. Ive seen nothing but amazing results from all y'all, so lets hope we get your results! 

At the gym, I've been sucking in the weight lifting department. I seriously LOVE lifting weights, but I've become obsessed with shredding some el bee's around the muscles I do have. Im doing HIIT cardio every time I step foot in the gym. I haven't set anything in stone yet, but pretty sure I'll be continuing the straight cardio for the rest of this week, and then next week start lifting again. The point of HIIT is vs. regular cardio, you continue to burn calories 32 hours after you've already left the gym. You can use any cardio equipment, but what I've been doing is a total of 30 minutes on the treadmill and sprinting (9mph) for 1 minute, then walking 1 minute at 3.8 mph. Oh and I do a light jog (6.2mph) for 10 minutes prior to the sprint/walks. 

No pic this week, as I am too lazy to take one, HA! But I promise my love handles and saddle bags are for reals diminishing. 

Inspire Me: Healthy

Hey girls, hey! It has seriously been a cray cray week. I have been either cleaning all day, doing laundry, running to the grocery store, organizing shizzz in the house, making time to workout, etc. We leave for Denver tomorrow early for MIL's wedding so Im on packing mode. Then tonight I have an Encore Stella & Dot show from my launch show last Friday.

Just cause Im busy, doesn't mean I would pass on Kristen & Raven's link up. My goals I set for myself last week were to up my water intake and workout Saturday, Sunday, Monday and 30 day shred 1 other day. 

America has voted and The results are in: 

Water: NAILED it! I actually went and bought a gallon jug of water to give myself that visual of how much I need to drink. I've drank a gallon of water everyday thus far. I tell you what ladies, I have seen a difference just in how my skin looks and I feel fuller longer. I am able to chug a bunch of water during my meals and it fills me up and keeps me full more so than if I just had a glass of water with the meal. It might all be in my head, but I also notice how I don't bloat and I see more definition when Im drowning myself drinking that much water.

Workouts: I went to the gym Saturday, Monday. I know it's just an excuse, but I was too tired on Sunday. Not a valid reason IMO. I did 30 day shred once (goal met!) and I did this at home workout 4 times. I intended to take a picture after I shredded, but was too eager to shower. Sorry ladies, no peep show this week :)

Goals this week

Workouts: Monday do a Pinterest workout at home & Tuesday-Friday at the gym. Nicks schedule this next week will allow me to go to the gym before he leaves, whoop whoop! 

Water/food intake: Keep on keeping on with my 1 gallon/day water. Keep food clean all week with the exception of 1 cheat MEAL. Track calories this week and don't go above 1300 calories. Only 1 adult bevy 2-3 nights a week. That shouldn't be hard at all since I haven't been craving my normal 1 BLL or glass of wine. 

Inspire Me: Healthy

Another week, another Inspire Me post, Honey Boo Boo's. This week, I wasn't as strict as I'd like to be. So you see, with Mexico being 2 months away, I told myself I was going to have rules: 2 CLEAN meals a day, 2 CLEAN snacks a day and dinner being healthy (clean not a necessity). 1 time a week, not 1 day, I can devour anything I want for 1 meal. I don't mean I can order the entire dollar menu at Micky D's (like I'd ever go there anyways, yuck!), but if I have pizza? I can eat 3-4 pieces, but no more. Just so I could feel all wild and crazy and throw inhibitions to the wind. A girls gotta get a little wild every now and then, am I right? Also, I'd being giving it my all at the gym 4-5 days a week. I wanted to workout so hard, that I'd have to wash my hair from all that stanky sweat. 

Wellllllll some of that happened. Since I last updated y'all, my workouts looked like this: 

Thursday: Murdered my legs and did 30 minutes of HIIT @ gym

Friday: OFF

Saturday: Ran/walked the Color Run (distance: 3.1 miles)

Sunday: OFF

Monday: Leg day & 30 minutes of HIIT @ the gym

Tuesday: Upper body lifting & 20 minutes of HITT @ gym

Wednesday: OFF

Thursday: OFF

Sundays are a given that I give myself an off day, but I see 4 off days in there - no bueno. Nicks schedule has changed so now I'll be changing my workouts to Saturday, Sundays (before church), Monday & hopefully my mamacita can take Troy so I can make it to the gym 1 other day. With Nicks new schedule, I'd have to be at the gym at like 3:30 AM to even get a decent workout in - I.dont.think.so! I was crazy waking up at 3:45, but to BE at the gym at 3:30 is not happening. I really don't like working out at home, but I think to give myself something extra, Im going to add in 30 Day Shred or something like that just to drive home the point to my body, that Im not playin. 

Eating has been not so great this week. Sunday we had the 1st preseason game of the NFL season, so we got a pizza. I was good and only had 1.5 pieces, but then on Tuesday we had leftovers of the pizza. Im embarrassed to say what happened, but lets just say it wasn't okay considering I had already had my splurge day of the week. But I'd be lying if I said it was so delicious once it touched my lips. Over..and over... ha! 

So, this week Im setting myself a couple goals:

1. Sticking to the eating plan I had set out for myself in the first place

2. For workouts: 30 day shred today and the gym: Saturday, Sunday, Monday. 

I also need to up my water intake. Goal for water will be 100 ounces a day.

Hope you ladies kept it in check this past week - lets all raise a glass of our favorite adult bevie water for our goals next week - CHEERS!

Weekend Update, Yo!

Top of the morning to ya ladies! I hope y'all had a fun weekend and it went by nice and slow. Can you believe we are already in August?! If you weren't aware, that means here in Northern Cali, we have about 2 more months of heat and we are into Fall, baby! Last night I got a taste of Fall with the 1st Preseason NFL game. I like me SOME hot Summer days, but THIS?

I know you Texas ladies, this is nothing. This is like night time temperatures for y'all. Nickmeister is home today, so we're taking T Money to the park that has water features. Cause lets be completely honest - it's way too hot to be dry in the heat today. 

Now, here was my weekend: 

1. The Color Run. You've all seen it on Pinterest & saw how fun it looked. I was stoked I was able to run it.  Well...more like walked and skipped through it. This run deserves a post for itself so more to come on that either tomorrow or the next day. 

2. Football was back last night! Some women either love football season or hate it. I for one...LOVE IT! I get very invested in the games where I actually care about team. I love the food on Sunday night football, the cute jersey I slip on, and all the excitement. Obvi I am a Denver Broncos fan and with Peyton Manning this year? I cannot freaking wait! I will still be catching the Jets game whenever I can cause Mr. Tebow got the shaft was traded to the NY Jets. Speaking of Timmy T...

3. THIS my dear sweet readers, is something I will forever remember. So when I ran the color run, my bestie Jenni, asked if I wanted her to snap a picture of me Tebowing since I did it for the half marathon too. So down on 1 knee I went, I posted it on Instagram & Twitter, not thinking anything of it. I went back later to check my updates, and I about died. I was like a 12 year old little girl, doing a screeching talk to Nick about how Tim Tebow "liked" my picture! I am just ecstatic Tim Tebow knows I even exist! So now its safe to say we're BFF's, ha!

4. The star of my weekend - the hubbinator. It had been forever since we had a date night just us. We've been going on group dates a lot. Sometimes you just want to be with your man. Can I get an Amen? We were so excited to see The Dark Knight Rises because #1, we love all the Batman movies and #2, we heard so much hype about how great it was and how it was "The BEST one in the Batman franchise". My review? It was okay. Not the best one in my opinion. But that's because I LOVED The Dark Night (the one with Mr. Heath Ledger). Seriously girls, who doesn't agree that Heath Ledger made that movie? It's my favorite out of the all the Batmans. Although, it was nice seeing Mr. Tom Hardy even if you couldn't see most of his face. 

Get Healthy Link Up

Here I am now (as in 5 minutes ago) - Day 1 week 1

Growing up was so not easy on my self esteem. I can remember when I was 10 and already had fully developed and was bigger than all the other girls.  I was teased in Junior High (the worst most awkward years of my life!) and from a certain brother of mine on my weight, which added to my low self esteem. By the time I was in high school, I was a 5'7 and topped the scale at 185. I would come home and eat straight out of boredom. I would finish off a whole bag of tator tots all before my mom was home from work and then eat the dinner she prepared. 

This cycle continued until I got married at 18 and started to feel that I needed to take control of my health. With my husband being in the Marines and seeing how disciplined he was, I wanted to give him the wife/future mother of our children, I knew he deserved.I did what I knew: I fell into the streo type that cardio is the only way to lose the weight and that if I did 1 hour on the treadmill, that milkshake on the way home wouldn't matter. I never once thought about doing weights because I didn't know to "bulk".

It wasn't until I was 22 when I picked up Oxygen magazine on the shelf at the grocery store, that something clicked. I wanted to lose weight, and be like those girls I saw in the magazine. So I kicked processed food out (for the most part haha!) and started counting my calories and worked it in the gym. 

Fast forward a few years, I had dropped 35lb's since I first started, I was in kick as shape, Nick and I had moved back to California & I got pregnant. I was determined to keep my workouts up. No way would I screw myself and go buck wild with food and not exercise and fall back on the "Pregnancy Card". On my lunch breaks at work, I'd go to the gym & do 20-30 minutes of cardio, then when I'd get off work, would go back and do some weights & a little more cardio. I gained 30lbs when I was pregnant, splurged every now and again, and was happy & healthy by the time T Money made his appearance into this world. 

After 3 months we decided that my breastfeeding/pumping just wasn't for me, so it was on like Donkey Kong in the diet/workout department. I didn't have to worry about getting enough calories to keep milk supply up or if some supplements I wanted to take would effect Troy. 

Troy is 1.5 and I've lost the baby weight and then some, and feel more dedicated than ever. By joining in on this link up, I want to help keep myself in check. I can get sorta 'lax on the food department. Sneaking a few bites of Troys Mac N Cheese, eating some crust from his grilled cheese, having a handful of his veggie chips. Those babies add up. Other than that, Im pretty good on eating. Also, workouts can be dropped and Im not ok with it. Nick's schedule is always changing, and at the moment my only practical option is to go to the gym at 4AM. Yes, 4 AY-EMMMM! Its as fun as it sounds to get out of bed at that time. So as you can imagine, it's easy to talk myself out of a workout at that time. My goal is that I want to get to the gym AT LEAST 4 times a week & only splurge on the processed food 1 time a week. So maybe on date night, but keep strict the rest of the week. Also, Im going to Mexico at the end of October, so I want to be able to feel comfortable to take pictures even in a bikini. Thank you Kristen and Raven for creating this!

Weekend Wrap Up

Happy Monday ladies! Can I just be real? I love the weekends. DUH, who doesn't?! I love when Nick is home tho. I know this is rare and all, but even after 7 years, I look forward to him coming home & being home all weekend. He's my buddy! Mk, so I don't know if its "rare" necessarily, but it's definitely not something I hear my girlfriends saying about their hubbies. Maybe that just means mine is kick ass?

Im linking up with Sami at Sami Shenangians for Weekend Wrap Up because it was sorta a busy weekend, and it deserves a post!

1.) Last Friday night, yeah we danced on table tops, and we took too many shots.... kidding! So my Ms. Jenni and Ms. Ryan came over (5 kids between us all) and it was chaos. No other way to say it. Our hubbies were out in the acreage that surrounds the valley we live in scouting out deer hunting places come fall, so us womenfolk had the kids. It makes me realize more and more that since Troy is older now, I need to make his room more "friend friendly". I've started to put more toys in there because he does like to walk in there and play when he's bored with what's in the living room, but I need to make it more playable for when friends come over. Because giiiiirls, there were 5 kids in my living room, tearing it up, toys everywhere, and fighting over ev.er.eeee.thaaang! Troy was the only boy, there were two 2.5 year old little girls, a almost 4 year old, and a 6 year old. The 2.5 & 4 year old were doing the "MINE!!!! MINE!!! WAAAAAAAAH!!!!" game. Good thing for my 'rita. I always wonder what Troy is thinking when he's around all the craziness that is a girl because he just stares at them like their cray cray. Get used to it, my friend.

2.) I had my first Stella & Dot Trunk Show - BOO YA!!! It was actually more of a meet and greet for my girlfriends baby girl that is 3 months old, but she wanted to make the meet & greet more fun, so she had myself and 2 other girls there that had their own home businesses. We all had our tables set up and her guests were free to come around and take a look. Lots of fun & I couldn't have had a better "warm up" show. It was a great crowd for my first show. My actual launch show is August 10th, and thats REALLY gonna be some fun - about 20 really fun girls having already RSVP'd! And with Christmas only 147 days away (yeah, I said the 'C' word - Im SO excited for it!), I highly suggest everyone starts their shopping so its not a mad dash at the end of the year. Lucky for everyone Stella & Dot has recently added to their Summer Sale selection. Some stuff may or may not already be in my cart.

3.) LOOK at this bad boy that was in my tire! Holy moly, Im so glad I got this looked at. My tire light came on in my car for the tire pressure, and I thought it was just cause of the crazy weather we've been having here in Nor Cal, that its been screwing with my tire pressure. Im happy I didn't just brush it under the rug cause it would not have been cool sitting on the side of the freeway with a popped tire, and a very active 1.5 year old, waiting on AAA.

4.) This little T Rex of mine deserves a shout out. This picture was actually from earlier in the week, but ohmygosh- love this face, truly my lady killer. That spaghetti sauce just adds to the cuteness!

Hope y'all had a fabulous weekend & did something fun in the sun! Can you believe its going to be August here in a couple of days?! Holy smokes, where has the year gone!?

Friday Letters - Link it up, homies!

Dear Self: You rocked it yesterday. You were like superwoman! Making a surprise dessert for the newbies  on your hunnie's team at work. Then tackling that mound of dishes in the sink, while running outside to do more coats of paint to your Pinterest inspired Stella & Dot display set up? Bravo! Girlfraaaand, first Trunk Show is tomorrow, and you're gonna rock it - we got this. Dear Hubbinator: I know you're exhausted from this new management position. So much so that when you get home all you wanna do is collapse on the couch and just XBOX the heck out. Please know, I notice how hard you bust that ass for our family & it's been duly noted my friend. Dear Mom: I am thankful I have you so close. When I see how much fun Troy has with you and dad, I never wish we still lived in North Carolina still - Troy loves y'all to pieces...and his new helicopter. Dear Old Lady & Old Man (I shall refer to them as "The Dems") at the gym: So Im taking this week as the week you've made your point clear. Ever since y'all started coming to the gym when I do, we have had a war in the cardio room. A war that has been going on for years all over the USA: CNN vs. Fox News. I understand you like to have smoke blown up your asses watch your liberal media, but I like my conservative media. That is fine, lets agree to disagree. But now you both have mean mugged me while in the weight room, where what was on TV was not an issue. Lines are drawn, liberals! Just know if I can help it, you will not have your free healthcare come next year. Dear Sister: I miss you. Home isn't the same without you and the Boo living in our hometown. Come back ASAP. Dear People who are making a deal about Chick Fil A: If you don't like what this KNOWN CHRISTIAN ESTABLISHMENT believes in, then don't eat there. Plain and simple. Way to hate on people with different beliefs as yourself - oh wait, isn't that what YOU'RE bagging on them for? For believing something you don't believe in? Hypocrites. And for the record, stop making it out like Christians hate homosexuals because that's false. Dear Weekend: I am so excited for you! I am going to show you how much by sleeping in tomorrow waking up when Troy wakes me up.