Tools

You can't just jump into getting healthier without having some tools to guide and help you. Now I do not have a home gym or a gym membership, which by the way I think is a complete waste of money, but I do have some tools to get me started.
(1) An aerobic step

(2) 5 pound dumbbell

(2) 10 pound kettle bells

(1) yoga mat

A couple of DVD workout videos: Kim Kardashians: Fit into your jeans by Friday, Yoga with Gaiam, Tai chi with Gaiam.

To be honest whatever you choose would be great as long as you enjoy doing them and they are a little challenging.

ALL this exercising would mean nothing if we just pig out every night, so unfortunately we need to cut sweets. OH NO!! Almost seems impossible but how i see it is once I lose this 20 pounds and get my body looking sexy :) then that's when I'll add those sweets back in.
To help with this eating plan not diet! I must exaggerate that it is NOT a diet just a way to trick your body into losing weight and burning more fat with the foods we eat.
I bought a book from Barnes and Noble's top book picks! Weird because I've never done that but this book is awesome!

Now although it sounds like it's only 17 days, it's not. It's actually 4 intervals of 17 days and I read through the first 3 chapters and it seems promising. The first cycle is called Accelerate. In this portion I can have unlimited protein (which I don't get enough of and meat is a good source that I really don't like to begin with) and vegetables and fruits. Carbohydrates and sweets are cut out completely so like I said I WILL GET MY DONUTS at some point :)

Alrighty so those are some of my tools that I am going to use. I hope I have the strength to do this.

Blogging

Blogging is something totally new and exciting for me. I am not too sure where to start out or what to even write about. So up until now I have just been posting whatever was on my mind. As it turns out some blogs have points to them :). So here I go again searching the meaning of a blog. I currently have tons of time on my hands and that may inspire the blog. With a whole summer to do whatever I want I have to decided to get healthy.

Yes healthy and I mean a complete renovation of my life. That means healthy body and healthy mind. Just like many americans I am too worried with life's little stressors and tend to be on the "cup half empty" side of the street. To be happy means to be successful so in the end I will be all that and more.
My main motivation for this is because I've gained 20 lbs since last year. OMG yes 20 pounds!! It really freaks me out that i had to buy size 14 jeans when I used to wear size 11. You know when you sit and you can feel a roll pinching. GEEZ I loathe that feeling. So here I am to rid of it for good.

Fitness Magazine and Shape Magazine are going to be my tools this summer to getting healthy. If you haven't ever read these magazines, well you should. It doesn't only talk about exercising, but also about great foods and beauty health tips.
I don't know about you guys but I want to look like Sofia Vergara if I can. I really want to be confident enough to take my jacket off and feel sexy. So women, if you want to feel sexy , lets get to it!

Rain

There is something absolutely beautiful about rain. I love the smell and the look of it. Most people love sunny days, as do I, but i love a good rainy day. And when there is thunder it just adds to the romance of it all. Lightning completes the date as well..
It rained last night and i woke up wondering if all the bad had been washed away. Can it be washed away? I walked around getting ready this morning believing it was perfect, the sun shinning through the grey clouds and nothing was wrong. And then you get news of people getting raped, people dying, people lying and cheating and you realize that nothing is washed away. God, or who ever you want to believe made it rain, did it so we could believe in this new day, through a new lens of life. BEAUTIFUL rain!

My favorite Artist in Alaska

Katy Sevigny art is so vibrant and beautiful

I especially love her sea life paintings.


You can see the rest of it at www.katiesevignyart.org

Hope you enjoy

Rome around the corner

So it isn't like I am going there this year or anything. But my point here is to say that I WILL! No matter how long (though i hope not too long) or how much i have to work. I will get there.
We can only go as far as we let ourselves go.

So what do I need to do to get there?

Death

Yesterday I found out that my astronomy teacher from high school passed away. Mr Brabec, he was indeed one of my favorite teachers. I remember going home after the first day of school and telling my mom about all my teachers (I still do this even now that I am in college) and my description was this,
" he has beach blonde hair almost touching his shoulders but bald on the top, he wears glasses and earrings and he is always smiling".
That last part almost makes me want to cry "always smiling", is he not smiling anymore? It's a weird thought to think that he died yesterday and yet the world kept on spinning, kept on living, just kept on. Is that what death is just a period to the end of someones story? Is it at all that simple. How do you grieve something like this. I remember him telling me that one day my hair looked good :) and the day I was broken up with and couldn't stop crying, he let me sit outside of class. He had a heart and he had a family.
My theory is that no one really leaves this existence because stories like this one keep them alive and as long as I keep telling it he won't be out of existence and into some empty space. I am a religious person and do believe in God but not everyone does and I don't even know if he did. So that is why I say existence because I have to believe that everyone at least believes we are in that.

To Complete my happiness

1. Coffee- and it matters where its from. Burnt coffee is gross and too sweet is unbearable. Starbucks is my favorite BUT there are local coffee stands that make it perfecto!

2. Dreams- they need to be realistic. I would like to breathe underwater but that might never happen and my dream to travel the world, although very optimistic, it will take time and dedication.

3. Love- that unbearable to be apart that love to stay in your arms and breathe the same air as you, love. What is life without love?!

4. Hot showers- Nothing more relaxing or refreshing and maybe even sexy!!

My list could go forever ...

Be happy Dammit

Definitely feel greatful many things in my life. For love, for the sun, for life, for coffee (especially) and my mother.
I hope people aren't taking those great parents for granted because they may not always be there.
And know that being greatful every day for something will prolong your life. So smile, say Thankyou and don't sweat the small shit!

(300) days to smile

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two sides of the coin

There are people here and there, who's lives are utterly amazing. Like how do you get a life so amazing? How can you go to college and be a ski champion?? How can anyone in college fit into their jeans??? That I think I'll never know. Exercising doesn't help and neither does starving yourself.. and packing lunch is a nightmare.
So how do you guys have amazing lives and I feel so plain so simple and I know that's not me?
There are people who actually spend their time on their blogs write beautiful poetry or wonderful stories and for a moment I imagine I am them.
I adopted an elephant from Thailand and I can write stories that make people giggle. I am a food loving guru. How do you achieve all this?! It is a stabbing agonizing pain to have to go to school everyday, learn about chemistry when I know I'll never want to use it in life?
IS wanting to be a nurse common?? I want to help people, isn't that noble in some way? I love helping people. I don't want to be common or simple.
Although I know I want those simple pleasures in life marriage kids and a beautiful home. I think what I really want is to be a DOUBLE AGENT. That is absolutely the only way I'll ever get two sides of the coin. Live on the edge