Anytime Fitness

So last night i decided that today I was going to go to the gym at 5am so that there would be no excuses at the end of the day. Lets face it, those excuses have been high in number these days. But then I remembered, I am not a morning person at all!! But the biggest factor was my lack of sleep last night. In order to get up and go in the am I need sleep!

So tonight I proved that I can make it to the gym anytime I set my mind to it. That's the benefit of going to a 24 hour gym! So no excuses are acceptable. Not anymore. Yes my feet hurt and I was tired. My solution to that was to take a rest. I took off my shoes and took a little nap. We had some dinner and headed out into the rainy night to get our sweat on at the gym. And boy did we! Hopefully this is the beginning of an awesome fitness streak! This Journey is so up and down and round and round. I feel like a broken record.And I guess I will be for a while until it all clicks!!

Today's reason for this journey....I want to wear cute clothes and feel good in them. Simple and kind of silly I suppose but I've never had that feeling and I want it so bad!

My New shoes were great and my Weight loss smash book is being used again. I believe I have my JBo Mojo back! Happy Monday!!

Cry Me A River.....Or A Ton of Sweat!!!

We went to the gym today! Yes!! It didn't take long for my fat to cry cry cry! I was only able to keep it up for 30 minutes. I have to build my endurance back up to speed, but it was a great start. The sweat was pouring! No pictures taken today. I was going to but I was sporting some awful gym hair. Short post today. Back to work tomorrow!

Papparazzi.

On my last two days of freedom, before jumping back into the work force, I decided to get some visits with some family in and try and get something accomplished.

For Saturday we started off kind of lazy and then we hit the road. First we went to Pet Smart to visit the sweet kitties who need homes. One kitty named "Coal Train" really caught my eye and my heart. He was solid black with long hair and piercing yellow/green eyes. He literally spoke to me and despite the color difference he reminded me of my sweet Callie. Of course he didn't come home with us because, lets face it, three is more than enough and it wouldn't be fair to my babies to bring home another one! Instead we came home with a sweet new purple collar (that glows in the dark) for Amelia Pond! She is the only one that will wear a collar and it has a bell so I can keep up with her! I will post a picture below.

Then I called my Dad to make sure he was home and we headed on over for an overdue visit. I don't visit him enough and I always feel bad, but I don't visit anyone much as it is. Me and John pretty much stick to ourselves and we need to get out and be more social. I will add that to my list of things to do! Anyway, we sat around and talked and watched The Daytona 300 with him. We saw that awful crash that happened. I am so shocked the driver was able to walk away from it. There were some injuries to the spectators in the stands. I hope they are okay!

Next we decided to go visit with the niece and nephews, Anna, Luke and Seth. We found Luke in his natural habitat in front of an XBOX game. So hard to believe he is well on his way to being 11!! It seems like yesterday that he was watching The Wiggles and getting all of the attention as the only nephew and grandchild in the family!! Seth had been out with a friend and came back with some kind of rock from a museum that had a sharks tooth in it. The catch was he had to chisel through it to get to the tooth! Of course that makes a mess and he was well on his way to mischief! But that's our Seth, in that stage where he doesn't cooperate for my camera! And of course I always have to take pictures. I don't get to see them enough for me to be tired of taking pictures of them! And then there is Anna, my little sweetie. She showed me her precious room and we played with some Toy Story game. We also played "store" with her cash register and play money!! Of course she cooperated for pictures and gave me lots of hugs and love! I hope that never changes!

That's pretty much it for our Saturday. No we didn't fit in any gym time. Family time came first today. Tomorrow is about activity. Laundry included! I am planning to get a head start on the week with lots of sweat!!


Seth (I warned him to Smile!)
 

Luke in his Natural Habitat
 

Amelia Pond and her Fly Purple collar:)

Anna with Woody & Jessie
 

Me & My Sunshine (and my new short haircut)

Here is reason  #2 for my weight loss journey: I want to be around for a long time. Even though I'm never going to be a Grandmother, I want to be around to be a Great-Aunt JBo!! I want to be there when my kids go to proms, and graduations, and weddings and some day have another generation of kids to love! I want to do my best to be here as long as I can. I don't know what is in store for me but it is my job to increase my life span and improve my quality of life!

Don't Stop Believin'

The first blog post is the hardest. How do I get started? What should I talk about and frankly who cares about what I post anyway? Well, I am just going to jump in there and start with the hardest part and move on from there! I have been in a MAJOR rut with my weight loss for weeks now. Every day I say...tomorrow will be different and I will get my act together. Of course this has not happened YET but as they say....tomorrow is another day! The main thing is I have to believe I can do this or I won't succeed! I have already come a long way and I'm not so far gone that I can't bring myself back to basics and get myself taken care of. This is a long process and I have been obese all of my life. I don't know what it is like not to be that way. Anyway, that's a rambling mess! So from here on out I am going to get back to making my fat cry, cry,cry and blog about it along the way. This will include a running list of why I am on this journey and what I want to do when I've lost the weight. Starting with: (in no particular order)

Number 1:  I'm going to DISNEY WORLD in October! I plan on riding as many rides as I can because I've never been before due to my size and not believing that I would fit on any of them. So between now and then I am going to do everything I can to get myself to my goal. That's It for now.

Stay Positive

J*Bo :) or as one of my kiddos called me...The Jaybster :)