tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62901547652090729712024-02-26T01:02:59.485-06:00Life as we know itFollow me through my weight loss journey, family life, and any other random things I will post!Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-45008878690910931602013-07-02T09:49:00.002-05:002013-07-02T09:55:53.970-05:00Tummy Tuesday<strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Well hello lovelies! I had my anatomy scan and Dr. visit yesterday and found out that we have a very healthy little.......... GIRL!!!! This will be our third and final little girl ;) We really wanted a little boy but so glad that she is healthy! Go team PINK!!!!</strong><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">How far along? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">18 weeks 3 days</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Sleep? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Sometimes good sometimes awful just depends</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Maternity clothes? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Yes</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Best moment this week? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Finding out our cousins are having a little boy!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Miss anything? WINE!</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> Lol but seriously my wine!! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Movement? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Yes. I've been feeling movement since about 12 weeks. Early yes but this is my 3rd baby so I know what to feel for.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Size of the baby? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Sweet Potato</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Food cravings?</b> Hot, spicy food</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Morning sickness? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">EVERY Morning!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Gender? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Finding out next Monday July 1st. Really hoping for a boy! My husband needs a boy and My two daughters need a little brother :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Bed rest?</b> No</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Limitations? </strong><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I get out of breath like really fast lol so I am in snail mode doing house cleaning and such</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"><b>Pregnancy symptoms?</b> Still have sore boobs, morning sickness, and heartburn at night</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Wedding rings on or off? </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">On</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Looking forward to? 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I promise I will be so much better about my blog now and try to start posting daily again. I will get caught up on reading my blogs and commenting again! I will be trying to have a healthy pregnancy and enjoy being pregnant one last time. I for sure will be updating weekly on my baby as well so if you don't like that type of thing you have been warned! lol<br />
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It feels really good to be writing again and getting things out in the open even if nobody reads it. I have missed being active in my little blog world.<br />
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Talk to you all very soon!! Have an awesome weekend!!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's some Monday Motivation for ya! I love this one! I have felt like this many times at a gym or running around my neighborhood Sometimes you actually see people laughing or making fun of you or you just think they are. Or I do at least. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So I had it all planned out to workout this morning. I had a date with Chalene and turbo fire at 5 am. I had my workout clothes and shoes all set out. My HRM and water bottle in place, and even had the DVD in the player ready to go. Annnnnnnnnnnd my alarm never went off!!!! BOOOOOOOO it seems like when I have the best intentions is when I totally get screwed somehow. Something comes up, goes wrong, or gets in the way. So now I have decided I have to do it tonight after the girls are in bed. I'll try again in the morning tomorrow and get my routine going. This time I'll triple check the alarm and pep talk myself outta bed. I am so not a morning person but after I workout in the mornings I feel so much better and energized for the day! Here is hoping to a great week.</span><br />
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-21035943530659378452013-02-19T16:59:00.001-06:002013-02-20T08:08:37.821-06:00I'm the kinda girl who...<a border="0" href="http://runninginstilettosblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1049.photobucket.com/albums/s392/messydirtyhair/girl_zpsd6e6847c.jpg" /></a>
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-45176842855288901302013-02-18T09:55:00.001-06:002013-02-18T09:55:57.196-06:00Motivational Monday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-87908197383166472582013-02-15T09:26:00.001-06:002013-02-15T09:26:48.973-06:00Friday Finds<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-4075585864209912132013-02-06T08:38:00.002-06:002013-02-06T08:38:58.212-06:00Weigh-In Wednesday<span style="font-size: large;">Well it's Wednesday, hump day, also known as weigh in Wednesday I am linking up with<a href="http://www.shesabigstar.com/"> Erin </a>and <a href="http://skinnyjeanpilgrimage.blogspot.com/">Alex </a>today and I have been slacking on these link ups. Why? Well ya know because I was in a funk and didn't even want to look at a scale much less discuss the number on it. BUT now that I am finally feeling myself and have been the past couple weeks I need to face the music and get on with my healthy life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started C25K a couple weeks ago and will do week 2 day 3 today. I have really enjoyed it so far and I am really surprising myself with how far I can actually run without stopping. I really never gave myself enough credit and now I am getting to see just how far my body really can go. It is very exciting. I still have my slip ups now and again but they are getting fewer and further between. I have been drinking at least 100 oz. of water daily too. So I stepped on the dreaded scale this morning and I saw a two pound loss from last week. YES! Finally losing the extra poundage I gained while down in the dumps. Slow and steady and less screw ups with food and hopefully I can get to goal sometime before Dec 31st. I am aiming for my 30th birthday in October but we will see.</span><br />
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-28243965195857492202013-02-05T14:57:00.003-06:002013-02-05T14:57:39.820-06:00What's In A Name? Link-upHey ya'll! I am doing a link up today because I love babies and I love baby names! Plus I have baby fever really bad right now so it makes me smile to talk about these things. Amanda over at <a href="http://myveryownmodernfamily.blogspot.com/">My Very Own Modern Family</a> is hosting the link up. Go over and check her blog out and join in the fun.<br />
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I have been blessed with two beautiful baby girls. Hoping to have a third child in the near future and hoping we get a boy this time. Either one is fine with me but I would really love to give the hubby a son. You never know what will happen! Excited to see what our future will bring. But for now let me gloat about the two beauties I have right now!!<br />
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<b>Layla Rae</b>- The hubby and I were so undecided on a girls name. He didn't like most of mine and I didn't like most of his. One day I was watching Big Daddy with Adam Sandler and the lawyer he falls in love with is named Layla. I had forgotten about this name and loved it! It wasn't too common at the time, either. SO I made the suggestion and my husband actually agreed! He likes the name because of the song "Layla" by Eric Clapton. So he takes credit for naming her but I really think I suggested it first! lol Rae just sounded good with it and we liked the spelling of it. If she would have been a boy her name would have been Parker.<br />
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<b>Presley Skye</b>- I loved the name before I even got pregnant. My hubby also liked it and for obvious reasons- Elvis Presley and agreed upon it. He likes the whole rock and roll theme names going on with our kiddos. lol He likes to take credit for naming both our girls but I had a little something to do with it! Skye went well with it and I also have always loved the name Sky and added and E to the end. If she would have been a boy her name would've been Maddox.<br />
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-38489666310669942013-02-01T11:19:00.002-06:002013-02-01T11:19:58.792-06:00Happy Friday! Happy February!<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Hey lovelies! Today is a new day, a new month, and it's FRIDAY! Can I get an amen? So if you read my blog you know that January royally sucked for me! I mean I was lost in a funk with a dark cloud hanging over my head most of the month and I paid for it. The ten pounds I had lost came right back in January. Why does it seem to take forever to lose weight but three or four weeks to put it all back on? Like anything else in life a healthy lifestyle takes commitment, dedication, and lots of hard work. I have recently gotten out of the mood I was in and decided nobody is going to help me. I have to help myself. February is going to bring great things for me because I am more determined and more focused now than ever before! I have realized that I want to do this for me and that I need to give myself a little more attention which is hard for me. I am so busy with taking care of my hubby and two girls that often times I don't do anything for just me. I recently started the C25K program and am on week 2 day 2 tomorrow. I am really enjoying challenging myself and getting some alone time. Plus running is a great stress reliever. Who knew I would actually like it? I can see myself being able to run a 5K later on and I can see myself becoming a runner! WAIT!? WHAT?! Did that just come out of my mouth? Yes I learned you have to take some leaps of faith and see what you are really capable of. It really is amazing what I can already do that I thought not possible. Now don't get me wrong it is hard work, my legs KILL me and I want to stop more than once while doing it. Sometimes I have to walk a little more than I am suppose to on the program but you know what? I am doing it and I feel amazing each time I complete it!! I never really thought I had an AH-HA moment until a week or so ago. I finally got mine and I am pumped to see where this journey is going to take me. </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">Shawna </span>Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-73817107050072265592013-01-30T15:55:00.002-06:002013-01-30T15:55:48.231-06:00Wordless Wednesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-6685219752710271922013-01-28T11:22:00.001-06:002013-01-28T11:22:42.386-06:00Motivational MondayHeeeeeeeeey hookers! Monday again and and although I always seem to screw up my hard week's progress on the weekend I did a little better this time! Small steps lead to big leaps, right? I got off my ass Saturday and did my C25K app and ate really good. Sunday funday is a whole other story. FAIL. Like I said small steps and hey one day outta the weekend instead of the whole weekend being crap is a step in the right direction.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">Maybe I had to go through all of that to get to this moment. The moment I looked myself in the mirror and said you are so much more. You deserve so much better. You ARE worth it! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: large;">So my new plan of action is being put into place. I will be starting the couch to 5k app on my iPhone tomorrow. I have signed up for a color run in March with my favorite girls. I have a walking/running trail literally ONE minute from my job. I will be utilizing this trail M-F from now on even if it is just to walk. I will be doing my Herbalife and healthy meals. I will be getting my 125 oz. of water in everyday. I WILL be happier and healthier in 2013!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seeing a lot of bloggers get in on the pay it forward 2013 movement! I am excited about this and decided to join in. I first saw it on Marcy's blog <a href="http://www.themustachediaries.com/">The Mustache Diaries </a>go check it out! I love this idea and love paying it forward! </span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">I have made a commitment to myself that in 2013 food will NOT define me! It will NOT have control over my life! I am taking that control back and starting a new and refreshing chapter in my life for the better! Started out late in the year 2012 in October and managed to lose 10 lbs. It is a loss but it is not my best effort! I will be putting 100 % into myself from now on and hope to be at goal or very near it by my 30th birthday October 15th, 2013!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta;">I have joined a Dietbet that starts today and goes for 28 days. The goal is to lose 4% of my weight (which is 10 lbs.) in that time frame to split the pot with whoever else reaches their 4% goals!! The pot is up to $1680 and there is still time to join for $10 buy in if you want in click</span><span style="color: red;"> <span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.dietbet.com/games/4617">here</a> </span></span></span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">and go for it! </span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;">The dietbet on top of the Biggest Loser challenge I am going to participate in starting January 9th will help me along and keep me motivated. Here is hoping that this year will be great and successful!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes! That's right! 248.8 equal 3.6 pounds down from last week! One pound away from my first 10 pound loss!! Bye Bye 250's FOREVER!!!! This is the biggest loss I've seen so far since I started in October. Slacker much? Yes I have been but with this feeling I have right now I think I wanna keep it forever! Here's to hoping next week will be another loss even though Christmas is next Tuesday. I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but today..... Nobody can wipe this smile off my face!!!</span><br />
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<br />Lifeasweknowithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11307190445137583523noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6290154765209072971.post-73812858572141795752012-11-27T15:33:00.000-06:002012-11-27T15:33:33.805-06:00Will it ever get easier?OK, I just want to start off by saying that I'm struggling. I know what I have to do and how to do it, so why is it so hard for me to stay on track and just do it? I have been "dieting" since I was 16 years old! I have always had body issues and always been the bigger girl in every group. I have tried every fast fix diet, pill, drink, you name it and I've done it. And as everyone knows it always ends up in weight loss that comes back and most of the time for me double comes back. I am trying to get the whole "diet" mentality out of my head and focus on the lifestyle change. The whole, nutritious foods, and exercise. I have lost and gained so much weight over the years I have lost track. I couldn't even tell you what my highest weight was because I never owned a scale for the simple fact that I didn't want to know! I am an emotional eater and am also trying to overcome that obstacle. Whether it's happy, sad, mad, whatever I feel the need to eat to try to fill whatever void I have at the moment or just for comfort. I mean it's like I have a part of my brain that triggers with emotion and I just eat. I want to fix it, I really do, but how? I do good for a while and then fall of the wagon and go right back to the same old me. I really started again in the beginning of October. I found an awesome group on FB with a bunch of awesome women all working to get healthy and fit! They inspire me and motivate me! After I found this group I decided to give it one last go and do it for good this time! At that point I went out bought a fancy little scale and went for it. I started out at 257.8 lbs. and last weigh in I was 252.8 lbs. so yeah 5 lbs. in two months. All because I don't stay on track and I loose one week and gain the next it's like a never ending cycle! I hear everyone say how it just "clicks" for them one day and I have had my moment where I told myself I never want to be this big again. I want to be healthy for my little girls. I want to be healthy, I want to be able to walk into any store and find something in my size. I want all these things yet I keep self sabotoshing. Why? Some have said "well, you just don't want it bad enough". I do! I REALLY do!! I know part of it is a cycle I have to break. Another part is always putting everyone else and their needs in front of my own. Walking around on eggshells to make everyone happy and have no conflict. I am a Libra and I am a lover not a fighter. I want peace all the time! LOL I am also a procrastinator, BAD! I know this is going to be a long road of trial and error. I really do want it ya'll and I am totally going for it no matter how many times I fall! Any suggestions or comments welcome! I learn new things everyday and am open to trying new things. Man, it feels good to get all this off my chest and out of my head! Hope you all have a fabulous rest of the day!!<br />
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Shawna<br />
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