Slow Week

So this week my percentage was .43%, oh well. We all have to have a few bad weeks every now and then. Tell me where you are at on this journey! Good Luck to all and Keep up the Hard work!

Weigh-Ins!!!!

So don't expect dramatic numbers here everyone!!! This week was hard for all of us. Just remember to keep up the hard work!!! So everyone comment on what your percentage was. Mine was 1.71. Wahoo! Let me know how you are doing!! :o)

A Good place to track your progress...

A few months ago I had a really good friend up here that tried and tried to get me motivated. Unfortunetly I was lazy and stubborn and didn't get off my butt and do anything. One thing she did introduce to me though was www.sparkpeople.com. It is an awesome website that allows you to set realistic goals in you fitness and health program, track what you eat, how much water you are drinking and all kinds of cool stuff. Everyone should check it out! It is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to visit. So go there register(it's free!!), set some goals and get to work. Remember Take your vitamins and drink your water! Love ya guys! Keep up the good work!

And they're off!!!

Day One of the big competition! We have Chronicler, Bri, Adan, Myself and the Tall kid! It will be a nice little prize at the end. I will still take more participants if you want to join in! Good Luck to all! And remember that no matter what we are all really winning in this competition, but of course you will all have to hand over your money when I win!!! Hah! Tell me your first day thoughts! Remember to weigh yourself today so you know where you are at. Have a good week!

Everyone Needs a Support System

So I am sitting around today waiting for the sleeping dead to arise, when I flip through the channels to see my favorite motivational show on a marathon. In preparation for the Biggest Loser premier on Tuesday at 8pm, Bravo is running a marathon of last season.
I know you are all thinking right about now, "...and why is she telling us this???" Well I will tell you. As you all know I am on a renewed quest to lose weight and get into shape so I can have more energy and increase my chances of having children. So watching this show got me thinking. We all need some motivation, not just me, but you do too! We need a little competition to get us motivated. I know you all have been thinking about losing weight and have been wanting to start to workout or eat healthier. Well now is the time!!! I already have two other people in on this little friendly competition, so here it is. Who ever wants to join in can, friends, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles...whoever!!! I want everyone to check in weekly and say what percentage of weight you have lost that week, by making a comment. Let's make it every Monday stop by and just make a quick comment telling the percentage lost that week. We will do this until December 17th. On that final Monday I will tally up everyone's percentages and announce the winner on December 18th. Now for the ante if you want to join in you must agree to eat healthier, workout more, and most of all give $50 to the winner of the game. This way we will all be competing to get that large prize at the end to buy some new clothes for your new thinner body!
So who is in??? I already have myself and two others signed up so that is already $150 to compete for! If you are in just leave a comment. Good Luck to everyone! Let the games begin starting Monday, September 10th! Any questions just let me know!

Passion vs. PCOS

There was a time in my life when I was passionate about everything in my life. It was honestly the happiest I have ever been. These past few years I have whine complained and threw a pity party for my self twelve thousand times over. Well I am done with that!!! Recently I have been feeling an overwhelming source of passion. I mean real passion, passion for life and everything hat is around you. I feel like I am getting back to who I truly am. Back to the person that the man I married fell in love with. The person that wouldn't be held back because someone didn't like what they were doing. This is me! If you don't like it tough!!! Suck it up Princess, as we say at work.
Tonight I watched a show on TLC called "Crazy, Sexy, Cancer." I know it sounds a little out there, but it really kind of brought things into prospective. The woman in it used to be an actress, until she found out she was diagnosed. She didn't let it take over her life. She knew she was going to beat it from the get go. SO she did everything she could. Never once lost her hair, and only a few times did she let herself feel bad about it. It really helped me along on my way back to being my passionate about life self. If I truly want to beat PCOS I need to do something about it. It isn't just going to go away by taking 1500mgs of Metformin and all of my Vitamins everyday. I have to do something about it! I have to get up off my lazy butt and get to work! I do want kids someday and if I really want to make that happen I need to clean up my body, get back into shape! Today I am setting goals! I am losing ten pounds every month until I get back to my normal self. Itr is interesting when I meet knew people I always feel like I have to explain why I look the way I do. In my head this is not who I am! I am a thin person! I have been my whole life until now. Why should I let PCOS take over??? I shouldn't! This is my life and I am in charge! I take action today! I will not let it ruin my life and my marriage! PCOS is not me nor will I let it consume me any longer. If you knew me then you know who I was, I have faded, but I am coming back and I will come back strong.

Spritual High

I love Sundays. It has really been a long time since I have been able to say that, but today I can. You see as you all know I live in small town Idaho and it isn't all it's cracked up to be. When the Tall Kid and I were first married we moved up here and went to the regular student ward we were assigned to. After a few weeks of church the Bishop calls me into his office and asked me to be the Primary President. I accepted, knowing that I would not get the opportunity to meet anyone in the ward and that either myself or the children would be dead by the end of it. So for almost a year I went to church begrudgingly and not wanting to be there at all! I didn't know anyone, the few supposed friends we had never said a word to us at church and I didn't want to be there.
So after much discussion we decided to move. Although it is just a block or two from our first apartment I feel like I am in a totally different city. We have the most amazing ward. I don't want to brag, but really this is the best ward I have ever been in and I am afraid to say that I think it may be the best we will ever be in. We have an amazing bishopric, these guys will truly bend over backwards for you if you need them to. The Elder's Quorum President, one of our good friends, will not stop until the job is done. I mean heck he always invites the new people to his house for dinner on sunday, just so they feel like they belong. Amazing guy really. Our Relief Society President another amazing person, her husband is in the bishopric and they have recently become some of our closest friends. In fact we are having them over for FHE tomorrow. It is just a great ward to be in. I wish you could all experience a ward like this sometime in your life. It is one place that I actually feel like I belong.
I had to teach the Relief Society lesson today, and it couldn't have gone better. It was on Neil Andersen's conference talk, "It's true isn't it? Then what else matters?" It was an excellent opportunity to share stories with each other about the trials we face as young married Latter-Day Saint women. I feel so close to everyone in our ward although I may now know everyone personally I love them and would do anything for any of them. If any of you have not heard or read this talk I would suggest that you do, even if you have read it and then read President Hinckley's April 1973 talk, "It's true isn't it?" I got so much out of it and I Can't help but think that my trials are nothing to others who struggle so much and yet will give up everything for the gospel. Today I feel truly blessed to be in the ward that I am. I know I complain alot about the place I live, but I know that I can always go to church on Sunday and feel the love from the Sisters and Brothers of our Ward family. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I have struggled with it in the past but I know now without a doubt that it is true, and that is what truly matters.