Volleyball Playoffs Tonight

Every Wednesday night we play volleyball with a great group of people, it's so much fun and I'm sad to see it end for another season, I'm the captain of our team and every week as a reminder when we play I come up with a little jingle to email to my team. There are lots of inside jokes but I thought I'd share this just the same...here it is for any of you Ke$ha fans!

To the Tune of Tik Tok

Wake up in the morning it's our playoff day
(Hey, what up girl?)
Grab my knee pads, and my runners, I am ready to play
(Lets go)
Before I leave, throw gym clothes into my pack
Once the games are done tonight, we ain't coming back

I'm talking Marty with his new haircut, cut
Clint watching every girl's butt, butt.
Helios looking real, cut, cut
Drop-topping, playing our favorite teams, teams
On the hardwood floor that gleams, gleams

Then the Juju Hounds show up, a little bit …….tipsy

Don't stop, make the top
Brian, raise the nets up
Tonight, gonna fight
'Til we see the score right
Tick tock on the clock
But the Party of 6, don't stop, no
Oh-oh-wo-oh - wo-oh-wo-oh

After the games win or lose there will be plenty of beer
Al knows all of the orders, why aren't they already here?
And now, the tables are lining up and everyone knows
Which one of us girls will show her sexy pose.

I'm talking about everybody getting drunk, drunk
Accept Toni who just eats junk, junk
Someone smelling like 6 kinds of funk, funk

Now, now, we will go until they kick us out, out
Or the Po-Po shut us down, down
Scott's wife is out of town, town
Gonna let his grey hair down

A look back...and ahead

Good morning, let start off with Breakfast today, here was my healthy breakfast....Vegan Over Night Oats and banana soft serve, from Oh She Glows! Here is a quick look at what's in it but you really need to go to her blog for the exact directions and lots more great pictures.

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup oats
• 1 cup almond milk
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1 banana, mashed
• 1/2 scoop Amazing Grass Amazing Meal chocolate powder (optional)

Thanks to Carla, I used my Amazing Grass packet win from her blog for this recipe! It was a hit with my son and husband. It got my 6 year old excited to get out of bed when I told him we were having "ice cream" for breakfast, and I feed him a scoop in his bed, to entice him downstairs. It worked!

So OJB....Let see where we started:

Here was the challenge:

1. Check in every Monday ....check!
   
2. 8 glasses of water a day! ...started off good, hoped to get better, actually got worse! It's such a simple thing, I will make a point of doing it more. I'm great at choosing water for a drink, just not enough volume.
   
3. 5 servings of fruits/veggies a day...needs improvement, some days were better than others, overall pretty good.
   
4. Intense calorie burning high intensity exercise 3-4x week....big check! No problem getting this one, in fact usually above and beyond.
   
5. Ab/toning exercises 3-4x week...check! This is something new I've added to my workouts and I did find it made a difference!
6. Avoid processed, fried, sugar laden, junk, refined foods as much as possible.....check and X! I'm so good at making meals healthy, organic foods, no processed foods, local farm fresh eggs and meat, healthy grains like quinoa, chia, steal cut oats and flax...but a resounding X on snacking, my snacks are always processed foods, chips, cookies, licorice, whatever...if I could just cut out the snacking I would be so healthy...it's the last little thing that is preventing me from being the best me I could be. Mentally I know it, emotionally it's a big hurdle.

And here are my numbers...
Hips 40.5"....new number 38"
Waist 34.....new number 30"
Upper Hips 36...new number 33"
Weight 143 lbs...new number 139lbs

So it's been good, sometimes were tough, some fails, some successes, but overall this has just been what feels like a normal life for me. Thanks so much to Carla for organizing this, it has been great to have to be accountable for my actions, to have to document eating and exercise, and to be able to share in others same struggles and triumphs.

Here is where we are going:


We just bought the farm! LOL :) Or more so we became a member of CSA, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). By buying into a farm and becoming a member, we are asking farmers to provide our family with 14 weeks of a large variety of Fresh Organic Produce. Through CSA we get a firsthand understanding of how food is grown, and what affects its growth. By using blog, emails, newsletters, and "farm days" we can follow the growth and development of our food. When our food is matured, each week we receive our share of the produce which is ripe and ready to be harvested on the farm. Fresh, Organic, Locally grown just for US.

The farm provides over 50 types of fresh organic vegetables from late June until mid September so I'm excited to take on the challenge of creating meals around what we get rather than buying ingredients based on what we want to make. We can take the kids out to the farm too, so they can see where and how the food we eat is growing!

So thanks again to Carla for the great inspiration, I love reading her blog and seeing her amazing pictures, she is so talented in so many ways! If you haven't been by her blogs you really should have a peek, she's a fascinating person to follow!

OJB update, last week.

This week has been another great exercise week, I have found a new workout at the gym. I've really been changing things up these past 5 weeks, I've been looking for new exercises to challenge me and keep my interest. I've been doing classes, weights, the eliptical and lately the spin bike! Every time I'm on it someone else comes along and ask what I'm training for! Guess it looks like I'm working hard :) Usually I'm motivated by the readings...calories, time, intensity, miles. But these bikes don't have anything like that so my only measure is how much of a sweat I can work up, and boy do I ever!

My weight is no different this week I stepped on the scale at the gym today and it was just under 140 like last week. I'm not going to take my measurements, I'll just do that next week and see how they compare to week one. Even though my weight hasn't changed much since we started, my close are fitting loser and people keep asking me if I've lost weight...I don't really think they can see the 3 pounds so I must be gaining muscle and losing fat.