Don't judge me

First off, there's no judging here. Secondly, don't be overzealous with your workouts because then you end up super sore the next day.  Much like I am right now. Yup, sides are killing me.  Didn't hurt at the time while I was working out.  I know there is good pain and there is bad pain and this is bad pain.  So I'm not taking it easy but I will not go all the way with my workout tonight when I get home from coaching.  I know I said I wasn't going to do it after coaching but I'm too sore to do it and since I now have to sub for the institute class my mom teaches right before I didn't feel that I need to be coming in smelling like sweat. Doesn't go over very well when you are trying to teach religion. 


Also I've noticed the waist of my pants are not as tight, they weren't that tight anyway but more so today than the last time I had them on. So yes, that recollection is enough to keep me up with my workouts. 


Thank you for not judging
~Mary

Finally a small break!

Super excited for tomorrow, no not because it is Wednesday but I have the day off.  My mom is going in for surgery so I get to take care of my little sister while my parents are away.  That isn't the break nor the reason to be excited for.  You see Wednesdays are always my hardest day of the week to workout.  Mostly because of coaching in the evening that if I don't do the workout in the morning, it's not going to happen. Well with not having to work tomorrow I can sleep a little more, since my workout today is running later than I wanted it to be but I didn't expect to attend my nephews baseball game and do some grocery shopping.  (yes after this post I'm doing my cardio workout for the day) But I can get the rest I need so my muscles don't be screaming at me, especially my shoulder area because I sneezed from allergies today and threw it all out after getting adjusted yesterday.  
Anyway to make a long post short, workout will finally be happening on a Wednesday and keeping up with what I feel is my hardest day to workout is a little bit of an accomplishment for me.  And if I can do it this week, you can bet I will be able to do it next week without having a day off. 


Thank you for reading and not judging
~Mary

I don't know how they do it

I have to tip my hat to mothers out there.  I really don't know how you are able to workout with young children around. 
We had my sisters 3 kids from last Thursday until tonight.  They are 6, 4 and 2.  Oh my goodness those kids have to be constantly entertained, they don't go off and play on their own they have to be with you the entire time.  If you are not entertaining them then they are coming up to you wanting you to entertain them.  Yesterday I was going to do a workout when I got up well I came upstairs to find my mom looking zombie like on the couch because one of my nephews was up at 6 am and ended up waking up the other 2 shortly there after.  So my mom went back to sleep while I watched the kids and said I was going to do a workout when the boys start to fight then they start to cry.  So there went my mid morning workout so I had to resolve myself to working out when I got home from work at 10:30 pm. But that got interrupted because they wanted to help out.  No it is not cute when you are having to fight them to get your dumbbells back and you all resign to the fact that it's time to go to bed for everyone. 


So to all of you mom's out there that are able to workout around your children I commend you and hope that I don't end up beaning one of my children with a dumbbell if they get in my way when I workout.

Jellie legs

Well it has been 4 hours since finishing the Zumbathon and now I'm starting to feel it. So so much fun.
The event really was alot of fun and I very much enjoyed getting glared at by the patrons that I've had to turn away because of their passes being expired or the class they are wanting to get into are full.  Yup that always makes for a great great time working out.

With this massive workout it has kick started my desire to workout once again so I am very glad that I went through the pain and torture that is going through my body now.

One of the aerobic instructors that I have yet to take a class from has challenged me to take her bootcamp class on saturdays at 9 am.  I'm willing to do the classes but I'm going to force Chris to do them with me because it wouldn't hurt him to do them and this way we can motivate each other to get in shape for September.

So overall I am very glad I did the Zumbathon, I just need to make sure I do pilates once I get home tonight or stretch my hips so they don't create more problems in the morning.  I know I'm old and I'm getting used to it.

Thank you for not judging.

~Mary

PS no matter what you weigh, if you have cleavage you will have guys looking.

Zumbathon

So I'm really excited about this coming Saturday.  My work is having a Zumbathon.  It is free and it's 2 hours of close to nonstop Zumba.  I'm not the biggest fan of the instructor, nice lady and all but not my favorite Zumba instructor.  For those who don't know what Zumba is, it's a dancing workout where you use aerobic styles of dances taken from South American countries as well as some belly dancing.  I have an issue with that one, only because they don't do it right and I can say it because I took belly dancing for 4 1/2 years. I do wish I could get back into it but my instructor teaches on Wednesday nights and I'm busy coaching.  I love coaching so I'll stick with that.
Anyway back to the topic at hand.  I'm super excited because I've informed my family of my plan to attend the Zumbathon and even though we are babysitting my niece and nephews this weekend they want me to be healthier and not just for my wedding but for my life. 


If anyone is interested in attending here is some of the information for it.


It will be held on Saturday April 14, 2012
7 am check in time
8 am the whole thing starts
Cost is free but they do ask for a $15 donation for some charity that I forgot the name of it.
the address is 5350 W 12900 S (Herriman Main Street) Herriman, UT


I'll let you know how it all goes.


Thank you for not judging
~Mary 

Being a doormat

I realized last night that I allow others to control what my schedule is.  I ended up working noon to 7 yesterday for work because of a Spring Break Well it was super slow like I knew it would be but what can you do when your boss calls you in right? Well I figured since I wasn't staying til 10 like I normally would have, so I figured I could do my workout once I got home and let my dinner settle.  Well while waiting for all of that to happen my parents were getting their taxes together and of course with my mom not being able to see very well on the computer screen and my dad can't type to save his life so of course I get roped into getting their taxes done for them and we didn't finish until around 11:30 pm.  I could have still done a workout but I was then tired and not really feeling like doing a workout.  
I know once I am married I won't have to deal with my parents butting in on my scheduled events and times but I don't want to have to wait until then to start looking good and losing weight. 


For a side note, I will be doing a workout this afternoon at 1:30 because I'm having to work from 4-10 pm tonight because again I'm a nice person an I'm letting someone else have a night off so I can work for them. 

back story of me

Hello, my name is Mary and I have always been what you would call the chubby child.  I was the fat friend that everyone loved but there was never any competition between me and the other girls because what guy would want to be seen with a chubby girl? 
Oh I was active as a child.  I was in dance, I went bike riding all the time with friends and all over the neighborhoods, but I was still squarely built. 
As I got older and all of those fun female changes happen I didn't plateau I continued to gain weight.  It also didn't help that when I was almost 12 one of my sisters was killed in car accident.  I know others have faced it as well but what made it hard to handle was that my oldest brother was serving and mission for the Church of Jesus Chris of Latter-Day Saints. So it was as though my family lost 2 children at the same time. 
So with all of this going on, I continued to gain weight through my teen years and into High School and even afterwards into my twenties.  I'm coming up into my early 30's and about to be getting married.  I don't want to be that huge bride on her wedding day and then losses a ton of weight afterwards.  So I'm creating this blog to try and help in disciplining myself to get back into a workout routine because when I do I lose the weight and I can maintain my weights that I want to be at. 



I don't want anyone being judgmental when you come and visit this blog. At least I'm working on my problem.
Thank you
~Mary