Showing posts with label florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label florida. Show all posts

Reminiscing!

Hey friends!  So I am sitting here watching/listening to country music videos blasting from the X-box (using VEVO - it's awesome!!) and reminiscing about last summer!  The weather has really changed the last two days here.  The wind and rain has returned and the early nights are drawing in!  The turning back of the clocks is imminent!  At least that means an extra hours sleep!  Yessss!! =)

My day was MADE today when I found Macintosh Apples have returned to the grocery store here!! They didn't have any last year and I was devastated!  Yes, really.  So I bought about 14 of them when I saw them! And spent around £7.00 on them!  It's better than spending all that on candy.  I love, love, love Macintosh apples!

I'm slowly making healthy changes to my diet and I stocked up on plenty of fruit and veg for juicing next week.  I'm going to have at least one fresh juice a day.  I did a juice fast back in May and I really enjoyed it!  I also managed to lose 11 pounds during it.  I felt revitalised!!  I was also on holiday from work, so I had plenty of time to juice, relax and just enjoy it.  I don't think I would have been as successful if I had been at work.  I was juicing 6 times a day!  Also clean up is a major pain in the ass.  So aiming for one healthy juice a day is very reasonable!

I also got some awesome recipes from Andie's website "Can you Stay for Dinner" and I plan to make Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie and some s'mores pancakes with marshmallow sauce that sound really delicious.  I will be sure to post photos of them when I make them!!

Just thought I would share some photos from last summer since I am in the mood for reminiscing!

In no particular order......................

My Before and During Photo from last year........

Newlyweds!

Wedding Love!

Top from Gap Body and Nike Golf Skirt! I love the Nike Outlet!

Sparkly!  And my  nails look pretty awesome too 

Victoria's Secret Changing Room! 

Celebration is so beautiful


Kimberly Perry!!  

Happy!

Brantley Gilbert!!!!  Sexy  beast!!

Brantley Gilbert!  

Crazy photo of the hubs and me outside M&M World, Florida Mall!

Some of my juices! 

Recipe can be found on Rebootwithjoe.com

Hope you are all having a great day! 

An exciting announcement!

Well, I don't know how exciting it really is.  It's more scary at the moment - and no I'm not pregnant ;-)

Kenny and I have signed up to do a half marathon!!  I can't believe I have agreed to do this.  I am not a runner.  I suck at running (at the moment anyway!) but I believe that with a lot of hardwork, training and dedication, then I will be awesome at it!  The Great Scottish Run takes place on 2 September so we have just under 6 months to prepare.  As we will be getting married about 2 weeks after the half marathon, I'm hoping it will give me some focus to start taking my exercise and healthy eating seriously.  I feel like the wedding isn't enough for me to really want to buckle down and get to my goal!  I know that if I don't lose at least 20lbs (I would like double that though!) then I will regret it on the day, and then every day thereafter.  I still remember how I felt in Florida a year and half ago and I don't want to feel that pain again in 6 months time!

We will be starting our training on Thursday - and I think I will just start with Couch to 5k again.  I will follow it to the letter too!  Usually I have a habit of skipping a week when I feel that I can run for longer.

This photo is from a previous race.  I drive over this bridge every day, and no pedestrians are allowed.  And just think, 6 months from now I will be running over it!!

Does anyone have any advice they could give to a newbie runner??  I think I will need all the help I can get!!

PS - I gained half a pound at my weigh in last Wednesday :-(   I need to do better!


ALMOST VACATION TIME!!

I have been such a bad blogger for the last few weeks! I am so excited as it is only 1 more work day before my vacation. I have Friday off work so I can finish getting organized and take my dad out for lunch before I leave very early Saturday morning!

I have been out and about on my bike a lot the last couple of weeks, and also spinning class. Spinning class is seeming a bit easier to me now. I can cycle at a higher resistance and cycle standing up a lot longer! Yay!

On 29th August we did the Sky Ride in Glasgow, which is basically a big cycling event, where a few of Glasgow's busy streets were closed to traffic! It was amazing seeing the city I have lived in all my life from a different perspective. There were a LOT of people and the atmosphere was amazing. There were steel drummers under one of the bridges - great acoustics under there! And this awesome girl was cycling on a chopper with a boom box blaring music and just chilling out and moving to the beat! We cycled over 17 miles that day. Pretty good seeing it was only my 2nd time out on the bike. I managed to persuade Kenny to get a bike too, so we can get out and exercise together.

After that, not much has been happening! I have just been doing a major clean of the apartment since Kenny's sister will be house sitting and pet sitting (her most important job!!) Ha ha!

It's 1am here, so I better get to bed!! Eeeeeeek, only 2 more sleeps until FLORIDA!!!

Hopefully I can do a couple of blogs while I'm over there, we will have free wi-fi and we are taking the laptop so I should be able to blog.

Hope everyone is having a fabulous week!


PS. A big warm welcome to my new followers! I can't believe anyone really cares to read my ickle blog! I really must get to work on reaching my goals!

A New Beginning!

Today is the first day of Operation Orlando!! It's time to get serious! I have updated my side bar (to the left) with my stats and about me box.

I weighed in this morning at 175.4lbs. This is my new start weight! I need to lose just under 50lbs to get to my goal of 126. It's on baby! I am not going to Florida obese. It's just not going to happen! I know I would feel so bad about myself that I just wouldn't enjoy myself. Especially in 90 degree weather!! So.... tomorrow I am going to post my starting pictures and measurements. This time I am not playing around. This weight loss is going to happen! I have never felt so positive or sure that this time it's coming off. I have already lost over 15lbs. It had been over 20 but since I wasn't the best bunny over Christmas, I gained more than a few pounds! I have been fighting a cold since before Christmas and I know I'm not well enough to go to the gym but I can control my eating.

I'm going to join Weight Watchers again and go to a class on Wednesday after work.

Can someone tell me how Weight Watchers points work in the USA/Canada? It seems as if you guys get a whole lot more flexibility with weekly points as well as your daily points?? How does it work??

I need to remember to post my last year goals and how many of them I achieved! I fear it may not be all that good! And I need to set some new goals and dreams of what I want to achieve this year! Blogging more is one of them!!

Have a fabulous day xoxoxo