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! 

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The Wedding Dress!

So yesterday, I hit the town with my sister to go have a look at wedding gowns.  I was only going to look and try on a few to see what suited me and then order something similar online because I really didn't think I had enough to time to get a dress custom made for me since the wedding is in 5 months!  The first store we went into was no good.  The woman in the store was no help whatsoever!  She just pointed to the gowns around the shop to where the various sizes were and that was it!  Needless to say we just walked out!

The second store was really busy so we just kept walking to another store.  The girls were really friendly, I was taken straight to some gowns she thought I might like and then let us browse and pick out any others I would like to try on.  The first few gowns I tried on were quite nice but nothing was really WOW!  While I was trying on another gown I saw another girl trying on a gown that was absolutely gorgeous!!  I wanted to try the dress she had on!  So after she had taken it off and had left the store, I was able to try it on!  I just knew it was THE ONE!  I was beaming ear to ear and right there and then I knew I was going to get this dress!  And it was within my budget AND it will be made to my size AND it will be ready for me for August for any alterations I will need.  I'm hoping I lose a bit of weight for then and can get a few inches taken in!  It will look even more stunning once I lose some lbs!

I'm not going to post the pic of THE ONE - but here's a couple of shots of a couple of the dresses I tried on - my sister had to take the photos secretly since it's a big NO NO! lol

 I kinda liked this one - but just didn't LOVE it.

I really didn't like this dress at all - as you can probably tell from my face - plus it didn't really flatter my figure as much as the one above!

So now the countdown is ON!  All we need to do now is book the actual wedding venue in Orlando - we have a few ideas but just need to settle on one!

Happy Saturday everyone!

I will hopefully do another post later about what I'm doing activity and weight loss wise!  

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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!

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