Turkey, cranberries, pie...and sweat pants!!

Holy buckets people, Thanksgiving is TOMORROW!  Tomorrow is a day where we sit with friends and family and realize how dang lucky we are!  How lucky we are to have a roof over our heads, a little cash in the bank, family to love, friends who care so much, and how THANKFUL we are...for sweat pants!!

Yes folks, while we all love the shopping and beautiful snow, the twinkling lights, our diets HATE this time of year.  Every week is another holiday party which means Christmas cookies and all the buttery glory of desserts and appetizers! 

So my personal goal this holiday season, is not only to lose weight but really practice restraint!! I've been challenged my doughnuts three times in one week (Yeah, that's just mean, I know!) so one month shouldn't be that hard, right??!!  So this holiday season, I am not going to give into my yuletide cravings, and I will say "No thank you!"

Try it this year! I'm not saying not to eat your holiday favorites, but practice some restraint. YOU CAN DO IT!  

Happy Holidays my friends!! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and be thankful for everything you have, and the opportunities we have all laying in front of us!!

Everyday is an uphill battle

I know this is a common trend, but when it's something that is constantly on your mind, you can't help but blog about it! :)

In my year and 9 months of doing this diet thing, I think one of the biggest things I haven't learned is that all good things take time!! When I try something new I'm SO good for a week or two then if I don't see what I want I just want to quit!!  I think everything is going to be the next miracle thing! It's going to make it go away over night!

Mentally I know it takes time, but tell my body that!! There is just something so dang frustrating.  Every day I have to tell myself "this is just another day!" Easier said than done, yes, but at this point really, what choice do I have?

My goal is to get into the U.S. Army, and to do so, I have to lose inches and/or weight. There's no candy coating (Mm, candy coating!! NO CARA, NO!!) I have the most amazing people in my corner, and I have the tools I need to get to this! Okay, yes it's taking a little longer than I thought, but I'm not giving it up!!  Keep on truckin'!!

Thanks for letting me ramble! :)

Update central, back on track 9!

Well, I got yelled at today by a certain someong (eh hem..mother!) to update my blog, because well, obviously it has been a since!

Well where do I begin?  I got the job I was aiming for and I started this week! Working 3 jobs for one week I realized, hey, two jobs is plenty for now, so I'm taking a break from Huntington! I'll miss the kids, but Colin and I need SOME time together! I know, over rated, right? Pa-shaw!

As for the diet, you guys caught me on a great day! I am started a new diet plan! Now I'm sure you're saying "Cara...AGAIN!?" Well, to you I say, yes, again, another one!!

Before you go all diet hatin' crazy on me, let me give you the back story!   You remember the week from Hell, right? (If not, why not? You should be reading my blog...*sigh!*)  Anyway, so one of my bad week turn arounds, was the discovery of this boot camp class I've been going to for 2 weeks now.  I must say folks, I'm being pushed harder now than I have in a long, LONG time!! Probably since I started working with Norman the first time, is how it feels.  I mean heck, I wake up, and I hurt...it's AWESOME! Anywho, when you sign up for this amazing boot camp, you also get help with your diet.  I think, it's not said, but I think, doing the two together will get great results!!

This new diet is a lot of protein, A LOT of protein!  What makes it different though, is it incorporates everything you need to lose! It's gonna be hard at first, 'cus I freakin' love my Lucky Charms, but then again, when has anything great ever been easy??

On the Colin home front, he's officially joining ROTC next month, so because of that, he's non-deployable for at least 2 years!! How awesome is that?! I know, right?  I did the math, and 6 years ago yesterday, Colin and I went on our first date.  Then doing more math, I figured out, that out of the 6 years we've been together, physically we've only spent about 3 together.  But, we've made it this far, and I think there's no turning back! :)

So, as you can see folks, at this point, things are really starting to get back on track! Life is spiffy and I'm feeling good about it all!

P.S.  If you're wondering about the "back on track 9" thing in my title, well, Ihave no idea...it just sounded more catchy than "Update Central!"  :)

"Never Never Never Give Up"

I think you could classify THIS week, as a pure week from Hell.  Monday, my student canceled, so I was supposed to have a 3 hour shift, I got one.  I went to the dentist to fix my wisdom teeth instead of getting them pulled, and found out I had to get them pulled anyway! This of course was AFTER they drilled all four of them!  I got scammed out of $1800 (and the bank won't help out AT ALL!) My little lizard, Tiny, passed away. And best yet, I went to the recruiter to find out, I lost weight, I lost inches in my hips, neck AND waste, but according to their system I GAINED BODY FAT!! Why? Simply because I lost weight in my neck! UGH!!

So as you can see, just...bad! Well, of course on Facebook we all share everything! Life has no secrets.  As I posted my Army results I had one person leave a message simply saying "That sucks, I guess it's not meant to be."  Well, that got me thinking....a lot!  Why haven't I quit?  If people quit everytime things got hard, where would the world be?  And is it really that easy for people to quit on things?

I don't know about you, but my parents always taught me to not quit, and when things got hard to keep pressing on.  I think there's something to the saying, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.  The odds feel like they're constantly building up against me, but who cares!?  The sun came up today and odds are, it will tomorrow too.  If I let one thing keep me down, 10 years from now, what am I going to tell my children? "Well kids, mom had a dream, but because things got hard, she quit!" Umm, no.

Since I've been young, I've prided myself on getting back on the horse  and very quickly.  So, I had my 10 minutes of feeling sorry for myself, but now I've turned it all around again!

On a strict VERY LOW carb diet, doing a hard core bootcamp 3 days a week at 5:45 am on top of an hour of cardio 6 days a week. I now might have another job, making it 3, to help make up some lost funds that were stolen and taken away at Huntington. And as for my Tiny, well he's up chasing cricketts with Willy and Lilly!  So yeah, things got hard, but if you sit and mope around, nothing is gonna happen!

My advice to anyone out there who is going through a hard time, just get over it! What good is it to sit and feel sorry?  Well, it's no good!

So onto the next chapter my friends! It's too early to quit...it's always too early to quit!