It's a Velociraptor!

No actually it is a Baby!!! That's right!! We're Expecting!!! This is kinda how we announced it to the world actually! This link will probably explain better (http://imgur.com/gallery/F7fq0) that is if you need an explanation! Anyway so I had to avoid blogging for a few days until we shared with our families and then I just got side tracked for a while but I am back and ready to start again!

One of the things that tipped me off to pregnancy though was me skipping workouts from being so sleepy! Then I found out I was officially pregnant and I decided to stop doing Insanity since it is really taxing on your body. I got Turbo Fire in the mail a few days before I found out and my coach did Turbo Fire during her whole pregnancy until three days before her delivery. She also has a few pregnant women doing TF as well and she says they are doing well with it. They do the modified version of course with no jumping and no floor work but I am gonna try to make this a healthy pregnancy. After two weeks off from working out I am starting fresh on Monday! I have continued to eat healthy and have not gained any weight since I stopped working out. I have been drinking smoothies and still drinking the Shakeology. Most doctors agree that Shakeology can be good for you to replace your pre-natal vitamin. The only iffy thing comes when you start looking at the suma root which is why I have been sticking to the Tropical strawberry which does not have suma root in it. I will verify this information with my doctor when I actually have my first appointment which won't be for a while of course but all the information and research I have done points to it being alright for you. SO with whole food and eventually some juice thrown in there for good measure and shakeology maybe I can make this a healthy pregnancy after all! With my body composition as it is I am already obese and most doctors agree it is not healthy for those who are Obese to gain much weight if any at all with pregnancy. It increases risks for many complications and I would like to avoid those as much as possible! I have a goal to lose weight but not diet.... just changing my diet from all the unhealthy food that I was eating to the whole foods and adding exercise can make a huge difference in itself! Most pregnant women have the view that they can eat whatever they want because they are eating for two but in reality you only need 200-300 more calories per day! Think of it... yes your eating for two but one of you is a tiny little grape sized bundle at this point not a full sized grown man! We will see what happens if I do not lose weight I at least want to minimize my weight gain and doing the modified version of Turbo Fire should tone my arms and legs and prepare me to kick into Turbo Fire full speed when the pregnancy is over and we have our little of bundle of joy! Let's kick this program into full gear and do pregnancy right! 

Frustrations....

I do not know what has gotten into me lately! While in theory I am SO motivated I have ANOTHER workout to make up! Not only did I skip last weekend's workout but I also skipped Tuesday's workout. I had plans to do it but work kinda fell through for yesterday (there were no easy returns for me to do) so I ended up coming home super early and then Michael was still home since he is working night shift and then I just sat on the couch after he left and watched a million episodes of Army Wives until 1 AM!!! (Still Catching up on Season 5!! ) So I have to buckle down and get it back together! This blog is to keep me accountable and I haven't been holding up either end of the bargain!

On the upside I have been sticking to my diet for the most part! Except for last night when i just HAD to have  chimichangas from Obbligatos! I only have so many weeks left here to have some Obbligatos and I am sure Jen is already feeling the cravings over there in Germany! She is after all the one who got me HOOKED in the first place! Anyway I only slightly went over on my calories and even then it was less calories than I had been consuming! I really like the smoothies. With fruit added you can't even taste the spinach! Then I get to have my Shakeology later on in the day and a normal lunch or dinner. Since my schedules have been all messed up as it is those meals can be whenever right now! I am still working on cutting out the sweet tea and drinking more water. I am at least drinking 64 oz a day so that is a good start!

As far as other life goes not a whole lot... as I said I am WAY too wrapped up in Army Wives and when the hubby catches an episode or two he gets way too involved as well! He downright gets mad at some of the things! Anyway it looks like since I have sat here and watched Army Wives for a while and vented to the hubby about being frustrated about working out and being behind... my workout is not happening tonight! I am however going to go to sleep at a decent time and try to start fresh tomorrow. My calories for the day were great and right on target and that is something to be proud of I think. I just looked it up and it is 93 days until the wedding.Whatever I am gonna do I need to get on it and fast! Changing my diet was a big step but having two workout programs to choose from is really messing me up! Here's hoping for a better tomorrow!

Insanity Day 22!

Insanity day 22 is finally complete... I took this weekend off so I am one workout behind but of 22 days I don't think that is too shabby! Especially since last time I attempted this workout I made it to day 14! Of course.. my parents said they watched the Insanity infomercial a few days ago and people have got to be out of their minds to try that stuff! Lol! I pretended to be offended but in reality... I am not! It is pretty crazy! and I am SUPER scared for week after next! This is my last weekend of the beginning workout then one week recovery and then Max Insanity training begins! I have never even watched the Max videos because I have never made it that far therefore I had no reason to! I am assuming they are pretty scary though! Hopefully I will make it through! And lose some weight! I have been drinking some smoothies for like three days now and for the moment I have gone down one more pound... I am trying to convince myself that fat is being replaced with muscle and that is the reason for no weight loss but I am not convinced. I know it was a result of my poor diet in the first two weeks! So now it is Shakeology for one meal and a smoothie for one meal (that usually taste pretty yummy with fruits to hide the green veggies) and then of course whatever normal human food I eat for dinner.. in smaller portions of course! Hopefully I will see some difference. Then in a few weeks it is off to Alabama and off to buy a juicer and start a juice fast! I think i mentioned this before but if you have still not watched the movie Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead it is a real eye opener! Also you should look up Annette Larkin on YouTube! She is 70 years old but seriously looks like she is in her 20-30s! She has been on a raw diet for years now and you can definitely see the effects! Especially when you compare her to her husband who did not change his diet and takes medicine for high blood pressure and other things and look to be at least 85-90!

Today was a super weird day for me. Let me preface by saying I am SO glad I do not have to personally deal with military being disorganized anymore. Of course I still have to deal with it from my husband's side of things which is why today started off to be a grand day! Started out with Hubby getting called in to  check his readiness equipment AT 230AM! He was preparing for going on night shift and was about to go to sleep when he got the call. Thinking he was going to be there for the next 12 hours he turned the light on in the bedroom and got dressed and left.. waking me up... to then lay in bed and try to sleep again... then at 330-4 he comes home....me halfway thinking he is a thief breaking in but knowing realistically it is just him coming home. He says there will be a call  in the next hour and he will have to go back so he goes to sleep while he can... no call comes in so he leaves again around 630 to be at work as usual since having a night shift hasn't started... he then comes back AGAIN at 730-ish saying he is on night shift... UGH leadership just make up your mind so I can sleep already!

So since he was home for the day and only slept til about 12 I stayed home from work (I just didn't feel like going in really and since I make my own schedule I can do things like that). I ended up watching like 7 episodes of Army Wives (with the Hubby weird I know he will watch and get addicted to any show I am convinced of it!)  and laying on the couch all day! So then around 9 PM I decide I feel like I have been SUPER lazy (taking both weekend days off from insanity instead of just one so I am already a day behind) so I get up and do my workout then have my shakeology and call my parents at 11 pm to which my mom of course is like Why are you still up at 2 AM? Lol I explain the time difference since she got turned around with them being on daylight savings time. You would think I hadn't lived on this island for three years lol! So my day has been completely backwards! Which is why I am now writing this at like midnight my time even though I should probably be sleeping or something like that. Its kinda weird having hubby working nights and not being here to force me to bed at 10... YAY for being able to sleep anytime without issue! I hear that goes away with age.. let's hope not!  My boss comes back from Mainland tomorrow where she has been since I started doing actual returns! On the plus side she will be able to finalize with her own clients SO Naoko will be more free and less stressed... on the down side my boss intimidates me like no other and I don't really want her to come back!  Hopefully tomorrow goes well! Only four more weeks till I finally make my way home from Japan for possibly the last time! I am going to miss this island and probably mostly the friendships I made here and the lifestyle we had but on to bigger and better things! Psh... Yeah right! Off to New Mexico!

Time For a Refresh!

I do not know what happened after I wrote my last entry! Maybe I went a little nutty or maybe I was still shaken up from the whole incident with out friends and the happenings at the party or maybe it was the realization during the writing of the post that the next day i had not one but TWO workouts (Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs)... Whatever the case Wednesday's workout went undone and Thursday's almost did too! I get in this thing where I miss a day and the guilt is overwhelming so of course I feel the need to make up that workout the next day to "catch-up". Then of course I am overwhelmed because I have MORE workouts to do... In either case I have to realize that... I am human! I am going to crave a huge burger or something completely unhealthy from time to time! Sometimes in life you just need chocolate or whatever it may be! and sometimes I am going to feel lazy and just simply not feel like doing a workout a day or two... The point is these things shouldn't ruin everything! Its not like all my hard work for the past two and a half weeks are thrown away and useless because I skipped a day! Just like your diet isn't completely blown if you have a less than healthy day of eating... You just have to re-group, refresh and get back on track the next day not let it ruin your whole week or blow your whole diet!

The funny thing about me skipping Wednesday's workout is that Wednesday was actually a ground breaking day for me! I was introduced to a radical idea I had never really given much serious consideration! One of my best friends wrote to me that her and her family have been "Juicing" the past two weeks or so and that her mother in law being on this very strict juicing diet has lost 8 pounds in a week and a half! That is pretty amazing! But what is even more amazing is that in doing my research it actually IS healthy! It is not like a diet where you starve yourself and you eat the bare minimum and you don't get any of the nutrients or calories you need... in reality you are actually getting more of the nutrients and vitamins and minerals from the whole foods because of the way they are being processed and consumed! In juicing you don't lose much from the natural fruit or vegetable itself and because it takes several different fruits and vegetables to fill up a glass for one glass of juice you are eating a lot more vegetables and fruits than you would actually like to sit down and eat one by one in their raw natural state. Yucky vegetables such as beets (I definitely won't eat a beet) can be masked by yummier flavors like tomato and carrots so that you are getting a wider variety of foods in your diet while limiting meat and processed foods. KP recommended that if I hadn't already that I should watch the movie "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead". It was a major catalyst behind their change and it explained many of the misconceptions I had about juicing! It is mainly the story about how one man decided to get out of his body's way and let his body heal itself! He had an auto-immune disorder that caused him to break out in chronic hives at random times in any place on his body! At the end of the movie he was off all of his medications and did not struggle with outbreaks of his disease any longer it then moved on to a man who was a truck driver and was morbidly obese who suffered from the same disease as the first guy. The two met in a random truck stop and it was a life changing meeting. The second man asked for help and ended up dropping 202 pounds from the juicing and getting rid of his illness and went on to help countless others do the same!

This movie and my friends story made me want to try it... I know that the reason I am not doing so well with losing weight during this journey is because my diet hasn't been that great! I still eat junk food and eat out  I just replace one meal a day with Shakeology and have began to feel like that is enough but I know it isn't! I don't eat very many vegetables and I eat minimal fruits. I am still cooking dinner for me and the hubby and it is the normal meals we always eat... and for the most part while I have tried to change my portion sizing but the urge to overeat still gets to me! I also have an addiction to sweet tea which I plan on fixing by switching to having a pitcher of tea made with Splenda and then having the hubbies tea full of sugar and sweetness! I went to the BX to look for a juicer but they didn't have one... I figure it is not a huge high demand item! So I started to look up the alternatives. What I found was smoothies can be a good alternative! No... Not the smoothies you buy in the store but homemade smoothies with whole veggies and fruits! Its a little more time consuming in some ways but for the most part you are still getting more fruits and veggies and more nutrients in your diet which in turn will help me lose weight! The plan for now is to use a blender and do smoothies for the next few weeks and then when I get to the states I will buy a juicer and do a few weeks of juicing before the wedding to hopefully see some more of the benefits of eating whole foods! KP was telling me that you can see a difference in your hair and skin tone after just a few days! Your energy levels go through the roof and you tend to shed a few pounds which before the wedding can only be a good thing right! Time to Regroup - Refresh - and get back on track!!! 

Catching up!

On workouts that is! and blogging of course... I have been taking every Saturday off in my workouts rather than taking Sunday like you are supposed to because in theory it is easier to do my workout on Sunday when everyone leaves rather than trying to do it with our friends here and a million things going on! Well this Saturday was Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs in the Insanity world and unfortunately due to some drama on Saturday night and attempting not to offend a friend our guests stayed until almost 8 PM on Sunday evening... Now I don't know about you guys but  I do not feel like doing much at 8 PM on a Sunday evening especially when my house has had extra people and tons of drama in it all weekend! Therefore my Sunday workout was skipped...Monday was my 2 week Fit test and I improved all of my numbers! I was really proud and made up the Cardio Abs part of the workout but didn't have enough energy left to complete Pure Cardio until today... Now of course with doubling up the workout and having to do Plyrometrics and Pure Cardio I am worn out! But again I accomplished my goal and got back on track and am praying to not have to do that again! Either way Insanity up to day 16 is complete! Oh My! I just looked at my schedule to figure out what day it was and tomorrow is Pure Cardio and Cardio Abs again lol! I just can't catch a break!

In other news the hubby and I attended a Towers Party on Saturday night! (Towers referring to the building where all the single airmen for our squadron live.. both of us lived there before getting married) It has been the first one in a while and the first party for us in over a year! Anyway this one was actually a very sad occasion so that we could say goodbye to JG one of our good friends. He has been here longer than I have and was one of my first friends on island! It was great to get together and have a few drinks with everyone but in true Towers Party fashion Drama followed of course! Can't have a party with our group without a little drama! I thought I had put the days of emotional crying and freak out moments behind me when I moved out of the towers and stopped drinking for the most part and when my old roommate learned a few tough lessons and then left for Korea! I was there for her through a lot of tough lessons and learned a couple of my own along the way but either way I thought those days were over! Instead I ended up consoling one of my friends as she had a break through moment! Lots of feelings came to the surface that had obviously remained buried for a long time! I am really glad that I have come to be as strong as I am through my experiences that I can help someone else through tough times! And it was another reminder of why I originally wanted to get involved in youth work and help teenage girls just have someone to relate to what they are going through! Either way I haven't fully decided what I want to do when I get to New Mexico but I am hoping I can find some way to make a difference in my free time!

After that whole situation semi-cleared up we had the drama of one of our non-drinking closed minded friend judging us. He decided to do this by going to the party and sitting and observing everyone's behavior. Not just ours but the rest of the parties as well and then put the consequences of their actions on us! He said that didn't know if he could be our friend anymore after he saw us drunk but he wanted to find out for himself. So he went. He saw. He freaked out trying to control every detail of the event. Got mad at a few people... Screamed at them... acted like we didn't have anything under control! The next day after they had stayed at our house he claims that we are the best friends that he has ever had and that we are the closest to family that he has and then proceeds to follow that up with screaming at Michael and our female friend with how irresponsible they were the night before and how he cannot get the images out of his mind and doesn't think he feels comfortable hanging out with us after he has seen those things. All of this screaming wakes me from my nice peaceful nap I was having and I stay awake and listen from the other room as he talks about the things he can't understand them doing. He then walks outside to get a breath of fresh air. He comes back in and continues to go on and on about how he doesn't understand and how he doesn't know if he can still be friends with us. Michael and our female friend are sitting quietly listening to this whole thing but I honestly couldn't take another minute so I went off! I told him he had NO right to judge us for drinking moderately (because none of us were belligerent or acting irresponsibly) and that we never asked him to drink or stay at the party that he went there for the pure and sole purpose of judging us and that wasn't fair. People act differently around different friends but this guy acts like we shouldn't be allowed to hang out with anyone outside of us five the people he has accepted as his friends and I can't stand for that! I went to a party to say goodbye to one of my close friends and it was the first time we had been to any party in almost a year! Anyway he rebutted with the fact that I was the most normal of everyone and didn't change when I got drunk but he was appalled at other people's behaviors. That doesn't make up for the fact that your yelling and judging and saying you can't be friends with us anymore! Either way my husband ended up talking him down and explaining things and the guy took another walk outside and came back to apologize because the things he brought up really weren't bad when he thought about it but he didn't understand drinking and didn't want to lose us so he freaked. Anyway he came to terms with it but I guess had another regression at work on Monday when Michael tried to talk to him and again Michael had to talk him down from swearing us all off as friends because of the first time we had drank in literally almost a year! Like I said... What would a Towers Party be without a little drama mixed in there?!?

I have realized I have a little over 5 weeks left on this island! We are beginning to plan final trips and things we want to see before I go! We are looking at a trip where we would get to go and make our own cup out of blown glass! I remember my dad taking an hours worth of video at Williamsburg VA just being amazed at how glass was blown! I can't wait to have the chance to do it myself and show my dad! We are also looking to do a few hiking trips to some waterfalls and maybe go ice skating and maybe zip lining again! I am excited to get out and explore the island some more before saying my goodbyes! Either way it should make for some interesting adventures! I am sad a few of my old friends aren't going to be here to experience it with me!

End of a Week... Beginning of a Weekend!

I did it! I finished one whole week of Insanity without complaining, moaning, and without taking any extra days off! I feel super accomplished! I found out my order got approved so hopefully my new Shakeology and TurboFire will be here next week! I am feeling good and when I stepped on the scale yesterday morning I was down 7 pounds since two weeks ago! I am not thinking that that is all actually weight loss and I don't care it is improvement and that is all I need... for the numbers to continue to go down and stay down... Between Turbofire and Insanity I think I can actually do it this time! At least until I end up pregnant somewhere down the line!

I spent yesterday afternoon doing a puzzle and watching Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman. I used to watch this show growing up and it was a weekly family event to sit down in front of the TV together and see what the newest episode brought! Shortly before Valentine's Day I looked it up online and was attempting to watch it on YouTube... The first episode was broken into 7 segments lol! Would have taken forever! Anyway the Hubby criticized it and told me he would not watch it because he didn't like it and it was a stupid old show he had no interest in! I have taken on a stubborn streak lately... I really don't know what it is but either way I was gonna sit in front of the computer no matter how long it took to load that episode and watch my TV show! The next day we went to sign up for Whale Watching and the Hubby gave me a good apology and told me that he had ordered me the Complete Boxed set of Dr Quinn since he was such a jerk about it and I was having such a hard time watching it online! The set finally came and I have been watching it non stop! It is such a good wholesome show and it wet on for such a long time! I remember having to watch the season finale of one of the seasons just to see what happened between Dr. Mike and Sully! I can't even lie I always had a crush on Sully when the show was on and a huge one even now  a little bitty one even now! (WHEW! Sully just showed up in a TUX!)  Not that I don't like a couple of the shows from now a days but they do not have very many good wholesome shows like this anymore! That teach values and right from wrong! Sure they mention drinking and sleeping around and things such as that but they express the dangers as well and definitely don't glorify the subjects! They glorify things that should be glorified like education and respect!

Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong time! Granted.. I would have been one stubborn outspoken wife back in those days! Probably would have had a bit of trouble but to live off the land and explore places unspoiled by human hands! Granted I love all the amenities we have these days... TV, Movies, and Video Games (The Internet of course) but my dream has always been to own a HUGE number of acres of land with a house right on the middle... Great view... no neighbors... Horses... Granted I also want to have a town not so far away to go get supplies and entertainment when needed... I am SUPER mixed up I know! I grew up on a mountain with an amazing view.. plenty of hiking and wildlife! Things you don't get to see in towns! My dad had a big barn he had built himself with a pond out back! When I was five we moved down the mountain into the Valley where I lived until I joined the military! I walked to and from school until high school when I got my car. I grew up in a small town without much crime or anything of that sort. Everyone knew everyone else but the big cities were only 15-30 minutes down the road! We didn't live in a housing development with cookie cutter houses... we had a back and a front yard and knew everyone in our neighborhood for a time (before lots of new people started moving in and all the kids grew up). It was a great childhood and a great way to grow up! I had a mix of the two childhoods but I would still like to live somewhere with lots of land and a semi-farm type lifestyle! With the way things have changed in the world I am almost scared to bring children up in it but I would like to do my best to bring them up in a well rounded lifestyle... to be very open minded and accepting and sheltered lol VERY VERY SHELTERED! JK.. for the most part! Whatever the case may be I have 17 years of being an Air Force Wife and travel before we will be able to settle down in one place for very long! For now its Okinawa... hard to believe in about 6 weeks i will be going home to Alabama for a little while then on to New Mexico for hopefully only two years! Then who knows! Maybe overseas... maybe stateside but hopefully to a base we will enjoy and get a lot out of! It is going to be hard to leave here after three years but I have to find the good in the next place I end up!