Picked my HRM, tenatively

I think I'm going with the Polar F11 Heart Rate Monitor. It has a lot of awesome features and the $50 dollar uplift from the F6 model I was originally thinking about getting is actually is cheaper in the long run since I was planning on purchasing the F6 plus the better chest strap that is $55. The F11 comes with the better chest strap (standard) so I will be paying $5 less for a better product that comes with a better chest strap. Plus it's prettier than the F6 because it comes in this ice blue model. :)

Happy Birthday Cowbell!

Happy birthday Cowbell!
Part of your birthday present is the present of winning a contest you may not have realized you were in. My body age results were given to me last night and due to my scoring at the bottom of the flexibility test (poor) my body age is.... 25!!! :( My trainer shamed me for not stretching when I workout and told me I need to start doing yoga again. Also, 1/4 of my body is fat. J didn't think this was bad but really?! 25% of me is straight jelly and in no way is that acceptable. I'm researching heart rate monitors today and have a MAP test tomorrow, which tells me exactly what heart rate range my body burns fat at. I will get down to 20%... this is my new goal for after the wedding!

FYI, big sis wants to try a new recipe for the birthday cake I'm making Cowbell, but don't worry- I'm making the box cake regardless of how that one turns out!

I promised Cowbell a yellow cake with fudge frosting and strawberry jam filling for her birthday, though it probably won't be quite as pretty as this cake...

Holding steady... yet somehow backsliding too.

So I weighed myself this morning and (drum roll please...) I'm at the weight I was when I started working out/watching what I ate. I know the reason my weight is doggedly still at that detested number- booze. I lived it up this weekend, but my new, healthier lifestyle starts today! Tonight I finally have my fitness evaluation and 2 months to get to a shape that won't make me want to punch anyone who wields a camera in my direction at big sister's wedding. I think I'm going to tone down the bread making to once a week as I think that may be a factor as well. Wish me luck my peeps, as I am about to start on the Eat to Live diet again. I don't want to stop eating dairy but that diet was so freakin effective, that if I really want to make leaps and bounds weight and shape-wise, I need to. Obviously, this rule will not apply on 4/5 for Cowbell's birthday celebration. I also just signed up for sparkpeople.com as they have suggested menus and workouts for everyday and groups to encourage you along the way. I think this will help me when J is on one of his beer and Whataburger diets. Let me know if any of you want to join Sparkpeople too and we can be buddies!

Well ladies.... this is a time of great change in Tubbs life. In fact, pretty much everything except my gargantuan weight is in flux. The pounds however, they get to stay for some reason. I'm not eating sugar or flour, but it's only been about three solid days. I want instant results damnit! B and I have, however, not eaten out once this week. Go us! And he's actually kind of stoked about the cooking at home thing. I'm so proud! We had a very yummy meal of chicken, rice, and broccoli yesterday and despite B suggesting we smother everything in cheese sauce, he was pleasantly surprised that healthy doesn't need to taste bad. Anyway, small victories. Tubbs is going to be employed doing the EXACT same thing she was doing her senior year of high school, albeit at double the pay. Oooooo.... in the words of my mother "why the hell did you go to college?" Anyway, it's all for the greater good right? At least this way I can all but guarantee that I will be at the August nuptials and hopefully at the July fiesta before that. Yea for cheap mindless labor. That paycheck, however small, will indeed be heart warming.

Happy Easter!

Lazy Springbreak, eh?

Hiya girls,
I see that there wasn't any breaking news while I was away! :) Mexico was great, especially because no one stresses there. There was a bomb threat and even the cops were calm about it: "No, you can't go this way... No really, there is an emergency." while idly shooing us away. Hehe. Turns out the bomb threat was really a bottle with something in it, so they thought it was a Molitov Cocktail?? Anyways it wasn't and wasted a bunch of our time. We ate delicious cake and catered foods and saw some amazingly beautiful places! And when I came home, I had lost 1 lb! Thank you San Miguel for being super hilly. You guys will love the wedding and Bridezilla contained herself really well throughout the trip. I felt bad for her for a couple days because everything kept falling through and she seemed on the verge of tears at one point. Both the brides in our lives are anxious to know if Tubbs will be bringing herself and her man to their weddings and our fall bride wants to know if Tubbs is coming on to the bachelorette party in NO. Fall bride and I worked out last night at my gym and my body really forgot how hard the gym is! But I gotta keep it up b/c J is determined to be a bad influence. FYI he has only 24 beers to go to reach his goal of 200 and looks exactly the same as when he started.... He hasn't changed his diet or even started working out. How??? It makes me crazy. He even ate all my "I've been really good today treat" ice cream that was in the freezer and that stuff was not even close to low fat! Erg. Luckily, he was so sweet and excited about me being home it all makes up for it. Especially since his truck was stolen last week! :( Ok, can't go into that now as I gotta go to a meeting!

Can I just say that I LOVE the Peeps picture!? Cuz I do. Anywho, went to the gym yesterday for like five seconds. Feeling very lazy these days. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm going through a sever life crisis and I'm unable to function. Just had a very good smoked salmon sandwhich. I'm off to the gym today in just a bit. Hopefully I'll work a little harder this time. K (I'm going with abbreviations of names cuz I can't seem to remember our pin names) came up with the very good idea of me being a nanny. Is that lame? I could make like 40k a year doing something that I really like to do anyway. And I wouldn't have to go to an office. I'd have weekends totally off. And, I could work on school at the same time. All while paying my loans off at an acceptable rate. The only real problem I have with it is saying that I'm a nanny. That blows. Wish they had a better word for it. But as long as I'm doing school or something else while I'm doing it, I don't feel so bad. Sorry, I know this is a fitness blog and I'm ruining it but there is a total lack of fitness in my life currently so I'll blog about other things. Can't I just get married and pregnant?! Damn.... that's all I want. I figure if I work for a few solid years and get rid of my debt, I'll be a lot more ready to be a mom and stay at home. That way the hubby won't have to work for my debts as well as the families. Those are my thoughts.