VACATION!

We're having an amazing week in Colorado visiting my brother!  Yesterday we visited Rocky Mountain National Park.  OMG! It was amazingly beautiful scenery, just what you would imagine of the Rockies, but it was also beautiful rolling hills. I may or may not have burst into song singing.....

...."the hills are alive!"

I can't tell you how excited I am to start blogging again! I've really missed everyone.  I finished the paralegal certificate program at UNC! Yea! Yea! Yea! I seriously thought that needed 3 yeas. ;). I just mailed the application the the state bar to take the certification exam in October.  

I've been steadily losing weight and gaining muscle, thanks to an amazing product I've been taking (Visalus) and some sweating it out with my amazing trainer.  My weight was stuck, not budging an ounce until I starting drinking these shakes, and they taste amazing too! I've made a strawberry cheesecake smoothie recently that was better than most desserts I've tasted.  I'll post the recipe after I return home!  Wish I could have one now - it will be a yummy homecoming! ;)

More Colorado Pics :)

Boulder Falls

My brother Mike with Julia

Estes Park

Hope all of you are having an amazing summer!  Just wanted to post a quick update to tell you I'm back.  Thanks to all of you who messaged me over the past few months to see how I was doing. Y'all are awesome!

Silent No More

Hi Everyone!  Man it's been way too long...I have so much to say, but it's so late here, 1 a.m.  I've really been coasting with my weight loss, but lately have a new resolve and determination.  My goal is to be less than 150 by the end of the month.  My weight has been bouncing between 150 - 158 for months and I'm now ready to take a stand!

...Life has been so busy and crazy.  I didn't plan to take a blogging hiatus, between school, work, and being a mom, my passion to blog has taken a back seat.  Sorry about my absence, but I'm back now.  I'll try to post regularly, whatever is on my heart at the time.  Posts maybe short...

It feels great to be back...I can't do this without our blogging community.  Seriously, my weight loss stopped when I stopped blogging.  I've missed you.  Can't wait to catch up.

Clinging to this....

Talk to y'all soon.

Cat

Hi friends!  Thanks for all of the sweet messages!  I have the greatest blog friends in the world!  I'm taking the 2nd nutrition class at Cornell and just started Paralegal classes at UNC last week.  The paralegal program is more demanding than I anticipated.  Needless to say I'm looking forward to graduation day, June 9th!

You're probably wondering how weight loss and working out is going?  It's not.  My weight is about the same give or take a pound or two.  At least I haven't gained, right?  I think I only worked out once last week.  My diet is abysmal.  I'm definitely getting back on track in the morning with nutrition and working out! BODYPUMP & SH'BAM here I come!  It definitely takes vigorous effort for me to not to fall away from a healthy lifestyle.  I understand from people who have been living healthfully for years that it becomes second nature, but for me it requires discipline, effort and pursuit.  I also realized I have to keep this blog going to stay on track.

I've been listening to Reshaping It All by Candace Cameron Bure (downloaded from iTunes), and it's made all of the difference in motivating me to get back on track.  This quote from the book recently "spoke" to me:

"Action means I'll have an active role in my life.  I won't sit around waiting for things to change but will take the necessary steps to make it happen.  Things that are important deserve nothing less than vigorous pursuit."

Tell me:  What keeps you on track?  


I hope everyone has a great week.

Take care,


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Listening to...

...a lecture entitled "The State of America's Health", by T. Colin Campbell, as my classes started at Cornell this week.  Last night I fell asleep listening to it, so tonight the goal is to not fall asleep!  It's actually interesting, I was just really tired.  Now I'm just a little tired, so I thought I'd give it a go.  Being the primary caregiver to 2 young kids all while going back to school is going to be harder than I anticipated, but where there's a will, there's a way!

I also have something else in "the works".  Will let you know when it's official.

While taking these classes, I probably won't post daily; however, my goal is at least twice a week.

So, back to studying. Talk to you this weekend.

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Week 20 Weigh In, Tried Something Different This Week!

Let me start out by saying all of you who do the BFC are rock stars in my book!  Last week I did the BFC for maybe a day and a half, then my daughter got sick and I ate whatever I could find to eat.  Trying to eat low sugar and tracking what I was eating was far down my list of priorities.  Then I was sick for 2 days.  After being ill my weight was down 5 pounds, but I knew that would be temporary.  It has since leveled out to a weight loss I'm still excited about in week 20 of my weight loss journey.  I weighed in this morning and lost 3 pounds for the week!

I made one big change this week and I think my weight loss reflected that change, drinking MonaVie RVL shakes.  Instead of my normal breakfast I substituted this shake, sometimes made with just water and ice, sometimes with fruit, and/or a little nut butter. Since it provided the antioxidant power of more than 10 servings of fruits and vegetables, or for some other reason, they satisfied my hunger for hours.  I think I ended up eating less as a result.  I think I'll continue this habit for a while and see where it takes me.

(http://monavie.com/products/weight-solutions#!RVLtrade-NUTRITION-SHAKE-MIX)

This week I'm also going to add exercise back in to the healthy mix, starting this morning by training with my personal trainer.  I need to get the fire back for weight loss and working out!  This video really motivated me.  I hope it helps you too.

"It's up to you and what's inside you.  What you put into it is what you get out of it."

Tell me:


Did you shake up your weight loss routine recently?  Did you see results?  Please share, would love some new ideas.


Have a great healthy week everyone.



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What Changed My Life In A Powerful Way

A few weeks ago I did this post:  A Glimpse Into Part Of What Changed My Life, with every intention of divulging the second part, the most important part of what made me actually stick with my weight loss plan when everything I had tried for years had failed.  What made this time different? I knew it would be different from the very beginning.  I knew I'd be successful!  I stumbled upon some information that literally and physically changed my life.  Let me explain.

I've never been one for a lot of self help books.  I mean I've read my fair share and they all left me excited in the beginning, but then after a few days or weeks, the enthusiasm wained, and my old life returned.  The next thing I knew I was back to where I started with no progress and empty dreams.  So I thought any book that even resembled self help was just a bunch of fluff and no help to me.  I thought, it's not me, it couldn't be my fault, I just haven't found the perfect diet, and so my search continued.

Then I discovered The Rock Star Life and my whole life changed, for good.  It gave me the tools to know exactly what I wanted AND how to achieve it. Some of you who read this blog may be thinking, oh I know what I want, I want to lose weight, but this program is so much more.  It encompasses every area of your life, even your sex life ladies, (or gentleman if you're reading this).  You'll never be the same afterwards.  Every single dream you have CAN come true and this program will give you ALL the tools to make it a reality!  For the proof just check out my before and after pics above, and I'm about 7 pounds lighter right now than when that picture was taken.

I mean this has changed my life in such a powerful way I can't keep quiet about it!  I just had to share. :)    There are 3 different membership levels, some affordable, some very affordable.  Just one less dinner or lunch out a month and you've absorbed the cost already.  And you can pay monthly and cancel at anytime, so there's really nothing to lose, but SO much to gain.  Just check out the website here and let me know what you think.

Thanks stopping by my corner of blog world.  Have a good weekend.  Just don't party like a rock star, you may not make your health goals ;).

Take care,




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Sickness Abounds

What a craaa-zy sick week this has been.  Our household, me included, has been struck with this awful stomach virus, flu thing that's just been awful.  Thankfully I'm feeling much better this afternoon, since I have to run the hardware store tomorrow.

On a positive note between healthy eating and surviving a stomach bug, I think I'll have weight loss to report on Monday! ....silver lining, you know.

In my blogging absence just wanted you to know I haven't fallen off the wagon into a big pan of brownies or anything ;).

I'll resume regular posting tomorrow night, assuming the last well person in the house is not sick by then...fingers crossed.



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