I'm Alive!!

Ahhhhhhhhhh. I haven't posted for quite some time & tons of people have been asking me, "Where are you?!" and "When are you gonna post again?!" 

Well ladies, I have arrived. 

BAD NEWS: I fell off the wagon during the holidays. I seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE to bake goodies. With hubby's birthday, our anniversary, my birthday, thanksgiving, christmas, new years & PINTEREST.... I could not help myself. 

THIS WAS ME:

GOOD NEWS: I ate enough healthy food & stayed active enough to at least be at a stand-still & not gain back the weight I lost. I am still at 206. I don't know how. I think it would be safe to say that I ate 30 too many cookies this holiday season. 

I am making this my year. In less than 3 months my husband, best friend & I will be driving to Alaska in a van to camp out & work at a resort until the end of September. I MUST be able to hike all over the place. We will be staying in & around Denali National Park, which is over 6 million acres of gorgeousness that needs to be discovered by mwah. 

So far this year I have started doing Jillian Michaels' 30 DAY SHRED workout video... & Goodness it makes me reaaaaaaaaally hate jumping jacks. Haha. The video is less than 25 minutes, so it is easy to fit in for me. But those 25 minutes I am kicking ass! You are constantly moving, working in 3 circuits of the 3-2-1 method. 3 minutes strength, 2 minutes cardio, 1 minute abs. The first week my cousin Heather was staying with me and did the workout with me for 5 nights. We used Soup cans as weights & sweated our butts off. We ate 3 meals a day, plus snacks & cooked together some delish food. The 3rd day she busted out these huge tomato sauce cans to use....Needless to say, our arms killed us the next few days.  We were sore the entire first week we did this. I could hardly move on the third day because my legs were so sore. We were walking like penguins at the grocery store...it was pretty hilarious actually. At one point she had to pull me up out of the car! Laughing is a really good exercise as well, and we seem to do that a lot. :)

Heather & I BEFORE workout:

AFTER Workout: 

I'm trying my darndest to stay doing this workout. I haven't been doing it every single night, but at least 5 days a week. I want to get back on my walking routine this week as well.

This week's health goals:
-30 day shred at least 5 days
-Have a full water bottle with me AT ALL TIMES. DRINK NOTHING ELSE & drink at least 6 bottles daily
-Take the pups for walks daily.
-ZERO sweets at all this week!

-Ashlie.