VivVoxBox

So last December my friend Dana posted something about receiving a box of free goodies to try out. I was interested because who doesn't like free stuff! So I signed up and started doing some random tasks. I answered some surveys on topics I knew about or loved I reviewed products I liked or didn't like and I answered questions about topics as well. It seemed like all my work was for nothing. My score was high and I was still not getting any free swag! So I kept at it. I reviewed, shared and answered questions every day. I did about 15 a day which seems like a lot but it takes about 20 minutes. Finally the day arrived and I got the email that I had been selected for a VoxBox!! I was so excited! I got the shipping notice and checked the mail every single day! I got the box yesterday which seemed like it took AGES to get here!
In the box I received for FREE the following:

Vaseline Spray & Go Moisturizer Coca Radiant: I tried it yesterday after my shower and thought that it wasn't as good as traditional lotion. I didn't think it made my skin feel soft. I sprayed a ton more and it finally felt like lotion (sort of). Over all I was not impressed and probably would not buy it again.

Shell Fuel Rewards Cards: Think of it as a grocery store card. I have not had the chance to use it. Partly because I don't even know where a Shell gas station is around me or if we even have Shell stations. I think it would have been better if it was a card you could use anywhere. I will keep it in my wallet and hopefully I will run across a Shell station and be able to use it.

Pure Ice Nail Polish:
Afterhours which is a vibrant pink. I liked the look on my fingers but I will probably only use it on my toes as I am not a in your face kinda nail polish person.
It's Complicated is a glitter polish that has pink, light blue and sliver glitter in it. I do love glitter polish and this did not disappoint. 

Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleansing Cloths: I liked them ok. I had to scrub really hard to get all my eye makeup off. I took a few cloths to get it all off. I doubt I would use them on a daily basis but maybe on days I don't wear make up or after the gym would be perfect to use them. They are cool and refreshing.

NYC New York Color City Proof Twistable Intense Lip Color:
South Ferry Berry: I'ts more red than I would have every bought or actually wear. It went on smooth and lasted a long time. It is not a color I personally like and maybe would use as a date night sort of thing but not a daily wear. That is just me I am sure most other girls would and will love this color.

Montagne Jeunesse Manuka Honey Peel Off mask
I will start of saying I am not a honey fan. I don't like the smell or taste of honey so when opened it up and it looked like honey I thought "oh man I won't like this at all". At first it had a huge honey smell but then it went away and the smell was really good. Reminded me of Hawaii. The mask stayed on for about 20 minutes and then peeling it off left my skin nice and smooth. I don't know if I would buy the honey mask again but I would try another flavor of their masks.

All in all I loved this #voxbox #vivaVoxBox and I can't wait to get selected for another one! All items I received from #influenester were given to me FREE no charge complementary!

I am back!

So after a LONG  LONG time away from Kaia I am officially back! I have been going for about 10 weeks now. I am loving it! I am loving that I am able to go at 9:45 instead of am! I am really ready to commit this time around!

So easy to stop and so hard to keep going

Well here I am almost at the end of my second boot-camp class. This session I missed a whole week! Partly because I was sick and partly because I forgot to set my alarm for one of the classes. 
I have not been watching what  am eating and have not really done my 2 shakes a day... ! This always seems to happen. I do so well then I just stop. I get lazy and I just "don't wanna" be good *insert 2yr old foot stomping*. 
Then I get on the scale and of course I gained! not a LOT but still the scale is moving in the direction I don't want.  When I see the scale moving to the wrong side I get upset and then I just want to say F-IT and eat whatever and drink whatever because I am already gaining so why not just eat away. I know that is not the proper way of looking at things but this is what goes on in my head. It is a constant battle I get super tired of fighting the battle. I want to just get it through my head that I need to stick with it and get to my goal weight already. I see other people being able to really stick with it and then there's me... 
It doesn't help that my husband can just stop drinking beer and lose 10 pounds in 2 weeks.  I can stop drinking and eating bread, potatoes, sugar, etc and work out 5 days a week and lose 15 pounds in 6 weeks.
I keep thinking of having weight-loss surgery but I see some of my friends how they have struggled and some of them can't eat certain things again ( i am not talking about soda or candy). It would crush me if I could never have red or green chile again (my NM peeps you understand). I know that surgery doesn't change your internal struggles. I know that the surgery is not the "easy"way to do it but I do think about it. 
So it's a new month and I am refocusing my thoughts on my healthy eating and working out. I want to lose about 10 pounds by Alexa's birthday in June. No, 10 pounds will not get me to my true goal weight but I will get me closer. If I can't seem to do this for ME maybe I can do it for this little girl.

 

End of my first 6 week class

This coming Saturday will make the end of my first 6 week boot-camp class. It has had its ups and downs. It has had me leaving saying WTH! It has left me sore and tired. There are times I don't know how I got through the entire class.
It has also left me 15 pounds lighter. Partly because of the exercise and partly because of my diet. Now I didn't follow the recommend diet 100% because well I just can't. Having to cook for a family makes it hard to follow such a restrictive diet. I am sure there were plenty of ladies in the classes that followed it but I was not one of them. I did cut out A LOT of the junk food and eating out. I cut out soda (only had 2). I worked out at least 4 days a week.
I am happy with where I am. I have lost a good deal of weight in at 6 week period.
I am very tired though.... getting up at 4:20 am is really hard. I look forward to our days off so I can sleep in! My body and mind need sleep.
I start my second round of classes on 2-11 which also happens to be my birthday. I hope to shed another 15 pounds! Wouldn't that be a awesome accomplishment? I will set a smaller goal for the next 5 weeks so that I know I can meet it.
Learning to eat right and exercise takes a lot of will power and there are days that I have it and there are days I don't.
I try not to beat myself up when I do eat something that I shouldn't. I know that we all have days where a salad won't do it and a juicy hamburger will. As long as we don't have more hamburger days than salad days I think its ok.

Hello remember me?

WOW!! the last time I posted was back in May!  To say I lost my motivation and desire is an understatement. I got hurt back in April doing a cart wheel in boot-camp. Yup I know someone who is as out of shape as me shouldn't be doing a cart wheel but I did and well I tore a muscle in my hamstring. At least that is what the dr thought it was since it was painful to do just about everything. So no exercising for 8 weeks.. lead to 8 months! With that 8 months I packed on the pounds again. We went to NM in July and of course I was a hungry shark in blood waters. I ate at every single place I missed.. I stuffed my face with so much NM food it wasn't even funny. I ate and drank till my little hearts content. So of course when I came home I had gained prob 10 pounds!! Well I thought to myself ahh not to bad I can take it off... then a few more pounds would come on and I would say.. ehhh I can take it off until I was almost at my weight that I started at boot camp back in 2011.
I was disgusted with myself!! I had worked so damn hard only to be back where I started! Then I didn't even care... I ate what I wanted when I wanted and didn't give a rats ass. I mean I was already back where I started so who cares! right?
Deep down I cared... so I signed back up with the same boot-camp classes (so happy they opened a new location that is like 3 min from my house!) I went to Vegas for New Years' and ate and ate and ate.. and drank and ate some more. I thought go BIG or go home! I knew when I came back to Reno that I was going to take boot-camp serious. So serious I did a detox diet... for 7 days (give or take) I had a shake for breakfast, salad for lunch and miso soup with tofu and quinoa for dinner. I drank detox tea, apple cider vinegar dextox drink, water and apples and almonds for snacks. Was it hard? HELL YES!! was I grumpy! HELL YES!! Just ask poor Josh. At one point I was so hungry and didn't feel good and was just miserable that I walked up the stairs slammed our bedroom door shut and went to bed at 10am! I slept for about 3 or 4 hours and woke up feeling much better. I told my self that never again would I do that. Josh even took me aside and said.. "honey, I love you but NEVER do that again"
We are in week 5 and I am planning on doing it one more time! I lost about 8 pounds on it and I would like to lose about 8 more pounds by Feb 9. I have a goal in mind that I would like to be at by my birthday which is Feb 11.
I have already signed up for the next session of boot-camp and we now belong to a gym so on the days of no boot-camp I will be at the gym.
So check back often.. I am going to try to keep this blog up until I reach my goal weight of 135. Come along for the ride.. Im sure it's going to be bumpy!

Lost my motivation...

It is gone! I don't know where it went. I was doing really well then for various reasons I stopped bootcamp and with that my eating habits went to hell in a hand basket. I thought to myself hey I lost 35 pounds I can eat whatever I want.. well that thinking is wrong and it got me to gain some weight back. Not a lot mind you but enough to make me go GET BACK ON TRACK! I have got our meals planned for the entire month and I am trying to limit the eating out and carbs we eat. I can't go back to where I was.. for one I gave all my "really fat" clothes away and I won't go buy new fat stuff. I miss working out and my leg that I hurt back in April is barely NOW felling better. I went on a run a few weeks ago and my 11 minute mile went to 19 minutes because my leg hurt so much. Then it was really hot ( I learned that I like running in cold weather).
So my goal for June is to shed 10 pounds. I know I can do this I just need to get with the program. I will break out the 4,000 exercise  DVD's I have and get my ass in gear. I will try to run as well I know I need to get back to my old run time.
I am also taking Raspberry Ketones. I saw them on Dr. Oz a few months ago and thought hey those might work. Two of the girls I work with are taking them and they like them and have maintained their weight as well as decreased their appetite. I just started them yesterday so I will report how they make me feel.
I am just upset with myself for falling off the healthy lifestyle train.. I know I can catch it again.

Life sometimes gets in the way

It has been a very long time since my last post. So here is what has been going on. Back on April 2 I was at boot-camp and we were doing our usual stuff. When they were like OKAY lets all do CARTWHEELS! I was like hmm ok I know I can do this. See back last year my sister in law and I  were doing them at the park. Were we sore the next day? yes! BUT I did it so I knew I could do it here for class. So off I went after the first one I knew I had done "something" to my leg. I thought well sometimes when you do a crazy move your muscles get pulled a little to much so I thought nothing of it. I continued to do them and it still hurt but again I thought well my body hasn't done a cartwheel in a very long time it's just freaking out. So later that morning the soldier wanted to go to the river and fish. I thought well this is a good time to go for a mile run. I had downloaded this new app called Zombies, Run! It's an app that give you a story line as you run and zombies chase you.. (ok it's all make believe but trust me when you hear them coming for you, you are running your ass off!
Well during that run I felt a pop or snap in my left hamstring the same leg I hurt doing cartwheels. I could barely walk but I again pushed through it. I finished my run/walk sat down and waited for Josh and waited.. so I thought well I feel better lets go again. I don't think I finished the run because of the pain.
So I have been going to the chiropractor for about 2 weeks and the problem is still there. I can't bend over without pain or walk so I am going to the doctor today.
On another note I will not be going back to boot-camp. I start my practicum for school on the 30th and it lasts until about June 20. Once the little one is out of school I have to pay someone to watch her while I am at work so the money spent on boot-camp will be going toward childcare. Also the solider will be going to AT for about 2 1/2 weeks. So during that time I would not have anyone to watch the little one.
I am sad that I had to stop I am glad I can sleep in! I have wanted to get back to working out on my own but with this bum leg I can't do much.
I am still maintaining my weight loss and we are starting the boot-camp diet soon. Life in our house is going to be busy this summer. I graduate on June 22 and then we are off to a little vacation to a place I don't like going to but the little one wants to see her mema so I am taking one for the team.