That all chances this week. I have made up my mind that I am going to stop this mindless eating. There is no reason for it. If I must snack, there are much better options. I have a fridge full of fruits and veggies all washed and cut up and ready to eat. I just have to reach in there and grab them and that is just what I plan to do.

I have been doing an excellent job on exercise. I’m not missing any classes. In fact, my Thursday class has gone to a 90 minute kettle bell/zumba extravaganza. I love it. Piyo continues to be my hardest class, but I still enjoy it. It’s just really hard on my wrists and ankles.

I have started the Fab Ab February workout with Ann. We are keeping each other honest with texts and Facebook check ins each day. We started a few days late, so we had to catch up by doing two workouts a day for two days. Now we are on track with the daily workouts. I put the chart below if you’d like to join us. I got the chart from Bari. Thanks girlfriend. I’m loving it. I’m a little scared about the end of the month though.

Now it’s your turn. Tell us all about your week. Link your blog post or your confessions in the comments. You’ll feel better when you do and you can start over again with a fresh slate.

Good morning, friends! Welcome to this week’s installment of True Confessions, the post where you can confess all of your unhealthy sins from the previous week. Once you confess it, you forget about it, and start fresh.

I’ll get us started….

We’ll do this list style:

1. I had two desserts in one meal on Saturday. Two. I didn’t really need two. I really didn’t need one, but oh how I love dessert. I did make up for it by having a bowl of Special K for dinner since I really wasn’t that hungry from the TWO desserts.

2. I headed to the cafeteria last week with every intention of buying a chocolate muffin. (Hey. It was that TOM last week. Don’t judge.) I bought Cheerios instead.

3. I’m addicted to Sheetz coffee but it’s not my fault. Do you have Sheetz? Sheetz is a gas station here and they have the best coffee in the world. And! Not only that, they’re just awesome. On Saturday, they were out of Colombian coffee (because let’s face it, Colombian coffee is the best), and we had to wait for them to brew more. So, since we waited, they gave us our coffee for free! Free! So, we went back Sunday.

4. Confession: We usually go to Sheetz on Sunday anyway. I know.

5. I had a chance to try tripe for the first time on Sunday. I couldn’t get my stomach to do it. I feel so bad. I pride myself on trying anything once, but I couldn’t bring myself to try the tripe. Maybe another day.

Ok, now it’s your turn! Let’s hear it… what do you have to confess? Tell us in the comments below or blog all about it and leave us the link to your post below! Go! Why are you still sitting there? Confess already…are you there?

Today, I’m going to change things up a bit though. We’re into the 4th week of our New YEar, and if I’m being honest, this is when my drive to accomplish my new goals starts to wane. Yeah, I may be a little ADD!

So this week, tell me on,y the GOOD things you did this week. And not necessarily just with food, drink and exercise. Did you ace a test, get a raise, finally potty train your kid, cook something new? Give yourself a shout out! Tell the world how awesome you’ve been doing! Spare no details please!

Not only is this a great exercise for YOU, but it also helps get every other Sister and Brother (we know you’re out there) motivated!

So do it now! Tell us how awesome you were this past week!

I’ll get us started:

I am ROCKING the 52 Small Changes project over in the ‘Hood! My water intake is consistent, I’m sleeping more than I have since college (ahem), I’m getting my butt off the couch so much more everyday day, AND now I have no excuse not to journal my food and exercise! To top it off, I am so thoroughly enjoying the new Sisters I’ve met and all the amazing support we’re giving and getting during this challenge! WE ROCK!

So fess up! Leave in the comments below (we love long comments!) or blog about it and leave your link.

Have a great Tuesday!

Be so happy you can’t get sick through reading this because I’ve got spores everywhere!

I’ve been sick since Friday, literally I slept 17 hours yesterday, I haven’t done that since college, and apparently the only thing I can stomach is soup and chocolate chip cookies.

So here is my confession: I’ve either been wayyy good (soup! the brothy kind even, not the creamy kind!) And lots of V8 and water (mostly water).

Or wayyyyyy not-so-good (chocolate chip cookies. Perhaps some ice cream.)

I’m going to make this one short today because I can’t put coherent thoughts together very well. But I do hope you have had a great week! Feel free to share your disgressions, concessions, miscalculations and mishaps in the comments below.

Here’s to good choices for all of us in the coming week! Cheers!

This new year, it was supposed to be a fresh start. Exercise, clean eating…reclaiming my body. Well, honestly, it hasn’t been happening. At all.

I could recount all my transgressions, but truthfully, it will just make me feel bad. And I kind of want to concentrate less on what I’ve done wrong and more on what I’m GOING TO DO RIGHT. Starting immediately.

So here I am. Starting my new years resolution a week or so late. But better late than never. Right?

I feel like I am FINALLY in the right mind frame to tackle this extra weight. I am tired of actually HURTING from the surplus pounds and aching from being out of shape. It sucks. Plain and simple. I’m tired to squeezing into the largest pair of jeans I own, sucking in my stomach and still barely being able to fasten the button. I’m tired of looking at my closet full of clothes and knowing I can’t wear but about five pieces comfortably. Most of all, I’m tired of looking in the mirror and not recognizing myself.

So, my confession this week is that I’m putting my foot down and taking charge.

What’s your confession? Lay it all out in the comments. We’re here for you!

I’ll go first yeah me.

True Confession #1

We took an 11 day road trip for the Christmas holidays.

• The good- I survived the 18+ hour car drive there and back without harming anyone mainly my husband.
• The bad- I didn’t drink nearly enough water I replaced it with alcohol and that’s never good- he he.
• The ugly- I threw caution to the wind and ate way too much junk, junk and more junk.

True Confession #2

I am back to my normally scheduled programmed workout as of today!

• The good- I am registered for the Zooma Half Marathon in Austin, TX on March 31st.  This will be my fourth half marathon.  This year, I have been chosen to participate in the Zooma/HEB Texas Girlfriends Program, where they pair up seasoned runners with newbie runners.  I am mentoring a new runner (Hi Carmen!  She’s new to the Sisterhood as well.) and together, we will train together and cross the finish line together.  It feels so strange to be on the *other side*, imparting my running knowledge as little as it may be, with someone new to it.  It feels really really really good and positive to help someone else out, to focus on someone other than myself.
• The bad- After a two week haitus, I returned to the Body Pump class at the YMCA.  Lunges can still suck it.  Period, the end.
• The ugly- All that junk and drink from the holidays have packed on a few pounds to my 5’6″ frame and I feel like a clunky tank when I run wog= walk+jog.

True Confession #3

This has nothing to do with health and fitness but it does have to do with life and family stuff.  My kids watch too much TV.  There, I said it.  It’s true and I think it’s affecting their behavior.

• The ugly- my 8 yr old daughter had a TV in her room, not by our own choosing but because it was already in *her* room when we moved in with my MIL.  (Long story short- we’re building a house and sold our house quicker than we thought we would. We’ve moved in with my MIL, all five of us- ha!, while we wait to start and finish the building of our new home.  Tight quarters- ugh.  No mortgage payment- yippee!!!!).  Anyhoo, I noticed that my daughter was basically addicted to the TV in her room, shutting out the rest of us and getting quite ugly when we told her to *turn it off*.  In our old house, we never had TV’s in the kids’ rooms.  We (the adults) got lazy and used the TV to *babysit* her in the MIL’s house.   I know, bad mom.  No judgement here, right?
• The bad- My 5 yr old son was following in her footsteps.  The television was beginning to rule our house and I felt like I was losing touch with my kids.
• The good- we removed the TV from her room today.  She wasn’t even upset when we removed it- she seemed relieved, of all things.  We put in place a 30 minute rule for each kid for *after school TV watching*.  I explained to the kids that playing outside and with each other was way more important than any TV show.  We talked about all the things we could do instead.  I stayed off the computer and truly focused on them.  I am here to tell you that it is amazing how much I can get done when I don’t have my face stuck in my laptop.  Also, my kids talked to me non-stop right up until bedtime.  We played, we cleaned, we made dinner and my daughter- the one who is so sassy and can have such an attitude at times- was beautiful and sweet and hanging all over me with hugs.  In addition, when she wasn’t playing with her brothers, she went to her room and chose to read a book- twice.  I SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN RID OF THE TV MONTHS AGO.

So talk to me peeps!  Let me know how your previous week went- health, fitness or otherwise.  Confess it all- you’ll feel so much better.  Leave the link down below and don’t forget to visit every else’s blog to see what they’ve been up to.

Let’s start this confession out by saying that at 10:37 last night, I realized that I had this post due. I had a more than full day and I just about threw people out of my house from my daughters birthday party to start writing. Wow, the things that I will do for you people!

My biggest confession this week isn’t so much what I ate as what I drank. Pretty much more nights than not, Mr. Bacardi and I have been seeing each other. I wish my husband was a jealous man(no I don’t). Maybe then I’d be a little more willing to give up my other man. It was nothing in excess, but a few drinks here and a few drinks there adds up to lots of calories. I guess it’s something I will have to work on in the new year.

I was pretty good with food. The only sweets I had at my mom’s house were three peanut butter balls and a piece of toffee. I filled a normal size plate for dinner and didn’t have seconds. I think that’s pretty darn good if you could have seen all the food that was there.

Last, but not least…I have done very little exercise this past week. We had school through Thursday with the Christmas play in there. I had so much to get done when I finally got off, I was using every extra minute I had to get ready for the holiday. All that will change very soon. I have a plan for the new year, but that is another post.

I hope you are all gearing up for the new challenge. Me, myself and I can’t wait. I new challenge for the new year is just what I want.

That’s enough about me. How did you all do? Did you behave or did you go all holiday crazy? Tell us all about it in the comments or leave your blog link there if you wrote about it.

I’ve said before how this year has been a rough year for me physically. As we sit here with our coffee or glass of water, I’m battling another cold.

Also as we sit here, I know that I do have a plan in place to get back into tip top shape in 2012. I’m really looking forward to it. But I do have a confession to make….

While I’m going to get back into shape and be conscious of what I eat (I’m already doing that.), I’m not going to worry with the scales. I’m just not. I got into the numbers game once and it just didn’t work for me. It stressed me out way too much. I worried myself sick over what number I was each week.

Right now, I know I weigh more than I have in a while. And oddly, I’m okay with it. For a few reasons. First, this year has been a crazy good year for me. I’ve had to learn balance. I feel like I am learning that balance and now that I’ve found it, I can get back on track. Second, I am confident that I WILL get back into shape. There’s no doubt in my mind. As much as I hate exercise and don’t feel a high from it (that’s a whole other post), I do like how my body feels when it’s in shape. And third, I finally truly love me. I love my body no matter what size it is. I know that health-wise, my doctor says I’m in a good place (other than these damn colds), and learning to love myself has been a hard road.

I know that I will never be a size 2. I really don’t want to be. Loving my body goes deeper than the scales or the mirror. It means that I truly accept who I am. It means I am striving to be the best I can be and to live my live as healthy as possible, but that I’m not going to freak out if my weight doesn’t say 125.

I will probably spot  check myself on the scales here and there, but my ultimate focus is going to be to exercise and to make healthier food choices. The rest will work itself out in the end.

2011 was a pretty damn good year. I”m looking even more forward to 2012. Here’s to a Happy Healthy Holidays! And a Oustanding Healthier New Year!

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So confess below, or write an awesome post about your craziness and share the link in the comments! Have fun with it!!

In addition to the regular holidays, we have 4 birthdays in the family. Do you know what 4 birthdays in the family means?

4 CAKES. SOMETIMES MORE, depending on how many times we celebrate each one of them.

There used to be a  time where a baked good held no power over me. But I’ve started working from home and as I get that daily schedule figured out (which is pure craziness), my workouts have been all over the place and I don’t know about you, but my workouts (or lack thereof) has a direct effect on my eating.

I find myself saying, “I don’t have time.”

When have I ever said that? Of course I have time! I am not making myself a priority, that’s what this is! Add to this that I’m nursing an IT Band injury, which means I can’t run very far right now, which makes my workouts even more confusing.

True confession time means today a “reset” button for me.

What does it mean for you?