Monday's come to fast

Well I had a very productive weekend.  We stayed home from the Lake and cleaned house.  Friday night the twins had their new karate class at 6:30 so we didn't get home till about 8pm.  We ate dinner at my parents, which I was a good girl and made my first salad in a jar and brought my dinner so I stuck to my clean eating.  I was in bed that night by 8:30, I was exhausted.  I woke up Saturday feeling great and refreshed.  We lazied around until about 10am when the cleaning started & then we all took late naps and then went to the grocery store for some dinner items which we made chicken kabobs and my DH & daughter enjoyed a steak & we had Couscous and corn on the cob.  Then we started a fire and sat around with the neighbors playing games.  Everyone was in bed by about 10-10:30, but I stayed up till about 11:30 that night.  Sunday we cleaned our bedroom (if anyone has seen it they understand why it was such a chore).  I did 8 loads of laundry, but proud to say all laundry is complete for the week & that just gives you so much satisfaction.  We wanted to take the trio to a event called Touch a Truck sponsored by The Cleveland Metro Parks, but it was raining which of course tapered off about an a half hour after the event started which was to late by then.  So we spent the day fixing things and grocery shopping. 

I didn't get any workouts in for the weekend, but I ate wonderful and figured all the cleaning and moving around I was doing was some sort of workout.  I will be doing one of the 21 day fix videos tonight (just not sure which one yet) I'm thinking about total body cardio.  I'm also going to take the trio out for a walk after dinner.  I missed my morning run but not sure if I'll make it up tonight or just wait and get up on the AM and do my Tuesday run. 

Anyways, things have been going great on my 30 Day Clean Eating Challenge, I was alittle upset to see I only lost a little over a pound in a week, because at the end of the weekend I was at 4.2lbs lost, but some reason I am feeling bloated or like I'm retaining water today.  Oh well, I will not let that get to me and I will move one & just work harder this week.  I still have to take my measurements (I forgot) I did my before photos & weight.

So as I've mentioned before this is my first challenge running on my own & I am a bit disappointed that I do not have as much activity as I wanted and that it seems like there have already been a lot of people that have fallen off and just are not motivated to a new healthy you.  I do understand (from personal experience) how HARD it is to make this change and how different it is from what you're use to eating.  Trust me I'm a full-time working mom to three very young kids and it does take more effort in making dinners and such, but in the end I am proud of my results and I am proud of what I know my kids are putting in their mouths.  With the way I've been feeling lately and a change I've noticed in myself I will and am very willing to continue putting extra time into making clean meals for my family & I.  If there are days that we'll be rushed I "try" to get meals done before hand so we are not rushed to eat out.  It takes a lot of dedication and willingness to WANT to succeed and sadly I know some people have more of it then others.  All I would love for anyone to know is that it takes team work, dedications, motivation and more then just a week to see results and to see what a difference it makes and to realize this is much better then all that processed foods we've been feeding ourselves which in turn put 100 plus pounds on me.  I wish there was an easy way to show people, but I guess it'll have to be the BEST way "show by example."  I kinda got a bit frustrated from so many quitters, but everyone is different and have different things going on.

Any who, that is enough of that.  This is a new week and it's going to be an even better one then last!!!    Until next time hope everything is well!!!!

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT