One week and 3 days!!

I can't believe I'm getting married. It's the craziest thing. I was set at one point in my life to never be married and be the happy single free-spirited woman. Well 2 months after I said that to my dad, I met Derek and it's been history ever since :)

As for what's been going on in my world lately...not much. Just been trying to get that wedding "body" and also the beach body!! I love living by the beach! North Carolina truly is pretty in the springtime. I celebrated by planting some tulips and some other flower lol. Time to get ready for work! Updates to come!

Early morning!

Derek went to work about an hour ago and I couldn't fall back asleep so here I am! Whitley and I are going walking at 8 and then I am heading up to the good ole tanning salon and then to get ready for work. I have decided that in order to get more tone I need to keep constantly changing up my workouts, so this weekend I am getting some dumbells and a workout video or two and am going to hit this working out business harder than ever because Wimberley has to look sexy in her wedding dress! Derek and I are going to the gym Sunday and then going walking on the beach on base! I love working out with him because he really challenges me. Too bad our work schedules suck so we really can't go together besides on the weekends, so I have to find other ways to work out during the week.

It's really ridiculous how PMS really can make you go from skinny to fat in a matter of hours. I seriously feel myself bloat up throughout the day. In the morning my stomach looks great and then in the evening I look pregnant! Ahhh! I hate it! Lol!

So the food forecast for today looks good. I am not craving anything bad. Yesterday I wasn't very good. I had a lot of those Hot Tamales candies that a lady at work gave me, 2 fun size Reese's PB cups, and when I got home I ate an oversized piece of pizza. For breakfast I had Activia, between breakfast and lunch I had a sausage egg and biscuit sandwich minus one of the two slices of biscuit and I took off the cheese. For lunch I had a turkey sandwich with wheat bread, mustard, and a small bit of low-fat mayo, snack I had my fiber cookie thingy, yogurt, dinner was lean cuisine 5-cheese lasagna and sugar free pudding! Drank lots of water yesterday and walked 1 hour and 20 minutes in the AM, 13 minutes during a break and then 45 minutes during lunch which was about 10 laps or so.

Day 2 of trying to stay with this!

Today was great. I walked with my friend this morning from 9-10:30 then I got ready for work, went by Starbucks and got a tall nonfat/no whip white mocha and went to work from 11:30-8:30. During my first break I walked 3 laps around the building which is about .64 of a mile. During lunch I walked 10 laps so thats like..2.2 miles. Total I walked at work 2.86 miles! In addition to this morning so that is a lot. I am also about to do some push ups and crunches. For breakfast I had some Activia yogurt. Lunch was a whole wheat bread sanwich, turkey meat, and mustard with a pickle slice. For my first snack I had some Activia and some little fiber graham crackers. Dinner I had a lean cuisine 5-cheese lasagna and a thing of sugar-free yogurt. I am working on finishing drinking my 8 glasses of water a day, it is just so hard to do that when the tap water out here tastes like crap--with or without a Brita filter!! :(

I knew this would happen!!!

Every time I have started a blog, I always ended up straying. Well here I am and I vow to not stray...again! I may not post every single day, but dammit I have to do this. Its just that with having graduated, packed up, moved to NC, found a decent job, and planning an out-of-town wedding all while trying to eat healthy and get looking my best ever so I'll be glowing at my wedding....it's super hard to keep up with family and friends let alone a blog!

Since my last blog I have obtained a job at Convergys here in Jacksonville, said goodbye to working part time at minimum wage and said hello to working 40 hours a week making $10.91 an hour! It's great. I plan on once we move to California either becoming a teacher/coach or doing personal training. As of today Derek and I get married in 2 months and about 2 weeks! It's CRAZY!!!!

It is definitely hard to stay get into better shape while working 40 hours a week. I supplement sitting on my butt all day at work with healthy snacks and I walk during my breaks!

I plan on weighing myself this weekend when Derek and I hit the gym so I can see where I am at (although I'll be pms'ing like a mofo) and I also want to get a pedometer to be able to see where exactly I am. I ALSO need to get back to using my heart rate monitor! With two months and some change left until the big day I have no room for error!!!