MAJORLY fell off the wagon

If you have been here for awhile, you know I was on an exercising kick doing Tone It Up workouts daily. I was following their (8 week) bikini series , I was doing great working out everyday,  holding myself accountable on instagram and just rocking it!

Then we found out we weren't going to the beach this year, I kind of started slacking and just started giving up. I went from working out everyday to 3 times a week, then twice and then just completely stopped. My body was aching after working out(and not the good kind of aches), my knees were killing me, my hips hurt daily so I just threw in the towel.

But lately I have been feeling so blah and I am really kicking myself for just quitting. My eating isn't so bad but I do have my moments when I just want to eat everything in the house! I don't want to beat myself up over this but I really wish I would've just stuck w it. Even at 3 times a week would be better than nothing at all! 

With my body aching so much I just have zero motivation, we have been walking here and there just to do something but I have zero motivation to do anything else. I'm not trying to lose much weight just tone up more than anything!

I just wish I had motivation to get out of this funk I've been in lately!

no excuses

I posted last week about Hallie at Life Oceanside doing a little challenge about being our best self we can be! Well I posted before about being more present but now, I have another part of this challenge at the beginning of the year I vowed to workout at least 5 days a week!

I did really great for the first few months and then my knees just started aching and hurting because they are all screwed up and the weather wasn't helping matters so I took off a week which turned into yet another week and another week and I noticed I just started feeling blah and not good about myself! Now don't get me wrong I am not trying to lose a lot of weight just tone up and be a healthier me!

So now that my knees are feeling better and the weather is getting nicer, I have NO excuse! My plan is to wake up early(before Breanna) and do a mile maybe two miles on the treadmill and then one of my Tone It Up work outs, if I can't get up early to do tredmill I will just do Tone It Up and then take Molly for a walk or treadmill when B gets home from work! 

I know I can do this I was doing so well before but just became lazy but no more! Summer is coming and I want to be comfortable in a bathing suit!  So this is my accountability to say I am going to get my ass back in gear and get back to working out daily!

motivation...

So over the weekend, Aerie had an AMAZING sale that was seriously too good to pass up. You buy a bathing suit top and get bottom free. I get that it's only February but if I don't find one now, I will never find one before we go to the beach, so I ventured to the mall in hopes of finding SOMETHING!!!!!

I am not one to spend more than $30 on a bathing suit and even that is a far reach for me, $25 is usually the highest I will go and its hard to find suits that cheap. I also need a place where I can buy pieces separately because I need a bigger bottom than I do a top. So this was perfect!

I tried on a few different ones and kept failing one after another then I went back out to look for more and tried a bigger bottom (which definitely helped sometimes having a booty and bigger thighs can be a curse especially when it comes to bathing suit shopping)

So I found one I really liked {and ended up buying} & I got solid pink bottoms, while it fits great it is my motivation to get more tone so that I am 100% comfortable in it when we go to the beach in July!!

and then found another one I MIGHT get if they have this sale again!

They both have straps as well.....once I got home I looked at my receipt and realized the girl rang it up totally wrong! She rang up 2 bottoms so instead of paying $30 I got it for $26! So that made it an even better deal!

While, I have other motivations as well this is a short term motivator. Do you have anything to motivate you to get into better shape?

Life lately

Well, it seems like life has been getting in the way of this little ol blog lately but to say we've been running around would be a lie. This crap weather has had a little part to do w. it but we did have a few days of spring like weather over the weekend but its back to crappy again this week.

But I am not going to let it get to me because it IS winter after all ;) So we have been staying in and just being lazy and staying warm. I don't mind it too much because I can get stuff done around the house
 
I have been busting my ass the past 2 weeks working out, while I haven't seen a drastic change, I definitely notice a little bit, and that is fine w me....I mean it takes work and doesn't happen over night & I feel amazing! I actually enjoy working out and look fwd to it daily

Ive found a new favorite breakfast Ive started making daily or at least trying to when I have all the ingredients.  Protein pancakes...they are so easy to make and taste so so good! You can find the recipe here. You can also use it to make waffles

I was eligible for an upgrade on my phone so we went over the weekend up to AT&T and got the 5s iPhone and I am in love!!! It is so much quicker than my other one and even though it took almost 2 days

We got a Chromecast this weekend and its pretty freaking awesome! You connect it through your tv and you can watch hulu, netflix, YouTube, etc from your laptop, tablet or phone. And best its only $35. Ive been catching up on some shows Ive been wanting to watch

This past weekend I did horrible in the eating department but hey it happens so I am not beating myself up over it and just starting this week off right. So that's really about all for us. Pretty boring but I wouldn't have it any other way right now