Curves

I go to an old lady gym. I am by far the youngest who works out there. There might be a handful of young girls but I never see them. I love it! There are no boys trying to hit on me.....ha ha ha, just thought I would throw that in there for a laugh.
Anyway it totally gets the job done. I like it because you can work out as hard as you want. If you have never been to a Curves you might not understand.
So let me explain. (p.s. there are quite a few equipment machines missing in these pictures)
The room is set up in a giant circle. In between the equipment there are resting pads. There is music, (although I like my own) and there is a lady on a cd who tells you to change stations every 30 seconds.
In that 30 seconds the machines are designed to a specific part of the body. Like Arms, legs, tummy. You can either pump it hard for 30 seconds or half ass it. Which I see a lot of ladies do because they mostly come in there to socialize. Which is fine, but also why I use my head phones.
It is designed to give you a full body work out in 30 minutes which is two times around the circuit. But you can do as much as you want depending for me on how much time I have.
There is a younger girl that I see sometimes and she goes around like 4 times. I am going to work up to that. But I guess I figure if you can go around more than 4 times and not really break a sweat, then maybe this is not the gym for you.
I guess that is my ultimate goal. I want to ago to a regular gym with everybody else and not feel so self conscious.
The resting pads freak people out I think because now they have pictures on the floor of suggestions on what you can do. Which I think all make you look like a fool.
I just usually run in place or do the jump rope bounce.....did anybody understand that? Its the best way I could describe it. lol
After about 9 rotations the cd lady tells you to check your heart rate, mostly I count wrong because I get lost and count the beats of the music and not my heart. So I use those as an excuse to take a 10 second break.
I guess my favorite equipment are the leg ones. I have very strong legs and I like to see what they can do. I love the squat machine which a lot of people skip. It does suck, its hard but I like a challenge. The arm machines kick my butt! I guess I have weak arms.... as Dwight Schrute says is a defect of our gender. So I am working on those.
Anyway Curves is not for everybody that is for sure, but I do love it. In fact last week I got free shoes that they ordered too big and this week I got a goodie bag. Can't be all bad right?

Not so smoothie morning

So I set my alarm a little earlier this morning so that I could take pictures of my smoothie for this blog. So I wake up on time and and then start getting ready and then at 6:30am my boss calls me and lets me know that he is going to be sick today. When I see him tomorrow I am going to junk punch him. He already knows how long it takes me to get ready I have to fabulous! hello! and he is suppose to get to work 30 minutes before me. So yes that is right I have 15 minutes to get out the door so that I can do his job as well as mine. So I am listening to Brad and Tara and trying to get everything done to get out the door and still make my smoothie..... well lets just let the pictures do the talking.


So I just buy frozen juice and make a pitcher for the week. I always add a little more water than normal. Sometimes that stuff is too sweet for me. I think its grape this week, which makes the end of this story even more tragic.

So I throw in almond and let the soak for about 20 minutes which is not long enough, but its fine.


At about 10 minutes into the soak I grind them up to help with the softening process.




Then I add the fruit. Today it was blackberry's and bananas. The frozen fruit helps with that smoothie consistency I like. Kinda like Jamba Juice.



Then I add in my flax. I love the flax seeds!




Yum right?



Then I grind it up. While I get ready I come in every once in a while and grind some more.
THEN!!!!!

This happened! All over me, my camera, my floor, my walls.... just everywhere! I wanted to sit on the floor and cry and cry. A whole work outfit ruined. I am soaking them all day, so wish me luck, but I don't hold out much hope especially because of the grape juice and blackberry.


So a good 1/4 was lost to the smoothie gods, but I did have a little for breakfast. I am going to send that picture to my mom. Maybe she will have some mercy on me and want to buy me an outfit. I for sure need new pants. We will have to see I guess. Anyway thats my smoothie. Normally I am more happy about the awesomeness of it, but today not so much.

What do I eat?

I thought I would post my typical lunch. What do you guys do for lunch. Some of you get to stay home for lunch, but I still want to know. I have been "brown bagging" it for a while. It saves me a ton of money. I don't get how people can eat out everyday. I think I make ok money and I know I would be broke. Also talk about super fattening.
So I eat a salad pretty much most days. Its easy, tasty, and quick. I try to make them before I go to bed so I am not late in the mornings, but I usually am late anyway. So I love spinach. I think spinach is an acquired taste? I used to hate it. Then I throw on some garbanzo beans. It doesn't matter if I am having sweet salad or a salty salad I always use garbanzo beans. I gotta get my protein in right? I also always have almonds, sunflower seeds, and flax seeds. Then depending on what kind of veggies or fruit I have, I throw that on too. I top it off with my organic vegan dressing I found at Freddy's.



So I eat my puffins at around 6:45am or so....depending on how late I am. And then I eat usually my soygurt at about 10:00am and usually a banana. By about 12:30ish I eat my salad and then I eat my clif bar at 3:00ish. That way when I get home I am not so hungry that I eat myself out of house and home. Yum! I am jealous of my own self. My sister would take one look at this and want to vomit. She still thinks taco bell is a food group.




Also I am posting a picture of this here and on my other blog. BFFH showed me this awesome website called. Bountiful Baskets. Seriously guys I am in love! Look at all the stuff you get for 15 bucks. Awesome right? Anyway check it out. It makes me love BFFH even more because she just gets me. I am so excited for my next one!

Post 1....... The Idea

So if you read back a couple of blogs you will see that BFFN suggested we figure out some at home things we can do to get in shape. I love this idea, because getting my tush to the gym these days is just not working. I hope she adds to this, actually I hope we all get this going. I know BFFH does a lot of her stuff at home too because she has a little one that makes it hard to leave. BFFN has 4!
So anyway I was researching this subject and I came across this awesome lady on YOUTUBE who is ripped. I seriously would love a body like that. I don't care who you are this lady is hot. But the cool thing about her is that she does all her workouts at home and with her own body weight. So check her out. She is inspiring.

Her name is Zuzana- here is her youtube
http://www.youtube.com/user/charliejames1975

Here is her blog
http://www.bodyrock.tv/

If you have only time for one, I would suggest her blog, she post all her videos there anyway plus a step by step and other fun stuff.

About that

So....... Um yeah.
I can do better.