Thoughts on being an Health Coach...

So, I do a lot of fun things in my life. I gotta admit. I get to play with two pretty fun people every day. I am married to my very best friend...who happens to be totally hot (seriously, have you seen the man lately??). I get to teach nursing students how to do the job I love so much.  I get to help people get well...and now, I get to help others get healthy.  How fun is that??? I seriously get excited to text my clients to find out how their week is going.  I might annoy the crap out of them with my frequent texts...I'm kind of love texting...truth be told I kind of want to kiss on the face the person who invented texting...but I digress. The best part of my day is sharing in the joy of pounds and inches lost.  Over all, my clients have lost over 100 lbs combined.  I started doing this "business" for a completely different reason than most people do it.  Sure, the money is great but what I get to be a part of...witnessing a total transformation...I'm getting giddy just thinking about it.  I love it. LOVE IT!! If you have ever wanted to change your life for the better...learn habits that will stick with you the rest of your life--maybe get rid of costly dangerous medications--even reverse type 2 diabetes (YEP! Talk to my hubs!! He got off meds in 5 months flat!) Talk to me! Call me...TEXT ME!! :) Check out  my website  Lets do this. One person at a time...one family at a time...together we can get America healthy!!

Cheating, working out, babies...crazy

Ok so I will admit, I cheated on Superbowl. I knowingly made my favorite naughty treat...scotcheroos...those delicious chewy rice crispy treats made with peanut butter and topped with chocolate...stupid stupid me. I did eat lots of veggies and a healthy spinach artichoke dip I made but...as I knew I would, ate a few of those darned heavenly bites. I have been working out though so I told myself that would make up for my sins...but honestly I felt like poop yesterday and now when I eat sugar my heart rate goes up a ton and makes me feel all panicky and weird. So...I should know better right? Just proof that I am human...and not a diet robot. Oh well, back in the saddle.  I haven't set foot on the scale yet this week because I just don't want to know. Ha. I will wait until next week. :) I found this fantastic workout video that I have been hiding in a drawer for like 2 years. It's the flat belly express from prevention.  It's perfect for the weightloss portion of TSFL as it is low-moderate impact, and 45 minutes in length.  Just what we recommend! I did a Zumba class with my friend Barb last weekend...we've done the videos in my living room multiple times but the live class is nothing like the videos. At all. It was quite an experience. There was a catwalk involved. That part was excruciating but we did it. I think we'll try it again this weekend. 

  I've been looking at bathing suits...as I posted in my last update, we are planning a trip to Hawaii in three months. I think I will need to go personally try some on to see what style I like the best...I am terrified at the thought of strolling around mostly naked in a public setting...but...I am determined to do it with confidence and grace. Ok well, the grace part might not be so attainable (those that know me best know why that it next to impossible) but I think I can manage the confidence bit. Maybe. :) I do know that it will involve pink and black in some fashion. My favorite color combo. :) Plus black makes everyone look hot. 

  Most people who know me know I love babies. I would have had a dozen if I could have. Of course I realize that is a pipe dream and I am irrational, but, it's true. I wanted to be the cheaper by the dozen family. Crazy, I know. Seriously. But it's true. Knowing this was a crazy impossibility, especially since I married an only child, I settled on 3-4.  We agreed on this number until we had our "perfect pair". I am so blessed to have 2 beautiful, healthy children...but I still feel like our family is not complete. My husband doesn't share this feeling...although I think most men tend to be more practical and less romantic about this subject. We've gone back and forth multiple times and each time he is on board, I'm not ready, and vice versa.  Right now I am looking forward to Hawaii...and that bathing suit...and I don't want to be pregnant in it. Which I know is totally selfish. But, it's the truth. So my goal was to wait. He sees our kids getting older (our daughter will be 7 this summer and our son will be 5 this fall) as a negative thing...that they'd be too far apart. I see it as an asset. They will both be in school for a good part of the day...I'll have time with the baby and really, I'm the one who will have to deal with it anyways right? I want to understand and respect his point of view...I do...but I also want him to understand mine. It's such an important part of who I am. I am a mom. I always wanted a big family. But I hate whining because I am so very blessed to have the two that I have. The other reality of the situation is that I am 32. I am not old by any means, but women do have a time limit on safe pregnancies...and I have already had one high risk pregnancy.  This is a big prayer request for me right now.  I know God is in control of this situation and my heart will be calmed and changed in the manner He sees fit. Hopefully He sees fit to change my husbands heart ... :)

  So that's what's happening in my little world today. Off to go work off the rest of my Sunday. :)  

Swimsuits and sunshine...

So what did I say about blogging? I am seriously horrid at this.  Really. I would make it a resolution but, well I'm terrible at those too so I'll just keep plugging along at my tempo. :)  We're planning a trip to Hawaii for our 10th anniversary this Spring.  We bought a groupon with our friends last year and are kindof at the mercy of the resort people as to if there will be a resort available in the great island state when we want to go..as we can only book 60 days in advance.  So...we're toning up and working our bodies to beach perfection in anticipation of this adventure.  I myself have never walked on a beach in a bathing suit without something over the top of it. (except for the time I maybe mentioned in my first blog).  So...I am kind of excited to do it. I will have to find the perfect bathing suit, but darn it anyways if I haven't worked hard for this body I am going to show it off! This is a huge step for me as I am self conscious to the core. I still see the chubby girl in the mirror even though she is long gone. It will be a long time before that is gone, if ever, but I do feel like I am getting better about that. I'm not going to go on national tv and sport the bathing suit I am pretty sure Kirstie Allie did all the revealing necessary for an entire generation...but maybe I'll be photographed in it. Maybe. :)