Things Are Going To Change

Not on my blog, necessarily, but in my life. I've made a promise to myself to get in shape and be healthy. No more excuses.
I'll make a very long story short - the last 2 years have been craptastic as far as my health is concerned. Depression, thyroid issues, injuries . . . all have done their part to keep me out of the gym. Couple that with laziness and, well, you get the idea.
However, I have my motivation back. My desire. My will to lose the weight and be healthy once again. And I will succeed.
How? By eating healthy. By making small changes. By getting my ass back in the gym.

. . . . . . and by beating my hubby in a weight loss competition.

Yep. My hubby and I are having a weight loss competition. It started yesterday and will run 8 weeks. The one who loses the highest percentage of weight loss, wins. And it's not a true competition without prizes!
My prize, if I win, is to do an all night ghost hunting tour (yes, I'm a Ghost Hunters junkie). And I WILL win.
So I will keep you, faithful readers, updated on my progress. I have before pictures and measurements, which I plan on sharing with the after ones.
My starting weight, my weight taken at the gym this morning, is 162.5. I don't have a target weight I'm trying to reach. Before I was pregnant with my son, I weighed 143 and it was a perfect, healthy weight for my size. Somewhere around there would be lovely. But I'm more interested in how I feel and how I look.
I'll update at least once a week. Some weeks maybe more often, who knows.
Wish me luck, though I know I won't need it. :)

Challenge time!

We all know I'm on the fab Etsy Owls Team. Well, we have our May challenge up and running right now!!!

The challenge was Cinco de Mayo! Yay! Only 3 of us got entries made as it was short notice.


From Zemphira:

From anadiazarte:
And my entry is my chihuahua which you can see here.

You wanna vote? Sure you do! Head on over the the Owls blog and cast your vote!

Yeah. I crammed 6 feet of gum in my mouth.

Seriously.

Okay. So I was challenged by fellow Owls team member Tattie Tats. Challenged to do what, you ask? Um, see how much Bubble Tape bubble gum I can chew at one time.

Now, Miss Tattie has a nice little video of herself chewing the gum on her blog. Yeah . . . .I don't. Mainly because I'm too lazy to videotape myself and upload it and whatnot. I also don't know how. Tattie managed to chew 8 freaking feet of bubble tape gum. Holy shitballs why?!?!

I was optomistic. I bought 2 rolls. 2 rolls = 12 feet of gum.

That's 6 feet of gum yo!

I'm gonna get my chew on!

Almost got a full 6 feet in there!

Check out that cheek pooch!

I have a full 6 feet of gum in my mouth. WTF? Now, I probably could have crammed another foot or two of gum in. But, the thing is, I HATE CHEWING GUM!!! Like, the act of chewing gum makes me angry. I'm good for about 2 minutes, but then the fact that I have to keep chewing pisses me off.

Don't judge me.

So I had to spit it out.

Yuck.

But I tried. Jeremy thought I was dumb to take up the challenge and then post it on my blog. But I did this for science. The world is a better place since we know I can fit 6 feet of gum in my mouth.

Your welcome.

And here's the chewed wad. It looks kinda like a testicle.

And now I will "tag" 2 fellow bloggers to take up the challenge! Yeah!

1. Laura from MABJewelry

2. Amber from What the french, toast?

Go get your chew on!