THE SPARTAN RACE!!!!!!

As most of you know, I signed up for the Arizona Spartan Sprint in July when I first started this blog - as a training goal of mine!!!

Let me just say, I am so GLAD I did!!

Boyfriend and I after the Race, Muddy and FREEZING!

The Race was Challenging yet FUN and I am so proud of myself for finishing!

The Race was held in the McDowell Mountains.... ROUGH for Running! We were constantly running up and down hills!

The Run was a total of 4 miles long with crazy obstacles along the way!

For each obstacle you couldn't do, you had to do 30 burpees...

I am proud to say I did ZERO burpees! :)

This was the rope climb..the HARDEST event for me in the race!!!

It was 20 feet tall, and the bottom of the rope was submerged in water - I started waist high in freezing cold water!

The rope was soaked and I was absolutely terrified the whole climb!
Literally- I was shaking like a leaf and halfway up I almost came back down.

Lucky for me, Boyfriend was at the bottom of the rope cheering me on and gave me the courage I needed to reach the top of the rope!!!

It took me an hour and a half to finish overall, but I am SO proud of myself for finishing the race!

Back in July when I first started this journey, I couldn't even run 1 mile without stopping. 

Now I do Crossfit, I can Run, and I am almost back to being in the best shape of my life :)

Today I weighed in at 140 lbs, making my total weight-loss 17 pounds!

No crash diet, no crazy secrets. 

Exercise, Healthy Food and allot of dedication and motivation!!!!

Last but not least, thank you SO MUCH for following my blog the past 7 months and encouraging me!!!

Without you guys, I probably wouldn't have lasted two weeks!

I can't wait to see what the future holds!

Where Have I Been?

What a CRAZY week!

Now that I am officially moved, I cannot believe how much my life has changed!

It is so weird living 15-20 minutes away from EVERYTHING!

At my old house I lived a MAX of five minutes from friends, food & the gym. 

This week I did not blog due to lack of adjustment and poor planning!

Somehow, that twenty minute drive back to my house every night has made it ridiculously hard for me to blog. 

I know, I know I sound like a complainer - but it's true!

This week I am hoping to plan better and get home at an earlier time each night so I am able to stick to my blogging goals!

What I ate this Week:

 

I managed to eat pretty healthy, but I DID eat allot of meals out - due to the poor planning I previously posted about!

The good news is today I am going to get my butt to the grocery store and meal prep for the week :)

My Valentines Day:

 Can you say yuck? For breakfast I had a cinnamon roll and for lunch I had a cupcake. Thank GOODNES  boyfriend took me out to my favorite Healthy Greek Restaurant for dinner!!!

My Valentines Flowers:

Boyfriend made me Bacon Flowers for Valentines Day :) I absolutely LOVED them!!!!

Paleo Flowers... YES!

These were great to have for breakfast for the days following Valentines Day and helped me get on track after the V-day cupcake & cinnamon roll :)

Coming Soon: My Spartan Race Review!!!!

Hope ya'll had a great week!

Yesterday was Cheat Day... Already!

I can't believe there is only one more day until my Spartan Race!!!

I am SO EXITED!!!

Also, I am a little bummed with myself, because I give myself one big "cheat" for the week and I ate it YESTERDAY!

Milkshake from Iceburgs

I usually wait until Friday or Saturday so I have something to look forward to....

So now it feels weird to have no yummy desserts in my near future?

I am such a fat girl at heart. Which is why I have to keep my photo diet!

But also... I ate a cookie today. 

I guess you could say I have been struggling with my diet lately!

During my move I ate like CRAP and now it seems like I am constantly craving that crappy food.. and COFFEE!

I have officially been coffee free for a whole month and my mornings still seem so BIZARRE without it!

Photo Diet from Wed & Thurs:

I wasn't able to photograph every meal, but I ate pretty clean for the most part!!!

Also yesterday I squatted for my 1 rep max and reached 135lbs! I was soooo happy!!!

Rest Day & Photo Diet!

Boyfriend was sick with the Flu all last night & today, so I skipped my workout to go keep him company as he was recovering and take him a little care package!!!

Dark chocolate, one of his favorite movies The Wedding Singer & some zzz-quil which I think is absolute GENIUS! He seriously slept all day on this stuff!

Him snuggling with his dog, isn't it amazing how dogs can detect how we are feeling?! Just another reason to LOVE them to pieces!

Photo Diet:

Breakfast: Omelette. sliced avocado & raspberries!

 Snack: Banana

 Lunch: Chicken & Green Beans

 Snack: Frozen Yogurt! Probably allot of sugar hidden in this even though it's advertised as "healthy"...It was worth it!

Dinner: Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato & Avocado Sand which on Whole Grain Bread & Baked Sweet Potato Fries!

Tomorrow the workout looks REALLY awesome so I have to convince myself to get my butt in the gym even if Boyfriend still isn't feeling well!!!

Also, tomorrow I FINALLY get my bed!!! YAY no more mattress on the ground! (as you can see from the back of my banana picture)

ALSO, I bought a scale today, and it's NOT digital!

At target, all the digital scales were $20 + and the non-digital scale was only nine bucks!!!

So far it said I weighed 145, which would be about right if I weighed in after eating & drinking this morning and afternoon!

I will have to do a weigh in this Feb :)

Last but not least, my SPARTAN RACE is this Saturday!! Can you believe it!!!???

 Back in July when I signed up it seemed SO FAR AWAY!!!

I am beyond excited!!!

Workout, Food & Scenes From the Weekend!

Moving... Moving is NOT FUN!

My Family began our move on Thursday and we are STILL not done!!

 The "moving" look... Un-showered and lookin like crap!

In the midst of packing!

The view of my new room on Friday. YIKES

Needles to say, I am  little more moved in now. Once I get my bed on Wednesday I will share pics of the new room/house! 

Also, Boyfriend did a Crossfit Competition this weekend and did awesome!!

It's always so fun to watch him compete and see how much stronger he's gotten & how much he's grown as a Crossfitter! He inspires me to push harder in the gym and everything that I do!

Workout 2/4/13

This was a fun wod. 

It felt REALLY great to get back into the swing of things considering I only worked out 3 times last week - and ate like CRAP since Thursday... Especially at the Super Bowl party I went to!

Food:

Today I was on an unplanned fruit & veggie cleanse for most of my day (besides some peanut butter) because we had packed everything AND all our food.. But left our pots and pans at our old house!!! AHH!

It was so frustrating to see the food I wanted to eat and have no way to cook it!

 Breakfast: Milk, Banana, & turkey 

Lunch: avocado, banana & peanut butter

Snack: apple & peanut butter!

Dinner: Beef & Broccoli with carrots & water chestnuts

I am however, happy that I was able to eat healthy today!!!

Hooray for health!!!!

What made you happy about your day?!