I wanted to find an app on my phone for counting calories and for searching up food with the calories in them. I ran into My Fitness Pal, it was free and it had good ratings. I gave it a try, and I really like it!
You enter your goal weight and many lbs you want to lose in a week, i put 2. and u put in ur present weight and it will calculate your calorie intake per day.

You can also log the food you ate and keep track of your calories that way. you can also input your workouts and how many calories you've lost! it's so very useful! you can also sign up online for it!
www.myfitnesspal.com.

a quote that i really liked from the website is
"If you want it you'll find a way; If you don't you'll find an excuse"


Today was my 3rd day of insanity round 2. I did pure cardio today instead of core cardio and balance.
i felt really good today. I came home from school feeling all tired, and wanted to take a nap. But i resisted temptation and I worked out and now i feel better and awake!


I also made myself a meal today. I made whole wheat penne pasta with ground turkey with seasoning and some baked asparagus.

Trying to make better habits!

I haven't got around to updating this blog. i've always been updating my other blogs, but that minimized since i started my first semester of nursing school. To be honest, I haven't been exercising as much as I did, which I really really missed because I was getting somewhere with my goal weight. But I'm not gaining all that much weight either. i'm trying to control what I eat and all that since i'm not working out as much. I'm going to try to fit in workouts here and there so I can look even better during the summer and especially for my 21st birthday! lol!

Since i felt so unactive and haven't worked out in a while, i did Insanity Pure Cardio! and Oh boy, that is not something you would do right off the bat after being away from exercise. I mean If i did plyo cardio circuit, then i think I can handle it since there are breaks. But pure cardio had no breaks, and I started to get light headed almost at the end. But overall it was a good workout and i felt so good and energized to start my day!

I also want to tell you all about my cross training shoes that I got last May which I love and are comfy for me. I think they are called the Nike Zoom. And I also wanted to show you all a picture of the insanity shirt I worked for, for sending in my before and after pictures and measurements!! What an accomplishment!

Oh yea, sometime this year, a group of my cousins and I are going to run a 13.2 mile marathon for the leukemia and lymphoma society in honor of my brother who passed away from leukemia. I really need to start training because I've never ran more than 2 miles. lol! and 13 miles? oh boye.. i'm motivated tho.
Does anyone recommend any good running shoes by the way?


Here's me after my workout today






I got this shirt back in July, but i never really got to flaunt it. lol! proud of my accomplishments!

It's been so long since I've exercised. I've been holding off on it because of school, but I really want to get back into working out again. I need to lose another 10lbs to get to my goal weight. maybe 12lbs because I actually gained 2lbs.. :/ and of course I need to be aware of what I eat now.
I did Insanity Plyometric Cardio Circuit. I was surprised that I can still keep up with the warms ups. I thought I would struggle a bit like the first time I ever did insanity, but luckily I still got it in me! The horrible part though was the pushups.. man I really hate pushups!! LOL!! overall, the workout wasn't as bad or as hard as I thought it would be. I thought I'd be having a really hard time keeping up. There were times where it felt like my heart was about to jump out of my chest tho. LOL I'll work on my endurance again!!

I forgot how good of a high I get from exercising. It's like it boosts up my self-esteem and gets me more pumped up for the day! It feels really good.. Getting up to exercise is just darn hardest part!!

me a few mins after the work out.






Got this water jug at walmart for $2.00. drinking that much is your daily serving of water. I needed this to keep me on track with drinking my water, because i'm horrible at it! good thing is that there is no BPA.



While I was exercising, my little cousin Karley came over with her dad and she came upstairs to see what I was doing.









After the workout, I made myself a green berry shakeology with froze peaches,, orange strawberry pineapple juice, a lil bit of water and ice and the greenberry powder. Haven't had a shakeology in a while, I should have it more often. i like mines blended with ice, but at my apartment, we dont have an instant ice maker.. but I guess i can just mix it with water. Drinking shakeology reminds me of the summer time! ahh I miss the summer!

Motivation.. It's getting really hard for me to actually workout every single day. When I was on the Insanity program I never missed a day!! That's why I got the results I got. Now i'm just wanting to eat everything and anything.. esp unhealthy things.. but I'm watching myself slowly gaining weight again.. I need to really focus and be determined again!! I want more results! What helps motivate me are pictures of myself when i was skinnier! LOL! Whenever I look at those pictures it makes me want to do 5000 situps and pushups and run like there's no tomorrow!!! Well ima go do Insanity Pure Cardio.. because this workout really gets my heart out of my chest and it doesnt feel long.. even though its 40 mins of "INTENSE" cardio! I know if I do this, it will all pay off in the end! NO MORE BEING LAZY!!!!

10 more LBS to go till my goal weight!! I want to be 115!! TONED!!!

in this pic i was 112.. this was back in summer of '08