Birthday month!

November is always a busy month in the Moore house. We celebrate both of our birthday's this month. I love having the same birthday month. My birthday is first on the 7th. Jeromy gave me very thoughtful gifts this year! First I got the biggest and most beautiful bouquet of flowers I've ever received!

Jeromy had to travel for work on my actual birthday so a couple of days before we got all dressed up and went to dinner at Perry's (YUM) and it's always nice when its free! Love gift cards! It was such a nice dinner.  There were rose petals on the table when we got there and they knew it was my birthday so I got free dessert. It was delightful!

On my actual birthday (Monday) I got up at 4:30 and went to boot camp..that's dedication! Lol I did go home and sleep til about 10 though! I went to lunch with a sweet friend of mine, Rachelle.  She totally made me feel special that day. We went to Salata and she had ballons and gifts and cake pops, I couldn't have asked for a better lunch date! I was so very appreciative of her that day.

Again, Jeromy gave such thoughtful gifts this year...what a sweetheart! Before Thanksgiving we were at the mall and had ventured into the Yankee Candle store. I've never had a Yankee Candle and now I know why people love them so much! We got two candles and turkey decorations for the mantle. So when my birthday rolled around, he gave me two Christmas smelling candles to add to my collection! We had also gone into the Hallmark store that day at the mall and I had seen a beautiful willow tree angel that I loved.  He was listening! He got it for me and here is the start of my collection!

Oh yeah! He also took me to Target (who doesn't love Target?!) and let me pick out a few things that I liked, I'm telling you, he did GOOD this year!

So enough about my birthday, lol, let's switch over to his! Jeromy's birthday is on the 16th.  A few months before his birthday I had seen a Groupon for an hour long Ferrari experience.  I bought it without really reading all the details (I learned my lesson!) and was so excited about him getting to drive a Ferrari, I knew he was going to freak out! So I realized you had to do this on a weekday sometime between 10am-3pm. Uh oh! He works (duh) so I didn't know what I was going to do.  Luckily I had some time to figure it out.  I tried to switch it to a weekend and pay more but the company said no. I know Jeromy's boss pretty well and figured my last resort was to email him and ask for Jeromy to have a half day off from work even though he had no more vacation days this year. Couldn't hurt to ask, right? His boss was so nice and said of course he could have off....whew! So on his actually birthday I gave him a model of what he would be driving and the groupon...he was so excited! I asked my sweet mother in law to come with us because she is fabulous at taking pictures and I certainly wanted the smile on his face documented! So we all went down to the Galleria the next Monday and here we are!

He was just SO excited and nervous at the same time! Don't wreck that $180,000 car baby!! Just check out the huge smile on his face!!!

And he's off! So while he was driving around town in that awesome car, Vicki and I walked over tothe Container Store to look around.  Man that place is awesome and big! It's a bit overwhelming but so many great ideas...anyways! Back the birthday guy....he had an awesome time!

I'm so glad he liked the gift and had a great time....we had wonderful birthdays and are so blessed!

End of October

I love the whole idea of blogging but then always forget to actually blog, ha! I love reading blogs and getting cute ideas from them and catching up on people.  The last time I blogged was over two months ago, oops! I love to blog with pictures and I take a lot with my phone. I am going to start doing an iPhone rewind...I saw it here on Katy Link's blog and it's a really cute idea on how to remember everything that went on each month by looking at the pictures from your phone.  I guess I'll go all the way back to the end of October where I left off and start there. This will be a short post because I already got most of October previously.

The end of October was a busy weekend! We celebrated the birth of our second niece on October 28 at 8:09pm. The whole family gathered to see. I've never gone to a hospital to see a baby born! Here is Madelyn Grace Horton shortly after birth.

Byron, Carlee, and Will were in town that weekend so we could celebrate Byron's birthday. The next day we celebrated with him, Happy Birthday Byron! Hope you enjoy that iTunes gift card!! We ate at Freebirds and had cookie cake (of course!)

Onto the next month!

Pumpkin Patch

I already posted all the picture on Facebook but it will be nice to look back at the blog one day and see my favorites here too. We got together with the fam and took some cute pictures at the Pumpkin Patch at Cypress United Methodist Church on Monday afternoon. Here are my favorite pictures:

Loving the fall-ish weather! Happy Fall everyone!

October in pictures

Fall is been busy busy already! I was looking at my calendar since I posted last on October 2 and there has been a lot going on. So I'm going to post about it all through pictures...everybody loves pictures right?!

So the first weekend in October we celebrated three important birthdays! My "school mom" Maribeth had her birthday Friday so we ate breakfast at the Egg and I (yum!), Saturday was my dear friend Megan's 30th birthday dinner at Pappasito's (double yum!!), and then we finished it off Sunday with my sweet mom's birthday at Saltgrass (wow a weekend of food!). I forgot to get a pic with Maribeth.

The next week I played my first game of Bunco! I won $10, lol. I played at my mom's best friend Carla's house. It was fun! Carla made chili and cornbread, salad, and desserts. I enjoyed hanging out with them!

Later that week, we celebrated Michelle's birthday and finished that weekend off with her baby shower for Madelyn! I've never helped throw a shower before, it turned out great!

That weekend one of my oldest best friends, Jessica and her husband Kyle moved into their first house! What an exciting time for them! I was honored to be their first house guest! Their new place is beautiful and I love it, so happy for them :) Here we are!

The next week I had my monthly date with one of my dearest friends from Hancock, Sydne. She is such a sweet friend and I miss her so! We had dinner together at Lupe Tortilla...I wish I had taken a picture! We meet once a month for dinner around the 20th but we were a little behind so we met earlier. Love dinner dates with her! We talked all about Dancing with the Stars and Pan Am!

Oh yeah! And I've gone back to boot camp this past week because its free now! Woo hoo! Still need to get around to cancelling that Y membership....Its hard to get up so early but now the nice thing is I don't have to rush home to get ready for work. I can actually go back to sleep!! We had new friends come this morning and that was exciting! I've only been back for a week now but already feeling so much better and stronger again.

Also this month I have been LOVING my Bible study at the MET on Wednesday mornings, just such a blessing...the people, the study, the teaching! LOVE IT ALL! Nothing compares to the closeness I'm feeling to Jesus right now though! I'm experiencing some new stuff and it just feels so amazing. Its definitely a delight now! 

We have been watching our nephew Colby on Tuesdays and Thursdays this month to help lighten the load on Michelle and Memaw :) Jeromy taught him to ride his bike without the training wheels and he learned so quickly! He got it in just two days of practice at the park and he is riding like a pro now! He is loving that new bike!

I had been excited all last week to go to my cousin's Homecoming game!  Taylor and Ethan are my younger cousins that live in Angleton, Texas. Taylor is on the drill team and she is a captain this year as a junior, yay! She looks so cute in her little white uniform. My aunt Mollie was sweet and made us little mums to wear with a picture of Taylor on it that I took at the last game.

Last night we had another small shower for Michelle at La Madeline with some ladies from our life group, sunday school class, bible study....whatever its called now!! It was a small group but sometimes thats nice because you really get to talk with people more! I love making new friends and learning more about people :) and the food was amazing!!

I have GOT to start taking more pictures! I love sharing these pictures. Will definitely be taking my camera with me more often! Hope you enjoyed my month of October. I will *try* to post more often so I don't have to cram everything into one post like I did today...and that is all!

CRUISE!

I realized I haven't blogged in over a month, oops! I was doing pretty well for awhile! That's ok, September has been a busy month.  Jeromy and I went on our first cruise together for 7 days on the Carnival Conquest. We stopped in Jamaica, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel. It was a great time together and we learned a few things along the way. 
1. We are 5 day cruisers...7 days on a boat was a long time, we missed home and were ready to be back!
2. A balcony room would be awesome next time. We had an inside room that was handicap and you'd think that would mean it was bigger but they threw an extra bed in there when the room is only made for one bed so we had absolutely no room to walk. We like to watch the water so we will be splurging for the balcony next time!
3. Bring your own Dr. Pepper! We had our own water but didn't think about the cokes, oops.
4. We needed a backpack to carry all our stuff in port. We had a bag but it got heavy to carry.
5. Self assist is the way to go...we had to wait so much longer to get off the boat which made the line really long. You live, you learn!

That was the top 5 things we learned. I was nervous about not knowing what to take or what to expect but now I know! Hope the next one is sooner rather than later!

Here are my favorite pictures from the trip (its so hard to pick just a few!!):

Target Deals

Today was my first day in 21 years not to go back to school....it was very strange.  Today feels like the start of a new "year" but now I'm like the rest of the world and that doesn't really apply.  I didn't have to work today so I just felt weird not really having a lot to do.  I did have plans to have lunch with an old friend and I did my weekly Target shopping.  It was just an odd day and an odd feeling today.  I sure did miss my Hancock friends and was praying for them today.  Looks like everyone had a great first day of school so I'm glad :)

I went to Target today armed with my coupons again.  I didn't get as much but still saved over 50% which ROCKS! I got a few things super cheap and some even free.  Here's my goodies from today:

I got two of these little first aid kits, one to go in each of our cars.  They were normally $1.09 each which is pretty cheap but after coupons, I got them for $.34 each! Yay!

I don't know why these are sideways but they were FREE! They were only $.97 and then I had a $1 off coupon for each so I actually made $.09 on them...you can't pass up free!

I wanted to add another picture of Clorox wipes that I got but it's upside down. I got a three pack of wipes for $1.05 each.  I love playing the grocery game! Stay tuned to see what I get next week!

ErinCondren.com

I've recently been introduced to a super cute website Erin Condren.com I found this website in a blog I've been reading a while, a girl I had a few classes with in college.  She has the cutest blog and such great ideas. Anyways, she recently blogged about the awesome Erin Condren life planner that is just out this summer.  These organizers are so cute because you can personalize them with your name and have the prettiest patterns and colors.  It's so funny how guys and gals are so different cuz guys wouldn't care about this at all but I saw it and immediately thought it was so cute and wanted one.  I showed it to Jeromy and asked him if I could have one for my birthday....which isn't for another three months, LOL. However, Katy is doing a back to school giveaway where she is going to give someone $50 in Erin Condren e-cards, which would pay for this awesome planner! So this is one of my ways to win by blogging about it! I sure I she picks me!!

This is the one I would get!!! It would say tristan & jeromy moore 2012....I like it in the multicolor. Hope you like it too!!!

Stealing is good!

I feel like I've stolen from Target today! Haha! I found this website Totally Target, it gives you all the best deals going on at Target right now. They match up the sale prices with coupons from the newspaper and Target online. I didn't even know Target HAD coupons that you could print from their website! The totally target website also shows you what has been reduced in price recently and which coupons to use to get the best price possible. I got home from work and spent maybe an hour looking at the sales and sorting through my coupons. They were already cut. I ended up saving $46 so I basically made $46/hr on looking through coupons. Like I said....I just found this website TODAY and went to buy all this stuff after looking through the blog and coupons for maybe an hour. This is what I got:

The original total was $91.48 before all the coupons. I used 21 coupons from Target's website and the newspaper. After 21 coupons, my total went down to $45.63! I saved $45.85 in coupons!! It was really strange, it felt like an adrenaline rush when the lady rang up the items and then I watched as the price was cut in half! I was so excited when I was cutting out my coupons. I think this is the best deal I got...

I found this deal in a blog on the Totally Target site. These four scrubbing bubbles items were originally $16.96. I had three coupons, two of which were buy one item get one free. So after 3 coupons, I paid $5.98 for all of this!! Here's a break down of how I did that:
Buy 2 Scrubbing Bubbles Toilet Cleaning Gel ($3.49 each) and also buy 1 Scrubbing Bubbles Fresh Brush Starter Kit ($6.49) & 1 Fresh Brush Refill ($3.49) =$16.96
- $1 coupon (from Target website) when you buy 2 Toilet Cleaning Gels

- $6.49, use B1G1: FREE SB Fresh Brush Product When you buy Toilet Cleaning Gel (newspaper coupon)

- $3.49, use B1G1: FREE SB Fresh Brush Product when you buy Toiley Cleaning Gel (newspaper coupon)

= $5.98 for all 4 products after coupons or $1.49 each

So I've learned that the trick to using all these coupons is that you have to get multiple newspapers in order for this work. You need about 2 or 3 of the same coupon sometimes. The great thing about Target is that they will let you use a Target coupon and a manufacturer's coupon from the paper on the same item. I actually used 2 manufacturer coupons on the Kleenex and they took it, so I had three coupons for one product. I've been buying the Sunday paper and then my parents have been nice enough to give me the coupons from their paper as well. I'm really enjoying saving all this money. It's not gonna make up for the income difference between this year and last year but every little bit helps! And it's so much fun seeing the total go down!!

Stay at home...wife?

The Lord has blessed me this year and allowed me to try something different. Teaching was an experience I needed and it definitely has room in my heart.....in the future! It started last year when Jeromy and I took Financial Peace University (FPU) at church. Great class to take! Especially when first married. That's where we met Kim and Chad. We didn't really get to know each other that well during the class but we thought they were very nice.

When New Years rolled around and it was time to make those resolutions, I often make one to be healthier. Not lose weight. But just get into better habits. I am actually proud to say that I stuck to that this year! Kim was going to a boot camp at church and I thought maybe I'd try it especially since there was someone I knew, kinda. I started boot camp at the Met on January 5, 2011. To this day still can't believe I did it for 5 months! That was amazing group of women ready to be there for you when you need accountability! But getting up at 4:30 on MWF and then working at school all day made for a sleepy Tristan. I felt so accomplished every time I went. I would HATE waking up that early but knew I'd be feeling so good by 6am. Anyways.....Kim and I got to be better friends and walking buddies. One morning I asked her if she had employees at her resale store...Retail Therapy. She said yes and I told her that I might be interested in working a summer job. Summer job turned into JOB. I'm loving it and am so blessed by the friendship I have with Kim. We are constantly laughing and making jokes with each other. And her daughter Megan is such a cutie and a cuddle bug. It's such a blessing to be able to listen to KSBJ all day long and have such variety at the store. There are times when I get to be social with customers and then there are times when I get to worship God through song by myself with no one around. I LOVE IT!

So I'm sort of feeling like a stay at home wife even though I do work 3-4 days a week, the hours are totally different than teaching. I don't go to work until 10 so I have the entire morning to get so much done. I've fallen into a nice schedule in the mornings. I wake up at 7 almost every day (when I stopped teaching I thought, Oh it will be so nice to sleep in every day! But I'm not drained all the time so I actually feel rested getting up at 7, its nice!) I actually get to have as much time in the morning for bible study and prayer and reading! It's great! I've been doing a great study by Kelly Minter this summer called No Other Gods (NOGS). I've also been reading lots of books which I have never been a big reader but can't seem to get enough reading lately. One of my favorites was Heaven is for Real, great book. So I read and eat breakfast and some days go to the gym. I'm at the YMCA now and going to lots of classes. I am more motivated by classes with other people keeping me accountable like boot camp. I love step and zumba! I've been mostly going to step lately in the mornings if I have to work. But now that school is about to start again, I need something more to do. I am going to start a new cleaning schedule. Ok ...let's rephrase, I'm going to START a cleaning schedule, not a new one, lol. I stole this from a friend's blog. She found a Home Organization Plan online, it's actually for moms but hey, I can do it too!

Here's the Home Organization Plan. There are daily duties (things that can be done everyday quickly), weekly duties (vacuuming, laundry, etc.), monthly chores(things that only need to be done once or twice a month), and then a decluttering project each month. If you click on the link to each month, it will show you everything all on one page. There is NO reason why my house can't stay clean now. I started it this morning. Wednesday's chores are laundry, cleaning windows, and wiping down door knobs and light switches. Today's monthly task is to clean out your car which I did last week so I can already check that off the list! I've already done some laundry too. But now I have to get ready for work....

I will be blogging a lot more now!

Whole30 Complete!

I was looking back at my first post before I started the Whole30 and evaluating how I did compared to how I thought I would do. All in all, I am very proud of myself. I never thought I could stick to something so strict. I didn't complete the month with no cheats but I did almost the entire month. The last week or so I've been really irritated with not being able to enjoy things with family or friends and so I've been having some things like bread these past few days. I wish I could say I finished the whole thing with no cheating but it's ok because I still got great results! I do feel better and I am absolutely thrilled that some of my clothes are literally falling off me now. I got some new shorts the other day and they are already too big. For some odd reason, the scale doesn't seem to want to move but I can certainly tell my body is changing because of my clothes. I lost 7.5 pounds this month on the whole30. I started bootcamp on January 5 and since then I have lost 20 pounds. YAY!! My plan is to stick to my whole30 foods when I'm at home cooking dinner. We try not to go out to eat during the week so that should help me stay on track during the week. I plan to let myself have things like bread and cheese on the weekends. I still refuse to eat any fast food except for the occasional Chickfila because I feel like they have the healthiest, cleanest food options there and its just so darn good!! Anyways, so the month of April is over, I never thought it would end, and I'm going to wear a new and smaller dress to church today to celebrate :) I'll blog on how I'm doing in May soon, thanks for reading my Whole30 experience!

Days 18-21

Well it's been awhile! Lots of things have been going on since I last blogged. I'm feeling kinda blah about this program right now. I had been doing so well and not having cravings but all the sudden I want cheese and bread. Not even the dessert that bad, just cheese and bread. I was hoping by the end of this I wouldn't want those things so bad but I do. I'm also feeling discouraged because I haven't lost any more weight since I weighed at the halfway point. Which is exactly why they say don't weigh the whole month so you aren't focused on the numbers. BUT some GOOD news is that my jeans were so big yesterday, I was able to take them off without even unbuttoning and today I wore my smaller size! YAY!!!! Also some more good things to think about are that I am getting compliments every day about how I look :) Today a coworker came into my room and told me I was looking FABULOUS! That always makes me feel deteremined to keep it up. Still doing boot camp on Wednesday and Friday mornings, still doing zumba on Monday nights and going to start doing zumba on Thursday nights too starting next week! Yay for exercise, lol. Man, getting healthy is SO hard for some!! I haven't really tried anything new this week. One more week to go, woo hoo! I can't wait!

Halfway!

Friday marked the halfway point, April 15! Jeromy and I went out to Jason's Deli for dinner that night and I got a huge salad. There was so much good stuff on it, it didn't even need dressing. I have cooked all week and was ready to go out! So, during this Whole30 program, you're not supposed to weigh yourself during the entire month but that's just so hard not to do because I want to see some results. The creators of the program don't want you focusing on the numbers, they want you to focus more on the health. Yeah whatever, so anyways, it was halfway and I needed to see some number. I weighed and have lost 6.5 lbs since April 1. That's pretty good, if I can keep that up then I'll lose around 12-13 for one month and I've never done that before so that would make me very happy! OH! I made burgers for the first time last night. Well Jeromy grilled them :) but I bought regular ground beef, I didn't buy the patties. I put all the seasonings in and ground it up and made it into patties myself. There were soooo good! I had it without the bun but I made guacamole to have with it and lettuce and tomato. There were delicious. I also cooked zucchini and squash in the oven (thanks for the tip, Amanda!) I drizzled it with olive oil, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Yum! I need to eat more vegetables, I'm eating a lot of fruit which has sugar. It's just soooo good though! I made a fruit salad last night for dessert. It had 7 different types of fruit...strawberries, bananas, blackberries, apples, kiwi, oranges, and grapes! It was so good, it tastes so sweet like I had put sugar on top of it. I'm having a good mindset change on some foods but I don't think I'll ever change my mind on ice cream, its so delicious! I might just have less ice cream and add fruit in it :) you know, once I can have it again. I haven't thought too much of how I'm going put some foods back into my diet once April is over. I think I might try to stick pretty strict to Whole30 eating during the week and then have some cheats on the weekends only. We'll see how that goes. I'm excited because I love zumba and my instructors added a Thursday night class so now I can do zumba on Monday and Thursday nights and boot camp on Wednesday and Friday mornings. I will have to get myself used to Thursday night and then Friday morning. That might be hard but at least it will be the weekend after that to rest. Well it's time to go to church, don't wanna be late :) We are on time people!

Days 9-13

I hate to start off on a negative note but I can't avoid it. I had to cheat last night on my diet. I guess I didn't have to but a friend invited us over for dinner and I could have told her that I was on a strict diet or had them come to our house but I didn't want it to be a big deal. I figured I would just eat what I could and skip the rest. Well the whole meal turned out to be all the things I couldn't eat. The meal was wonderful, she worked so hard and it was delicious but I tried to eat as little as possible. I had bread, pasta, cheese, dressing, croutons, etc. oh man. I could have gone to town but my mind is already changing after 13 days and I'm not really wanting to eat all that as much, thats the good news about it! I hate that at the end of my 30 days I won't be able to say I didn't have any cheats. But oh well. It's still working and I'm still going to continue to eat exactly how I was before last nights meal. I think I'm going to fast this morning and afternoon and just have water because my stomach is very upset with me. Plus I can use my lunch time to spend some extra time in the word. So I can't really remember much about the other days this week. I do know that it was very hard on day 10 because we went to the Astros game and there was just junk food galore around me. My head is still saying, "oooo look at those nachos they look soooo good" but my stomach sees those same nachos and is like "ughhhh gross" lol. It was hard seeing all that stuff, so made me want to cheat but I knew there was no way I was going to. I'm getting a little tired of cooking so much. Makes me just not want to eat some nights so I don't have to cook, haha. But anyways, still going strong after days 9-13, even after the set back. Looking forward to the weekend, what will I cook next?!

Days 4-8

I received some encouraging words yesterday about my blog (didn't even know any one was really reading it!) and I realized it was probably time to write another one! The first week has been going good. I haven't had any slip ups or really any desire to because I know what I'm working toward. Most of my days start off with eggs and some fruit. That keeps me full all the way until lunch. I normally take left overs for lunch from the night before or a couple of times this week I've even cooked a second time at night so I will have something to eat the next day, gotta be prepared! My new favorite meal is something I whipped up without even knowing what to do. When I tell you I don't know how or what to cook, I'm not lying here! I honestly haven't cooked much before except the few little things I know of but other than that, I'm pretty clueless. It is so nice to have someone doing this with you to ask questions and talk about this with. I love my Lea! I call her often to ask her how to do this or what should I make with that. So Monday night I needed to make something really quick before Zumba class. I got out some chicken and asparagus (YUM) and sauted it in a pan with olive oil. It turned out so so good! I threw in some spices (salt, pepper, and garlic powder, that's it!) and it was delicious. I liked it so much, I went to the grocery store after Zumba and got some mushrooms so I could try it again. I made it again that night and took it for lunch the next day with a spinach and strawberry salad. This diet has some good eats! It's time for this week's grocery store trip and I'm searching for more ideas on what to make. I kinda made the same stuff over and over this week so I wouldn't waste my groceries. I don't mind eating the same thing more than once in a week but I figure I should change it up each week so I don't get bored. I had a lot of fun this week just throwing stuff into a pan and figuring it out! I might try that again this week. The only down side to this week is I had to eat out a few times. Well I guess I didn't have to but I chose to and even though I stuck with what I'm supposed to eat, I still didn't feel like it was the best because I didn't cook it and have no idea what it was cooked in. So I guess I'll be doing a lot of cooking this month which is good because I'm starting to like it and get faster at it. Anyways, I guess I will update again later. Thanks for reading!

Days 1-3

Howdy! I started my Whole30 on Friday and have been feeling very successful so far! It's actually not been hard at all. I always thought having a strict diet would be too hard and I would feel deprived but I'm actually liking it because I know exactly what is good for me to eat and what is not so I only eat the good things. It's working out very well! I am so happy to not have to count points or calories or anything because I know the food I'm eating is GOOD for me. I have to make sure I don't eat more than I need though. That would kind of defeat the purpose because even though I am working to change eating habits and tastes, I do have a goal to lose weight during this month as well so I have to be mindful of how much good food I'm eating. I have been doing Weight Watchers on and off for the past three years so I'm used to weighing myself once a week. On the Whole30 program, their goal is more to change your food habits rather than lose weight so the creators of the program don't want you to weigh yourself at all during the whole month. That is actually going to be the hardest thing for me, not the food. I want to see some results!! A lot of people on the Whole30 blog post that they get really bad headaches from the withdrawl of certain foods but I haven't had any yet, gladly. I have had crazy dreams about eating dessert though, LOL. That is so embarassing to say but true. I haven't really craved it when I'm awake...clearly its on the brain though! Anyways, I went to the grocery store today with Lea (again she rocks because she is doing this with me) and found some awesome things in the healthy living section that I didn't know were there. My new favorite thing is almond butter (like peanut butter but with almonds) They have a machine that grinds dry roasted almonds for you and you just print the label and go! It's so awesome! And there's no sugar in it like all the peanut butter jars on the shelf. That's my favorite find of the week. I got all my groceries for the week including some all natural chicken and beef and organic eggs and my grocery bill was just the same as it normally is! I was very excited about that as well. I guess it's because I wasn't buying crackers and cookies and all the stuff in the middle of the store, mostly just on the outside of the aisles. All in all, a very successful start to my Whole30 experience so far! (That is so nice to say because most of the people's blogs I read are dying after a few days of no coke or sugar so I feel really blessed that I'm not experiencing that!)

Onto a new journey! Whole30

Well I had completely fogotten about this blog! I was thinking about blogging my next 30 days and I remembered I had already have a blog! I am very excited about this new journey... Like lots of women, I am not at the health level I would like to be. I am working really hard on that. I decided at the beginning of this year to really work at it and start making changes. I started a boot camp at church that is at 5 am every Monday, Wednesday, Friday (that was a big adjustment!) I've been going to boot camp for 3 months now. I am seeing some good results too! I'm doing things that I didn't think I would be able to do and can really see myself getting stronger. I decided to stop eating fast food (after watching some interesting documentaries) and have done pretty good at it, have had it a few times this year. But I still feel like I'm not getting the full results that I want. I still feel like I'm constantly craving food that isn't good for me even though I have a goal and purpose in mind that is very important to me and my future. I have seen some friends on facebook lately that have been eating a lot better and seeing great results. I feel like I eat pretty well but could bump it up a few notches. I heard about a program called Whole30 and decided I would check it out. It's INTENSE. and a full MONTH! Ok, so I've never been good at doing something strict which is why I did weight watchers, still eat what you want! Well, that hasn't really been working out for me so it's time to go for it. Basically I'm going to be eating healthy natural foods and nothing processed. I'm not gonna go all into what I CAN'T eat because that's just not the route I want to take. I am looking at it in a positive light. I will be starting this 30 day program tomorrow, April 1 and going all the way to the end of the month. Scary. It's more of a "change the way you think about food" rather than a weight loss program. I have been preparing my mind and body ahead of time so I can really stay on track... I started eating more natural foods this week and less sugar so I can get ready and just have that mindset in place when I start tomorrow. I don't want to totally shock my system! I am also currently reading a book given to me by one of my best friends Lea. She rocks my socks because she's actually going to do this program with me! Yay for support! She gave me a book she read called Made to Crave by Lysa TerKeurst from Proverbs 31 ministries. I've only read a few chapters so far but its a good read. It's about craving God more than we crave food. Which is hard for me to be vulnerable and admit to but its true. So I am writing this blog because I need the accountability of other people knowing that I'll be doing this. I work best with accountability. So if you see me in April, ask me how its going! LOL. I don't know how often I'll blog about it, maybe every day, maybe once a week but I want to track how it goes. Thank you in advance for the support! :)