World of Weightcraft

     So I have been toying with the idea of writing this because the holidays are supposed to be about being happy and being with family. I am very happy in general. I enjoy being with my family, correction, I love being with my family. My family and I are very close but lately as we get older and I watch my little cousins grow I feel a sense of loss, almost an emptiness. At the beginning of the year Ron and I had decided to not pursue children in this time of our lives however getting into the holiday season I feel that urge. I feel the need to be around children. I love children, I love helping them, teaching them, and watching them grow into amazing human beings. I have been lucky to be a part of my “nephews'” lives and they are growing into amazing men. Their mother is like a sister to me even though we're cousins. I feel pride in their accomplishments as if they were my own kids because that's how much I love them. Ron and I love spending time with those kids but th...

Ron and I as you guys know have been doing the South Beach diet and it has been very successful. We still have a long way to go but I’m proud of the progress we’ve made. We started a workout regime to help tone up muscle as well as lose weight so that our skin isn’t so loose once we lose all the weight. We actually just started the next level yesterday. I use free weights as part of my workout because I feel like I get a better workout using them instead of the machine on certain exercises. I have one problem though, I don’t appreciate the looks I get from the bigger dudes while I’m over there and I certainly don’t appreciate when people stand right in front of me in the mirror and block it so I can’t tell how my form is. Let’s be respectful to everyone in the gym guys because we all start somewhere and to treat others like this just shows that your muscles are going to your head. I’ve been doing it long enough I know my form is good but it was just frustrating, again respect is ...

I actually woke up at 6:30 this morning go me! This is a feat in itself for this gal, I am not a morning person but I was definitely rewarded with my early morning rise. I took the opportunity today to go hiking because it has become a fast love for me. I go out into the woods and just walk with a pack on my back. The sound of the woods and my feet hitting the ground are the most natural sounds in the world, all worries and stresses are pushed aside and I just walk. Up a hill, up a mountain, down the hill and down the mountain I just go on and on. I wish I could do more than just a few hours I really love this workout. I’ve lost a total of 5 inches in the last month, 3 from my waist and 2 from my hips. I’m quite excited about this new adventure and this new body that’s forming. I’m not nearly ready for longer than a few hours of a hike which is about 2 miles or so but that’s ok I will get there. At some point I’d like to start doing weekend hikes. I’m actually working my way to t...

I think I’m going to have two blog posts today just because each thing I want to talk about are totally different from each other and I don’t want the post to be excessively long so the first post will be about my diagnosis of PCOS. I felt alone, I felt like less of a woman and I went into a depression that took awhile for me to get out of. This post is serious but I hope that if there are those of you out there feeling the same way you can get some good information from my experience. As I stated previously I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). It has taken me quite some time to really understand and get through this diagnosis because some part of me always said I had it but I never wanted the doctor to tell me. PCOS is still a fairly new diagnosis as far as disorders go but it is a very common one. 1 in 8 women have PCOS. Basically what happens is that your ovaries produce too much testosterone therefore they don’t ovulate or let go of the egg. This leads...

It has been a long time since I’ve sat down and written a poem and today I did. I had no other way of expressing my feelings so I sat down and wrote. My poem is about questioning God and how His time is so different from my time. I have not lost my faith but I am upset and like any child who gets upset with their parent I needed to vent and my outlet was through poetry. The poem goes through my emotions of finding out my news, then questioning why is nothing being done about all of the awful things and blaming Him claiming that He doesn’t care about anything including me and then remembering what He has sacrificed for me but still simply trying to understand. Today I found out that I have PCOS which means it will take Ron and I an even longer time to get pregnant so you can see why I question His timing. I am still not ready to go into detail about all the medical stuff because there is so much we still have to do but I really feel led to put this poem out there, I do hope you enj...

Hi all! Ashley and I were working out today and she observed that our blog focuses mostly on food and recipes.  She thought we should also be putting up our exercise routines as the best way to lose weight and get healthy is to both watch your food intake and get regular exercise. Here is the first of my three workouts - its my upper body workout.  I am not a trainer or certified personal fitness instructor.  This is just merely what I do after having read a lot of books on the subject. It is important to not workout this routine everyday, as your muscles need proper time to recover.  I use this routine twice a week with at least one day in between them, usually two days.  On other days I either do my lower body workout, or have a cardio day - I will post these workouts later. I use a method that incorporates a "push" then "pull" routine, working from the larger muscle groups to the smaller ones.  Apparently the alternating push - pull method incorp...

     Good evening all! I hope you all had a wonderful week. Well, this time last week I was enjoying some Butterbeer at Harry Potter world! Ah, the best drink ever. Too bad it is something that I can’t have every day. Our Universal vacation was awesome to say the least. We really needed it. There was plenty of walking and plenty of eating and it was glorious. I only gained 2.8 pounds on the trip which was mostly bloating because I had so many different foods that I don’t normally have. On the way home I felt as if I’d gained more so I was happily surprised when I looked on the scale Monday. I will step up again Sunday which is our regular weigh in date.       Some of the rides I couldn’t fit in which makes me sad and makes me feel fat but that’s just a goal because we will most definitely be back. Universal has done such a great job and I hope that they continue adding more and making it bigger because it really felt like we were in Diagon Alley a...

   Well, it is official I have hit the 20 pound mark! That’s right I have lost 20 pounds since we started last Thanksgiving. I’m very happy and quite satisfied right now. I know that we’ve had our ups and downs throughout our years but I feel really good right now about this one. I just went back and read some of my first blogs and its rough. I have to be honest and real with my readers we’ve been on several different diets throughout this journey and I do not apologize for it because that’s how everyone is. Like I said in the last entry, you have to find out what works for you and sometimes that will take you awhile. I have noticed that my blog is a direct reflection of my weight loss journey and I’ve found that I tend to blog more when I’m being successful because I feel guilty when I fail. I think its safe to say most people feel guilty when they gain it all back or they didn’t quite make the weigh in. I know I’ve said I just want to be healthy but stepping on the scale an...

     So its the start of a new year and yesterday was Valentine’s day. As most of you know I don’t particularly like Valentine’s day but Ron does. Its hard being married to a hopeless romantic, sometimes the cheesiest things happen. I do like that he enjoys doing silly things for me though and the nice thing is he does them on other days besides Valentine’s day. I am not going to make this blog about my rant on a day dedicated to “love” let’s just say that I am of the opinion that if you feel obligated to do something on this day of “love” then you’re doing it wrong. There should NEVER be an obligation to express love in some format whether it be on a day like Valentine’s day or any other day you should WANT to express your love for one another and if you don’t want to then you’re with the wrong person.      Ron and I started the South Beach diet last year right before Thanksgiving, I know the worst time to start a diet right? Well its worked so far be...