A FreSH StaRT!

Well its been a while...

I have had a hard time figuring out what to write about. Since my grammar practically sucks I just kinda write whatever is on my heart. Today I wanted to explain why I changed the name of my blog. My previous blog was a blog about our journey to becoming parents. To me becoming a mother. Through my fertility struggle , cancer , hysterectomy and life in general. It was positive some and then there were some that to this day make me tear up. I was talking to my sweet friend Lesley and she mentioned that I needed a new name for my blog. A fresh name. Since things in my life have gotten a fresh start. I did not think about it much but the more I read my blog the more I realized it was true. I needed something fresh. Up beat and well like me ...NEW!

The past two years I have devoted lots of time to myself, personal life, our home, marriage and life in general. I have became a better person inside and out. After my hysterectomy I had to make some life changing decisions. For my mental and physical well being. I had to make changes in order to better myself and the life that God has given me. We all know that I started working on my health . Eating better, exercising more, and becoming a better me. Neal and I both started fresh. A new start. No turning our backs we hit the road and hit it hard.

Throughout the past year we have jumped over some hurdles. Which if you are human that's going to happen. Last April we had finally found a home that we wanted to call our forever home and we LOVED it. Little did we know the people that owned it had other plans in mind. We only lived there 6 months before they asked us to move out because they were foreclosing on their home. Which lead us to finding our home now. We LOVE this home. Funny thing is its 6 houses up from the other one and practically throwing distance to where Neal's business is. So of course God worked it all out and we have made that house a home. We are slowly making it into the home we want to be in for a while. I am not sure if it will be forever, but for right now its ours.

Still through all that we still continued on our way to healthier us! So that leads to my new fresh start for my blog. So my friend Jessica started Beach body a while back and you know me I am all about health and making good choices but I love to eat! I was like yeah I am not going to be drinking a shake as one of my meals and killing myself with home workouts. blah blah blah... She then decided to be a Beach Body Coach. Which is a fabulous program now that I am in it I know that. So I went to her house for a taste testing of this "shake" called shakeology. I didn't want to replace my food. I was so concerned with that. However we did taste testings and watched a few videos about the workouts and the shakeology. I was skeptical. I really was. I have tried other products and well... this stuff was the BOMB!! I prayed about it for a few days before making the choice to become a Beach Body Coach. The good thing about this product is the creators of shakeology are also the creators or many different workouts such as, hip hop abs, insanity, p90x etc... you just incorporate shakeology in your daily life as well as one of the programs or several if you want. Neal and I decided to do the Insanity with Shaun T... he is AMAZING!!!

It took about a week to receive my beach body coach kit along with my shakeology. Neal and I couldn't wait to start insanity! We were pumped!!! I tried ordering twice from amazon and always ended up getting my money back cause I never got them. It was something that I have wanted to do and like Shaun T says... people that usually want to end up figuring a way to. Well we got it and started our 60 day challenge . The first day was the fit test. Ummmm lets just say no matter how much weight I had lost or how many times we worked out at the gym. Nothing could prepare you for this. The fit test were 8 different exercises for a certain length of time. You had to count how many you could do and push through. Well we pretty much sucked. However by the end of the fit test we were dripping sweat and exhausted. We knew right then we had a ton of work to do. The next day we were kinda sore. We were mentally preparing our self for what Shaun T had in store for us for day 2. Well just put it this way I couldn't even get off the couch that night . I had to literally roll off the couch. We pushed through the first week. And now we are almost done with week 2. I have to say I am so proud of us. I can actually move today without grunting which is huge. Its gonna take time but the biggest thing is to push through. Focus and remember form. Form over speed. I like to be like speedy Gonzales and keep up. The fact of the matter is that I cant. I may not ever be able to keep up with the people on the screen but I am doing it. Neal and I are pushing each other and cheering each other on. That's what counts right? Neal is actually going to the gym in the morning with Jerry then doing insanity with me at night. He just might be a tad more insane than I am.

All in all we are getting stronger and I can tell. Its not only the Shakes which are fabulous. We are having to watch what we put in our mouths. My calorie intake is so much more than I am used to however my workouts are way more intense than you can imagine. It really is 60% eating and 40% workouts. I am so looking forward to results and healthier us! We have vacations, weddings, parties etc coming up but with both of us are focused on our results and how far we have came we can do this. I am so excited! Probably as excited about this as I am finishing it. However we are enjoying day by day.

Sorry about my grammar and my spelling . I was not an English major... just remember :) Until next time

~ Liz

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