Goals for 2013

I think sometimes you need to wait to set your goals for the New Year. And I think on the 28th day into January I might have figured it out. I want to be HEALTHIER and with that comes mini goals. I have set a section aside in my calendar to put the healthy goals for that month. January I choose to take my PCOS medicine every day (something I was lacking on before) February I have chosen to workout twice a week and no soda for 28 days as well as make sure I up my dosage to 1500mg of my medicine (which I should be at any ways). 

The way I have started to become accountable for my plan is every day I put dots on how much I have taken of my medicine. For instance I should have 2-3 dots per day meaning I have taken my medicine twice to 3 times that day. Sadly some days I only have one dot. But one is better than NONE. For the workout I plan on crossing out the day in a fun color so I know what days I exercised on. I know it might sound silly but anything to help me see the BIG picture which is LOSING weight!! By the end of the year my poor calendar will have so many dots, colored out boxes and numbers on it!! But I hope with all of it it will help me to reach my goal of being a TINIER version of myself and a HEALTHIER person as well. 

I do have some great reasons for the goal, my brother is getting married in the fall as well as 2 of my dearest friends. One of friends has asked me to a bridesmaid for her wedding in 2014 (thank God I have a year for that one) my timeline to have a baby is getting closer and closer. And hopefully one day I'll be a bride again and I would love to a skinnier bride that I was the first time.

I hope all my mini goals are the trick to making this last LONG term and making me a HEALTHIER me!!! WISH ME LUCK!!

PCOS vs. ME

Well I should say that PCOS ( Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome) is TOTALLY kicking my butt. I feel as much as I try to kick it in the butt its still winning. I was diagnosed with PCOS back in 2006 officially but it wasn't until October of last year that I truly decided to get a handle on it and all the set backs that come with it. Back in 2006 I tried to get a handle on it then but I guess I couldn't handle it or really want to cause I never followed through with the medicine. But now I'm trying to tackle this issue of mine. 

What is PCOS you ask?? Well after doctor's explaining and doing my homework via the internet it's boils down to the fact that my ovaries and the hormones they are supposed to make don't really talk to my brain very well. And apart of that is why I have extra weight only in my middle section because it also effects your hormone balance and mine is slightly off. With PCOS I have WAY more challenges that I want to have from weight gain, infertility, extra facial (hate to admit that but I do) and CRAPPY medicine. From what I gather this affects more women than I thought but at the same time no one ever wants this to happen to them. 

I am so happy to say that I am starting to get on track but I feel like every time my medicine (Metformin) doesn't agree with me I feel like giving up. But I don't cause I'm hoping this will all pay off one day. I just wish it would happen sooner rather than later. I hate that I don't know what food will agree or not agree with my medicine and tummy. And those how have lost weight on this drug I HATE you cause I haven't lost anything. I just want a magic wand to fix this but nope its not working. 

What really made me decided to get healthy and try to kick PCOS in the butt is the fact that I'm getting any younger and one day I would like to have a kid of my own. But I know in order for that to happen I have to jump through so many hoops and it SUCKS. I gave myself a goal of trying to have a kid or be pregnant by 35. Don't tell your doctor that cause they have horrible facts on women and fertility. (BUZZ KILL) The boy knows all about my plans and he didn't run away when I first started all this mess of trying to get healthy of one day trying to have a kid. (Secretly I am so HAPPY he has a son already cause I feel like the pressure is off of me) I just wish I had more answers than questions to my stupid issues and I know everyone is different but I just want it fixed like a broken bone or stitches. 

Wish me luck on this journey and hopefully I'll start to kick PCOS in the butt.

Dear Pinterest

Dearest Pinterest, 

I love you and I love pinning away but do people really have all this time to do have the things on there. All of the baby ideas are great but does any mom out there really have time to make the books or be that put together.

 Next do all family pictures turn out that good?? Cause where are the ones that go wrong, which I feel like is so many of the ones we all had growing up. And EVERY baby is smiling and not cranky in the pictures. If only real life could be so magically!! 

Weddings on Pinterest is like a scrapbook and a DIY friend yet at the same time I bet it is a budget buster at the same time. I feel sorry for all the future brides trying to cram EVERYTHING they have pinned on Pinterest into their wedding and for the groom who has to live up the pictures.
 NOTE TO FUTURE GROOMS: please get a pinterest account that way you know what you are up against!! 

I know I am pinning all the time and there is no babies or wedding insight for me any time soon. So thank you Pinterest for  allowing me to play house without really doing it. I won't stop pinning but I thought I would share that you are the bubble buster to a bunch of us ladies who don't have the picture perfect proposal, baby picture or over the top wedding. 

Sincerely, 

Your Favorite Pinner

Texas to English

Here is the best thing I could find to help others speak Texan. Yes, we have our own language in this state.

Stock Show Fun

It is stock show season around Texas and that means lots of fun for little ones and the adults too!! I created this photo scavenger hunt for some kiddos I am going to the Fort Worth Stock Show with. But I totally think we can use this for other stock shows as well. I can't wait to see the pictures the kiddos come up with. I might even have to participate in the fun with them. If you would like a hard copy let me know I would love to send you the PDF or Word version of this.

New Year, New Adventures

As 2013 begins so does the adventures!!! Already have 3 weddings in my calendar 2 babies brewing amongst my friends. Countless wedding engagements have been proposed and it's only January.  January means Stock Show Season in Texas!! As we all know that is my favorite time of the year and poor Mark will have to learn to love them like I do. Cause if I had any say in it we would go to them all but for now we can stick to the Fort Worth Stock Show. (I'm gonna brag here and say I LOVE how Mark will go with me on my adventures even if it's not his thing totally he is willing to go for me)

At work we have also started a new healthy program called Step up to Scale down it isn't a exercise program but a healthy lifestyle program. I am excited to see how much more inches I can loose and drop the weight. Since I do have a wedding season this fall. So I am focused and ready for this.

Wedding season is usually in the spring or summer but for 2013 I think it will be the fall with 3 weddings on the books and all in CA it will be a busy and sadly expensive time. So being the smart girl that I am I have already been looking for a second job to support my plane tickets and wedding expenses. Also the second job will allow me to have extra money to either save up for my own house or for maybe my own wedding one day. Funny little fact everyone talks about Mark and I getting married and having babies but us. I don't think we are opposed to it but being we both have been married before we are little more cautious about it. But then again you never know about Mark he could surprise me one day and I SO would never see it coming. But til that time and date I am going to love celebrating all the marriages of my friends and family!!

So let the 2013 adventures begin!!!