Joined the Challenge, Are You?

Like I said I would, I joined a challenge. The ante is $25, challenge starts August 20th and ends on September 16th. Initial weigh-in is between August 18-19 PST and the final weigh-in is September 17-18 PST. There is plenty of time to still join and shed some weight and earn some dough. The pot is currently at $4750 and growing. Click here to join

Ready, Set, Shred!

Win Money, Lose Weight and Have Fun!

Ever needed a little extra incentive or motivation while working out? I found something unique and fun. I was recently reading one of my Fitness magazines and saw a promotion for joining a 4-week challenge that begins September 9th, it’s from a website called DietBet. How it works is that you ante up $30 and pledge to lose 4% of your body weight over the next four weeks. Every Participant who meets the goal splits the pot with the other winners! To make sure you dont cheat, they require you to send in a picture before the contest of you on a scale showing what you weigh, and one at the end of the challenge too. (Don't worry they are completely confidential and are only seen by the referees of the game.) How awesome is that?! Besides a 4-week challenge they offer a six month challenge too! For the six month challenge you have to lose 10% of your body weight. Since this challenge is longer Dietbet gives you plenty of interim goals and prizes along the way, to keep to focused on the final result. New games start every month for the 10% goal and all the time for the 4%. They even give you the opportunity to start your own game so you can maybe get your co workers from the office to do one, or maybe get all your girlfriends to rally up. This is a great way to get some motivation, accountability, and even moral support by fellow friends, family and even other players. I definitely will be trying this and maybe even start my own, I’ll post a link to mine on here and my instagram account so you can join in on the fun with me.

See a video about Dietbet here.

Click here for the official Dietbet 4 rules (4% challenge).

Click here for official Dietbet 10 rules (10% challenge).

There are also some great testimonials you can see from past and present players.

I hope to be shedding pounds with all of you in these challenges, please comment below if you plan on entering.

New Chapter in My Life

On August 8, 2014 my life changed, I married the man I have been with for over nine years.

 

We met back in 2002 in our sophomore English class. I knew from the moment I met him that he was something special. Over couple years of friendship and secretly dating a couple times, we finally got together on August 6, 2005.

We've lived together off and on, we've moved plenty of times together back and forth to Texas and back to California. We even did long distance for two and half years, while I pursued my college education back in Texas. The hardest years were those two years, they tested us, and at one point it looked liked our love was not going to make it, but I had hope. I had hope, that no matter what we went  through our love for each other would not change, and it didn't.

About a year later we got engaged on December 8, 2013 it was the happiest day of my life, that is until I married him. Since that beautiful day I have now wondered, what is next? Well we recently moved to Arizona in April 2014 (Yes, people thought I was crazy for moving before I got married.) I had to quit my job at The Hartford Insurance Group, where I had health care and other wonderful benefits to now having nothing. I completely rely on my husband to provide for us. That was definitely a new feeling I went through, that did not sit well with me. I have always had a job since I was 16 and always had bills to pay, that is how my parents taught me responsibility. Now that the wedding is over I am now attempting to look for a job, but I don't know what to look for. With living in Lake Havasu City, where the majority of the residents are retired, and job options are limited and the current percent of people with a degree in Lake Havasu City is at 14.1%. I am currently finding that most employers there don't want to hire people with a college degree since they will have to pay them more than someone with only a high school diploma. So now what do I do? I am completely questioning everything when it comes to my career and what I want to do and what is currently available to me. I feel completely lost and utterly helpless, I feel like the only job that I know I will be good at is motherhood.

That is where this new blog comes into play, I want to share my life experiences as I hunt for my ultimate mission in life, my ultimate why I am I here.This blog is going to show me at my most vulnerable and raw self. I want to change how I am living, by eating right and getting fit. While exploring my passion for food and photography, and becoming a mom. I hope that you enjoy reading my adventures and of course, tell me some of yours. Follow me on this journey.