Making fitness plans through the end of the year

Ok, so it took me all FREAKING summer but I finally managed to lose 5lbs.  All summer. 

And I want to keep that going.  Cause hey 5lbs lost in 4months is still better than no weight lost, and miles ahead of 5lbs gained.  


So in the month of Sept, cause I've been struggling a little, ok a lot, I did something.  I took the month and gathered info.  Things like my average step counts,  how many calories I actually eat, and what I can eat and still lose weight.  I went through the fitness books/programs I have collected over the last few decades.   Yes, I've had a few books, like Body for Life, forever. 

So now I'm going to increase my average step count up 250 a month until I'm up to averaging 10,000 a day.    I also have set my calorie count in My Fitness Pal.

And I've decided to do this program:

I'm going to do a couple weeks of the breakin workout, then Fat Loss 1 and Fat Loss 2.   I did that program several years ago and I lost inches, weight and got quite a bit stronger.  So why not do that again.

I've got my 10lbs weight loss goal set up, and my 15lbs weight loss goal set up, and I can't wait to get to that point so I can get them!

Hit my first goal!!!

So, over the summer, I managed to FINALLY lose 5lbs.    OMG!!!  I'm  so happy!  So I ordered this!

It comes tomorrow.   I can't wait to get it.  I've watched a few reviews on it, and it looks great. These colors just speak to me.  They are colors I just love!

Now, on to my next goal.   I think when I get rid of 10lbs, or get down to a size 12 pants I will get this.

Its a skin care serum that I've read is really good. Very expensive, but well, what's the point of all the makeup if my skin looks like crap?  So this will be my 10lbs/size 12 reward.

Back at the workouts tonight.  

Hope all is well with you.

Goals and Rewards for weight loss

So, I'm getting serious about my weight loss.  I've FINALLY managed to see the scale move down, along with seeing some loosening of pants in the waist.  FINALLY!  About freaking time.

So I've got some goals and I've got a few rewards for myself when I hit those goals.

When I lose 5lbs, I'm going to reward myself with this:

The Huda Beauty Desert Dusk palette.  I've lost 4lbs so I don't have far to go! 

When I either lose 15lbs or get into the size 10 jeans I bought last week as a my mid goal I'm going to reward myself with this.

The Natasha Denona Lila palette.  Insanely expensive at $129 but I think if you drop 15lbs and or 2pant sizes you NEED something kind of expensive to reward yourself with.

So, I need to drop one more pound  for reward number 1, and 11 more, or get down to those size 10 jeans for reward number 2.  I'm a loose 14 now.   At the beginning of summer I was a tight 14, so that's something.  I'm betting I'd be a  loose 12 had I not done as much cheating as I did, but oh well.

I really feel like things are kind of clicking with my weight loss.  I hope so.  Struggling gets annoying.

I'm back doing video based workouts for a while. Just feel like it and you might as well make workouts as fun as you can.  Today, I'm going to go for a walk outside, and then do a bunch of stretching and mobility work.  I'm tight and losing flexibility like crazy and I want to reverse that now while I can. Besides, when I do a bunch of stretching, I just feel GOOD! 

Hope all is well with you.  Going to film another video for my You Tube channel.

Time to do some decluttering

Its that time of year again. The time of year where I go through my closets and I get rid of some stuff.  I really need to.  Its been a long time since I did a big old declutter.  I've got so many clothes I just need to get rid of some of them.  I'm going to really go through my scrubs.  Except for my holiday scrubs, I just don't like the ones with cutie patterns on them as much anymore.   That and I've had some of them for more than 12 years, soooo.  I've been slowly replacing them with nice solid color ones or ones with less cartoonish patterns.

I've also put in storage a few things that are just that little bit to small for me right now.  I want to keep it around cause I WILL be losing more weight and I WILL be able to wear them. Unless, of course cause they are shorts and capris, maybe I'll lose more weight and next spring, I can't wear them cause I'm to dang small!  That would be amazing!

I got rid of a couple things of makeup, and I need to get rid of some more of it.  I've got a couple foundations I want to try out with a couple other primers first to see if they are any better, but if not, out they go.  Same with a couple eye shadow palettes.  I've got a couple that are pretty dang similar, and I might as well decide which I like better and let the other one go.

Been going through my collection, and wearing stuff I've not worn for a while.  Its a good way to rediscover things I almost forget I have, and to reaffirm that I DON'T need the 12th palette with the same colors, I don't NEED a pale peach blush cause I have 2 already, and that maybe I could slow down a little on buying makeup.

I've been thinking and well, I think I'm going back to work at the hospital.  Hospital nursing is my passion.  Being in the nursing home is nice and all, but its not where my heart is.   I just enjoy working in a hospital setting so much more.  I think what I'll do is stay every other weekend at the nursing home for a while cause well, I do love the people there.  The residents are mostly great.  I don't want to totally leave them.    I have not told them about this yet.  Kind of decided just today.   I'll get to telling them next week.  I've got tonight and tomorrow off and I just don't want to think about work.

Well, I think that's it for now.  I'm going to give myself a pedicure, take a hot bath, and give myself a facial.  While drinking a wine cooler or two.  I think I deserve that.

Ever want to just leave?

I've had one of those weeks.  I just want to sell off about 90% of my stuff, find some low census tropical island, buy a house there and move.  No job, no stress just warm sandy beach, ocean waves, hubby and my pets.   I mean to the point I was looking at places to move to online lol.  

Heck at this point, I just want to sell my house, and move someplace new so there would be more opportunities for RN work.  I'd love to work in an ICU, but well, I don't want to have to drive 80 min one way to have that opportunity. Esp not in the winter.  That would SUCK!  But it was always a dream of mine when I went to nursing school to work in an ICU, and here I am 21 years later, and still no ICU job. Sigh.  Sometimes small town living sucks.  Yes, they are great things about being from and living in a small town, but man opportunities is not one of them.    I've literally thought "well how bad would it be if I was part-time there"  Um, slightly less driving lol.   But maybe it would be worth it.

Anyone want to build a really big hospital about 30 min or less from my house?  One with a dedicated ICU, OB, med surg, and ortho floors?   I'd go work in Des Moines to get lots of experience so I could work ICU after you get it built!


So here I am, looking at places to live in Costa Rica lol.  I have enough makeup for 5 people, so I could do with less and do with buying less  Looks like depending on where you live the temps are just were I like them, low 80s for highs, 60s for lows.  Affordable, friendly to Americans, good health care.  Gee, why am I still here??? LOL.

This is my one night after 4 in a row.  Man, I'm sick of working.  I want to cut back to part-time so bad. I'm tired of being tired.   And I'm tired of feeling frustrated about things I don't seem to have control over.   Its draining on a person.   And I do feel a little drained.

Maybe I just need to take a vacation.   Oh, I had a little more than a week off in May but really that was it in 2 years.  But right now, I can't afford to take a vacation lol. I can't afford the time off.  Isn't that a thing.  I'd love to have about 7 days off in a row, but I can't afford not to work.  Welcome to Mid Income USA.

Now I'm on a website for "the Best Places to Retire in 2017"  Malta looks good now too lol.

Time to make new goals, and plan how I'm going to get there

And not just fitness goals.  But what I want to do in life goals.  I have things I want but I need to nail them down and make them actual goals rather than just "wouldn't it be nice" things.
I want to eventually go down to part time, so I need to make goals on how to get to part time work and make enough money to have the extras I have now.
I want to reassess my fitness goals, make them more specific and make actual plans on how to get there, and stick to that plan.

I want my You Tube channel to get at least 100 subscribers and to get 50 views on new videos I put u by the time its up for a week.    Not quite sure how to plan for that lol other than keep making videos, and keep putting them out there on social media and maybe just maybe I'll get to 100 subscribers at the end of the year.  I'm just under 70, so I'm growing ever so slowly.

I also have travel goals.  I want to go to London someday.  And to Rome, and Athens.  So I need to make this a goal, and start making plans on how to save up money to go there, and then do it.  I want to do it before I get to old to walk around everywhere!

I've been really slacking off my fitness.  Been just so unmotivated.  I don't know why. Just am.   I can't figure out what lifting program to do, when to start, how to keep going.  And my eating has just dissolved into CRAP. I feel so bloated and just don't feel good about it at all. Maybe I'll just start really really slowly.  Count calories for a week just to see where I'm at.  And move on from there.  Figuring out what calories I need to slowly lose fat and build muscle, and do no more for a couple weeks.

I'm going to wash the drapes tonight, so maybe while I wait for them to get done I'll get out a notebook and start making out some goals and plans.   I need to really make obtainable goals, and set out plans on how to reach those goals. And maybe set up rewards for obtaining these goals.

Yep, that's what I'm going to do.  Set up goals, make out plans, and set up some rewards.

I hate unboxing videos, there I said it!

I really do.  I hate when the big makeup You Tubers either show off all the PR they get on You Tube, snapchat or Instagram.   It pisses me off!   Cause here I am, trying to get my hands  on some popular eye shadow palette, sometimes multiple times, and they are out!  But oh 50, or more You Tubers get free ones.  Great.   Maybe they wouldn't be sold out if they didn't send out all that PR.  

So I hate watching them unbox all their PR, esp when I know there is something in there I would really like to have, and can't get cause well, they ran out due to PR being given out to a whole bunch of "influencers" on You Tube.  

I know this is an unpopular opinion, or so it seems.  But well, I just get irritated that while I'm clicking away to try to get one palette that then gets sold out before I can, more than once, some You Tuber gets theirs for free. 

So when I see the PR unboxing, I just skip it.  Easy to do on You Tube but a little less easy on Snapchat lol.  And I know 99% of the PR is done to hype out products that we don't need to have hyped up.  I mean really?  Did the Jac Hill Morphe palette need to be hyped up by the You Tubers?  Um, NO!  But hype it they did and sent out a whole bunch of freebies while those of us who would gladly pay to get it, can't cause it's "sold out"   I've about decided I don't want it anymore.  You're loss Morphe!

Rant over for today.