Back to heavy weights in April!

So, I took a couple weeks off of heavy weights to do some of my video workouts which was a nice change.  But well, now I'm getting the very big itch to lift heavy again.   So next month, after I pig out on Easter Sunday, I'm gonna start this program:

I like this cause well, its got 5 day a week, 4 day a week and 3 day a week options for workouts. No matter what I can find an option for me to do.

I'm getting ready for my clean eating challenge.  Tomorrow I'm going to take measurements.  UGH!  I'd rather not, but I need to know where I'm starting from so I know how far I've gone.

I'm trying to really find a good journal to use to track my fitness.  I've got a bullet journal and its good, but well, sometimes its hard to keep up on a daily basis.  How do people keep bullet journals up everyday??? LOL

I've gotten quite a bit of new makeup in the last 6 weeks and now I think its time to cut back a little and use it, and review it on my beauty channel.   I'll post some links to a few new videos I've done in the last couple weeks off to the right.

Hope things are going well for everyone who is reading this!

Did something different

So, for a while now, I've been feeling a little UGH about my fitness routine. I was lifting heavy and I wasn't feeling very inspired or motivated.
So for the last couple weeks, I've been doing my fitness videos and streaming workouts.   I was really fun.  I reconnected with some of my old Firm workouts, and some of the very old workouts I really use to love to do.

But the itch to lift heavy is starting to get to me.  I was watching a friend's Instagram workout the other day and I almost tried the workout she had on there.

So here I've been sitting, looking at all the lifting programs I've got here at a home, looking at lifting programs on the internet looking at all my lifting books.  I will pick out a program to do.  And here's what I'm planning to do.  Every 6-8 weeks I'll take 2 weeks off to do my videos, streaming etc workouts to keep myself from getting burnt out on lifting heavy.   And to keep myself interested in my fitness journey.

A friend and I are starting a new challenge in April, after Easter of course lol.  For her, she wants to do a Whole 30 program. For me, I want to do a clean eating challenge.   I think having a friend to talk to when things get tough, and I'm feeling like sluffing off will help me.  I did a similar challenge when I was Crossfitting a couple years ago, and having the group helped a lot.  And I managed to drop a little fat too.

My low sugar challenge isn't going quite as well as I was hoping, but I have managed to cut back on sugar some, so all in all its ok.  I've got just under 2 weeks to go so I can manage.

Not much else going on. Or rather, not much going on that I can talk about.  There are things going on but I can't talk about it.  Oh, there is no gag order, but I'd rather not get fired.  Lets just leave it at that. 

My low sugar challenge for March

Just a warning for those I might be around for the next couple days, I'm cutting WAY back on sugar for the month of March.  I know from last year when I did something very similar, I had a couple days where I was a little bitchy. 
Now, I will allow my creamer in my coffee.  Some is sugar free,  but the others, have some, but I'm not going to give that up.  Maybe getting a little sugar in my creamer will help keep me from having the bad withdrawal. I hope so
I also will allow treats, like when we go see Death Wish next week.  I will be having Reese's Pieces in the theater.  Bite me lol.  You will pry movie theater popcorn and candy out of my hands at a theater when I'm dead.

I've made myself a fitness journal. I'm going to keep track of some crap.  I hope that maybe keeping track of steps, eating, etc it will help keep me on the fitness path.  Been kind of meandering in my fitness journey here and I'm not sure what to do to really feel it again.   I use to really enjoy getting up and working out, but now it almost feel like a chore.  All of it.    I'm not sure what happened.  I mean I do enjoy the feeling when I'm done, but it just seems like getting up, getting ready, going to do the actual workout, just ugh.  I'm to lazy now to want to do it.

Maybe its the workout program I'm trying to do.  Maybe I need to find something that really trips my trigger.   The one place I use to go to find a new program is Bodybuilding.com but no more.  Now they want people to PAY for the programs that use to be free. If they think I'm going to PAY for that they are just fucking STUPID!  My word. I'll just google workouts and find some for free thank you very much. Hell, I can find a bunch for free on YouTube, Pinterest, Google, I don't need you Bodybuilding.com and you All Access pay for programs.  What's really shitty, they are having people pay for these programs that the instructors have probably provided for free.

Work has been ok.  Same shit different day I guess.  Same crap the administration is doing, but at least the flu season seems , SEEMS, to be slowing down some.  Seems to.  I don't want to jinx myself cause I work this weekend.

I should get up and walk a little bit. I sat quite a bit doing my fitness bullet journal today so I don't have many steps in.  I should but its not looking good lol.

Is flu season over yet?????

As you know I'm a nurse.  I work in a small hospital.  Flu season has hit the area HARD.  We've been full of patients, full of flu patients, full of repeat, discharged and back in a few days, patients.  Nurses calling in sick cause they now have something.  Full of texts or calls "can you work?" (NO)  Full of call lights,  (will you just go to sleep already) full of family members(sometimes being assholes) and full of I'm kind of burnt out and ready for 2 whole nights off.  I don't want Monday to come cause that means going back to work again.  And I kind of don't want to.   Maybe the flu will start to lessen.  I hope so.  Its been a tough one this year.

 And on top of everything else, I have to wait to see Black Panther.  We could go see it on Sat, but well, I'm betting its gonna be full and I'm over crowds.  I just want to sit in my chair, and do nothing. Go nowhere, see no one but my hubby.  But then I work Mon and Tue so I have to wait until Wed to see it. UGH!

I've not made a YouTube video in quite a while. I just have not had the energy to get up and get one made.  I guess I just don't care right now.  I've got a couple I want to get made this weekend, so maybe I can get an extra one made for later in the week.

Not much else to say other than I'm tired, and now I'm pissed at myself for picking up an extra shift at the nursing home.  WTF was I thinking???  Of course when I picked it up, I had no idea I'd be coming off 2 weeks of almost long ass crappy(sometimes literally) nights at the hospital. 

What to blog, what to blog?

I wanted to write something, but I have no freaking idea what to write about lol.

I've been a lazy slug this weekend.  I had so many things I wanted to do, but I've not done well, pretty much any of them. I've read, taken naps lounged,loved my puppies and kitties and of course, surfed the net.

Tomorrow I have to go back to reality, and go back to work. UGH!  Oh, I like my job, but well, its nice to not have to go to work lol.   Now if only I could win the lottery, or become some really large YouTuber and make tons of money and I could just stay at home and do nothing lol.  Ok, I'd make more YouTube videos lol.

It snowed. UGH!  I'm sick of snow, I'm sick of winter.  Even if I have tried to tell myself that we need the moisture, its easier to accept getting moisture when its 50 and raining than when its 15 and snowing.  Am I right? 

Sitting here thinking of the stuff I really should have done this weekend, but I really don't care enough to get up and do it lol.

I did manage to get a fitness planner/journal started.  Gonna keep it up so I can track what works, what doesn't, how regular I am at tracking food, workouts, etc.  And how I feel during the day. And a small section to track ideas for my fitness channel YouTube.

If you are interested in my fitness YouTube channel, here it is.  Not much there, but I'm hoping to post 1-2 videos a week.  Once I get a new tripod to hold my phone, I'm doing start filming parts of my workouts..

Rhonda Gets Fit, my fitness channel

For not knowing what to write, I've written more than I thought I would. 

Well thanks for nothing YouTube

Well, its pretty common knowledge now that YouTube changed their policy and now to get monetized you have to have 1000 subscribers and 4000 HOURS of views in a years time.  Great.  I worked my butt off to get the 10,000 views to get my monetizeation, and now, nope.  Goodby.  Jerks.

I only have 220 subs and only like 900 hours of view time in the last year.  So fuck.  Just when I was just starting to see the money going up in my account, ever so slightly closer to the magic payout  amount, and now, unless I can magically create 800 subscribers and like 3500 hours of view time, I lose it all.

I'm not going to stop making videos, cause its a great hobby, but well, I was hoping to maybe this year make a little money which I would have either invested in new equipment for my channel like better lights, lenses,etc, and maybe into giveaways for my subscribers.   Now, it won't happen probably for a couple years.   UGH!

I'm going to Des Moines on Sat by myself and doing some shopping.  I think I might pick up some decorations to have in the background for my channel.  I have a backdrop, but I think sometimes I'd like to have something different so we'll see what I find.  I also will buy new shoes, cause, well, NEW SHOES!   I might show them off on my channel soon. 

Yes, maybe I might expand out to showing off shoes, clothes, etc along with makeup and skin care.   If you are interested let me know.

I'm going to be going through my makeup collection and getting rid of a few things.  A couple blushes and one foundation are going bad I'm pretty sure, so they need tossed.  And a few palettes, I can just do without.    Decluttering at its best.

Hope things are well for you.

SHERLOCK IS HOME!!!

And I'm just a little bit excited. Ok, maybe a whole BUNCH excited.

Yes, I'm in my scrubs.  He came home on Fri when I was at work, of course. So I didn't get to see him until Sat morning about 12 hours after he got home.  Little devil.  He's thinner than he was, but overall seems pretty healthy.

And he seems very happy to be home.

And he's stayed as far away from doors going outside as he can lol.

I'm trying to figure out my calories and macros to eat to get rid of some of this fat I carry around my waist. Its fucking HARD!  I don't want to cut back much,  as I have a big appetite and to be quite honest, I like eating and get rather bitchy when I cut back to much.   But sadly I think I need to cut my carbs back some to get rid of the belly fat.  Time to get more bacon I guess.  More bacon and eggs for breakfast and less cereal. 

Workouts have been ok.  I need to train more days a week, but they are killers when I do manage to hit my home gym.  If you are interested in my home gym, here's a link:
My Home Gym

Not much else to say.  Trying to recover from my shit storm of a weekend at work.  The flu is hitting big time, and its not fun.  Thankfully, I have a few days/nights off to recover.