Well here it is...........

5 Minutes for Mom Blog Party is coming!!!....

5 minutes for mom's 2010 Ultimate Blog Party is right around the corner! And as 5MFM says "It is about friendship, growing your network, and having some good old fashioned blogging FUN!" Even if it's your first time joining the Ultimate Blog Party, it's an exciting annual tradition.

Here's how it works. Bloggers will publish a party post introducing themselves and then they'll party hop the other blog links through the linky lists meeting and mingling with other mommy bloggers. This is your chance to grow your blog, make new connections and friends, network and promote your sites and businesses.

When is this partying happening? April 9th-16th. Last years 5MFM Ultimate Blog Party had over 2000 bloggers participating and had over 55,000 page views, with the actual party post receiving over 25,000 page views. Talk about exposure!

Joining in on huge blog parties are a huge way to boost your blog or businesses visibility on the web as well as create free promotion and in turn sales!

Get more information about the 5MFM Ultiimate Blog Party by visiting the website!

See you there!.......

So I had a couple days break from working out, I have been franticly packing for my move I have until Monday to finish and be gone. Thats only a day away now.

But last night, I had my day two of working out on and I'm feeling sore again, but great. It surely is a tough work out and I strongly believe that it is going to help me get back to my goal of being what I used to always be at 115 lbs.

I'm well on my way and feeling very happy about it....

Alright so I'm on a bit of a journey here. I need to get healthier. During my pregnancy I became very will and severely diabetic. I retained A LOT of fluids and since my pancreas wasn't working correctly all the glucose in my body and that i was eating couldn't be turned into usable energy for my body and got stored as fat by default. This resulted in massive weight gain! I'm talkin' i gained 100 lbs! yes i said 100lbs!

I never had weight issues, i have been very athletic and thin my whole life, so i was devastated when this happened to me. What made it worse was I ate healthy. When i got pregnant I really enforced a healthy eating diet on my self and was very strict. I ate only whole grains even if they were bland, tons of veggies, (salads galore) and truck loads of fruits and smoothies. In fact I had a smoothie every day with healthy boost powder. I never ate sweets like candy or ice cream or cake. And I walked everyday to stay active. How puzzled was I to see this happen when I was eating 10 times better than before I was even pregnant.

Toward the end of my pregnancy was when i was finally tested for diabetes and and given insulin. After only a week of using insulin I actually finally started dropping weight by a couple of pounds each week. But it wasn't long till i had the baby anyway.

After I gave birth to my daughter, I lost the 30 + lbs that most women would normally have gained during their pregnancies very easily. Ugh If only that had been the only amount of weight i had gained I'd be finished with the weight loss journey already but alas here i am talking to you about it. 

So with 50 more lbs to go here I giving a new program a shot. It's intense and only recommended for the extremely committed. I know I'm game. i love work outs that make me sweat, it feels good to be sore and have that feeling of great accomplishment. So the program I'm doing is called By Beach Body.

Beach body is also the same company who makes the ever so famous P90X DVD training system, which I got a chance to do with my mom on my 3 1/2 week visit to see her in sunny California. And P90X was great! It helped me loose more weight while I was there visiting and felt do-able.

So why didnt I just get that program instead? Well no real reason, beachbody has great products for all desired fitness levels and so on and their products are actually worth it. I wanted to get even more hyper and crazy and sweaty so I choose  but I could just as well have gotten P90X and still get the get results I had already been experiencing.

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So here is the first post. I'm diving in heart first with this. It it my intention to inspire you, offer my knowledge and share my journey with you.

Places and people inspire me as well. I love gain experience and knowledge. I love to journey and discover and share my passions and love. And if your ready to take this journey with me. We can both gain something amazing out of this.

I invite you to share this journey with me.

Here we go...