Jacob’s ladder and working out with the kids!

I was excited that I was able to get home by 4 today and relax a little bit work on my lactation educator course. We made the kids shepard’s pie for dinner and spaghetti squash (in the microwave) with chorizo and black bean soup over it, so delish. Tonight as I headed to the gym both of my teens wanted to come! Score mom is making a difference in her kiddos! So off we went and on the drive to the gym I decided today would be the day I tackled it got over my fear of the jacob’s ladder!

Have you done this before? As seen on biggest loser! OMG I read the directions and climbed on up. After two minutes I thought I was going to DIE, it was so so hard!!! I talked to myself, yes sometimes I have to be my own cheerleader. I convinced myself to get to 5 mins and I could get off. At minute 4 I talked myself into 10 minutes. I was able to do it, as I was trying to do positive self talk I started letting negative talk in too. I started telling myself well if you only do 5 minutes today you can do 6 tomorrow and work up to 10 minutes. But I kept on with it and man those 10 mins were tough! I will try to work on it more in the future.  Lots of sweat and calories burnt!

                                                
After cardio we have been hitting up the machine room to do the inner/outer thighs and next to the machine was a bosu. My daughter, Ari, asked what the bosu can be used for. So I demonstrated squats on it and had her do some. It was kinda funny to watch her get on a bosu for the first time, probably about the same way I looked the first time I got on one, but I was able to capture her firsts :) isn’t that what moms are for?

Biggest Loser

Do you watch it? I do, my friend Jen (who know lives in Texas) introduced me to the show and i was instantly addicted. I would watch each season as these women who weighed a lot more than me would shrink down PASSED my goal weight. Each season I would think oh I can weigh the same as them at finale (since I already weighed less than them). Each season I would see that huge scale start showing their weights less than mine and my dream of reaching my goal weight with them go out the window. Once again I am watching the new season, I really do love Jillian Michaels. Anyhow if you are watching this season you can see how Bob Harper set up his gym area as a crossfit box. It brought me to thinking about my crossfit attempt.

I mean seriously who does not have dreams of looking like this and being about to do these moves??!!?!?! I did, I really wanted to love crossfit! I went to three boxes to find the one that fit me and Todd and I really loved Outlier. It is family friendly, military background, great schedule, etc. I went for about two months but learned I had a huge anxiety about not being as strong, as fast, or as fearless. I mean crossfit is truly scary! I know it is a great workout, I hope to be able to join another box and overcome my issues with anxiety.   

By the way, Jen and I were making our video to send in for the Biggest Loser audition. We thought we would rock the show. She was a marine and I was a sailor so we thought we could take getting screamed at by Jiliian. Unfortunately our friendship had a small hiccup and we didn’t reconcile for a long time or send in our video. I am grateful to have her as my friend. I still think J.M. would have kicked my ass and made me cry!