Last week’s attempt at starting the LiveFit trainer failed miserably.  I had errands that couldn’t wait and 2 out of the 4 days I felt sickly for no good reason.  I’m hoping this is a better week for sure!  I’ve got a new gym bag, new workout gloves and some new workout wear.  I’m READY to sweat!

Bad news:

I think I’m a LiveFit failure before even starting.  I’m a thinker and not a doer so maybe that is the problem here, but I’m thinking that I don’t want to work so much on the food portion of my regime.  I know it’s important to eat clean, but I’m lazy so I need other options!  lol.  Bottom line is that if it’s a hardship or doesn’t fit into my lifestyle, then I’m not going to continue doing it.  So, I decided that I will follow the workout program as is, but as far as the eating, I will be adjusting it to fit my lifestyle.  I will try to eat clean(er), limit or cut out bad carbs completely, watch my added sugar intake and try to keep it between 35-50g & I will try to keep my percentages of carbs/protein/fat where they should be (40/40/20).  I will not fret about a few extra servings of healthy fats (i.e. avocado, peanut butter/almond butter, coconut oil/olive oil) or extra servings of fruit.

Good news:

I am feeling confident about this new eating plan.  I was stressing about all the eggs I was supposed to consume and all the things that I was supposed to be eating that I didn’t want to eat.  I’m a picky eater and I’m also a convenience eater.  I need things simple and yummy!    Also, following the discussions on the LiveFit facebook groups I am feeling more confident about the supplements I want to be taking.  Before I felt overwhelmed and thought there were so many things I should be taking, but I’ve finally got it narrowed down.  I might need to add in one or two more things,but for now I’m happy with my choices.  I’ll post more about my supplements later.  🙂

Happy Monday!

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I’m always on the hunt for new workout music.  I don’t care whether it’s an old song that I forgot about or a brand new song.  New songs in my workout playlist always pump me up!

Here are some I added to my playlist in 2011 (some new, some old)

• Jar of Hearts — Christina Perri

• Coming Home — Diddy – Dirty Money

• S&M — Rihanna

• All of the Lights — Kanye West

• A Little Bit Stronger — Sara Evans

• Crash Your Party — Karmin

• All the Same to Me — Anya Marina

• Sweet Dreams — Marilyn Manson

• Little Red Corvette — Prince

• Who You Are — Jessie J

And because we can’t just have boring words in a post, here’s your introduction to Karmin.  If you haven’t heard of Karmin before…you have now!  You will hear lots of them in 2012, I’m sure.  They started out doing a lot of covers of songs…like this one of, Look at Me Now.

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And this one is their debut single, Crash Your Party, off their first album…

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Your turn! What are some of your favorite songs in your workout mix right now?

Happy Belated Thanksgiving blog world! I hope everyone had a safe & happy holiday. We’re lucky enough to have two awesome places to celebrate Thanksgiving, but unfortunately they’re 2hrs apart so we have to pick just one every year.  This year was Eric’s family in Georgia.  We had a great time!  It had been awhile since everyone had seen the kids so everyone was saying how big they’d gotten.  One of the things about going to GA for a visit is that they boys get to have fun shooting their guns.  They always love that.  I was going to go this year, but I was too lazy from all the yummy food.  From what I hear though, my baby boy was a pretty good shot!  My FIL took a few pics I think so I’ll have to see if I can get a copy.

It was hilarious this year because both Eric & his twin brother are doing Movember.  Movember is something that was started to create awareness for men’s cancer, specifically prostate cancer.  How it works is that on November 1st you start with a fresh shaven face and then you grow a mustache throughout the month.  You create a profile page and people can donate to your stache!  Here’s my hubby’s page if you feel inclined to donate!  It’s a great cause!  www.mobro.co/erichigg  Any donation helps!  🙂

Most everyone thinks he looks creepy or out of character with a mustache, but his grandma was LOVING it!  She just kept saying the whole time how handsome he looked and he better not cut his hair or shave his mustache.  lol.

Here’s a progression from his usual daily look and his current look…he was going for a Tom Selleck stache so he’s been growing his hair a little longer to match the mustache.  Please donate…it will make putting up with this look worth it!  I’m ready for my clean shaven, short haired hubby to be back!

I hope to be blogging more regularly in the coming weeks.  I’ve been a big time slacker these past few days!  Eating whatever I can get my hands on because I need to meal plan and get to the grocery store, but I’ve been too lazy.  As of 5pm last night, my Fitbit said I had only gone 1100 steps.  OMG.  That is horrible.  So since I needed to go to Target and it’s only a little over a mile away, I figured I’d just walk up there.  My girlie & I had a nice little walk up to Target and then grabbed some fridge/pantry necessities (only necessities because, remember, I haven’t done my meal planning yet! :()  Anyways, Eric had to come pick us up because I thought we were going to have too many bags to carry all the way back, but it turned out that the load was pretty doable so I wish we would have just walked back home.  But also, I told Eric we could bring home 5 Guys for dinner if he came to pick us up.  I know, 5 Guys…it’s super bad for you.  If it makes me look any better, I eat my burger with no cheese, I pull off the excess bread and only put ketchup on it and we ordered a regular size fry for the 3 of us to share, which we only ended up eating about 2/3 of.  Good news was that it got my step count up to over 5000 steps.  Yay!  Not a fantastic day, but a mile & a half I wouldn’t have walked otherwise, so I’ll take it.  😛

I don’t have many pics this time so I’ll post some pics of my comfy skinny jeans I bought the other day.  I have a new obsession I think.  I fought the trend for a long time because I could never find any that didn’t make me look like I was stuffed into a sausage casing.  I finally figured out that I need to look for ones that say they have a curvy fit.  These are my latest wardrobe addition.  Comfy/casual skinnies!  They are Silver brand and the jean material is SO soft.  Bonus is that I tried on my usual size and I ended up going down a size because of their curvy fit!  Gotta love that!

* I bought the jeans at Dillards, but this is the brand/style, Silver Suki Skinny.  The top is the Button Bateau Sweater from The Limited.

See that cool piece of artwork that says “bloglovin'”?  Well, bloglovin’ is a nifty place where you can keep up with all the blogs you like.  If you want to keep up with mine, click the link below or the one other there ————————-> anytime.

Welcome to my new blog!  I’m excited to start posting about nutrition, fitness, new recipes, photography, and anything else that sounds like fun.  Take a look around and come back soon because I’ll be posting my first real post very soon!

And because a blog post isn’t any fun without a pic, here’s one to start us off…it’s ME about to get my workout on in my new t-shirt!

Get your own “Healthy is the New Skinny” tee at HNS Blog!  Click “merchandise” to order.  BTW, it looks like I bought this one right before they started selling a new design.  I might have to pick up the new design too!  😉