Update...

It's been just over a week since my last post. This past week has been extremely busy but I am still making it work.

Last Friday, I went snowboarding. Let's talk about a great change to your workout. Burned close to 1000 calories in just an hour on the slopes and it was fun!

Spent Saturday and Sunday in the gym. Finally started to run again and it was great. Continued to run this week and work out my legs.

Working out is the time of my day were I can escape everything and just think. Some people say I spend too many hours in the gym - I spend the amount of time that I need in the gym for me to be happy with what is going on.

I have lost close to 20 pounds in the past 27 days and it feels amazing. I still def have a long way to go but the motivation is there so I don't see it stopping any time soon.

I will continue these posts about my workouts and challenges to keep everyone hopefully as motivated as I am.

I will start a quote of the post as well - "If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you". I continue to think about that when I am in pain from working out or in pain just in my own life. I continue to get up everyday and make myself the best I can be and work towards making myself better.

I also have a bunch of motivation ideas that I figured I would put in here in case anyone needed them.

iPhone Apps -

• Ease to 5K - good way to challenge and train yourself into a 5K
• LoseIt - allows you not only to track your workouts but also what you have eaten
• TargetWeight - shows your BMI - the best part about this app is that you can have it set to show how many pounds you want to lose on your home screen - trust me the number starts to get annoying but at the same time it is the motivation that you need
• MyFitnessPal - allows you not only to track your workouts but also what you have eaten - also allows you to follow your friends and see what they are doing to keep you motivated
• Dukan & Me - it is designed specifically for the Dukan Diet but it still shows your BMI - how much you have lost - Fat percentage

Twitter Follows -

• Fitness motivator
• Women's health mag
• Women's fitness

Something else I have done is created Jars with marbles for pounds lost and pounds to go. It is a fun way to keep yourself motivated to move the marbles from one jar to the next.

Back at it

It's been just over a year since that last time I blogged. A lot has happened within the past year.

I got out of a three year relationship and I moved to the city. Both things were huge changes in my life and changed who I am today.

Once I moved out of my parents house, the drive from work everyday took away from my workout time and the workouts happened less and less. I started playing softball 6 days a week, which was amazing but the workouts still weren't back up to where they needed to be. Softball 6 days a week also meant going out to the bar 6 days a week - def not a good thing for getting back into shape.

Getting out of the three year relationship changed my outlooks on many different things. I lost the person that I would go to the gym with and the support that I had had through my first go around with my weight loss goals.

After Christmas this year, I stopped drinking and starting getting myself back into shape. I have started to get my life back onto track of where I need to be for myself. I am a successful person and I want the best for myself that I can give.

I will start blogging again about my workout successes and try to give other people the motivation that I have to get back into shape.

I have great support in my friends and a bunch of friends that also are working on their weight loss goal. Something changes in you when you decide to take back your life and have the life that you want.

Feel free to continue to read over the next few months as I continue on my weight loss journey.

<3 Jess