I only say that because I have the same level of procrastination and low drive. I want to be healthy and lose weight and sweat at the gym but getting up before dawn and leaving my house while working from home is legitimately so hard! Takes a lot of discipline. The gym isn’t really that far from my house but it really doesn’t make it any easier. I told myself I was just going to walk on the treadmill to build up some endurance… but in the true fashion of Ness, I’m on the stair climber as I’m typing. Really only writing this to keep my eyes off of the time and focusing on my breathing.

My watch didn’t pair with my new phone. I didn’t realize it wasn’t pairing all of this time, I got this phone before Christmas I think.

I have made it 12/25 minutes, so I’ll take that as a win so far. welcome back to 335 lbs and a drive to get healthy again🙏🏼🙏🏼

Never give up! Fell down for a 7th time, standing up again for the eighth. 🥰

Sooo it’s been a while since I’ve been here to post a blog. Not much has happened that’s been super exciting. My kids are growing quick! My oldest baby’s birthday is coming up. It’s crazy how fast time flies, and you really don’t believe it until you see it happen before your eyes. Work can be super monotonous, and the weekends seem like mini vacations. I’m back at the gym after a long hiatus. It’s been a decent break but I missed it.

Working from home for the last 18 months has been challenging, yet extremely amazing. I spent my whole pregnancy at home, and I’ve been here with my baby the whole time as well. There is a difference when working from home, as you have to be extremely time conscious. You have to be extremely dedicated and watch that you’re not slacking. It can be easy to do with the option to WFH as no one is watching you directly.

Anyway; I just wanted to pop on and give an update. I’m heavier than I feel comfortable at, and I’m back on the weight loss train! 🚂 let’s stay consistent and PUSH.

I’ve been meaning to post on here, but I’ve been a little busy with the baby! I am getting the hang of being a mom of two. My four-year-old who is a wild man, and the newborn who keeps me up all night! 🤣

She’s the cutest, most cuddly baby! ♥️ It will take me awhile to get back to normal with my eating and exercise.

I just figured I’d come and give an update. I’ve been having contractions on and off since Friday night. Which would be the 27th ish I think. Anyway I just wanted to document things since this is my blog page!! I’m getting super anxious and excited! On Thanksgiving I walked 3 miles in the morning, it was for a 5K thing with one of my groups of girls. I was totally fine until later on in the day and then Friday and Saturday I was pretty much wrecked. LOL

Yesterday I got a bunch of stuff done around the house, I did laundry, cleaned my bathroom from top to bottom including scrubbing the shower, got the living room and dining room cleaned and mopped, I’m pretty much ready for this baby!

I have an appointment today, Monday, in order to check and see how things are going. I’m going to ask about them checking me to see if I’ve progressed at all, and potentially stripping my membranes. I know I have a little bit of time left but I feel like since I’m already having contractions that aren’t super consistent maybe that would help! ❤️

I will try to update tomorrow after my appointment just to let it be known what’s going on with my body! Hoping for a baby soon, hurry up Strawberry!

Hiiii so it’s been a while. 🤣

Had lots of stuff going on lately and I’ve been nesting and trying to prepare for baby as much as possible!!

I just felt like I should post a life update. Not much has really been going on. Waylon has come down with a cold, but Zach gets tested weekly for work and he has not had the virus so chances are we don’t have it here at home either. i’m praying that I don’t get sick because I have an appointment next Friday for a sonogram. If I get sick or if I am exposed to someone who has the virus they will cancel my appointment. I may cry at that point, I haven’t seen my babies since 23 weeks. The sonogram is important because it will be measuring the babies weight, the fluid around the baby, and the positioning. We had a drive-by baby shower, not very many people came. But we had a lot of fun. Several of my friends said that they would come and never showed up. Seems like that happens these days with parties and get-togethers. 🤷🏻‍♀️ i’m not focusing on exercise or eating healthy right now, just trying to get through each day. Love my little strawberry and my Way ❤️

It’s been a little bit since I’ve updated, and mainly it’s been because things just changed so rapidly, I haven’t taken the time to update about the Corona Virus, and being quarantined with a “stay in place” order from the governor. I’m in Central Illinois, and a few weeks back, it was discovered that COVID-19 had made it’s way to Illinois. Most of the state’s businesses were gearing up to potentially be closed. Those people that could look ahead and assume that what was happening in Italy and China was also going to happen here were right. The cases have been going up by the day, and it’s extremely concerning. There are over 30 counties that have COVID-19 being reported, but many more that haven’t been reported. Illinois is only testing if people meet certain criteria because there aren’t enough tests and or medical professionals to get through everyone that “probably” has it. I know one person personally who couldn’t get tested, but the doctors quarantined her at home, and she probably does.

Illinois had 673 cases that were reported and tested for since 230pm yesterday when the last press conference came out. What is known so far are the symptoms that have been presented with mostly all of the COVID patients. At first scratchy throat and cold like symptoms. Stomach problems are sometimes prevalent, and a dry cough. The alveoli in the lungs end up being affected. Those are the small fluid filled sacs inside of the bronchioles. This makes it extremely hard to breathe, and the lungs fill up with fluid. So far there is no known treatment. Most of the people with the virus will get and be able to recover at home just fine. A small portion of the population will contract the disease, and must be hospitalized and put on a Vent… Some will die.

I knew that the virus was serious, but today I was on the New York Times website and I noticed that they had a story on their website as a video that was from a nurse’s perspective. She was saying that they’ve had so many people die that they’ve had to get a refrigerated truck to park at the hospital, and it’s where they’re currently holding the bodies…. That was just completely shocking and unnerving to me. There are still a large amount of people that are not taking the shelter in place order seriously…and it makes  me so anxious that I cannot think about it.

The beginning of march was rough for me. Not really rough because of anything bad happening, but because I ate like SHIIIZ. I’ve been eating bad off and on since then. It’s really hard to stay on track when we only bought specific foods to lower the amount of time we’d have to go to the grocery store. We CAN go to the store if we need something, but I’ve been avoiding the store like the plague. You don’t know who is in the store that’s been affected, and it’s a scary place. I’ve been sending Zach out if there is something that we absolutely have to have.

I’ll get back to it, I just refuse to eat every meal like shit. If I’m going go eat something that isn’t on my plan, I’ll just make sure that the rest of the day isn’t complete and utter shit.

Make sure you are social distancing and wash ya hands!!

Today is the last day of February. I’m typing this from the stair climber at Planet, so forgive me if there are any typos making it hard to read. I like actually getting my thoughts out there by blogging just doing an IG live. A few people tuned in last night which was good; I just always feel so unorganized when I do them. I was telling the folks that tuned in that my plan was today to come to the gym and CRUSH SHIT! The plan is to sweat it the fuck out. I weighed in for a DietBet that I was in, and I won! Still waiting on my weight to be verified; but FUCK YEAH! We have a lot of outings this weekend since it’s my birthday tomorrow!! The big 29! I feel so old, 😹

Figured I’d jump on here and just tell you where I was sitting this morning weight wise, and where I’m hoping to be by the end of this day. I weighed in for my diet get at 254.8. That’s absolutely great, I’m not disagreeing with that. I do however want to be at 250 or less by tomorrow morning!! My goal was 100 down by my bday. (3/1) I think I can do it, depending what I eat today. I have faith in myself. I’ve done crazier things in my lifetime. Today we are going to a close sales event this morning and then meeting up with my dad for lunch at a steak house. They have a killer salad bar, so I’ll just have to be careful on how much I eat, and what I indulge. I do really want to order a steak. Even if I don’t eat all of it, I can bring it home for leftovers. Tomorrow we are going out to breakfast with my mom at a local spot! They hav the best skillets with gravy and hashbrowns!! I’m drooling! 🤣

I haven’t really thought much about what my next mile stone goal is. Guess maybe 225? That’ll be 125 down! My huge goal was to hit 199! That is still my goal, but it’s hard for me to put a time frame on it. I don’t know how long it will take, or how my body will react to doing low carb for so long. We will see. I may have to carb cycle or change up my plan a little bit.

So we are now over halfway through February with about 10 days left. It’s been a whirlwind of a month so far. Everything seemed to be going okay, and then some big stuff happened at work. 4 people were cut from my department of 9. So that’s been a little rough trying to accommodate and get used to new tasks. It’s been great learning new things, but definitely challenging. We’ve had several meetings and things with our boss. Things seem to be going okay so far and none of us are super overwhelmed at this point. The reason I’m explaining a little bit of my personal work life is because it’s directly related to my shit show of how my eating was that week. I was super on track and making amazing progress for February, and then stress happened and I started stress eating. No binging happened, but still ate a lot of things that weren’t on my plan! I’m back on track now and hopefully will finish the month strong, I’m okay with where I’m at right now. I weighed in around 258 something today. Which is amazing. I’ve made great progress this year. I’m proud of myself for recognizing where I was lacking and getting my shit back together after a week of eating poorly. My goal was to be 250 by 3/1 so we will see if I can still complete that! LEGGO!!