15 on Friday

1. This kind of stuff always freaks me out... I don't care what the scientific reason is:


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Hundreds of Stingrays found dead on the beach in Mexico.

2. I almost got pooped on by a bird...INSIDE of my car the other day. I was sitting at a red light with my window rolled almost all the way down and my arm sitting right beside it when a bird came out of no where and pooped on my window. It was at the very top of my window and if it had been an INCH of difference it would have been all over my ARM! I was freaking out looking like around like I had been shot... and then I smelled it. OMG. I may never be able to ride with the windows down again.


3. It was Heroin.
 
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4. My husband just yelled at his phone, "BUT WHAT TIME IS IT?!" I asked what in the world he was talking about and and he said that, "Rick Grimes just instagramed a new trailer comes out on July 19th and I need to know what time!" We may have a problem here.

5. We have a new member of the family this week! We are dog sitting for a friend and now poor Tyson has to put up with queen Olive for a week.

 

 

    He makes the craziest faces!!!

6. Did I tell you guys I have been eating salads everyday? This is huge in case I didn't because I just recently started liking salads. Things are really changing around these parts.

7. How many different patterns can one woman wear?

 

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8. This is all she does... laziest dog alive. 

 

9. Gotta love emoji messages from the husband...

 

Who knows where Tight butt hole comes from!?! Hint: It's not XXX rated.

 

10.  19 Signs you're too old for this crap.

Although, I still love a good dress up party and cupcakes.

#6 Don't even get us started on festivals

 

 

11. THIS ONE is for Paula

 

12. I don't WANT this. I NEED this...

Lies we all say to ourselves.

13. Bethenny Frankel is breaking my heart with out she is ripping up her marriage and trying to cut her daughters father out of her life... Jason was such a good guy. Stop it Bethenny I really want to keep loving you but you're making it hard.

14. Is Lamar REALLY cheating on Khole?!

15.
 

Work it out

I haven't talked about what I'm doing work out wise in a awhile so let me fill you guys in. About a month or so ago after doing a personal training session at our gym CK and I decided to start doing more strength training workouts and less elliptical running. The trainer made a really good point about how we should add muscle to burn more fat and basically it all made sense and we decided to do it.

Since then we have been waking up in the mornings and going to the gym before work. I figured if I go to the gym Monday-Friday that gives me weekends off and most importantly CK and I get to spend more time together. It's really hard waking up in the mornings but we have been doing it and I have to say we have both grown to absolutely love starting our days together. CK still gets all pissy when I tell him I'm going to bed at 9pm but he's getting over it. Not to mention working out with a partner is a lot better than going at it alone. (Except when he says, "that's not the finish line keep going" when I'm about to die from not being able to breath.) Anyways, long story short he has lost 13 lbs since we started and I have lost 6 lbs. (Men lose weight so easy. Bastards) I'm extremely happy with what has been going on in my body though and I'm starting to see my stomach get smaller... I mean nothing drastic yet but I can tell I'm adding muscle and it is encouraging me to keep working hard.

We have been doing really good in the food department too. I heard something simple awhile back and for some reason it just now started sticking in my head and it's actually working.
FACT: To lose weight you simply have to make more GOOD choices than BAD.
Do I want a donut? That is a BAD choice. Do I want a salad for lunch? Yes, that is a GOOD choice and so on and so fourth. I feel like I have to make 99 GOOD choices before I'm allowed one BAD choice. It's hard but I'm pretty focused and for almost a month now I have stuck to my guns and I'm not miserable.

I'm taking it day by day... I have A LOT of weight to lose and I'm focusing on going slow. My goal is to lose just 1 lb a week. If I lose more that's awesome but I get so discouraged when I set goals and don't meet them. I will overcome this. I will succeed. I will be healthy.

Here are some examples of the workouts we do: First off 5min warm up on the mill and at the end of our leg/arm workout we get on the treadmill to do a mile as fast as we can.

Leg Day: We start off with squats/wall sits/lunges - Then we push this across the gym  (a REALLY freaking long way) & back.

You put a weight on the ball side and grip it and then use that to bend over and push the ball across the floor:

It's horrible. It's amazing. I do this at 6AM. I almost die everyday but I'm ALMOST able to go back and forth without having to stop. I WILL do this without stopping by August. When I first did this with my personal trainer I had to stop about 7 times. Now I only stop once...on the second round I get so out of breath and my legs burn so much that I stop. I get closer and closer to the finish line every time... soon.

Then we do the weights. All of them. OR we switch it up and do a workout I find on Pinterest. Here is one we have done several times and it is NO JOKE. It is AMAZING and Jumping Jacks suck so bad but damn it they work.

Are you following me on Pinterest yet?

ARM DAY: I love arm day the most. We do the warm up first and then we do abs/arms/and weights.

We start off abs with a lot of planks and then go through a series of workouts on the mat. Here is an example of what we do:

We also do butt lift ones, different kinds of planks etc. etc. We have been really good about switching stuff up so that our bodies never know what is coming. After abs and arms we go to the weights and do all of them that the gym has to offer. We also recently starting going over to the free weights section of the gym and I have been partying with big boys doing bench presses, leg lifts, etc.

We also do Cardio days where we get on the Treadmill and get in as many miles as we can in 35-50 mins depending on how much time we have. For example this week we are did Legs Tuesday / Cardio Wednesday / Arms Thursday / Cardio Friday. We were exhausted on Monday so we slept in. Hey, sometimes your body needs rest...we are building up slowly to the 5 times a week.

That's the gist of what I've been up to lately. I'll post about workouts every once in awhile to keep you guys updated. I can't wait to watch my weight loss number grow!

Whale watching on the Salish Sea

The last day we were in town we went on a whale watching tour with San Juan Excursions:

Leaving Friday Harbor

 

While cruising out into the Salish we passed so many beautiful homes. I was talking with one of the stewards and she was telling me all about how on some of the islands there are no cars at all and the trash ferry only comes once a week. Most of the homes don't even have electricity (all the fancy ones do we are talking about the original locals) She even told us a joke: That you either have 3 houses or 3 jobs in San Juan. A lot of the really really rich guys (CEO of Oakleys, Google, etc.) have vacation homes here. Sometimes even more than one.

A shot of the Cattle Point Lighthouse that we hiked to the day before.

 

And then... we got really lucky and found a transient pod of orcas!

There were 7 of them total 4 adults and 3 babies. They were super active and our guides kept talking about how lucky we were because the day before they couldn't find any all day. Note: If you do go on a whale watching tour and you don't see any whales most places give you a rain check and you get to go on another cruise to try again! It's good advice to plan a tour at the beginning of your trip not at the end like us. Thankfully, we got to see whales but it would have sucked leaving with a rain check and not know when we were going back.

There were several other boats in the water and we were all watching these guys. They played and played for our entire 3 hour trip. It's against the law to be within 200ft of them but sometimes they swim close to you and you have to turn off your engines. I was excited they swam closer because I got a lot of really good close ups. I want to edit these but I still have no idea how to use photoshop.

Seeing them jump all the way out of the water was my favorite. I asked how much they weighed... eight TONS! That's a lot of power being used right there.

 

 

It was an amazing way to end our trip. I learned so much about whales from our guides which were terrific. We went out with San Juan Excursions and you can check out all their pictures from the day we went out HERE. Ignore the terrible picture of me on there. I blame the camera.

 

Now time for me to state some facts. DO NOT go to any Sea worlds or places that have whales in captivity. These whales are endangered and they aren't supposed to be doing tricks in a big fishbowl they should be in the oceans living out their lives. It was disgusting to learn how these businesses treat the animals and how they lie and bribe people to keep them in captivity. They are supposed to be rehabilitating injured whales but they never allow the whale to be released. It's a lot of terrible information that you can read about here. Please don't support these businesses by giving them money. If you want to see a whale, go see them in the wild. It doesn't even compare to Sea world and it is way better to see them jumping of their own free will. Right now I am hoping that Lolita can be FREED from the Miami Seaquarium. You can follow the group on Facebook here. Her family is a resident pod in the San Juans where we were! Lolita needs to come home and she needs our help! They also post about different whales and issues that have come up all the time. Educate yourself people...this stupid crap has got to stop.

 

That pretty much wraps up our trip to the San Juans. I highly suggest this vacation spot to everyone and I want to go back again one day and explore the other islands.