Using those healthiest foods :)

Hey Everybody, :)

I'm super happy this evening I've had a great day. I finally made it to the gym which felt great it was a relatively short workout timing in at just an hour but I feel good about it I stretched the time well between half an hour on the eliptical steady at a crossramp of 5. I then did my arm weights and some floor exercises on a balance ball. I need to get better on that though I am not so sure if I'm doing those right. The best part of today though is that I've been looking forward to making dinner for almost a week now. I love to cook and I like to try new foods. I haven't had the money or time to buy the healthy creative ingredients I need to make the dinners I do. So I put that list I picked up at the gym of the 23 healthiest foods to good use tonight. I made a full dinner using completely all the foods from that list. I made parmesan herb chicken with baked sweet potatoes with a honey orange sauce and a grilled garlic broccoli dish. It was all pretty delicious I just have a habit of over cooking food especially meat and since I cook chicken more often than any other meat my success rate of overcooking it is astronomical. So of course thats what I did tonight. My mom thought it was amazing although she loves almost every food she eats overcooked. It was really good I would love to make it again maybe not cook it quite so much though. Oh I almost forgot about the best part DESSERT, yes I said DESSERT and I stuck with the healthy theme too. :) I made a peach-blueberry Crumb dessert and instead of topping it with ice cream or whipped topping, either would have probably ruined the whole dinner, INSTEAD I topped it with vanilla yogurt, and it was DELICIOUS!!!!!!

Enough about dinner, now onto THE BIGGEST LOSER :) I have a new crush. Darius. My mom started it seeing how him and I are very similiar people. She's trying to get me to get in contact with him. I found him on facebook. I feel kind of goofy like I'm stalking him or something lol. I guess it would just be really cool to talk to somebody that had been on the biggest loser. Hell he might even WIN!!! :) And he's kinda cute too ;) Now that my great day is coming to an end i gotta get a load of laundry in so I have work clothes tommorow. :( I'm looking forward to my weekend. I'm going to see a kid I went to high school with sing at a club in Bowling Green he was on American Idol, his name is Luke James. Thats on Thursday then Saturday is my best friends birthday so we're going out. It should be an awesome weekend. Hope to hear lots of encouraging comments from everybody soon. BYE

23 healthiest foods

Hello Everybody,

• So sorry I haven't been posting very much latley. With the nice weather we've been having lately I haven't been going to the gym very much. However that does not mean that I have not been exercising, I've been taking a couple of walks outside. With the dog without the dog in different places. I figure it's not too bad to get away from the gym for a week as long as I jump back in and start right back where I left off at. I'm thinking if I can get my laundry done tommorow morning I'll go do a nice long workout going swimming and everything I am sad to say I haven't done that in a really long time so I think it's well over due. I also have continued to attend the Oregon Y on Wednesday and Thursday evenings after I get off work at Bob Evans. As y0u can see I haven't been posting much cause I don't have much to say. I have alot going on outside of my world of weightloss so..... it's kindof taking presidence right now unfortunatly. BUT I am happy to say just because I have other things going on I have not fallen offf the wagon. And I am continuing to feel my clothes getting looser and certain parts of my body changing as well. I have made one change in my workout routine and that is that I have changed my dumbell weight from 5 to 8 lbs I'm not sure if I put that in the last post I did or if I was just trying to make that change at that time. BUt I've done it now so thats what matters :) Also I've made myself a new goal. I have two weddings comming up this spring early summer. A good friend of mine from high school is getting married in May and one of my cousins is getting married in June so my current goal is to get my arms firmed up and looking decent enough that I don't feel like I need to cover them up at the weddings. I have this dress that I absolutely LOVE if I'm feeling really ambitious I might take a picture of it and post it but anyways I bought it myself about 3 years ago for a wedding and it's the only dress I own that fits anyways it's strapless so because I've always hated the way my arms look .... flabby and stretch marks and I have these spots on my arms that look like acne but I don't think it is I'm not sure I've always had them anyways moral of the story is that I don't like my arms so I've been doing some intense weight lifting not like a body builder intense but like focusing on them big time everysingle workout doing like 5 different exercising just on my arms and attempting to accelerate my length of time in low weights. Anyways thats what I have going on now.

So I found this list at the gym of the top 25 healthiest foods to eat. SO I thought I'd share it with all of you. :) I hope you enjoy. I found it very interesting. They are in no certain order just random healthiest foods to eat.....

23 my bad

• Salmon
• Oatmeal
• Beans
• Walnuts
• Tofu
• Soy Milk
• Carrots
• Sweet Potatoes
• Red Bell Peppers
• Tomatoes
• Cantaloupe
• Greet Tea
• Flax Seed
• Dark Chocolate
• Almonds
• Tuna
• Brown Rice
• Blueberries
• Spinach
• Asparagus
• Oranges
• Acorn Squash
• Papaya

Hey everybody,

I have been wanting to do this for awhile but I'm finally getting around to it. I want to provide my Workout Playlist that I have on my Mp3 player. I will caption next to each if it's one I really like to jam out to or if it's one that really inspires me or even one that I don't normally listen to but I think it might be nice to work out to some day lol. SO I hope you enjoy and maybe take some of them and use them yourselves or if you have any suggestions I would love that too. THANKS

1. Proud - Heather Small (this is the Biggest LOser theme song... it inspires me a ton always reminds me to do something to make me proud of myself for the day. :)
2. Jump around - House of Pain
3. 7 Things - Miley Cyrus
4. I'm Commin Out - Diana Ross - this song inspires me alot I feel like it's kind of an anthem to my journey. :)
5. Loveshack - B52's (always been a favorite of mine... very fun song )
6. Dancing Queen - Abba
7. ABC 123 - Michael Jackson
8. Ain't Goin Down till the Sun comes up - Garth Brooks
9. All I want to do - Sugarland
10. All the Small things - Blink 182
11. Battlefield - Jordan Sparks
12. I get around - Beach Boys
13. Believe - Britt Nicole
14. Bidi Bidi Bom Bom - Selena
15. Bills Bills Bills - Destineys Child
16. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
17. Old Time Rock and Roll - Bob Segar
18. Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
19. Born to Handjive - Grease
20. A new day has come - Celine Dion
21. Cold as Ice - Foreigner
22. Crazy Bitch - Buck Cherry
23. Ready to Run - Dixie Chicks
24. Do Wa Diddy - Beach Boys
25. Dollhouse - Pricilla Renae
26. Down - Jay Sean
27. Dream Weaver - Peter Frampton
28. Electric Slide - Dance Mix - Abba Medley
29. Cleaning out my closet - Eminem
30. The real slim shady - Eminem
31. Everyday America - Sugarland
32. Family Affairs - Mary J. Blige
33. Footloose - Kenny Loggins
34. Funhouse - Pink
35. Give me the beat boys - BOb Segar
36. Gotta be something more - Sugarland
37. Hangin Tough - New Kids on the Block
38. Heaven is a place on Earth - Wilson Phillips
39. Hips don't lie - Shakira
40. Hold On - Wilson Phillips ( Great song I love to work out to it very inspiring)
41. I got you babe - Sonny and Cher
42. I got a feeling - Black eyed Peas
43. I want this forever - Drake
44. If I could turn back time - Cher
45. IT Happens - Sugarland
46. IT's a great day to be alive - Travis Tritt
47. SOn of a preacherman - Janis Joplin
48. Me and bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
49. Empire State of Mind - JayZ Alica Keys
50. Jock Jams
51. Ain't that America - John Cougar Mellancamp
52. Life Goes ON - " "
53. Rockin in the USA
54. Small Town
55. Summer of 69
56. Walls come crumblin down
57. Sold - John Michael Montgomery
58. Don't stop believin - Journey
59. Just Dance - Lady Ga Ga ( I usually don't like her songs but this is a great workout song )
60. Just stand up - Maria Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, + alot others
61. Larger than Life - Backstreet Boys
62. Lets get it started - Black eyed peas
63. Lose Yourself - Eminem
64. Man in the mirror - Michael Jackson ( I always rock out to this song inspires me alot )
65. Don't stop till you get enough - Michael Jackson
66. HoeDown Throwdown - Miley Cyrus
67. Stop in the name of love - diana ross and the supremes
68. Mr Bigstuff- Arethra Franklin
69. My Humps - Black eyed peas
70. Natural Woman - Arethra Franklin
71. RESPECT - Arethra Franklin
72. No Scrubs - TLC
73. Bye bye bye - NSYNC
74. Party in the usa - Miley Cyrus
75. I can see clearly Now - Peter FRampton
76. Pickin Wildflowers- Jason ALdean
77. Rehab - Amy WInehouse
78. RIght Round - Flo RIder
79. Run this town - JayZ
80. Settlin - Sugarland
81. Shake ya tail feather - nelly
82. She's a wild one - Faith Hill
83. Sideways - Dierks Bentley
84. SIngle Ladies - Beyonce
85. So What - Pink
86. Step by Step - Whitney Houston
87. The Climb - Miley Cyrus
88. The Lost get found - Britt Nicole
89. YMCA - village People
90. This one's for the girls - Martina McBride
91. Thriller - Michael Jackson
92. Tick tock - Kesha
93. Watermelon Crawl - John Michael Montgomery
94. we are family - sister sledge
95. where is the love - black eyed peas
96. wherever whenever - shakira
97. wild nights - john cougar mellancamp
98. yeah - usher
99. can't hurry love - diana ross
100. Independant Women - Destineys child
101. bootylicious - destineys child
102. Survivor - Destineys child
103. Jumpin jumpin destineys child
104. say my name destineys child
105. where my girls at destineys child

Ok it was longer than I thought sorry it got a little messy towards the end I am in a hurry I'm on the way to the gym and i have to get my laundry out of the dryer first :) enjoy