Isn't She Beautiful...

Have you ever played raquet ball? I hadn't really until yesterday, and today- I have tennis HAND! My husband and I decided we wanted to work on some cardio at the gym but I was a little bored with the monotonous eliptical machine. So we reserved a court, grabbed two raquets and the little blue ball and went for it.

While my husband was trying to get a ball rally going all I could picture in my mind was this picture::

If you are wondering what the significance of the picture above is, let me enlighten you!

7th and 8th grade P.E.

"LETS HUSTLE GIRLS!!!"
"Enough TALKING and more RUNNING ladies!"
"HANSEN! Quit dilly-dallying and go after the BALL!"

Apparently I have never been much of a hustler when it comes to sports. And nothing miraculous changed yesterday just because I was trying to show off to my husband! Looking back on it now, I am pretty sure most of the working out yesterday was being done by my husband. Poor guy.

But to no avail. I did redeem myself for one slight moment...



And guess what! Lucky Josh... It was HIM that got it square in the face.

Great game babe! GREAT GAME! ;)

ps. Yeah, I wish I could totally take credit for any injury caused to my husband during this test of wills... but the sad truth is I have a HORRIBLE swing. If I ever was lucky enough to actually make contact with the ball, it generally went towards my husband's face. ha! Whoops!

All images were found on BING. I take no ownership to any of these artistic properties... just enjoying them like everyone else!

Yesterday I typed up a blog about what this week entails for me eating wise. My comment responses below that post are quite a bit mis-leading. I have had a lot of GREAT feedback and I wanted to thank you all for your advice and suggestions.

I would also like to mention that Sunday night I will be eating a normal- extra yummy meal for dinner. My free-meal. And then starting Monday I will be eating a normal healthy diet. Infact it will be the same way I ate two years ago... the way I am SUPPOSED to eat. This week was meant to wean myself off of processed foods and sugar. I think it has done its job very well but today I am going to add a LOT more dense nutrient based foods, such as veggetables to my meals. (Thanks Sara! ) :) Keep up the feedback... It actually helped solidfy an inner battle I was having with myself. I will go into it more next week. :)

Love Nikki
A GREAT link my sister-in-law sent me: http://www.choosemyplate.gov/pregnancy-breastfeeding/weight-loss.html and another link: http://kellymom.com/nutrition/mothers-diet/mom-calories-fluids/

Yesterday I had a problem that I never thought I would have. Ever. I struggled eating ENOUGH calories! What, say what? Yes I know. How could someone who LOVES to eat... not have enough to eat?

Well here's the deal. I am also now a nursing mom of a 11 week old. I need to amp this business up or I am going to stop producing milk for her.

So anyway, yesterday I sat down on my "My Fitness Pal" and recorded my last few pieces of food into my food journal and my jaw dropped. I had only eaten 1100 calories in the entire day. Thinking back I knew that I had spilled half of a protein shake in my van (wah wah... bad move!) and had substituted out my hard boiled egg for plain oatmeal with fresh strawberries. Can I add that substituting out my proteins for some carbs was also a HORRIBLE move! I could literally feel the oatmeal eating a hole from the inside of my stomach, creating a path straight to my butt. No joke. Due to this new highway to my butt, I really need to get these cravings under control. The only way to do that is to cut out the carbs as much as I can this first week. That said, because I nurse I need to make sure I am eating at LEAST 1800 calories every day.

So here are what my meals are supposed to consist of (and due to the nightmares I had of big macs and whoppers coming to invade my body, I will make SURE to eat all of my nasty-liscious shakes!)::





Well. There you have it. Pretty much what I have been surving on all week. I guess that explains why I only ended the day with 1300 calories last night. (I had some carrots and cottage cheese, and another egg to increase my caloric intake.) Nothing on here looks THAT good that I am just JUMPING to overeat some more. Is that the point of this first week? Yup. I think so.

Good. Then it's working.

Hello hello my dear readers. And so it has began... and I can hardly move my arms to type this due to HARDCORE working out! :) Yesterday my husband and I weighed in with some new freinds to start off a Spring weight-loss/ lifestyle change contest. Can I tell you a secret? I think I might have punched the scale. I mean... it had to be off right? There's NO WAY I'm back at where I started again. Just no way.

Well, alas it is the sad truth. I have to start over. I know some of you are probably thinking, "eh... no biggie, you know you can do it."

While other's are probably thinking, "YOU IDIOT! How could you do that to yourself again?!!!"

And then there are those who are with me in thinking, "HOLY CRAP BATMAN. I have to do THAT all over again??!" Boy am I in for a ride. *insert face palm here*