I don't know how many of you can relate to this, but my willpower sucks! I am able to do well on my diet all day and then as soon as I get home from work at about 8 I give in and eat unhealthy!! I am an emotional eater, a bored eater, and definitely have set up my schedule of eating for failure. I do not want to spend my 30's in the 200's! Last night I had Wendy's late at night, I will not do that again! I had 1300 calories before that and I should have been done.
 Today I have worked out for an hour and burned over 300 calories so today is a good day so far. I am breaking my goals down even more than just 20 pounds by March 1. I want to lose 5 pounds by next Monday. I'm changing my strategy just a little by doing this but it will work, it has too :).
 On a different note, who's excited for the Super Bowl?? Or who, like me, didn't even know who was playing until yesterday? I have never been a huge sports fan, I grew up in a house with a brother and dad who were (and still are) huge fans, so when I was little I promised myself that when I was an adult and could pick what I wanted to watch, it would not be sports! I will be watching the game for the commercials and the family time though, I will admit that it is good for tradition building.
 HAPPY TUESDAY!

      

                                   

Can't breath, sneezing, and have a presentation first thing this morning. Woohoo for Mondays!! I have set a pretty huge weight loss goal though and I NEED to do well with my diet or it will not work :( I have 5 weeks until Vegas and I want to lose 20 lbs! I can do it, I just need willpower, and lots of time at the gym.

I got glasses today!! I know lots of people have glasses, but in my family you don't get them until you are 'older' (like in your 30's, to me that used to be old) now I, myself am old. Thankfully, they are super cute frames :)

On another note, can anyone inform me how to please my husband AND my family at the same time! I somehow managed to get in a fight with both and you'd think it was because it was trying to please both, but alas, no, I was trying to please one so I would only get one mad at me and somehow that backfired. No idea how that happened, but oh well, maybe I'll just forget them both and go shopping :)

I am already a couple of weeks into the semester and I have YET to attend a full week of classes, I'm horrible I know. I have been a busy bee (what am I 80, who says that). I have kept up completely on all my homework for all 5 classes though and I am quite proud of that. Another positive, I completed a goal paper for my cardio class and my goal is to lose atleast 15 pounds by May, I am going to try to do this by my trip to Vegas in March. After that I want to lose more for the trip to Vidcon in June! I am so excited for this year, I am going to take it one day at a time and I will succeed. I will post a before picture on here soon and then at the end of this semester I will post a 'where I am at now' pic. I also want to take 3 minutes off my mile and a half. Stay with me and I know that I can do it.

Here's where I am at so you guys can hold me to it. Starting weight 233. Starting mile and a half 20 minutes.
Starting dress size 20.
Goals by May: Weight 210. Mile and a half 17 minutes. Dress size 16. :)

Two little boys have gone back home and we are back to normal (whatever that is) here. Up at 6:30 do homework, wake Austin up, take him to school, work out, take me to school :) and then work 10 hours. Isn't being normal fun.

Lesson I learned yesterday......NEVER, EVER, EVER wake up a 80 lb 9 year old in a deep sleep while standing over him! I tried to wake up my cute little nephew so he wouldn't sleep in his clothes, I was trying to get him to get his pj's on :) and he startled awake and sat up so fast that he got me in the face with his head. Lovely fat lip and pain in my nose for today.

Today is home school day here for the boys, they are excited to have Aunt Stephanie be their teacher for a couple of days and I am excited to teach them.

Is it just me or does it seem crazy that I already have my first two tests this week? Biology and Algebra, my two hardest classes to boot. This semester is either going extremely fast or my teachers are taking great joy in giving us our tests really early in the semester. This might mean that I have an extreme amount of tests this semester too, dang, never thought of that.

Having three little boys in the house this weekend seems to fill the house with a lot of fun awesome life and activity, but also a lot of conspiring little whispers that result in answering the question 'What's going on?' with three little voices saying 'nothing' in unision. I don't quite believe it :) I better go see what's happening.

Ready, set, go!!!! Crazy weekend started! Our little nephews are here until Tuesday which is awesome for Austin. He loves  having other kids to play with. It is really crazy having a 2 hour math class on Saturday, hopefully I will have my new glasses by next week though so that I can see the whiteboard though. That's right, you heard me, glasses, I know a lot of people wear them (everyone in my family) but for some reason needing glasses combined with turning 30 in March is really making me feel old and it sucks. Logically I know it's silly and I'm not old, but no one ever accused me of being logical :)

Good morning! So, I promised that I would post on here how long it took me to run a mile and a half in my cardio class yesterday, so here goes......20 minutes!! AAAGGHH, that sucks! However, it's a starting point and I will improve by the end of the semester, I'm sure of it. Today is going to be busy and is it just me, or does everyone get stressed and anxious when a schedule gets messed up? I am missing school today, Monday, and Tuesday and it's making part of me just crazy. The other part of me realizes that it will be fine, I have all my homework done and I am missing it for a good cause (watching my nephews all weekend). I am totally having a nap today!

Off to start mine and Austin's day! Wish us luck :)

I have to tell you how much is sucks to have a little boy who breaks his arm in HALF and doesn't cry until a month later when he gets his cast off. My poor little boy is hurting today! On the bright side I am eating freeze dried mangoes that my cardio class teacher handed out for a healthy snack, and they taste awesome!

Good morning all. What a fun morning, :P A little boy with no backpack and on my way to run a mile and a half for school. Uggh, craziness. Today I'm going to go read more blogs so I can get an idea about how these things work, as it stands I'm treating it like a public journal, or is that too weird?
  I have to say that there are some stupid people in the world, but at the moment none compare to the Captain of the cruise ship went down. His new excuse, he tripped while helping passengers off the boat and landed in a life raft! Are you kidding me, did you then accidentally fall on the motor and make it drive away, and then the radio to the coast guard and refuse to get back on the ship? What a scumbag who needs to go to jail.

Welcome to my blog :)

Hey everyone!!! This is my first blog! For those of you coming from our vlog, be prepared to hear more from me here than any vlog. I am way more comfortable writing things down than being on camera. For those of you just coming here, my family and I have a daily vlog titled theresgabe on Youtube. I made this blog as a homework assignment for a technology class, but I have wanted to make one of these for awhile. This will just be my daily life blog, school, weight loss, being married, house-cleaning, everything will be covered in here.

Welcome and Enjoy.