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Ok, so today I had the funnest thing happen to me today! I was going to pick up my son Garrison from pre school down in town (actually, I never left town from dropping him at at school because I had worked out before hand and was trying to save some "dough" on gas money! It is a 24 mile round trip from house to town and back) Well, school was over for Garrison and I went to the door to get him from his teacher and I was in my nasty, sweaty work out clothes and as I was walking up to the door, I had several people say that they had seen our "Healthy Edge" stuff!!!! I was so excited!
First of all, we have to magazines out with the WAY awesome profiles on each of us, Christine, Jenn, and I. Then we have that great write up on what "The Healthy Edge" is all about! Well we were so excited (Jenn and I) when we walked into Kody's Fitness Center this morning to work out with Carl AND our articles and profiles were posted all over! IT WAS SO COOL!!! THANKS KITTY AND CLIFF!!!
So because of the magazine write up AND the stuff at Kody's I had 3, yes that is correct 3, people ask me about it and how I was doing!!!! HOW AWESOME IS THAT!!!
Then last week I had a girl on the elliptical machine by me who said she was working out at the gym because she had seen our blogs and decided to come down to the gym and sign up and get fit with us! I AM SO EXCITED!!! I really wasn't sure how people would react to all of this, but I am seriously SO overwhelmed at the positive response we have gotten from everyone. THANKS!!! I love getting your emails and your blog comments, and your letters, and your phone calls! I even got a fax once! THANKS YOU GUYS!!! We hope you keep this up with us for the next year and we will see where this contest will take us!
Michelle 1-12-2009
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
What Christmas Presents Really Mean!
YEAH!!! I got to go and pick-up my Christmas presents today!
To start off with I had to go and get another load of hay for our horses. It wasn't a ton of hay! (hehe for those of us feeding animals right now you know that this is kind of a joke since we usually do buy hay by the ton!) It was about 35 bales in the back of our truck.these are the smaller 50lbs bales so not overly heavy BUT heavy enough that after throwing the first 15 of them up into the back of the truck to my husband I was breathing hard! It was good! I am not complaining because it is just one more way to get exercise into my life. I told Seth, my husband, that it wasn't the hay that was so bad, it was the fact that we were wading through about a foot of snow in our insulated bibs and snow packers!
After we loaded the hay then we had to take it back to our house and get it unloaded and stacked neatly so that the horses can't get into it and eat it all before we feed it out to them!
THEN CAME THE COOL PART....
I got to go and pick up my Christmas presents! Any guesses what my husband got me? I will give you a hint, it has to do with the hay we went and got! :)
YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!! I GOT TWO NEW HORSES!!! That gives us a total of 6 that we now own and I am so excited! One is a younger dun colored mare who is broke and we have been told does really well in the mountains! The other is a gorgeous paint gelding with some very unusual markings on his belly and legs! He is not broke to ride at this moment, so now I have one more horse we need to break! Seth and I also own his sister who have been working with and who we now have green broke and she is only about 22 months old. She is good and we have been told he is even better because of how much more calm he is then her so I am excited to see how he does!
These two horses were in the fields up here in Hayden where Roosevelt City has its water well. We had to go and catch them up which was a fun challenge within itself because they had no clue who we were and while they really wanted the bucket of grain I had (I was trying to bribe them!) they weren't going to let me get close enough to get that lead rope around their neck! Keep in mind I am in my snow packers and insulated bibs which weigh a person down quite a loy anyways and here I am running around through the fields and ditches in about a foot of snow trying to get the horses to calm down and let me catch them.
It was kinda funny because I had to work with them for about an hour before I could get them both caught up and even then Seth and I had to traipse all over hell and back to get them caught up. I was laughing inside because I thought, "if Carl could only see me now!" It was a testament to me though about why it is so important to be in better shape!
I was glad that I have been working on getting in shape the way I have been these last 6 weeks as it is! I know I would have been able to do it even before I started losing weight and getting back into shape, HOWEVER, I would have gone home and DIED! I would have done nothing for a week after doing everything I did today because it would of fatigued me that much.
I am glad that this is not what happened to me today! I came home and while I will admit that I layed in bed for abouot an hour after we got home, it was more because I was freezing to death and was trying to get warm not because I was exhausted! I also took down my Christmas tree today which was no small feat seeing as our tree was over 10 feet tall and fully decorated. Plus I did laundry, cooked some meals, cleaned up the house, AND worked on some presents for my kids to give their friends next week. My whole point of this story is to say that being fit allows a person to do so much more on a daily basis! I am so glad that I am able to fulfill so many tasks that make up my life as mom, wife, and business owner!
AND TODAY it all started with my Christmas presents!
Michelle 12-27-2008
To start off with I had to go and get another load of hay for our horses. It wasn't a ton of hay! (hehe for those of us feeding animals right now you know that this is kind of a joke since we usually do buy hay by the ton!) It was about 35 bales in the back of our truck.these are the smaller 50lbs bales so not overly heavy BUT heavy enough that after throwing the first 15 of them up into the back of the truck to my husband I was breathing hard! It was good! I am not complaining because it is just one more way to get exercise into my life. I told Seth, my husband, that it wasn't the hay that was so bad, it was the fact that we were wading through about a foot of snow in our insulated bibs and snow packers!
After we loaded the hay then we had to take it back to our house and get it unloaded and stacked neatly so that the horses can't get into it and eat it all before we feed it out to them!
THEN CAME THE COOL PART....
I got to go and pick up my Christmas presents! Any guesses what my husband got me? I will give you a hint, it has to do with the hay we went and got! :)
YOU GOT IT RIGHT!!! I GOT TWO NEW HORSES!!! That gives us a total of 6 that we now own and I am so excited! One is a younger dun colored mare who is broke and we have been told does really well in the mountains! The other is a gorgeous paint gelding with some very unusual markings on his belly and legs! He is not broke to ride at this moment, so now I have one more horse we need to break! Seth and I also own his sister who have been working with and who we now have green broke and she is only about 22 months old. She is good and we have been told he is even better because of how much more calm he is then her so I am excited to see how he does!
These two horses were in the fields up here in Hayden where Roosevelt City has its water well. We had to go and catch them up which was a fun challenge within itself because they had no clue who we were and while they really wanted the bucket of grain I had (I was trying to bribe them!) they weren't going to let me get close enough to get that lead rope around their neck! Keep in mind I am in my snow packers and insulated bibs which weigh a person down quite a loy anyways and here I am running around through the fields and ditches in about a foot of snow trying to get the horses to calm down and let me catch them.
It was kinda funny because I had to work with them for about an hour before I could get them both caught up and even then Seth and I had to traipse all over hell and back to get them caught up. I was laughing inside because I thought, "if Carl could only see me now!" It was a testament to me though about why it is so important to be in better shape!
I was glad that I have been working on getting in shape the way I have been these last 6 weeks as it is! I know I would have been able to do it even before I started losing weight and getting back into shape, HOWEVER, I would have gone home and DIED! I would have done nothing for a week after doing everything I did today because it would of fatigued me that much.
I am glad that this is not what happened to me today! I came home and while I will admit that I layed in bed for abouot an hour after we got home, it was more because I was freezing to death and was trying to get warm not because I was exhausted! I also took down my Christmas tree today which was no small feat seeing as our tree was over 10 feet tall and fully decorated. Plus I did laundry, cooked some meals, cleaned up the house, AND worked on some presents for my kids to give their friends next week. My whole point of this story is to say that being fit allows a person to do so much more on a daily basis! I am so glad that I am able to fulfill so many tasks that make up my life as mom, wife, and business owner!
AND TODAY it all started with my Christmas presents!
Michelle 12-27-2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
A NEW MONTH!
A brand new month! I am so excited! I am not so worried about the holiday treats because I have decided to just keep them out of my house!
LOL!!! I know I am mean, but seriously isn't better for my kids too? I figure that we can limit our Christmas meal to something healthy and that will be even better.
AND SANTA IS GOING TO HAVE TO SKIP THE COOKIES IN MY HOUSE!!!!! :) I am sure this is probably sacrilegious in some homes but we figure it won't hurt his waistline either!
So I got to go and workout with Carl again today and he tortured me all over again. YES, I SAID TORTURE!!! He got me to run 20 full minutes! WOW, like I was going to stop with Christine running right next to me. Please she is the one who just had the baby, I can't let her beat me right? LOL! Then we got to go and do bag work. And no, not the bags under my eyes! Just kidding! It was really cool other then fact that my knuckles are killing me now because we forgot to bring gloves or tape for protection. I will not make that mistake again. I got a missing piece of skin on almost every knuckle. OUCH! But it is a good ouch!
I still love Carl...for now! :) Tomorrow may be different when I am hauling magazines around town for delivery! YEAH!!! Make sure to pick yours up off the newsstand ASAP!!! IT IS AWESOME! What til u see the fun things the girls and I put together for you guys this month. AND STILL NO DIET COKE!
Hip - Hip - HOORAY!!!
Michelle 12-1-2008
LOL!!! I know I am mean, but seriously isn't better for my kids too? I figure that we can limit our Christmas meal to something healthy and that will be even better.
AND SANTA IS GOING TO HAVE TO SKIP THE COOKIES IN MY HOUSE!!!!! :) I am sure this is probably sacrilegious in some homes but we figure it won't hurt his waistline either!
So I got to go and workout with Carl again today and he tortured me all over again. YES, I SAID TORTURE!!! He got me to run 20 full minutes! WOW, like I was going to stop with Christine running right next to me. Please she is the one who just had the baby, I can't let her beat me right? LOL! Then we got to go and do bag work. And no, not the bags under my eyes! Just kidding! It was really cool other then fact that my knuckles are killing me now because we forgot to bring gloves or tape for protection. I will not make that mistake again. I got a missing piece of skin on almost every knuckle. OUCH! But it is a good ouch!
I still love Carl...for now! :) Tomorrow may be different when I am hauling magazines around town for delivery! YEAH!!! Make sure to pick yours up off the newsstand ASAP!!! IT IS AWESOME! What til u see the fun things the girls and I put together for you guys this month. AND STILL NO DIET COKE!
Hip - Hip - HOORAY!!!
Michelle 12-1-2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Victories!
So I am not even sure what to name this blog! I am just going to write and put down a few of my thoughts for today.
SO my husband and I went and looked at a couple of new horses that we are going to be getting and I am so excited. Of course the weather is getting cold and I am finding excuses to not ride as much. LOL!! I have hardly rode at all since the elk hunt. Mostly because I feel bad for my mare. SHe is older and I am heavy and I feel bad about making her haul me around.
I am excited though because on Fri I get to meet with Carl again. It makes me nervous too though. He told me yesterday how the bag and I were going to be really good friends...translated this means WORK! :) I am OK with that though. Anyone who knows me can verify the fact that I am a hard worker. That is what it is going to take to get my self out of this ugly situation too, HARD WORK. I have never backed down from a challenage and this is no exception.
I am sure you will hear me complain LOTS MORE before this is over, but understand that just because I am complaining, it does not mean that I am not working!
AND GUESS WHAT...
NO SODAS AT ALL FOR OVER 24 HOURS!!! ACTUALLY 48 HOURS now that I think about it! YEAH!!! Small victories equal large successes, right? I hope so! I need a victory! I need a success!
Michelle 11-26-2008
SO my husband and I went and looked at a couple of new horses that we are going to be getting and I am so excited. Of course the weather is getting cold and I am finding excuses to not ride as much. LOL!! I have hardly rode at all since the elk hunt. Mostly because I feel bad for my mare. SHe is older and I am heavy and I feel bad about making her haul me around.
I am excited though because on Fri I get to meet with Carl again. It makes me nervous too though. He told me yesterday how the bag and I were going to be really good friends...translated this means WORK! :) I am OK with that though. Anyone who knows me can verify the fact that I am a hard worker. That is what it is going to take to get my self out of this ugly situation too, HARD WORK. I have never backed down from a challenage and this is no exception.
I am sure you will hear me complain LOTS MORE before this is over, but understand that just because I am complaining, it does not mean that I am not working!
AND GUESS WHAT...
NO SODAS AT ALL FOR OVER 24 HOURS!!! ACTUALLY 48 HOURS now that I think about it! YEAH!!! Small victories equal large successes, right? I hope so! I need a victory! I need a success!
Michelle 11-26-2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Monday Morning Bliss
Monday mornings are so divine don't you think? I love them! You have had all weekend to psych yourself up for what you are going to do the next week and you know that it will all begin on a Monday morning!
Of course this might also be a way of procrastinating and trying to put off until tomorrow those things that you really should be doing today! I am the QUEEN of procrastination! Oh, do not mistake me...I still get A LOT of stuff done but I am also really good at putting it off.
So this morning my alarm goes off at 6 AM like it always does, and like I always do, I put my phone on silent (this is also my alarm clock cuz I use a Blackberry) so I don't have to listen to my phone chime as all my emails come rolling in from the night while my phone was turned off. Like always, I turned on my TV to Fox 13 and start to watch the news, and like always, I tell myself I need to roll my big set of hind quarters out of bed and do something...you know, like work out! :)
So this has been my daily routine for nearly 2 years now. At one time I did get up at 5 AM every morning and went walking with two of my friends. We would walk in the dark, along side the road every weekday morning for a distance of about 4 miles. And it was a good walk, I mean we had some REALLY big hills we walked up.
So these last two weeks I have been, in essence, psyching myself up for today to get out of bed and exercise on my treadmill before I get my kids up for school. Any guesses as to what I did?
Oh Come On...
I Really Want You to Guess....
Ok....
Here is what I did...
NOTHING!!!
Yes, You read that right, a big fat nothing! In fact I am going to tell you my dirty seceret for today...I made my husband take the kids to school. (normally I do that so I can get myself going in the morning!) AND THEN I LAID IN BED AND ATE 6 HUGE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!! That is AWFUL!!! Actually, I felt really bad about doing that so I immediately got out of bed and by the way, I hardly EVER sleep in. I am normally out of bed and up doing stuff by 7 AM every day, not just on school days! So at 9:30 AM today I went for a mile and a half on my treadmill. I even ran! I went in 2 minute intervals of running and even changed up the incline on my treadmill to give myself an even better work out. I did this for 25 minutes of off and on running and walking and varying my speeds and incline but the whole time making sure I was keeping my heart rate in my target range.
Hopefully I will do this again tomorrow...Only without the cookies and stuff!
Michelle 11-24-2008
Of course this might also be a way of procrastinating and trying to put off until tomorrow those things that you really should be doing today! I am the QUEEN of procrastination! Oh, do not mistake me...I still get A LOT of stuff done but I am also really good at putting it off.
So this morning my alarm goes off at 6 AM like it always does, and like I always do, I put my phone on silent (this is also my alarm clock cuz I use a Blackberry) so I don't have to listen to my phone chime as all my emails come rolling in from the night while my phone was turned off. Like always, I turned on my TV to Fox 13 and start to watch the news, and like always, I tell myself I need to roll my big set of hind quarters out of bed and do something...you know, like work out! :)
So this has been my daily routine for nearly 2 years now. At one time I did get up at 5 AM every morning and went walking with two of my friends. We would walk in the dark, along side the road every weekday morning for a distance of about 4 miles. And it was a good walk, I mean we had some REALLY big hills we walked up.
So these last two weeks I have been, in essence, psyching myself up for today to get out of bed and exercise on my treadmill before I get my kids up for school. Any guesses as to what I did?
Oh Come On...
I Really Want You to Guess....
Ok....
Here is what I did...
NOTHING!!!
Yes, You read that right, a big fat nothing! In fact I am going to tell you my dirty seceret for today...I made my husband take the kids to school. (normally I do that so I can get myself going in the morning!) AND THEN I LAID IN BED AND ATE 6 HUGE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!! That is AWFUL!!! Actually, I felt really bad about doing that so I immediately got out of bed and by the way, I hardly EVER sleep in. I am normally out of bed and up doing stuff by 7 AM every day, not just on school days! So at 9:30 AM today I went for a mile and a half on my treadmill. I even ran! I went in 2 minute intervals of running and even changed up the incline on my treadmill to give myself an even better work out. I did this for 25 minutes of off and on running and walking and varying my speeds and incline but the whole time making sure I was keeping my heart rate in my target range.
Hopefully I will do this again tomorrow...Only without the cookies and stuff!
Michelle 11-24-2008
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