Top, me and my beautiful kids

Middle, 4th of July, from left to right, Joseph, my friend Joli and Jessica, Megan and me

Bottom, My great kids at christmas

What do you think?

If you have any good healthy recipes or good advice for me on my journey please let me know. I would love feed back and hear of other stories of success. I feel like I am a good mother, wife, sister, and friend. And that my life is overall very good, but this journey will bring me more happiness, to feel better about myself physically, emotionally, and spiritually. So encouragement and hope from you would be great and hopefully I can add some happiness to you as well!

You are what you eat

What will I eat? Well, I don't know what the kickboxing diet plan is, I will find out on orientation, but my basic plan right now is to eat healthy! Basically like the South Beach Diet, and keeping calories at a good level and eat the healthy food, like the whole wheats and grains, my veggies and my fruits. So, I will keep you posted and I will let you know what my favorite recipes are and how sore I am after I start using muscles that have been sleeping for a couple of years!!

My plan to lighten me!

So I joined a kick boxing extreme bodyshaping class! It lasts 10 weeks 6 days a week for 45 minutes and I am going at 5:15am. I am not a morning person but with 3 kids and not a whole lot of me time, this time works the best for me and my schedule so the day remains the same. In getting the kids ready for school and the rest of the day, getting it done so early forces me to not waste my days being lazy. But I am nervous about the kickboxing because I have never done anything like this. I have been a member of a gym before but I wasn't forced to push myself like this will. I am hoping this will "kick" me into shape. It doesn't start until the beginning of April, but there is an orientation on March 29th. I have to run a mile! Do you know the last time I ran a mile?!?! In high school! and even though I graduated, I didn't go my senior year, so it has been a long time! So because I am thinking I will keel over from running a mile and getting up so early, I have started to get up at 5:00am and running/jogging a mile or two. It is not as bad as I thought. But we will see.....

My story

Hi!! I am Suzie. A little about me, I grew up in Utah for the first 17 years of my life. I then got married to my wonderful husband, Brent, and moved out to Iowa where I now live and plan to live forever!! I love it here! I have three wonderful children, Megan - 6, Joseph - 4, and
Sarah - 1. And someday we would like to add one more to are happy family.
The reason I started this blog is because everyone is doing blogging except for me, right?!?!
No, the reason I am doing this is to help me to journal some of my life and also in my journey to lose some weight before I plan another child. I don't feel particular so "fat" but I am over weight and I would like to be in better physical condition. So I plan on tracking my weight loss on this blog. I am going to put up recipes that I like and share my journey with you and then I can go back and see the progress I have made. Anyway, I hope this all works and that I will have time to update regularly!