Changes in my life.

So what are these changes anyways? 

So what have I been up to lately? I am sure all of my followers are dying to know! (this is sarcasm since I have none). I thought you would never ask.

Many things in my life are beginning to change, physically and spiritually. First off I started the workout program Insanity and let me tell you the name does it justice. I have only done one day of it and that was just the fitness test which is only around 25 minutes. Every other day is forty minutes of non stop insanity! This is the change I am making in my life physically.

I used to be very active in high school. I played three sports and was constantly on the move. I never had time to question if I was in shape. When college started though that was totally different. I was always studying and hanging out with my boyfriend so working out was just never in the picture. In high school it is easy because when you sign up to do a sport you don't have a choice to work out or not, you have to. You have conditioning, practice, open gyms, etc so you are constantly moving and working out.

I am now going to be a sophomore in college this fall and let me tell you, I am not nearly in the shape I was in. I wasn't in amazing shape in high school with amazing abs and a hot body, but I was in shape. So college was something completely different and I did not like it. I liked being fit and being able to run any time we had to do suicides (don't get me wrong I hated suicides but I like that I could handle them). Now if someone asked me to do a suicide I wouldn't be able to do it hardly.

So this is where the change come into play. I am starting Insanity and going hard core every day for two months. I am also going to try to follow their nutrition guide (not diet guide) book as well. This is such a necessity because getting healthy is so important to me and being in good shape and eating right makes you feel so much better about yourself. So I will keep you posted on how that works out. (I could hardly walk this morning...tonight's workout and zumba afterwards should be interesting!)

The major and most important change I am doing right now is making God a priority in my life. I have been a "christian" for about fourteen years but have never truly surrendered my entire life over to God. I started attending church more and it hit me the other day that I can call myself a christian all I want but am I truly living for God? Because if I truly loved God and wanted to life a life like He wants me to... I would me surrounding myself with everything He wanted for my life and not what I wanted. I would not be trying to fit Him into my life but build my entire life around Him.

Going to church is a huge thing for me. For me to be able to walk with God and have a good relationship with Him, I NEED church. I emphasized the need for a reason. I need to be surrounded by people that believe in God and want Him to be the ultimate priority in their life. I need to be convicted constantly that I am in no way perfect, and never will be. I need someone to tell me how being prideful and be selfish is wrong. I need the reminder to be committed to God and be completely selfless and live a life surrendered to Him because living that way will be so amazing that it won't even compare to the life you want to live.

So here I am sitting in church this past Sunday on July 29th and I can feel God telling me I need to recommit my life to Him and do it right this time. I need to become a member of this church and just pour my heart and soul into the people of this world for the cause of Christ. I want to make a change in this world. I want to stand in front of God on judgement day and have Him say "Well done thou good and faithful servant"! So this is going to be a huge change in my life.

Let me be the first one to say I know I am not going to change overnight, I am not going to be perfect, but through God's grace and mercy I am going to live a life pleasing to my Savior.

So I finish this with asking you to pray for me. Anyone who happened to come across my blog and has read this far down, just pray that God would just reign in my life and that I would die to myself daily. This is no easy task....to give everything of this world, and all of your worldly desires up, but I know that when I do this that my life will me more beautiful and more fulfilled than anything I could ever imagine.  <3

I want to get in shape...

I want to get in shape... 

So like every girl does...I was just sitting around on my computer scrolling through Pinterest and I come across this healthy lifestyle sort of blog. I am always intrigued by the before and after pictures where people look decently normal before and then they look amazing, toned, happy, and just plain healthy in the after picture. So I decided to click on this to find out what it was all about and try to figure out exactly how this girl got those kind of results. 

I'll start off by giving you the blog I found so you know what I am talking about:
http://muffintop-less.tumblr.com/post/20737227291/what-an-awesome-transformation

For starters, the moment you click on her blog you will be like HOLY COW when you see her picture and how amazing she looks now! I also love the fact of how much happier she looks as well.

So I have always wanted to get on a daily workout plan, and don't get me wrong I have tried but it always only lasts for a few weeks (wait who am I kidding, like two weeks at max HA) and then I give up, forget, get busy, or find some excuse not to do it. I hate this.

The reason I want to get fit and lose some weight and get toned isn't so I can weigh less or so I can say I weigh lighter, but to live a healthy, happier, more enjoyable lifestyle. I think when girls are working out, eating right, and just being overall healthy in everything that they do, they they look better as well as feel better.

This is going to be hard, but I WANT to....NEED to do it. Eating fast food, desserts, and junk all the time always makes me feel so yucky afterwards anyways. It may be satisfying in the moment, but I regret it afterwards.

I know I am going to have setbacks though. First off, I hate most healthy foods. I hate fish, most veggies, and tea. Soooo that is going to make this hard, but I am willing to try things over and over again! I also am on the go alll the time so finding time to cook healthy meals just seems so hard to me but I am going to try to do my best. I gotta figure out how to plan ahead, because you know what they say..."If you fail to plan, you plan to fail"!

So first I think I need to stop eating all the crap and at least trying to stick with a basic workout. I don't know much about working out, weights, and supplements though so I will really  have to do some digging to find out what all that stuff is about and how to go about it.

I was trying out a gym with my boyfriend for a few weeks, but never found the time to go since it was 20  minutes away. I couldn't get myself to pay the monthly fee as well as pay for the gas to drive there and back. So I may need to reconsider this! I just wish I had someone nearby who could join me! Having someone wanting what you want and encouraging you makes things so much easier!! 

I also have another problem....I am madly addicted to coffee! Not the black coffee that won't hurt you, but the "fru fru" coffee from Starbucks :// Getting over this habbit is going to be HARD for me...and I mean HARDDD~

So we shall see how this goes. I am on vacation right now though so I can't really cook with the little that we have right now in our hotel room but I get back this weekend so hopefully I can start then!! Until then I guess better selections, lots of water, and exercise in between laying out will have to do :) 

If anyone wants to be my personal trainer....let me know ;) that is, if you are free! ha