Squat/crunch challenge!!!

First off people I am in no way shape or form a fitness freak but i do however feel like regaining my pre-baby body! after 3 pregnancy back to back I feel drab and i look like a old bag lady or atleast that is the way I feel! I have crohns so working out is more difficult becasue there are days I am in too much pain to move let alone get up and work out. but i am wanting this and I know I have the will power to reach my goal. but if my crohns happens to flare bad and i miss a day i will make it up working harder the next!

I have desided that instead of just a normal work out I will include two challanges just to give myself something more to think about kind of a mental step up i want to breeze though squats and crunches at the end of 30 days, as well as start losing some of the baby fat. i plan on doing a weekly update on this so you can follow the progress. I think that this will help keep me motivated doing it in such a public form!!! ok so here it goes , here are my meaurments taken just moments before writing this out. 

waist: 36 inches
hips:36 inches
thigh:19 inches
bust: 37 inches
upper arm 11 1/2

and lastly here are my before pictures please do not be harsh these are mearly added so you can see the progress .

crohns medication and me

So I went threw i tiny bit of me having crohns and recieved a request to talk about my medications and diet. It worries me someone reading my diet and thinking oh well she does it so I could too. no this is at this point a disclaimer please do not take anything i write as medical advice. each person body is diffrent and everyone has diffrent triggers. I know mine well and know what I can and can not tolorate. I would say take your time and elarn yours and dont follow a fad crohns diet just becasue someone says it will work you know your body better than anyone else even your g.i, only you can say what can and can not work for it. it takes years to know yourself and all of your trigger but it is well worth it. with this being said i will write about my diet and do a part two for my medications!!

Ok so first off i have for straight point diet i can not have milk, anything spicey or with a lot of acid, nothing with a lot of fiber, no pork, beef very rarely, and most veggies are a no no! but i eat healthy im not perfect and some times i eat unhealthy food but mostly i eat very organic and natural i do canning with fresh local fruits and veggies so i can eat that way all year long i stay away from startches as much as i can. and processed foods. as well as fast food. it is a rare treat to eat out, or have some chips!!! i love boiled eggs they dont hurt me. i hate fish so that isnt happening at all yuck!! i try to eat as healthy as i can and watch how much i eat i try not to over eat but hey it happens I will be in some pain but feel better again and move forward. what helps is what I eat everyone in the house eats they have adopted a healthier eating habit and my kids will sit aorund and snack on fruits and veggies all day long. we do have quite a bit of fruits and veggies I cant eat here butthe rest of the family eating healthy makes me happy. they do get mcdonalds every so often I dont deny them what most of us what have grown up with. we simply choose to make it rare and show them that you can make a home cooked meal and it taste good without being frozen or in a box. and yes you can enjoy your food without it being smoothered in grease for every meatl. and it helps that our kids know how to eat healthy even at there young ages they are allowed to make decisions on what they eat and they make the right ones. they even know what I cant eat and will call me out if i am eating one of my triggers! they grew up with me sick it is a normal for them. they are allowed to be included in making some meals and thats what makes some meals better than others when they can help out or sit and watch us. we have adopted this clean eating life style and we love it! i know this isnt a cut and dry i eat this and not this. but the way we eat and prepare our food isnt cut and dry and me listing it out like that will not help anyone we are all indviduals and our body react diffrently!

here are some jams i made i love our jams i could eat them all day long and be just fine!

a smoked brisket with just picked greenbeans something about smoked meat it never hurt me!!!

nuts!!!

hey everyone! let me guess the title got you didnt it lmao. bu bu but its true i love nuts we recently began doing a long missouri tradition of collecting nuts like this time everyone people gather up hop in there trucks and go on the hunt for black walnut trees. It is suprisingly fun and when your looking for them you realize you have been around them everywhere you go without even noticing. the kids all have been in this little adventure with us and they have enjoyed them selfs just as much as us!! its been a couple days and we have filled a trailer not much for an expert nut collector. but that is just fine for us. we have found them all over on ditches in peoples yard with permission of the land owner all over. but it doesnt stop there. we found hickory nuts and hazelnut as well i am excited to see what i can make out of these!!!

this top pic is a few of the hickory nuts we got

thing one and thing two are amazing little helpers they adored it

just a small amount we actully have now this was before we went out today

cave hollow day trip!

so as a parent I am lucky to have kids that enjoy the outdoors and hiking as a last minute decision lastnight i desided that today we would go to cave hollow and let them explore climb around and have some fun! we met a nice group of amish there enjoying the beautiful day and the kids got to have some fun!

he swore he was going to climb it to the top

after seeing steven take off climbing around thing one was hooked he had to climb too

he thought he was soo big climbing around and telling random ppl hi!

butt scooting all the way down!!

 

waving hi 

a wonderful woman who had her girls there offered to take our picture so we could all be in one!

time for eyes!!

ok girlies i went and got covergirl lashblast and maybelline 24hour tattoo eye pigmant. let me just say i am a minimalist with makeup i look to look as natural as possible so me doing a review on makeup is hard I dont like flashy!!

 i really liked the mascara and the eye shadow  it worked amazing and held them the day. I would recommend them both. if your like me and feel naked without something they are great! these are must haves for anyone at all who wear make up! but dont take my word for it try them out yourself and see why I am raving on these two!! have a great night ya'll!!

I have Crohns!!

Ok so my blog is basically all over the place what I feel like talking about one minute is diffrent from the next. I have crohns I am well aware of what i suffer from and what other to be educated and maybe give some other crohnies someone to talk to, to relate to and know that they are not alone. Please feel free to comment message ask questions I am here to help if I can and if I can not I can direct you to who can!
 First off I wont go into full blow medical detail on this blog lets kinda ease into this and I will post a new crohnie blog weekly! I was diagnosed at 17 after numerous drs told my parents i was faking even after dropping down to 80 pounds and losing my hair unable to eat or drink this went on for months untill a wonderful er dr at baycity medical center saw and smelled something was wrong and  admitted me to find I suffer from crohns. I have since lived my life in severe pain and hunger and have learned to push beyond what i thought i couldnt to make my life what it is and to show my children they can do whatever they want! I hate crohns my body is my prison and I cant get away from it my daily life revolves around my medications and what I eat and what I do. I have had drs think I am out for pills because i express the amount of pain i am in i have tryed soo many home remedies that I have basically covered all herbal aspects that could help. I have considered witch doctors, snake healers, and everything in between. crohns is a life sentence and your stuck with it. I have had a fistula removal on each inner thigh leaving nasty scars. this is my life and it is a part of me like it or not. I stick in all aspects of the word when I am sick my bowels could give off enough funk to use in a gas chamber. isnt that nice right lol.

One day there will be a cure And on that day I will be the happiest I have ever been Untill then ponder what would your life be like if you knew you would spend the rest of it fighting with your own body??

Random kitty time

ok so I have a cat really he has us he rules over all us humans like he is our master he came into our family years ago and never left and now he has moved from my parents house to mine and he thinks he is tough shit!!

 next is shinobi she is a mousing ninja who also thinks every kitten is hers she is m.i.a she ran off and got herself pregnant and is rarely seen, cant catch her she is far to fast!

 demon dont let his cute little face fool you he is evil and loved using those razor claws but ohhh soo cute he is currently living it up in the city

  the little kitty with shinobi was a dumped kitty saved but she passed within days again shinobi thought it was her kitten at this point she had yet to have her own kittens

ohh lookie a raccoon please dont preach this was someone pet and they happen to let me give this cute little guy some cuddles and take some pics I love fur babies and he stole my heart!!

now that I got my animal picture in lmao I am maybe calling it a night who know maybe another review!