On a Journey.. To be a Better Me

I am on a journey to lose weight... to get fitter... to love myself again.

A month ago I started back at working to be ME again.  MY old me that I loved being... fit with energy.  Feeling pretty and comfortable in my own skin.

For accountablity purposes i wanted am  posting my before pics.

On May 4, 2013, I started and weighed in at 208.  One month after June 4, 2013 and I am at 200.

 

These pictures are hard to look at but most definately  remind me to keep going.

Many years ago .... I went through this journey and went from 180lbs to 140lbs... and i did it by pure excercise and eating healthier.   So here we are 12 years later in the same predicament except I am at 200+ and would love to loose 60 lbs. to get to 148.  

It CAN be done and it Will be DONE!

Entering giveaways

I as usual during xmas time am busy entering giveaways.  Hey anything to help my pocket book these days especially since I am doing this solo this year.

Over at 3princes and a princess she a great giveaway for a kids foot locker giveaway. 

My oldest has new shoes on his xmas want list and this would come in handy.  Wish me luck as usual.

New app

So today I installed the blogger app on my phone.  So I should be able to blog more often then before.

Here is an updated picture of myself. Since I hadn't uploaded one in forever.

I still have 4 kids, still work at the same place. But I am in a way a new person.  I see things in a better light. I know I cannot livee miserabely forever.  So the great change of 2013 is well on its way.  I turned 30 this year and started worring a bit more about myself and looking and purging things in my life that I no longer need and keeping those things I do.

I have learned I am an independent woman that who legally am married but in reality is a single parent and single emotionally.  1st big change that I proably should have dealt with a long time a go.  So the divorce process will be on its way.  Looking for lawyers is not an easy thing making things easy for my kids will in reality not be easy.

But I am in a better place spirtually.  Which is great because without god we are nobody!

tis the season for giveaways

From many. of mypost in the past ... all should know that I love shabby apple.  And once again have found a great giveaway for a ....drum roll please... $75 dollar giveaway to Shabby Apple.  Over at The hollierouge. So check her out she has some pretty cool tutorials. 

Holiday findings....

So christmas is around the corner and with my big family I have to do what ever possibel to get gifts and nice stuff for them  so even though I haven't been posting lately.... I will be beacause mama needs to WIN, WIN, WIN !!!

So movies are a big hit always with the kids and sisters so I found some very nice giveaways over at  The Mommy Files.

She has a few movies to giveaway:

Crazy Stupid Love ends 11/13/2011


Johnny English end 11/13/2011: this prize includes a $25.  fandango to go see the new Johnny English movie.


Then the last movie I saw just today is ... drum roll please.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2″ DVD


As always wish me luck ... so I get some cool treats for the kiddos... because my life truely revolves around them.

Shabby Apple ...Giveway

I have found yet another Shabby Apple dress giveaway.

Over at Bibbidi Bobbidi Beautiful she has a  Shabby Apple dress giveaway!

for the dress shown...its it gorgeous but you only have until today at midnight to enter so go go go!!!!

Resos De Mi Madre / Prayers From My Mother.

I come from a very religious, Catholic to be exact,  family with great faith in God and Jesus and of course the Virgin de Guadalupe.  So when the world gets tough my parents pray and let me tell you they pary alot.

My dad prays this pray which I do not know the name of, Its long and its like a mini book... My abue gave it to him.  He prays it everyday and keeps it in his pocket.   My mom is a devoted persona as well, she prays many prays and many she has memorized.

So when life gets tough ... .

My mom gives me estampillas and little prayer books to pray and God/Jesus should help me in my time of need.   So my husband as been unemployed for quite some time and had finally found a job, but then got laid off on Friday.   So what does my mom do she gives me two prayers to pray.

La Magnifica
        y
La Oracion A San Miguel

Now feeling in despair, I too am becoming a prayer not because i feel desperate but because I have truely seen the power of prayer and what it can accomplish through my parents devotion. I will be posting each prayer to share with all.  So I hope all can find a little bit of sunshine at the end of the tunnel.

Ciao
Vanessa