Ready Set Glow

Good Evening!! I just wanted to share some fun news with y’all! I joined a boot camp that started today online and couldn’t be more proud of myself and nervous for the coming weeks! I have been reading Tina’s blog for a while now over at Best Body Fitness and she has put out an 8-week online boot camp. I was very excited for the opportunity to join and am highly looking forward to the challenge and to see how my body holds up for the next 2 months. 

I can’t share the specifics of the work outs but I just completed Day 1 and phew! I am feeling it in my arms and legs already . Throughout the boot camp I’ll be posting my updates and how I am feeling and progress I am seeing!

Beyond the boot camp my family and I have decided to start our own Biggest Loser! We all could use some weight loss and healthy advancements in our lives and not only because of my wedding a little more than 5 months down the road but also because, well, honestly we all just need it! So that will be another fun challenge and friendly competition that I am hoping the boot camp will help to boost so I can win! (Come on I’m the bride after all!) 

Alright well after 2 workouts today, full day of working and grocery shopping for the week on top of homework I am exhausted and off to bed! Goal for the week: In bed by 10:30 each weeknight (and probably weekends too since we are that exciting here in Indiana). Have a great night everyone!

Ok so many of you may remember back on January 11th, just a typical Wednesday night at home my long-term boyfriend John popped the question! Of course I said and we hugged and cried (ok ok just I cried) and we took it from there! Well since then a lot has happened in terms of our wedding and with going to grad school as well as work it has been hard to update the blog so I figure I’ll forgo school work today during lunch and write! Sometimes it feels so good

We actually have got quite a bit done in a short amount of time, we’ve only been engaged for about 2 months and basically it is all done except for a few small things! We ended up finding the perfect place to get married, a golf course, and it’s great because golf truly brought us together and we both enjoy it so much! The venue and the date all worked out so well together and we’ll be getting married this year on August 24th and we couldn’t be more thrilled .

After the first weekend it all seemed like a breeze (with a few hiccups in between)! Planning a wedding four hours from where you live is a challenge but 100% do-able! In the first few weeks we registered, bought Johns wedding band, got the tux’s picked out and booked our honeymoon! We sent out the save the dates and figured out the guest list (still being worked on). It is a lot of work but I am enjoying about 99.5% of it .

Probably the biggest things that we did, or I did rather, is I said yes to the dress! Of course I can’t post a picture of it because it is one thing I am going to try my best to keep from John but it is stunning! The little details I can give are that is nothing that I have ever envisioned myself to wear before. I had always pictured a sweat-heart neckline with an empire or a-line waist and all lace. I did find that dress and was going between the two. In the end I went with my gut and heart and picked the one I did not even want to try on! (Thanks Mom for pushing me to try it on!). It was actually the 2nd dress I had ever tried and and basically fell in love .

All in all a lot has been done and even more than what I can think of! We’ve menu tasted, cake tasted, picked the invitations and have to order them (on my to-do list today!) set up bridal showers and bacheloretee parties, we’ve hymed and hawed about a bunch of things but have done a good job so far and I can’t be more excited to see what the day turns out to be!

In a little over 5 months I’ll be marrying my best friend and will forever become known as Mrs. B! I’ll be sure to keep y’all updated throughout! I’ll try to get a post out this week sometime about our honeymoon and what we ended up deciding .

Thanks all for sticking through me and better make sure that I am still working on my Glow!

I have been a sorely bad blogger this past month. There are a few reasons but mainly because I have gotten lazy and for that I am sorry. Trying to tackle as much as I have been over the past month has been overwhelming and exhausting at times as well. I am starting to get a hold of this grad school work (just as I finish my first class) and also the wedding planning.

I’ll try and get a nice fun big update this weekend when I have my lull and for the first time in over 2 months have NOTHING planned on the weekend and am in love with that idea.

For the most part I am still holding steady right around that 200 lb mark but hope to break the barrier in the coming days/weeks as I start a new exercise adventure known as the Jillian Michaels 30-Day Shred. I completed Day 1 on Wednesday and have high hopes to complete Day 2 today (Friday) if my muscles allow for it. As it is with anyone who has exercised and then stopped for an extended period of time getting back into the game means pain for the first few days – full week. Currently I look like a penguin waddling around and 100% OK with it .

So please check back I think I am going to work on 2 posts for the week rather than once/twice a day because that evidently has not worked .