Beach to Bay 2011

Just wanted to share my 'goal achieved' story with you real quick...

Beach to Bay is a 6-leg relay race that is held in our city, Corpus Christi, every year around this time and (smart) people start training for this thing, oh about the beginning of the year...it's pretty intense.  Each leg ranges from about 4 miles to nearly 6!! Crazy, huh? Anyway, well you fellow bloggee here decided to run this race! As you might remember I had the goal set to participate in a 5k run in April...you can check that off...and then it was this, Beach (all the way) to Bay! I ran a 4.2 leg and passed the baton alive :) It was such a feeling of victory!! Here is a picture of me just as I was slowing down, I mean finishing up...

Launch of 'A Stellar Find'

I'm stoked to finally announce with great confidence, the launch of what was once my side hobby for nearly 4 years...A Stellar Find!! Whoohooo! Thank the Lord for those He has placed in my life to speak encouragement, wisdom and boldness to me! The renowned, Tim Storey, is coming back to my church, Solid Rock, and in his promo video he said, "Someone's gonna start something...someone is gonna step outta the box and do something they've never done before!" Oh Mr. Tim...God is speaking to me brotha and I'm listening!! 
Earlier this month I hosted my first trunk show (I'll post pics soon!) and it was a great success. There I had the opportunity to show some of my little this and that's and it turned out to be a big financial gain for me :) I was definitely surprised because of course I had that little doubt, wondering if people would think it's cheesy or not cute, but I was wrong!! Off that profit I have been able to order more of a variety of products and of course, more ideas have been flooding in.  I'm looking forward to all God is going to do with this, so stay tuned!! 
Here are my links to the Etsy store and Facebook :)


A Stellar Find [Facebook]
A Stellar Find [Etsy]
**you'll see prices vary...the Facebook site is more for locals, so I don't have to charge shipping or include charges from Etsy**

Anywho...thanks for stopping in.  I hope this will inspire and encourage YOU to start something!!

Love,

Weight Watchers Baby!!!!

"So, how was your weekend everyone?"
"Ah well, me and my husband fought and I ate and whole pint of ice cream cause I was mad at him"
"Oh my. Well, would you like to talk about that pint of icecream?"
At that moment I thought to myself...am I at an overeaters anonymous meeting or Weight Watchers? Ha ha. I'm gonna love this place!!
Yes, bloggers...I told you I would and I did! Yesterday was my first meeting and I reeeeeally feel like this is going to be a huge success.  Thankfully I dragged my friend with me to join (she actually really wanted to come, too) and we got all registered to begin the fight for our pre-baby bodies back! 
So let me tell you...I totally recommend WW even though I haven't even had a "success story" yet. The fact that you don't have to buy their foods or order any premade meals is already great.  The support is amazing already, too.  
Now...the bad news. In January I weighed in at 176, then lost about 5 lbs, then gained 3 lbs, and yesterday the scale read 173.6 lbs. So for that April goal that ends in about 4 days...it definitely won't read a 20 lbs drop, but it'll be some :).  My 5% goal weight with WW is 8.5 lbs...now of course there is no set date to reach that 5% goal, but I definitely want to meet that in the month of April.  With WW they would assume you to lose from 1-2lbs a week, now if I can shoot for that would only get me about 6lbs down, but because I'm going to be working extra hard, I can set that goal for myself! 
Anyway...get back to ya soon!!

The countdown begins...blah

Hello blogging beauties :)
I thought I'd make an entry for a few reasons...catch-up, update, and officially mark the countdown. Now I don't know if I'm the only person in the world to think about this so much, but I am...I do...I'm a freak, I know.  Oh! About what? My 10 yr high school reunion. Yeah I know, some of you might think, who cares?!? But, I know there has to be some over-analytical person out there like me who is dreading the day. Today marks (well technically yesterday is day 1) 3 months till the weekend I get to meet all those "popular, smart, pretty, too cool for school kids" that I didn't care too much about...well I'm lying...what kid in high school didn't want to be part of that group? Ha. Random cool college grad from school says, "Oh hi Jessica, what are you doing these days?" Before stumbling over my own feet or saying something completely inappropriate (that I have a knack for doing) I'd think and say..."well...you know, work, and well, I'm married and we have 3 kids....and you know, just working" cheeeeeese :/.  Ok. Wait I need to pause.  Reeeeeeewind. I am SO proud of who I am today!! But looking on the shelf of plaques and certificates, its quite empty. As you know, I'm still finishing school for the millionth time, so that leaves me still working on the career.  I guess I should say, well I'm not homeless, unemployed, or on drugs...cheeeeeese :D.  That might help the "wow, you've done well for yourself!" factor. I mean honestly, I really could care less what they "think" of me cause I know the One person who matters, but let's face it...we're all human and those accomplishments in life do help our confidence.  Speaking of accomplishments let me catch you up on ME.  Remember we spoke about my weight goal back in January? Okay well that deadline is coming up in a little over a week and have I lost 20 lbs? No. Sadly, no.  But I'm still working on it!! Yep, I can say that I haven't quit.  I still workout a few times a week, occasionally take into consideration what I'm stuffing in my mouth, and I'm training to run a 5k in April & Beach to Bay in May.  This is an area where I am exceeding in thanks to God alone! I definitely agree that if I can just get this eating healthier thing down I'd be to a whole 'notha level in no time, so that brings me to my next update :) Jennifer Hudson, move on over hunny! I'm "officially" going to join WW.  I know last time I said that I was including tips from WW, but I have decided to actually join...as in go to the meetings and weigh myself in front of another person!! Understand that my husband doesn't even know what I weigh!! Unless he reads my blogs of course. So. That's pretty much where I'm at today folks.  As you may have come to see throughout my blogs, my weight has a pret-ty hefty affect on my confidence level, too. I'm expecting my breakthrough in all these areas, amen. I start WW next Tuesday, so I'll be sure to keep ya posted!! 
Oh, can't forget...here is a picture of me from last week...excuse my the weird facial expression I'm making...this is me in progress :)  I know, I know, I may not look like the ginormous person write about but we ladies should know that black does the trick, lol. And see my inner thighs...yeah those shouldn't touch. And the stomach...oh goodness, you should see that freddy kruger face monster!! Yuck.