Glo Run 5K Fun and Update Pictures

Me before the Glo Run 3-22-14

My Dear Friend A and I before the Race

My biggest supporter, he asked me to make his shirt this way! Love my Son little B!! :) 

Here's a current progress pic from when I started the gym to 3-22-14. 44 lbs gone Baby!! Yeah! 

Long time.... No posts

HELLLLLOOOOO My Sweet Followers and Friends!!

First off I want to apologize that it has been so long since I have posted anything at all. I have just let this fall by the wayside and let the crazy busy life get the best of me.

Finally working my way back into things that I love dearly like blogging even though I am still super new at it. Just a great way to clear my head of what is all floating around in that noggin of mine.

Plus its a super awesome way to share my journey with friends and family as well. Here is a little update on what has been going on since I last posted.

Update in Brief:

Still continuing my weight loss journey and down 44lbs so far (I will submit a updated pic soon to show you all my progress.) and pushing forward after my MAJOR Christmas set back. We all have them right? 

Working out is still going great! Believe it or not I am so loving the gym! Till Mid May I am participating and leading a Beginning running group with the WRA (Women Run Arkansas) talk about a major step out of the comfort zone there. I haven't ran since high school and then it was only in off season of basketball. But I am enjoying the learning process of running yes its hard, and I struggle a lot with my body but its part of it specially since I am not use to it, I am so ready to get past that part and enjoy it even more. 

Competed in my 2nd 5K this past weekend in town it was a night glo run race. It was so fun, I got to do this with some great friends that support and motivate me in such an awesome way! Pics to come of this as well. We were all decked out in our tutus and had a blast!! 

I just recently stopped attending Weight Watchers. The program is awesome don't get me wrong, but at this time it was in my best interest to discontinue. I felt that my weight training and workout was messing with my head and the scales and it was really frustrating me in a major way that I had to step away from it for a while. My dear friend who is a personal trainer at the gym that I attend said that she would weight and measure me anytime so I could still be accountable for that part. So what I have been doing is logging my foods into myfitnesspal and then having her measure me and I am following a healthy lifestyle and don't have to concentrate on points but staying within cals and trying to watch my sodium intake and etc. 

Well It was so wonderful to write to each of you today and I am going to make a point to write to you all each week and let you following me on my journey, if you are on instagram , or on myfitnesspal please feel free to add and following me I would love the support and positive comments and motivation to help keep me going my user name is mal_b81 I look forward to hearing from you! 

Let me know how each of you are doing! :) Be Blessed and have a Wonderful day! 

In Christ,
Malinda

Deepest Apologies!

Hello Fellow Followers,

I am so sorry that I went MIA on you. It wasn't my intent at all I assure you. Life has gotten a little chaotic I guess you could say. First it was getting the Little B out of school for the summer, then baseball and all the stuff that goes along with it, and then football came, and this past week music camp and also Vacation Bible School at our Church. Whew. I am whooped to say the least. 

Update:  I am still doing WW and on track, didn't have such a great week this week due to VBS, we had to eat there, and it wasn't always the healthiest, but I did try to do my best. Looking forward to getting back on track and to stay there and not have to deviate from it at all! Really struggling in the exercise side of things tho, I was doing so great upto the Women Run/Walk Clinic 5K, then after it seems like I have just given up. Not a good thing at all I know. Then the heat has been awful here to with the horrible humidity and not being use to it. This week it is so gorgeous and I am planning on walking almost everyday. This weight isn't going to come off by its self even though that would the most amazing thing in the world right? LOL We can only wish. 

Anyways, I do have a question. Do any of you do clean eating or watch for GMOs or have a plan where you are trying to go organic only? I am wanting to know what works best for you, there is so much in the foods and drinks that we have these days that it is so scary to me, I want to go healthy for my family and give them the most nutritional and healthy things that are possible. Please leave a comment and let me know what works for you and yours or maybe some tips on how to get the ball rolling in that direction of clean meals and foods. I am open to any and all advice on the subject. 

This is my promise to each of you, you will be hearing from me more frequently now that my life is slowing down a bit and I can breathe, I have missed writing to you. This helps me get things out of my head. Hope you all have a wonderful and very blessed Monday! 

In Christ,
M

If I had a Bucket List...

Hey There My Followers!

Me heading out to travel to the 5K

I wanted to give you all an update on something I told y'all about a little while back! Remember me telling you all that I was training for my 1st EVER 5K? So if I had a bucket list (which I don't) Completing my first ever 5K would so be on it. Well it was Mother's Day weekend, and boy did the Lord bless us that day with some AMAZING weather! He is so awesome to us isn't he?? OH YES!!

Searcy Women Run/Walk Clinic 2013

Well, I was so nervous and so excited about this event, I could hardly sleep. I wasn't sure what it was going to be like, and if you know me then you know I like to know about things ahead of time. Lol. Well there wasn't a way of doing that, so I flew by the seat of my pants i mean capri shorts. Lol  When we first got there we go and find my Crew from the Searcy Women's Run/Walk Clinic then we chat and get geared up to do this thang!

Before the Race started, Look at all these Women!!

When it was finally time to line up, my nerves turned off, and the emotions were on full force let me tell you. I stood there with 900 something other women that were there for either their first time, or returning time from years previous. It was amazing, and it brought tears to my eyes, I had made it there and it had been an amazing 10 week journey. I have made some of the most awesome friends, and support group along the way as well. Your hearing from a lady who could barely walk a mile to doing 3 miles in an hour by the end of week 10. WhoooHooo now that is something to get excited about. Along the 3 mile journey there was supporters along the way that were cheering for us runners/walkers. Tell you that you can do it, you got this, not much further, don't give up now! How inspiring! My Leader and another dear sweet friend came back to help/join me after they had finished the running part. It was so amazing to get to finish with these two ladies, and just them coming back after they had already completed was just so sweet and just gave me that extra push I needed.

Crossing the Finish Line!!! :-)

My Goal this year was to just finish. That was it. Well I DID FINISH and guess what??? It was one of my best times too. I finished not last, and I beat my time from clinic with 1 hours 2 mins and 28 seconds. Previous in clinic it had been running around 1 hour and 6-10 mins. So I was super stoked about that too. At the finish line there is this boom booming music and you see all these great people yelling and cheering for you, it makes you feel like you could just sprint to the end! It was so so so awesome!! Did I say that it was AWESOME!!! I can't wait till next year to do this again. My Leader has already told me that next year I am running it. :-) So we shall see. I told her that I would try.

My Awesome Leader and Me.

I want to hear from you all! Y'all are just way to quiet I tell you. Tell me about your 1st 5K experience, or are you currently training to run/walk one? Let me know I would love to hear about it!  Have a wonderful and very very blessed day my Friends.

Me with my own personal Cheering Section. Hubby and Little B.

In Christ,
M

One VERY Proud Momma!!

Hello fellow followers!

There has been so much going on, and I do intend on blogging about it all just might take me a few days. But today I just wanted to share with you some wonderful and very blessed news about my Son "Little b"

Back on April 28, 2013 my sweet, precious, baby boy accepted Jesus Christ as his personal savior. This has been a prayer on my hubby and my heart for sometime now, how does the Lord know how to answer prayers or what!!

What makes this even more an amazing and awesome day is that his Daddy is the Pastor of the Church we go to, and he got to led "Little b" thru the Scriptures and be a huge part of this day. I think that is just so awesome, kinda like me, it was my Sweet Granny that helped lead me thru the scriptures. The Lord had laid it on her heart to share them with me, and little did she know the Lord had already been dealing with my heart and I accepted Jesus as my Savior that Saturday afternoon in her living room in her house!

Here is a Pic of my Sweet Boy and His Daddy on this most awesome day of His life, this day was a Life Changing experience for him. Now he knows 100% he is going to Heaven when he passes on.

Thank you Jesus for your Answered Prayers and in Your timing not mine!!

Do you know Jesus as your Savior? I would Love to hear about how you got saved, and how the Lord dealt with you. If you do not know Jesus, I would also love to help you and show you thru the scriptures of the Bible and pray with you that the Lord would lead you to be saved to! Don't wait until its to late to make this decision. 

In Christ,
M

Stuck in a Rut?

Hey Hey Hey Everyone!

Sorry its been a bit since I have written to you all. I like to write when I am feeling led to write, or when I have something on my mind. I guess you can say that I like to write when I feel it has a purpose.

Do you or have you had that Stuck in a Rut feeling? Well it seems like I have been there this past week. It was so bad, that I decided to skip my WW meeting yesterday. I know I know someone needs to slap my hand for not going, but I knew that I had gained and didn't wanna face reality. I haven't done well this week on program at all, and I didn't wanna go just wasn't in the mood. Have any of you ever been there or know what I am talking about?

So I made a pack with a dear friend and fellow WW buddy of mine, she to wasn't feeling it. So instead we both went and worked out. I went and walked and she went on to the gym, so I didn't go and eat myself silly and have self pity like I normally would. It was such a beautiful day to enjoy some walking too. So please don't think that I am quitting, or getting way off track b/c I am not at all. I assure you. That is the LAST thing that is on my mind. My WW buddy said it like this, we are just taking a Mental Health Day. A day to get out mind right, and back to our goals. I think everyone needs to have a day like that don't you?

So today being Tuesday I have tracked everything I have put in my mouth so far, and this afternoon I have my Women Run/Walk Clinic and plan on doing my 3 miles of walking. So see back on plan.

What I have been struggling most with is planning out my meals. I have joined/signed up for a couple WW meal plans thru some great websites and they do help a whole lot, but my struggle is finding the timed to get it all cooked and ready. Let me explain why and please do not think that I am whining b/c I am so not I love my life and my family and I wouldn't change it for the world, but it does become stressful at times. My sweet boy is now practicing baseball on Mondays and Thursdays, and we have Church on Sundays and Wednesdays and then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have my walk/run clinic. So by the time all that gets done on these days Its close to 9 or so when we get home leaving not much if any time to cook, and if so then it is just way to late. So I am trying to find a happy medium and still have time to have healthy things, but quick grab and go things and not have to resort to eating out daily, b/c that isn't good on the wallet or the waistline.  So I as venting to my WW buddy on groupme yesterday about this and she told me, go back to basics, have salad on hand, and cook up some chicken and have a veggie on the side. I was like well duh M!! Why didn't you think of that?? It was a obvious yet simple solution too. So I am trying that this week we shall see how it goes!

Also here is a current picture of me, I took this to be accountable and to look at this often b/c I will not, I repeat, I will not be going back to this EVER!! That is a promise. It took a whole lot of courage and guts to post this picture of me. I don't like full length pictures of me at all.. so this was a must do. Here it is.

So what are some of your struggles with this, or go to simple quick meals? I would love to hear from you don't be shy!!

To be an Inspiration??

Hello From the Natural State :-)

 

What a week we have had here, first of all I gained a pound in my WW weight in on Monday night, but like I have told some of my friends. I am very content with that, b/c I didn't stay on program like I needed to, and ate out more then I had planned and didn't have a plan when I went there. So 1 pound was way better then the 4 I had planned on gaining. This week I am just Praying for a much much better week. I have stayed on plan, exercised all but 1 day so far, and planning to exercise and stay on plan during the weekend too! So how is your week going???

 

What do you think of when you think of someone that is an inspiration? The word inspiration in the merriam-webster dictionary online says this: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inspiration

Definition of INSPIRATION

1 a : a divine influence or action on a person believed to qualify him or her to receive and communicate sacred revelation

b : the action or power of moving the intellect or emotions

c : the act of influencing or suggesting opinions

 

Whoa!! Say what now?? That is way deep! To me to be an inspiration is to look up to and maybe admire someone for the way that they are, or things that they do, kinda like an encouragement. I know your probably all wondering why on earth am I discussing this topic with you all today.

 

Well just let me share this story with you. It all started yesterday at my Women Run/Walk Clinic that I go to on Tues and Thursday (Preparing for a 5K in May WhooHoo!!) well I am normally the last one done which means that I am the last to leave there which is fine with me I just do my thing as I told our Trainer yesterday. Lol. If you know me you know that I am over weight, but working on my weight loss journey, I am at that turning point in my life where I am trying to find me, and do what is best for me and have a healthy life and lifestyle and have that go over to my Son Little B. I don't want him to have to go thru all that I have in my life and my struggles with being "obese" its not worth it and I don't want it to rob him of his Childhood years.  So when a dear friend told me about this clinic and 5k. I was like okay, I will think about it, well it was on my mind a whole and who can turn down a free clinic with a trainer?? Yeah exactly. Plus if I was to have a bucket list I think finishing a 5K would be on it. This year I am just going to walk it, but maybe by next year I can run it, that will be my goal and a work in progress. So there was my motivation to start this clinic. Well we are well into half of the 10 week program. I have went Faithfully every week, except for 1 day when it was freezing and raining didn't want to take a chance on getting sick. There are other that walk and work out at the track too at the local University.

 

While I was walking my 3 miles yesterday I had noticed some runners and this one in particular I wanted to speak to and say Hi and let him know he was very inspiring to me, just watching how fast he was running and stuff was very cool to me. I was thinking that would be awesome to be able to do one day. So that kept triggering in my head, but I never got a chance to speak with him he was running normally when I would anywhere in his direction. So I just let it go. There was these two ladies that were walking also and had passed me going around one of my laps and I didn't think anything about it, just kept on doing my thing. Well I was down to my last lap and was finishing my 3rd mile and went over by the railing to stretch a little before heading home. I was saving my workout on my phone, and  here comes up these two ladies that I just spoke about and they startled me at first b/c I didn't know them, or what they wanted. So they say to me, "Hey we have been seeing you out here every time were here, and wanted to tell you that you are an Inspiration to us!" They went on to introduce themselves to me and stuff, and I was like Whoa!! Me?? I really think they have the wrong person. Lol. Anyone that knows me knows that I don't take compliments very well, I am nice and say Thank you and go on, but its a mental thing I guess who knows. After they had left and I went on to my house, I was just thinking about what they had told me. So I texted and shared this with some dear friends of mine, and my DH when I got home. They were all telling me the same thing and that I was an Inspiration to them as well. My sister C, she told me, "Awwww Sis that is so so awesome!!! I'm proud of you!! & you are really an inspiration to me!!", I was just in awe of that from her. It was just all confirmation from the Lord on things that I needed to know and be lifted up, and since I wasn't listening to Him he has used all these others to speak to me.

 

The Lord is just so amazing to me, and I don't deserve his Love, but I am oh so Thankful for it! I hope this has helped you in someway, maybe I was suppose to tell you this so you could tell someone that they are an inspiration to you? Has something similar happened to you before? Share it with me leave me a comment or a message I would love to hear it! I hope you have a wonderful oh so Blessed week and weekend!

 

In Christ!,

M