Week 1 Day 1

So its offically day 1 of my workout I've been saying this for months now. Every Monday I say to myself okay this is day . Then by Wed. I give up because I ruined my diet or I was too lazy to go to the gym. Then I tell myself I'll start again next month.... well I'm offically starting to break the cycle. Today is Thursday and its day 1 and I haven't ruined my diet yet. I've decided to take it a day at a time and weight myself every monday. Sundays will be my rest day, I will stick to this I have no choice. I can't continue to live this lazy butt lifestlye. I'm so excited and nervous but I know can do this. so my goal weight is 115-120 pounds I'm 5'7'' so thats kinda small for my height but I know I'll end up looking great. So anyways I went to the gym with my friend, he is a personal trainer. He decided to help me out, we did 15mins of cardio on the eliptical, then we lifted weight for our shoulders and back,we did abs workouts (300 of them ive never done 300 total of abs in my life).I just pushed threw it like nothing which felt great afterwards. I wish we could have done more cardio but I guess thats because I am a cardio freak. I'm scared if I lift weight (espeacially heavy) I wont lose any weight I'll jusr gain all this muscle and look like a guy. But everyone including the internet has been saying that you need to lift to burn fat as well as doing cardio. Since I told him I wanted to do more then 15mins of cardio. We are offically running to the gym from my house which is about a 2 mile run. Then running back home afterwards by the time we are done thats about 4 miles total. I know that once we move into the apartment I wont be able to keep this routine. Because I'll have to drive to the gym but I'm just trying to making going to the gym a part of my daily schedule. Even though I know my friend will not be personally training me probably after next week. Thats fine he is helping me now its keeping me motivated to get in the car and go workout, Which is what I need. Hopefully I can drop weight a little faster then 2 pounds a week. Even though 2 pounds a week is the healthy way to do it. I want to drop atleast 5 pounds a week. I know once I get into a certain weight area, I will start dropping less weight at one time. But I really want to get out of the weight area that I am in right now. I dont know if I am comfortable enough to put how much I weight right now. I know I have a long way to go. I will be putting progess photos up every month so I can look back and see how far I've come. Well i'm also reading the book Reshaping It All by Candace Cameron Bure. Its a motivational book for fitness, but it also has to do with putting god in your weight loss journey. i'll keep you guys updated :)
Camla

SORRY

Sorry, I've been MIA for almost two months now... so much craziness has been going on in my life. Now that things have slowed down I'm back! I will try to post a blog every other day, even tho I know no one reads this (thats okay lol). Well we are moving off base and out in town nov.2 I'm so excited to start fresh in a new place and start saving money. School is great I've decided to focus more on my dance degree and I might be changing my education major to something different I haven't decided on that yet. My weight loss journey has gone horrible I haven't been keeping up with healthy eating and exercise at all. So I will be updating you all on my daily exercise and food intake just to keep my butt motivated.Maybe if i document this process i will stick to it until the end. we will see I'm starting tomorrow so wish me luck.
Camla
p.s. church is great  We started growth group and its going amazing we met a lot of young christian couples. :)

Happy Sunday

       This weekend was really great my husband and I talked out our problems, things are really great between us. My father in law is in town from New York for 10 days. Yesterday we went out to eat to dick's last resort it's place where the waiteresses and waiters are "rude" its was actually really fun.

         Today church was really great the service was about what it really meant to be a christian. My husband and I got a few new books. I got The power of a Praying Wife my friend sarah ( I wrote about her a few entries ago) recommended it to me a long time ago,I finally got it. I will be sharing some prayers out of the book in my Faith Section from time to time. Daniel and I also signed up for growth groups as a couple for young marriages. I am excited to do a bible study with my husband about marriage we have been wanting to do one for a very long time. My entry for last week's Power of a Positive wife is finally up.
      I wanted to share a few things that my pastor said in the service today that really stuck with me.

JUST FOOD FOR THOUGHT :)

• Jesus died on the cross to change us not bless us.
• Before you meet Jesus you do what you want after you meet Jesus you do what he wants. thats being a christian
• Before you meet Jesus you do what you want and after you meet Jesus you continue to do what you want but you expect blessings. thats not being a christian
• Following Jesus starts with seeing Jesus
• Real salvation means real changes some of those changes are these

1. Righting past wrongs 
2. New goals and values 
3. It starts at home ( its one thing being a christian outside the home,make sure your being one in the home. Are you being the father/mother husband/wife God intended you to be?)

• If you want to know if your being the christian god wants you to be ask your husband(or wife)
• respet and honor your husband 
• The way jesus dealt with people then is how he deals with people now
• The way jesus dealt with people then is how WE should deal with  people now
• Put the needs and interest of others above our own
• Seek the sinner, don't just put up with them

Negativity

So, usually my blogs are happy and are about how wonderful life is. Well today its not like that this pass week there has been alot of negativity going on around me. Military wives fighting and gossiping, my husband and I not getting along and some of my "friends" talking about me. Through all of that I manage to stay happy and excited about my days and myself thank you Lord for keeping my positive. I just learned that I can't trust anyone and I can't try to hard to keep friendships alive. I am not bitter with anything that has happened to me this pass weekend that just opens my eyes to how much god has changed my heart.  I've manage to keep my mood extremely happy which is awesome.Other then that school has been amazing ballet has me sore! tap is fun as always and intro to teaching it still hard and demanding but I am up for the challange. I didn't have a chance to put my power of a positive wife entry in yet I've been so busy but I will be doing that very soon!
Camla

That's Just Not My Thing.

    This week has been crazy busy I started school on Tues.. I'm taking tap,ballet and intro to teaching. I love my ballet class I feel amazing when I'm dancing. The intro to teaching class seems like its going to be demanding but im excited to learn how to be a teacher.I'm excited! I am majoring in education and minoring in DANCE whiling getting a dance certification so i can teach. :)
     My husband and I like to have a (guys night girls night)weekly so we can spend time apart and hang out with our friends. which I love because when I get home I'm so excited to see him. So tonight he had some of his guy friends over to the house. I wasn't planning on going out, I was actually gonna stay home watch a movie and go to bed. But my friend asked me to be her DD for the night her and some girls were going out to a bar. They had a great time,the longer I was there the more I realized it just wasn't my thing. I'm the kind of girl that likes to have a movie night go to dinner or get mani pedi or go shopping. I dont like going out to a club or bar setting without my husband and I don't drink so it was a little out of my comfort zone. But I met some new friends and everyone else had a really good time.
     I feel like my relationship with God has been growing each and everyday. The way I look at things is so different. I feel like I am finally at that place I want to be with the Lord. I know who I am and what women I want to be. I dont say i'm going to change and not do it, I'm extremely proud of myself for all the progress I've made in the pass few months. Talk is cheap, its easy to say your gonna do something or that your willing to give up your desires for God but you have to actually do it.
       I am finally getting back into fitness and my diet is improving. If I stress over my weight it will just ware me down, so I am trying to take this a day at a time. The pieces are slowly falling into place.
Camla

A Submissive Wife

The Two supreme characteristics of godly womenhood:
Humble submission to their husbands in marriage and fervent commitment to nurturing the next generation.
      She shares not only her husband's challenges and heart aches but also his dreams and blessing. She does not waver; She stands by his side through his good and bad decisions. She loves him unconditionally and tenaciously.
     I decided to write about this subject today because I have been doing alot of things to better my relationship with god and to become that women of god that I want to be.My husband is number 1 in my heart (other then god). I am not the perfect wife I have flaws like every other women out there.Sometimes its hard to stand by your husband and not judge him when you don't agree with him or his actions. I am very strong willed, I try and take over sometimes. I want to be able to still be the strong willed women that I am, but still submit to my husband. My goal is to be that submissive wife that god intented me to be.  I want to be my husband’s crown & joy, not “the other kind” of wife.
    A worthy wife is her husband’s joy and crown; the other kind corrodes his strength and tears down everything he does.” Proverbs 12:4
Camla


P.S. My entry for The Power of a Positive Wife is up in my Faith page. I will be puting up an entry every Monday. enjoy :)

Dinner At The Caballero's

Last night I cooked dinner for our neighbors( The Adams) THEY LOVED IT. I have to say I did a pretty good job. They never really eaten hispanic food before(not mexican HISPANIC) I made peppered steak, and rice with beans. Its a very common dish in central america, my husband is puerto rican and I am panamena (from panama ). I love hispanic food, my mother only really cooked hispanic while I was growing up. We did eat other things like Italian and some American and Asian ( she liked to cook alot of different things) but our diet was mostly hispanic. I love that because its apart of my culture,so when I got married I did the same. I cook a little of everything but mostly hispanic. If anyone wants to try anything new just look at my Recipes section and you can feed your family a piece of panama jk. Seriously try it its actually has alot of flavor. other then that my days have been pretty boring alot of cleaning and homemaking.I will start running in my neighbor hood in the early morning around 530 am on monday since I start school and I would like to have the rest of my days free. I'll have an update by monday on how my first run went.
Camla

Naeem & Lyric

 this was thier mothes idea lol

Smile Naeem