It tastes so good ...

Today's amazing breakfast juice is
1 blood orange
3 carrots
3 apples
2 regular oranges
Handful of blackberries

Made 4 cups ish

Usually one handed typing is a fun thing

Tonight, and probably tomorrow, it's a sad thing. My easy going, never crys baby is in full on teething PLUS a cold and an ear infection. She has no voice because of the coughing. And there is nothing more heart breaking that a 6 month old's raspy babble.
Anyway- I've only got one arm because she FINALLY calmed down and passed out on my arm. And there is no fucking way I'm going to wake her up. I'm not even going to attempt to put her down.  I've watched two episodes of Portlandia and plan to watch the rest of the first season shortly.

my sleeping baby

A sick baby will break your heart. But knowing that you just have to suck it up and not shake the crap out of them after 6 days of crying - that's killing me. Why isn't her amber necklace making this all go away?

While I was looking for this webcam picture, because I am incapable of saving pictures to logical places, I found this scarey picture of our dog Grimm.

If I survive the day...

It will be thanks to the amazing juice I made last night. I have a sickness in me that's trying to fill my brain space and lungs with snot. But my juice is lifting my spirits and laying the "beet" down on my cold.

We use a basic Jack Lalanne juicer. And keep in mind I made 4 cups, and that's a lot.
3 whole stalks of celery
2 LG braeburn apples cores and all
5 carrots unpeeled
1 beet with stalk
1/4 lemon unpeeled, which I think should've been peeled.

Its beautiful and tart. Usually I add lots of greens, but I don't when I intend to save it overnight.

Final Review of Farrell's eXtreme Bodyshaping

I just finished 10 amazing weeks at Farrell's eXtreme Bodyshaping. I saw results, I feel better, I enjoyed every workout.
The basic set up was 6 days a week, alternating cardio and strength workouts. Cardio days were centered around kickboxing moves. And the strength workouts utilized resistance bands.

Check out the recaps of the first five weeks:
Week One
Week Two
Week Four
Week Five

I bet you're wondering why no reviews of weeks 6-10... Well, I got f-ing busy, so just assume they got progressively harder and I enjoyed them as equally (if not more) than the first 5 weeks.

My results were pretty good. At the end of the 10 weeks I worked off 5 inches (mostly from my gross c-section tummy). I improved my mile from 11:20 to 9:38. I went from 12 to 32 sit-up in a minute. And from 23 to 69 push-ups in a minute. I'm really proud of my mile time and my push ups. My weight went down like 6 lbs but my body fat % dropped like 4%!
People like lists, so I'll give you what I think are the Pros and the Cons of dropping like $400 on a 10 week program like this.
Pros

•  If you go you will see results. Plain and simple, you can't fail if you show up every day.
• It's like a family. Your class and your coach really make it about your success.
• the Coaches  are great. It's personal but not over bearing. And they use EMAIL! It's the 21st century, I'm glad someone is effectively using email to keep me motivated. 
• The strength training workouts are just as engaging and fun as the cardio. I didn't think they would be.
• a 45 minute workout is the PERFECT amount of time. It's gut busting, sweaty, and extreme. But then you look at the clock and you're 10 minutes to finished. 
• It's a group workout that isn't cheesy and it certainly isn't dancing.

Cons

• It's not easy to drop $360+ on anything you're not sure about.
• I was a bit younger than everyone else in the class, sometimes that is awkward for me (oh, I'm 28 BTW)
• The nutrition portion/regime was hard to follow as a breast feeding mother. I kind of wish it was more specific, too.
• My employer wouldn't reimburse me at all because it wasn't a monthly fee; like other gyms.
• oh, and current top 40 pop/dance tracks ALL THE TIME! Egghhhhh...

End summation-- If you want to change your self- Do it at Farrell's. You will love how you feel and you that's worth any cost.