I just added a new post, recipes, motivation tips to my fitness blog. Check it out.

Yay for a new year!

I always love new years, it makes me feel like I have a fresh start. I have recently become obsessed with the website pinterest. I spend most of my time when I am online on that website. I created a New Years Resolution section on my page on pinterest, but I heard to actually follow through with your resolutions, you need to be held accountable. So, I will be posting my progress throughout the year. My New Years Resolutions are as follows:

1. Train harder for the RTO
2. Cook more and eat out less
3. No fast food!!!
4. Be happy with myself.
   

I created a training page which logs my attempt to become more fit and I have also posted a recipes page, this is where I will share the recipes I have been cooking. I am starting my New Years resolutions early this time, because in the past every time I said I'd start tomorrow, tomorrow never seemed to come.

We got a house!!!

Yay! The bank approved the offer for our house yesterday! I am so excited. This house is amazing. It is 2632 sqft, it has a separate family room and living room, and a formal dinning room. The walk-in closet in the master bedroom is big enough to have a bed and a dresser in it. Plus it has the other 2 things I have always wanted in a house. A fireplace and an island in the kitchen. I am really excited, yet a little scared to be committing to something like this, but definitely, mostly excited. Here are some pics of our future pad.

Our new house (with 3 car garage)



Note the beautiful fireplace



Garden tub, plus optional shower



Kitchen equipped with pantry and island



Built in deck in backyard

Happy Anniversary To Us!

Max and I celebrated our ONE YEAR anniversary this weekend. I cannot believe it has already been a year. Time just seemed to fly past. We went to Sacramento. We wanted to go to Apple Hill, but apparently the place is dead until late August :(. We made reservations at a place called The Melting Pot. It was really good, but really expensive. They brought out all of the food raw and you got to cook it right there at the table yourself. They had all kinds of dipping sauces and cheese fondue with bread. The best part of the night was definitely the desert. White chocolate and banana fondue. Yummy!

On our Way!

Stopping at Lake Tahoe for pictures

Getting ready to cook.

Yummy dinner!

New blog

I decided to change my P90X blog since I never did anything with it. I instead have dedicated that blog to weight loss tips. I have acquired a lot of knowledge of nutrition and fitness through school and my own personal study and I have decided to share this knowledge with the world! Or whoever decides to read this blog. Please check it out. No more excuses

This is what I do to waste time

Fill in the Blank Survey.

001. What is Your Name? Lynsey
002. How old are you? 26
003. What is the link to your website, blog, or myspace?

Fill in the Blanks
004. Summer is _______ the greatest season ever
005. School is for ____________ learning
006. Friends are like ___________ peeing in your pants, everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth it brings
007. Dogs are for ___________ companionship
008. Braces are __________ metal things that go on your teeth
009. All boys are ___________ smelly!
010. All girls are _____________ bratty!
011. American Idol is ___________ a lot better with J. Lo and Steven Tyler
012. Spongebob is the ___________ bizomb!
013. I cant believe I ________________ am going to graduate soon
014. I like wearing __________ clothes
015. Beer is _________ disgusting
016. I'm as fat as a __________ pole
017. I have too many __________ worries
018. I like eating ____________ sushi!
019. Sex is _____________ also known as gender
020. Myspace is a place to _______________ uhhh...don't you mean Facebook?
021. Surveys are __________ a good way to waste time
022. Skinny Dipping is __________ swimming...in the nude
023. Gays are ____________ happy people
024. Family is not as important as _________ ????
025. Before I go to sleep I _____________ close my eyes
026. I was really embarrassed when __________ i got embarrassed
027. Bush is ____________ not president anymore
028. boys have big __________ egos
029. I hate __________ hating things
030. Crying is for ______ emotional people
031. Marriage is ______ always having someone by your side
032. Swimming is _______ one of the greatest physical activities ever!
033. I would do anything for _______ a Klondike bar
034. I wake up at ___________ 7:00am
035. I fear ___________ heights, dead things larger than a mouse, debt, the unknown
036. I bought a ___________ bag of chips and milk for breakfast this morning
037. I drink ___________ milk...a lot!
038. Mondays are _______________ eh
039. This ____________________________________ is an old survey.

P.S as you've probably guessed from my lack of posts, I never actually did the P90X thing past day 1, but I have kept active with plenty of other things. I have discovered how much I LOVE swimming.

Rant/Good info to know

Urban Dictionary word of the day:

Janky: (adjective) inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and dilapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects, not to people.

We tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but I was driving my sister's janky 1989 geo metro so we just got clowned instead.

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I work at a sporting clothing call center/store and a man called in asking if we carry original cargo shorts in a size 58 waist (mind you, these shorts have a 4” inseam, which is measured from the crotch to the end of the shorts). Yes, you read correctly, a size 58 waist. I then proceeded to let him know we are no longer making extended sizes and would only be offering sizes 30-46 even. The customer then said “Well I’m not going to lose weight just so I can fit into your shorts!” My next thought was, why don’t you lose weight for your health? I really don’t understand people in America. When you are a size 58 and feel it is ok, then there is something wrong. Don’t people realize what better quality of life they would have if they just lose the weight? I also just had a fitness test done for one of my classes. One of the women in the class with me weighed only 115lbs, but had a body fat percentage of 39%!!! My only thought was HOLY MOLY! She looked great, very skinny, but knowing she had that high of a body fat percentage was ridiculous. 20-25% is considered healthy for females. Anything above or below if considered unhealthy. So the message I would like to leave everyone with is, it doesn’t matter how much you weigh, or how big your thighs are, it’s your body composition (how much of your weight is fat and how much is lean muscle) that matters!

P.S: it is much healthier to be apple shaped (most of your weight below the waist) than to be pear shaped (most of your weight in your mid section), because abdominal fat will squeeze abdominal organs and fat there also enters the blood stream a lot easier causing a higher risk of heart disease and diabetes. So if you’ve got a booty and hips…rock on!