Cancer Sucks!

I'm sure all of you have heard that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer research as well as funding mammograms are causes that are very near and dear to my heart. This is because my beautiful and amazing Mom is a breast cancer survivor. She had Breast Cancer when my brother and I were both little. She was a single mom and did everything she could to take the best care of my brother and I. While being a mama she was having surgeries, chemo treatments and radiation. I remember a lot from this time in my life. Thankfully my grandparents were there to help and we lived in Seattle which has some of the best Cancer doctors around.

Me, my Mom and Hunter

Lets help stop cancer in its track by raising money that will fund research, mammograms and more. We have to find a cure to this disease that affects TOO many people each year and takes TOO many lives. Yes, there have been great strides in early detection and treatments, but that is not enough. There HAS to be a cure out there.

 

I decided to join Susan G. Komen's Passionately Pink for the cure. During this month for every person that follows my blog I will donate .25 cents (up to 200 people) If I get more than that I will still donate per follower but of a lesser amount. So PLEASE follow my blog (click join this site to your right above all my other followers) and help fight Breast Cancer at the same time. I will upload my donation receipt at the beginning of November and keep you all updated with the final amount every week. 

You can also fight breast cancer by advertising on my site. With any donation (minimum 1.00) I will put your blog button on my site all month and probably through November as well. Please email me at kihara.annie@yahoo.com after you donate with your button html and I will get it up ASAP! 

Please visit my donation site here:

Crazy/Simple Mama Passionately Pink

Click the donate to Annie button under the picture of my Mom and I. :)

My goal is to raise $200.00 this month but I think we can beat that. If you feel inclined to donate please do, also if you could share this post to as many people as possible that would be great! Lets all raise some money for a great cause and help save lives!

Baby Weight Part 3

Here are the first two "installments" of my weight loss journey:

Baby Weight Part 1

Baby Weight Part 2

Alright, I will make this last part short and to the point. I left off where I was beginning not to care about being healthy or how I looked. I was just focusing on being a mom. I didn't care about how I looked. I was struggling big time. I hated trying to pick out things to wear. I wanted to just wear yoga pants all the time. It was a struggle trying to find the loosest shirt to hide my tummy or Pants that actually fit...and I seriously hated wearing spanx! I hated avoiding taking pictures with my son or hubby! I so badly wanted pictures with them but did not want to see how fat I was. I avoided having to see people I haven't seen in a while. There is no way I would look at the scale...no freakin way. 

Flash forward to June 2012. I found Mama L's blog and loved it. I was amazed at how she could work full time with TWO kids (and one was a baby) and still fit in time to work out and take care of herself all while looking cute. That was it. No more excuses for me. I started with working out and did that for a month with no weight loss. Then I looked at my eating. It was AWFUL. I was taking too many calories in and working out wasn't even helping. I decided to change my eating habits and that was one of the best things I have ever done. End of July I joined a group that was doing a weight loss challenge (Mama L's fit camp). It changed my life. I eat healthier. I run. I work out twice a day sometime. All while being a mommy, wife and working (part time).

I am still at the beginning of my weight loss journey. However, I am so proud of myself. My confidence is building and I FEEL so much better. People are noticing and it feels AH MA ZING! I am nervous yet excited to look at the scale these days (I only weigh once a week). 

All I can end this with is that you really have to WANT this to do it. I tried TONS of times to lose weight and NOTHING worked. It was me though. I wasn't ready. But now I am. Do I still fuck up? Yep. At LEAST a few times a week. But its okay...it's all about jumping right back in and going for it. You don't have to be perfect you just have to take care of yourself...Something finally clicked for me, and I'm still trying to figure out what that is. Right now all I got to do is keep going day by day.

December 2010. Right after having my precious baby boy. 

Here is a more recent picture. Last week (Sept 2012) Holding my friends beautiful new baby boy.

October Challenge

So some (well like thousands) of lovely ladies at Mama L's fit camp are doing a Jillian Michaels challenge for the month of October. So of course I joined! We are just about to finish the first challenge where I have lost weight and a pant size thanks to all the awesome biotches in that group!

 Every single day for the month of October I will be doing a Jillian Michaels DVD. I am alternating 2 days of 30 Day Shred then one day of Kick Box Fast fix. Good thing I have a major bitch girl crush on Jill (Yes I can call her that because we are friends I love her.) I will still be running 4 - 5 times a week too which means 2 a day workouts some days. Yee haw.

So here are my measurements:

Hips-42

Bicep: R 14 L 14.5

Waist: 36.5

thighs: R 26.75 L 25.75

I am totally uneven. haha love it. I will re measure Oct 15 and at the end. As well as post progress pictures! yayyy...I have some befores, but I don't have time to post them now because my toddler is watching Dora and the episode is almost over. So I gotta jet, but look for another picture filled post SOON!

Time for some shits and giggles...

totally true. 

My toddler is no longer distracted so I'm out!