Life after this?

I apologize, it has been way too long since I have posted. I can blame it on a number of things, Work, Life, Love and Loss. And have played into this.
Lets start with Work: Summer and Spring = way busy. I love being busy because it makes the time go really fast, which is both a curse and a blessing. I had to stop and remind myself that my kids are all getting older, going into a higher grade. And growing before my eyes. I think I need them to stop...like now lol . Where is my time going??
This next subject can be tied all into Life, Love and Loss, all 3 are changing for me. I find myself in a place in my life where I am alone, but not alone. I have lost the best friend I have ever had, even if it is just temporary. Having heard the words " I don't know if I love you anymore" will forever be burned into my heart. Given the fact that all marriages go through their ups and downs, this is surely a down. Being the God loving wife that I am, I will stand by my vow to love honor and respect my husband through this time. I pray that God softens his heart and brings him back home. Life is hard, there is the stress of money, time, bills, kids, work. I mean the list goes on. I do not blame him for being stressed out or overwhelmed. I don't even blame him for leaving me to take the easy way out of our stressful life.... It is my job as a wife to be here for him when he doesn't think he needs me. I will not abandon my marriage. I will be right here waiting for him with as much love in my heart as when he left it. Because I know he needs that right now.

On December 21 2013, I didn't just Marry my best friend. I married into the Role of a Step Mom to his beautiful kids. I have grown in so many ways because of them. They have shown me the real definition of love. It was a rough road, one that I didn't think I could ride with at some points. I have tested my love, my faith and my patience. But being faced with the idea that I could potentially have my family ripped from me, I thought I could die. Suddenly I regret not saying I love you as many times as I thought it. I wished I hadn't told them to be quiet as much as I did, letting the sound of their laughter echo in my house, being captured in my walls so I could hear it forever. I miss the moments of sitting in the same room, watching a boring movie, but just being happy to be next to them. I love my kids, I love my family, I love my husband.

Lash Party anyone?!?!

So I'm going to be honest. I am coming out of my hibernating state of winter, and getting my Girl back on lol. During the winter I don't really do my hair, nails, face, well any of it. I forget how to be a girl and focus on staying warm, that's just reality. BUT with it being MAY first(can you believe that) I am getting my hair done, next weekend, nails done, next weekend...and my face is getting put back on!

 

I wanted to share with you guys the best thing EVER! its the most amazing Mascara EVER.

My girl Kiya has a instagram page that I found all of this aweseom-ness on. I literally was begging her to put together an online party for me.

So she did!!!!

Here is my link! Shop your little hearts out just like I am. These are the most amazing lashes you will EVER have.
https://www.youniqueproducts.com/KiyaStack/party/1809345/view

The Lashes on the right are Clinique, the lashes on the left are Younique

I mean for REALZ!!!! Time to get my lash on!

Holy Crap I'm Going on Vacation!

Seriously its really happening. I have NEVER in my LIFE been on a real vacation. I mean ya ive done the whole road trip thing, flew across state for business, but when I say vacation, I'm talking Palm trees, all inclusive, 10 hour flight to sit in the sand for 6 days with no kids, dogs, work (ok only at night when I check my email.) until I get home.

I am PUMPED up if you can't tell. So my first plan of attack was checking out hotel and flight separately. I am a working parent with 4 kids between my husband and myself , that's code for  Im broke as f*ck. So I was trying to do this as cheap as possible. BINGO found a website that offers vacation homes BINGO I found the longest flight possible CRAP how will I eat when I get there. I hear you shouldn't drink the water so how will I buy bottled water if I spend all my money on getting down there. I didn't really care, as long as I get down there I will figure it out.

So I go to work and I talk about how excited I am for this half assed idea of leaving the cold and chasing the sun to my boss. He looks at me and asks if I paid for the trip yet, I looked at him with all honesty and said, "well no you have to pay me first" he says good, cause I got a killer travel agent for you who can set you up with an awesome deal. Just being polite I replied with... "Cool whats their contact info?" I was told to go back to my office and he will email me the link....blah blah blah...Who is this guy who travels so much he knows AAALLLL the right people ?!?!  ;)

So I check my email and see lifesatriptakeyours.com I chuckled a little bit cause the name is...well its pretty cute im not gonna lie. So I get an email out saying this is what im looking for and yaddi yaddi yaddah...I get an email back, and Lisa (sorry I didn't let you know that her name was lisa) writes back and she is super happy I wrote...and she starts talking about all of these plans she can do for me and I perk up a little bit thinking, hey....I didn't think about getting all of that. She tells me all inclusive is the way to go BAM! just like that, my food and water problems are solved ha . And not to mention there are daily activites at this one resort. Ya seriously...and all inclusive resort! So ok im beyond excited at this point, but on my salary, not exactly a resort type of checking account. So I ask what this is all going to cost me...She sends me an itinerary, showing my flight out, flight home, (getting the most time on the beach possible) hotel room, everything and I mean everything that is included and the price. I FREAKIN CRIED. I tell you no lies I saw that price and I cried. Because it was cheaper than what I priced my own vacation at.

DUDES, IM GOING TO FREAKIN CABO WITH MY HUSBAND FOR OUR WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. It doesn't get better than this.

Thank you Lisa!!!!!

Now I have 8 months 15 hours 21 minutes to get my dream body on, half way there thanks to Herbalife!!

8 Reasons Why I love Lifting Better than Cardio

Rasons why I love lifting weights instead of doing lots of cardio:

 

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't always a big lifter. Infact I had the same thoughts that many others did. "if I lift I will get bulky" not the case actually. Although I did enjoy my zumba classes, hated spinning class but did it anyway I just didn't see the results I craved.

 

❤ You become strong, and that makes you feel pretty damn awesome about yourself. Being able to lift heavy shit is much more empowering than being able to run 5km in 20 minutes – which I’ll totally never be able to do FYI.

 

❤ The risk of getting injuries is much lower than if you’re running or cycling. No shin splints, broken bones, sore feet or knees, no falling off bikes or potentially getting hit by cars. It’s way better for your joints and there’s nowhere near as much damage being done to your body.

❤ You can sculpt your body. Build a big, round squat booty, strong arms, ripped abs – whatever you please!

❤ Your body continues to burn calories loooooong after you’ve finished a weight session, and cardio only burns them while you’re doing it. Clear winner = weights.

 

❤ I find that cardio makes me WAY too hungry. Like absolutely ravenous. Then I eat like everything in sight, which is obviously not ideal when trying to lose weight.

 

❤ It’s much less stressful. I was constantly worrying about my next training session, or the fact that I was too slow, not fit enough, would make a fool of myself etc etc. With weights, I literally can’t wait to get up in the morning and go to the gym. It is my actual favorite part of the day.

 

❤ Results come quicker. Not just weight loss but you will be up to the next level of lifting well before you can beat your cardio PBs. The picture above was three months ago and I’ve made huge progress since!

 

❤ It’s actually the perfect complement to sport. I became much faster at running when I started working on my leg strength.

 

Obviously any kind of fitness that makes you happy and gets you active is the main thing, because the way you feel is more important than anything else. (Write that down.)

But I love weight lifting and I highly recommend it, if you’re not already doing it.
 Obviously teamed with healthy food!… (Write that down, too.)

 

Check out my Instagram for more insights to my life and lifestyle.

Also for meal plan and work out routines become one of my loyals and find out how to gain/lose the weight at Herbalife

 

 

 

 

 

I guess I'll post these pictures

Alright..Ill admit it, I took a hiatis. I took like 3 weeks off of everything, Blogging, Yard work, Radio, Pretty much everything. I needed some family time, some Husband time ;) and it felt really good.
The one thing that didn't stop though was clearly my eating habits. Although I didn't follow my own meal plan to a T, I didn't gain any weight. Which literally proved to myself (if I even needed proof) that Herbalife is NOT a diet, it literally is a life style change. My metabolism stayed up, while my weight stayed down. It was a beautiful thing. And I didn't really take too many before and after pictures, I wanted to results to be seen personally and felt in my clothes. But here is what I came up with.....

So the Picture of me in the white shirt was from just a few months ago, The picture of me holding that good lookin cod fish was from last weekend. I mean check out those legs! that's where its at my friends!

 

Im always encouraging friends to stop watching my results and start getting your own.

Goherbalife.com/coachpater

coachpater@gmail.com

 

Lets see what you can do

Dun Dun Dun!!!!

Ok doll faces, Its official, I'm an independant Distributor for #Herbalife!!! Like I said I will document this every step of the way for anyone who is interested in watching how it goes before just jumping on board. I wont tell you any of the amazing secrets, I'll show ya just enough to get you excited then BAM youre sucked in and I promise it will be the best sucked in you ever got ha ha ha. Bare with me its early and that sounded lame.

So it's only been a day since I signed up and I already have nothing but awesome things to say about the company. It was a little bit of a rough start, signing up was a little difficult BUT only because it was user error on my end. I had a dur dah dur moment and used the wrong card...But customer service was beyond friendly and i had a lot of dumb questions and they still treated me like i was the smartest person in the world...Not even kidding #bonus!

And when I was setting up my website they actually sat me through a seminar type thing to inform me of the right way to use it and the appropriate steps to take to ALWAYS ensure 100% customer satisfaction..Always. And at the end of the seminar we have to take a quiz and pass with 80% or higher to even get your website. It sounds crazy but if i was just a customer, it would make me feel a helluva lot better know that the person who is taking care of me was actually taught how to.

Ok so anyways. here is my website URL
http://www.goherbalife.com/coachpater/en-US
Go ahead and check it out, also here are the social media outlets i have for myself also.
Twitter
...wait is that it lol. Man i suck. I guess ill do a facebook too, if i must.

And in a 2 or 3 month time, i will be posting a video of my weight loss in a time lapse thing. I am addicted to watching these so i want to add my own :) Stay tuned!