Have you tried these?

So anyone that frequents youTube has heard of, or seen a bodyrock.tv workout.  They are posted by a beautiful woman named Zuzana and her husband.

The workouts center on HIIT training, and are usually pretty quick, some as short as 4 minutes.

Well I tried one today.  Called The New 300

I must say that I only made it through half the workout, because my heart was beating so fast I was feeling weird, like I might throw up maybe... it was weird.

Anyways the moral of the story is that I will keep trying them, because they are amazing and I will eventually be fit enough to actually complete one... someday :)

You should try one if you are a fitness nut, want to get your ass kicked, or want to see just how far you can push yourself.

NOT FOR THE WEAK!  Trust me.  I like hardcore workouts and I can't hang, yet.

If you do them, try one or just visit the site I would love to know your thoughts :)

BTW I completed half the workout in 13:45 just so you know my score :)

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Bored

Hey there!  Ok I am bad, got to get back into the groove!  Anyways, I have been working out and doing the WW thing.  Sorry I haven't posted.

A quick side note, this post was gonna be called busy, busy but I mistyped it and it read Bust, Bust! Lol.  Anyways.  Today I woke up early and went for a nice run.  Then I came home and did an ab workout.  I then got ready and taught my first full class lesson at the school.  It was easy because it was an art lesson and it is such a rarity for them now that they always like them.

So that's me in a nut shell :)  More soon... hopefully!

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Time, I have time :)

So my favorite readers, you may have noticed that all of my projects have gone dark.  Well I had to really push through a lot of school in a short amount of time, and then sadly, I contracted pneumonia!  Great Christmas this year, really.  Anyways I told you I needed to get things done, and then I would return to you.  Well... I officially have time for my blogs/vlogs again.  Man I am excited.  So here is what I have been up too.

As you know JustBeve is meant to be about my return to fitness, while after attempting to do it alone, I realized I needed help.  So I joined Weight Watchers  I am SO glad I did.  I was on it before, (2009) and wasn't dedicated enough.  Now, with the new program, I am seeing results and feeling good.

Starting on Saturday Feb. 26, I started ChaLEAn Extreme and so I will once again be using this blog to track my workouts, and eating, just in a different way.  Everyday I will post my ChaLEAN Extreme workouts, reviews, and results (once a month) and on Saturdays, my weigh in days, I will post my weight watchers info.  So yeah, welcome back to my world.  I have missed you all!


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New Video is up

Hello friends and followers!

Thank you so much for being patient while I concentrated on school.  It was so worth it and from now on I will have more time to post stuff, promise :)

Anyways I have a new Breaking Dawn video up!  Click here to see it now :)

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Best giveaway ever? For me anyways!

Now I rarely never post up to contests, but this one is for GAMESTOP and that is just gamer heaven.  Come on you all know me, this could be the first contest that I actually feel like I must win!!  So here it is...

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to:http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What is your holiday wish for your family? That we are all happy with where we are, focused on where we are going, and that we love each other as much as possible

2. What is your Christmas morning / Hanukkah Nightly tradition? Having a million families, our tradition is to visit as many people as possible.  So our tradition is drive, visit, eat, goodbyes, drive, visit, eat, goodbyes, visit, eat, eat, eat (even when you aren't hungry people give you heaping plates of yumminess... it would be rude to not scarf right!)

3. If you could ask Santa for one, completely decadent wish for yourself, what would it be? A hunky husband that is rich and thinks I am the bees knees!  DUH!

4. How do you make the holidays special without spending any money? Make sure there is at least one large gathering where we can play games and chat.  It's all about being together.

5. What games did you play with your family growing up? All kinds, right now our "Christmas" game is Bunko, because we are all older now and needed a more adult game.

6. What holiday tradition have you carried on from your own childhood? Other then togetherness, I guess it would be our stockings, we all take great pride in finding trinkets to fill each others stockings till they seem like they will burst.  It is always the best part.

7. Where would you go for a Christmas/Hanukkah-away-from-home trip? I'd love to see New York all bright and decorated, I just love that city.

8. Check out GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) and tell us, what are the three top items on your GameStop Wish List this year? X-box Kinect, Fallout Las Vegas, and Black ops of course!  "I want to go there" in my liz lemon voice : )

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In the absence of content

I feel like it has been forever since I posted here, then I looked and it has on;t been a week, not bad, not bad.  Sometimes, as life goes, I just run out of things to say.  I have been sitting  here, in front of my computer the whole time.  Not being creative and fun, but working hard.  I go to school online and right now I am trying my hardest to get as much done as possible.

You may have also noticed that my youTube page has been left un-updated.  Is that a word?  Well, I have to be good and get things done.  I do miss posting though : (

Sometimes in the middle of a boring essay, I tell myself, that is enough for today and I should vlog, or blog.  Then I think about the lost time and I don't.  It is annoying.  So I am sorry.  Not only for not blogging/vlogging but for once again using up a post to apologize for it.  After the holidays, things will level out again, and I will get back into it I am sure.

Have you ever felt over stretched?  Did it mean you had to give up things you actually wanted to do?

P.S. I updated the other blog today... so  check it out already!

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Creativity Creates

The thing about creativity is it is like movement.  Movement created movement.  Creativity encourages creativity.  I have always been a writer... stories, poems, songs.  However, a few years ago, I started to ignore my creative side, and concentrate on University.  One thing school does is stifle creativity.

On the first, I started my first NaNoWriMo and allowing myself to be creative has truly inspired me.  I am all over the place with my writing right now.  I am trying to channel it into my NaNo because I am WAY behind, however I have ideas flowing out of me so quickly I can almost not keep up.  I have been trying to write them down when they come, but some have simply come and gone and that is that.

My point is, my mind never stopped creating, I just stopped listening to it.  When I finally let it out, it came out as a flood, not a trickle.  Also it should be noted that the lowest point of my life, where I was truly sad, everyday was during this creative strike.  I am not saying they are related, I am just pointing out the coincidental timing.

Off to write some more...

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Hey all!

Sorry it's been a while, just been hectic!  I am working hard to get through school, plus NaNoWriMo has started and I am writing like a mad woman so... you know.  Things here are well, I am doing well on my flyLady stuff, you can read the occasional update on my other blog.  The youTube vids have slowed down a little, but only because I am being good and working on school.  I will make one soon, just with the holidays and NaNoWriMo and school, the "creative" stuff such as the blogs and the videos have to suffer, just a little.  I will try to put up one video a week, and at least one blog on each of the two blogs.  That is the best I can do right now.  I know BET 2011 was a failure, but I have high hopes that my new years resolution will be along the lines of do something everyday, like in Jan. Blog, in Feb. Video you get the idea :)  Until next time, same beve time, same beve channel :)

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Yay, I am back, updates on my projects...

Hi everyone!!  I am so sorry I have been MIA, like I said, I was sick.  I wan't in the right frame of mind to do anything :)

Here are some of the things I have been up to...

Ok, so I have been updating my other vlog, Elegant Sunshine a little, about my journey to get my home in order.

I also updated my vlog yesterday It is Chapter 5 of Breaking Dawn.  I love making these videos because I feel like they are not only funny, but they leave you wanting more and I love that, some people only watch the Breaking Dawn vids, and some watch all my vids, but not the Breaking Dawn ones.  It is totally a matter of opinion.  So if you want check it out, and if you like it please subscribe, comment and rate it.  I just love hearing from everyone :)




Also, if you are on twitter you can find me @justbeve

Ok that is all, have a great day and I will see you tomorrow!
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I'm alive!

Sorry I haven't posted, I am sick and all I want to do is sleep and pout :)  I am starting to feel better.  Will start posting again soon : )

Love you all

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This week has been a bust! Time to kick it into gear again!

So, this week I have been pretty bad.  Not really, no worries, but bad in the way that I have let all my bad habits return!

Bad Beve!

Ok that is enough kicking myself.  Time to start being productive.  I will go running tomorrow, even if it is on the treadmill.  (It has been rainy).  There I have said it.

Now it has to happen.  In the morning I will run, and then I will have a good food day, and then I will take over the world ha ha ha ha...

Sorry, I am not supposed to mention that last goal to you guys!  *blushes*

So goodnight my friends.  Also... welcome to all the bloggers coming over from SITS!  I love that site so much!


Thanks for reading!
 Make sure you comment!
 Just Beve

Can you hear that??

Today has been a gloomy rainy day.  When I woke up it was raining, and then the beautiful sun came out and now, the wind has kicked up and, off in the distance, the very subtle tremble of thunder.

It is amazing, you can hear it coming.  Yet, looking out the window that sun is shining.

The sky right out of my window

It is like life, you know something could happen but you continue to see sunshine.  Do you bask in this elegant sunshine here or do you brace for the thunder that is on the horizon?  It is a question that I ask myself often now.

The clouds on the horizon

See this blog is about growth and one thing I have yet to do is brace for the thunder.  I have been so content to nap on the cool grass and feel the warm sun on my face that I forgot that the thunder ever existed.  I forgot that as an adult there is always the slight chance of rain.

It isn't until you are standing in the pouring rain, soaking wet that you think to yourself, there was more I could have done.  So, now I must not only acknowledge what could be, I must embrace it, and then when the clouds roll in I can say, it is okay, I am ready.  I have my umbrella and a rain jacket.  Let it rain... I am ready : )

I am not sure where this knowledge will lead me on my personal path but I am hoping it will lead me to a more financially secure place, one where I don't have to burst into tears when I have to go to the ER one night, weighing my options and trying to talk myself out of needing to go.  I hope to be in the place where I can say... "This will be hard, but I can handle it."

That my friends is what the incoming thunder has said to me today.

What do you do to prepare for rain??

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 Just Beve

Food Journal
10:30 2 HB eggs

5:00 Beans, roast beef with cheese. (yum)

Mostly healthy snacks including carrots and cheese.  One bad one : )

No workout again today!  Bad Beve!

18 October 2010

Workout


I didn't workout again today : ( Although I do feel like it is going to be possible tomorrow, guess I will have to wait and see really.  As of this very moment, typing this I am going to, but I will decide for sure when I wake up.  I really need to get back out there!!

Food journal


11:00 McDonalds : (


3:00 Pizza


8:00 Small bowl of rice, string cheese, and carrots.


I woke up at 8:30 this morning so I missed my goal by 1/2 hour, but I got thrown off because my little brother needed a ride somewhere.  What can you do?  Just have to keep going.


Also I watched the documentary Food Inc.  and I don't plan on eating ever again so that solves the whole eating thing : (  Seriously though, you should so watch it!!  I am amazed by the stuff they talk about.  It is all stuff I know basically and I am still freaked out about it!!3


I also decided to put of Measurement Monday until the 1st, so I can have better returns.  I also don't want to obsess over the numbers you know?

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 Just Beve

JustBeve vs. The Hoodie, NEW VIDEO!!

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It's Sunday!! New Food Goals and my Journal for 17 Oct 2010

It's Sunday!!

I have like 5 minutes to write this and post it before it is a day late!!

Ok so going through the the journals I am going to add the following goals to the two I already have.

First, No eating something 2 days in a row.  I have A LOT of repeats in the journal and that is not a good way to cover your nutrient bases!  However, I do always have leftovers as I am cooking for one here : (  So I have to be able to repeat sometimes, hence the 2 day rule.

Second, Eat a breakfast within two hours of waking up.  On days when I eat earlier, I tend to eat more meals.  When I wait 4 or 5 hours like I did yesterday and today, I eat way more junk, and only one or two huge meals!

So there are the new goals.  I will continue the new goals as well, obviously.

Food Journal.
It was a bad day today.  I hung out with my dad all day and only ate one meal.  Pizza.  I also ate some snacks that were bad.  Tomorrow is another day, and Measurement Monday!  So that should be fun : )



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 Just Beve

16 October 2010

Workout
Another day with no workout!  Still feeling a little sub par, but I think that a good night's sleep, and I will wake up ready to go!  Fingers crossed!  I feel better today then I did yesterday, but still a little... blah!


Food Journal


2:30 Pizza


9:00 Burrito


Major setback today!  The above shows a complete lack of planning and discipline.  I was bad, what can I say.  It is reminiscent of day one huh?  Well, on this journey I refuse to beat myself up, I will just wake up tomorrow and try to have a good day, not letting a few setbacks during week one throw me off!


Tomorrow is Sunday so I will be writing a post on food goals as well as a journal.  Then it is Measurement Monday : ]  

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NaNoWriMo Plot...

So I wanted to share my planned plot for my NaNoWriMo novel and get some feedback on it.

Feel free to leave a comment : )

So I plan to call it: What Goes Around

Here is the basic plot synopsis...

If you could ruin the life of an ex, who broke your heart, would you?

5 years ago, Alexa's heart was broken into a million pieces by a colleague.  Josh, who broke of their engagement 3 weeks before the wedding, was Alexa's life.  She had to request a transfer and build a new life for herself in a new town.

Now 5 years later, Alexa likes to think that she is older and wiser.  She has a sweet boyfriend, has been promoted and is in a place in her life where she she feels happy.  That is until she finds out she is getting a new person in her division.  When she finds out it is Josh, all the old memories come back up.  At first she is nostalgic and nervous when he starts working there, but soon all the repressed anger she has starts to surface and the memories of their relationship lead her down a dark path.  One where she is determined to make him pay for what he did.

Alexa uses her position of power to slowly ruin not only his career but his life.  All while trying to maintain an outward appearance of a professional and friend.

So what do you think?  Does it sound like a book you would read?  It is supposed to be light read, sort of a dark comedy beachy read.  Thoughts?
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15 October 2010

Workout
Yep, I bailed.  I am really not feeling up to it, you know.  Sometimes you have to listen to your body and today was one of those days.  It wasn't laziness, I woke up on time, and everything.  I just didn't feel like it was a good idea today.  I kept telling myself, I can do it later, when I feel better but it never happened.  No worries, tomorrow is another day : )


Food Journal

11:00 Beans and cheese

3:00 HB Egg and Banana

7:30 Small Salad

8:30  Enchiladas and rice


So still not eating great, but have you noticed that I am eating at home and not out!  Go me! Hopefully that will be a trend that progresses because even if you arn't eating the healthiest meals, home cooked food is always a better choice then fast food.  So even though I still have a ways t go, I already feel like I am eating a little better.  More fruits and veggies and more water.  Working out everyday and eating better is a journey and I am trying to do well.  :)

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Breaking Dawn Chapter 3 and 4

Here is my newest Breaking Dawn Video!  I know it isn't Thursday but what can I say?  I just haven't been feeling all that well lately!  I hope you enjoy it, as always there are bloopers at the end, and please rate it, comment on it, and if you could share it with someone you think would enjoy it that would make me very happy : )

14 October 2010

Workout
Week 2 Day 2 of the Couch to 5k.  It was hard, I am having a hard time doing the last two intervals of the set.  I think I will extend the week.  I will do w2 for another week.  I don't think I should move on when I can't actually do the stuff I am supposed to be doing.  The run hurt, but it is a beautiful time of day to run and I am glad I have some time in the sun for that good old vitamin D!


Food Journal


9:00 HB egg, small banana, string cheese with water.


12:00 Encilladas with Rice (left overs yum!)

7:30 Bean and Cheese Burrito

Still not the best, but for two days in a row I have meet both of my goals for the week!  Yay go me!  I only ate a few snacks too, one was candy but the others were buts and string cheese!

K see you guys tomorrow when I do Bodyrock.tv and hopefully don't die from it!!