Labay Family: 24 Day Challenge - Day 19 and Day 1 of 30 Day Shred

Monday, February 20, 2012

24 Day Challenge - Day 19 and Day 1 of 30 Day Shred

Oh, yeah, you heard me right... 30 Day Shred. As in Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred! My dear friend Jenna asked for ~~idiots~~ supporters to Shred along with her, and I signed up! I mean, she is doing the 24 Day Challenge with me, so how could I refuse?!?! :) Plus, it's not like I have been doing my Pilates like I had planned. This way I know I have somebody to answer to if I don't get my workout in. I think there about 10 of us doing this together and on Jenna's advice I jumped out of my bed this morning and got right to it. Well, I barely made it through and I felt like a total zombie while trying to go through the motions. Anyway, blah blah blah, and a little more whining.... Maybe tomorrow I will actually wake up a bit before busting another day out. :) I will say though, I am really sore in my upper legs so something is happening!!! And that Jillian is a toughie! And Jenna, I promise I will stick through it with you until the end! Woohoo!!!
The 24 Day Challenge is going great and I almost feel like I could go on forever on this thing. I feel great and I know I am getting a ton of beneficial vitamins and minerals. I'm still trying to decide what exactly I will do when the 24 Days is up. One things for sure, I will be taking AdvoCare products for the rest of my life! And I am going to be on a mission to have them create a children's line. Wouldn't that be great!
Anyway, big news tonight... I am officially an AdvoCare Advisor! That's some big-time stuff right there! I only became a Distributor about a month ago and I am already moved up in the company! All of this without even planning on doing hardly any of it! It's fun, and like I said before, it gives me something to be excited about and helps define me a little more as a person. My main "job" is still being a Mommy, but now I moonlight as an AdvoJunkie! I think I might have stolen that word from Nikkie. :) Ha.
Good Night all. The Bachelor is on and I can't focus on two things at once.

1 comment:

Jenna @ Newlyweds said...: So glad you are shredding with me, how did today go? Did you wake up early? Or are you going to try later in the day?

Congrats on being an advocare adviser, that is awesome!! I feel like you, I feel so good what am I going to do after the 24 day challenge.; February 21, 2012 at 11:09 AM

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My Pregnancy

Feb. 22, 2008 - Positive Pregnancy!
Feb. 28, 2008 - TWINS!
14 Weeks - Cervical Cerclage
24 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 3 days -Pre-Term Labor. Sent home on fetal monitoring and terbutaline pump. I have to monitor for contractions once a day and send the readings in for review. The terbutaline pump in a cathater in my leg that sends a contiunous flow of "anti-contraction" medicine into me. Complete bed-rest!
28 Weeks - Admitted to the hospital for 90% effacement of cervix. Cerclage still in tact but pulling. If it broke I would have to deliver and this is too soon. The babies are measuring 2.8 and 2.11 pounds. Was in the hospital for 23 days this time.
31 Weeks - Was sent home. Babies were 3.9 and 3.10 pounds. Stay on bed-rest.
36 Weeks 3 Days - Scheduled C-Section
Babies Born October 3, 2008!!!

5 Years of Infertility

Brent and I had dated for years - since my senior year of High School and were finally married on September 27, 2003. We had been together so long that we decided we would start a family immediately. Things turned out to be a bit more difficult than we planned. After many years of trying and medical intervention I was finally diagnoised with Endometriosis in Feb. of 2007. My disease was severe - stage 4 and had spread to my liver. After having exploratory surgery Dr. Cook thought that my ovaries and tubes were capable of functioning properly enough to produce a pregnancy but with the hostile environment inside of me I would need lots of help. We began Lupron therapy that would last 6 months as a way to try to "kill" off some of the endo. When the 6 months was up we began rounds of Clomid with IUI (Intra-Uteran Insemination). We did 2 cycles of this with no result. Our only other option was IVF which we decided to begin in January of 2008. After carefully following the treatment schedule of meds. and shots we had 14 eggs retrieved on Feb. 5, 2008 and of the 14 eggs 6 fertilized and became embryos. On Feb. 8, 2008 Dr. Gill transfered 3 of the best of the embryos. Two weeks later (Feb. 22nd) MaryLou called with the good news that my pregnancy test was positive!!!