What do you mean cardio doesn't always mean running?!?!

First let me apologize for being gone so long. It was completely unintentional and then my laptop and tablet shit the bed and my phone is a POS. 

But yes cardio does NOT mean you absolutely must run. It also doesn't mean that you have to use a treadmill, elliptical or spin bike either. For most people cardio is pure utter tortuous hell and I used to be one of those people at one time. I've ran 5K's in the past and was working my way up to a half marathon before my support system well quit. 

So now instead of running I tend to lean more towards H.I.I.T. Cardio. I do this at least twice a week but am shooting for four times a week.
Below are some routines I've been using that I found online while I'm currently making my own routine. Once I'm done perfecting my own routine if anyone would like to have it to use just let me know!

No time to eat!!

I'm the worst when it comes to eating 3 times a day, I barely remember to eat once. So I started making smoothies since they are healthy and fast. My favorite is a Strawberry Banana Oatmeal Smoothie. I make it with a cup of strawberries, 1/2 a banana, 1/4 cup of oats and 1/2 cup of Dannons Vanilla Yogurt. You can tailor it to fit your tastes and add in other ingredients. I've added in kale and it was pretty good.

After having one of those mid morning I went outside with my boys, played soccer, ran around, began teaching my 6 year old how to skateboard and did walking lunges up and down the little hill in our backyard. Its been a productive day overall. Maybe later this week I'll take some photos and post them so that throughout this journey I can come back and see my progress. And of course my smoothie pic won't post, I'll try again later...

My little walking lunge hill

Getting back into it

    I'm just going to be honest and say now that for the past 3 years I've been dormant and my only exercise was at work. That being said I work as a nurse and move all the time and lift people on a daily basis. But I used to do 5Ks just for the fun of it and I want to get back to that but also be better.

Last week or so I had heart to heart with myself and decided I wanted to feel better, eat better,be comfortable in my own skin,cut down on some of my own body shaming of myself but most of all just to be happy and to be able to do things with my kids for years to come.

I really didn't know where to begin even being a nurse I'm still clueless about something's :). So I did what apparently quite a few other people do as well and got on Pinterest researched workouts I could do from home and saved a lot of pins. I started doing 2 of those consistently several times a day and am actually quite impressed with myself and the fact I'm feeling a little better already.

My 3 kids are enjoying not only cheering me on but also doing them with me and picking on me. Now if they would just get on board with the healthier eating! One battle at a time lol.