Family

THE TUTTLE CLAN

" The Girls" - Tina, Carole, Kathy, Mom, Dad, Cindy, and Pammy.

"The Boys"- Timmy, Tommy, Mom, Dad, Mike and Bobby

This was the last time we were all together, Christmas 2009. I want everyone reading this to remember to cherish the moments you have with your family as you never know when they will be your last.

Timmy, I will miss your smile, your laughter, and the funny things you always had to say. God promises to take good care of you until the day we meet again.

I love you brother,

Carole

What's Your Excuse......

"I vowed not to eat fast food, but Aunt Flo was coming to visit and I decided Taco Bell wouldn't hurt!"

"I wish I had your resolve!"

"I had to, I was starving!"

"I know, I know, I know, I couldn't resist that damn Coke!"

"I gave blood today, I deserved it!"

"popcorn, forgot to measure was glued to the screen...Also, I'm sure measuring cups are illegal in movie theatres!"

Cinnamon Roll "It was bad, but tasted so good!"

Do any of these look familiar? They should I have taken some of them directly from the food logs on the CrossFit Michiana Website! Every one of us is great at making excuses for why we are eating and drinking what we are. Myself included! I can come up with just about any reason to eat a sugary carby snack that I like to call my feel good food! I feel really good while I am eating it, and for about 10 minutes afterwards. Then, I get mad. I get mad because I let down my resolve. I didn't stick with my plan of choosing a healthy lifestyle.

Yeah you heard it, it's a choice. You can CHOOSE to eat healthy or you can CHOOSE not to! Either way there is one person and one person only who makes that choice for you....YOU!!! Don't blame it on your kids, your husband, your significant other....YOU are responsible for what YOU put in YOUR mouth! I have never seen anyone's kids stuffing cookies down their parents throats! I have never seen anyone's husband refusing to eat a nicely cooked steak dinner with roasted vegetables and a colorful salad.

What's your excuse? I mean choice? Is it time to make that change in your life?

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I don't want to go through the motions......

"........I don't want to spend my whole life asking, what if I had given everything, instead of going through the motions........."

So today I had my last fit club at Schmucker Middle School...I had to cancel on the kids for the next couple of months until we can get another trainer to cover ALL of the stuff we have going on at the gym! I will tell you that was one of the hardest things I had to do was tell my kids that I wouldn't be able to be there for a couple of months. You should have seen the looks on their faces. I didn't realize the impact I had made on these children until I was steps out of the front door and one of the little girls wrapped her arms around my body and said "Thank you so much Ms. Carole, I am going to miss you!"

You know some days I just feel like parts of me are going through the motions to get to the next day. And then something like this stops me dead in my tracks! It makes me think deeply about the impact I have on people's lives. Big people's, little people's, and all the people's in between! I didn't even know it (or take the time to notice) that this little girl had grown attached to me. She looked up to me. She respected me. That made me feel like a "SUPER STAR!" So, what am I going to do about this you ask?

I am going to live each and every day as if it were my last. I am going to make every minute of my life count. I am going to work with my eyes wide open....ready and willing to change lives at every turn in the road! I really thought I was doing this already, but somewhere along the line a day here and there I let myself hit the "going through the motions mode" and that's not where I want to be!

A really good friend of mine told me one time to listen to the song "Motions" by Matthew West - I highly recommend it to anyone who is ready to make life count. Each and every moment of every day!

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Trashed - I Chose Monday

Hookers and Crack.

Tomorrow or Monday.

Cheat Day.

Treat Day.

It's New Year's Eve.

It's New Year's Day.

It's the weekend.

I can't stop myself.

What is this? All of the excuses that I have fed myself for the destruction and trash that I have fed my body since noon on Wednesday December 30, 2009. I kid you not I can not stop myself. As I was fixing this huge banana split last night I said out loud "Well, I guess I chose Monday!" I read Jim's whole dialog on whether you would choose the first day of the year or Monday to kick it in to gear and realized then and there as I sat drooling for that first bite of banana split that I CHOSE MONDAY! And I was pissed! But did that stop me?

I have eaten, peanut butter cookies, chocolate walnut cookies, Reese's peanut butter cups, beer, pretzels, crackers, ice cream, Chai after Chai, DOTS, Hershey's chocolate bars (dark chocolate is good for you right), almonds and other nuts by the handfuls....each time with some apparent reason in my mind that this was OK!

I sit here on Sunday evening at 7:22 pm knowing that in approximately 12 hours I have to do Angie at the gym and my belly is literally hanging over my pants and growling for some decent protein! So, I guess what I am trying to say is "If this is you, you aren't alone!" Monday morning will be here and we can start right then and there! I chose Monday and I am pissed that I did, but that was a choice I made and only I can fix it now!

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