Week 1

Starting today it's going to really start happening. I have been up and down, and reading some other wonderful blogs and today I sit at 210.2, so there has been some loss!! I think if all these wonderful people can do it why can't I!!

It's been .2 for the last couple of weeks. I have started working out just a little more and eating just a little less. I love food though! It's hard, but I eat a little of the yummy food I bake instead of a lot!!

My 1st goal is going to be to get to 208. Can't wait!! Just baby steps for me, watching the money grow in my jar has been good too, I have it on the counter in the kitchen which reminds me, really am I hungry or do I just feel like eating....

Inspiration

I just am not feeling it these days.

I love my AE active program and feel good after doing it. I am just not sleeping well and maybe once I have this stupid garage sale over with tomorrow I will feel a lot lighter so to speak that will be good....

So I love spark people and found this article. Found it too be a good one. I wish sometimes that I could stop drinking pop and lose weight, but I don't drink pop so that's not a problem. I wish I just never worked out and started and lost, nope love to work out. I wish I got more sleep, well at this time, I have a babe still so that's not going to happen, maybe that is why when my babe is a year I start to loss finally! Oh lightbulb moment! It's not that he is up every few hours or anything, it just he is up before my good 8 hours is in....I should go to bed earlier, but then I wouldn't get to see my hubby....the trade offs....

What is your inspiration?

My biggest problem is food! I have said I love to eat. I am portion controlling but somedays, I want to eat 2 cookies or more....I need to figure out how to eat what I love just not in abundance. I will figure it out I know I will! I want to be the slimmer me for my 10 year anniversary in just over a year!

Wii AE workouts

So I have done 11 now. I love them so much. I feel it and I have worked out for a long long time and to get something new, it feels GREAT!

Today was a great day. I still want that ice cream so bad, but know I can't do it. I didn't work out so to speak today, it was off on AE active, and the kids and I spent the day at the park and water park. So I was out early and didn't want to get out of bed! We all have those days. I went to the grocery store and bought good foods for me and children and hubby. I had a wonderful friend watch them at the park while I went to the store and took 2 of her kids home with us so she could go!

I love friends who help out and love helping too!

We had a great day so I don't feel bad about not working out, I still feel great. But know that that ice cream would kill me so I had a crystal light in my water to help with the craving and keep thinking 160 cals for 2 oreos, 1/2 cup ice cream would be about 200 cals, and of course 1/2 a cup might not be enough, and then the caramel. Yes it would be so yummy, but then I would have to work out for an extra hour hard to just feel okay about it....

Thanks for listening to the rambling!!

ummm Ice cream

So I really really want to have some ice cream, with oreos and caramel...so yummy.

However just as I was about to go and do it, I read a fellow blogger and decided that I want my love handles to go away, so I will not have the yummy ice cream, if I am still hungry after the laundry is folded I will have a fresh peach!

I was having an off day today and ate some crap too, so I don't really want too work out again.

I was on the phone with my hubby before he got home from work and he was wondering why I was so down, I just am feeling gross. He asked if there was something he could do, I said yup! Let me go and workout again for the 1 hour you are home before your movie night, so I can feel better! So that's what I did. I worked out for another 50 mins burned over 500 cals. This morning I had already done 1 hour and burned over 600 cals, so yeah! Even with the crap I ate, I still should come out okay. I am happy to be down (lbs) but sometimes, think, I am down so now I can eat again right, the crap like listed above....I need to remember I am down, whoo hoo, no going back yup to have to get back down again!

all over the place

So I am writing because I weighted myself today, I know not the day I was planning or anything, but

I am now 210.8!!! I have gone up and down and now am down. Finally it feels good, I was surprised to step on the scale and see that # it's been a while again.

So this weekend was awesome being my birthday. My hubby surprised me with my sister and throw me a surprise Bday. It was awesome and they really got me. Usually I like to know what's going on, but this year I was just happy to have some of my little family time on my actual day, I was so happy to have a nice dinner with my hubby on Friday night and then some girls time on Saturday. But on Friday my hubby and I went for dinner then to Chapters and were hanging out. He had to do a quick work thing so he said, which is not abnormal picking up a cheque. When we got to the house, he made me get out to help with some equipment which again is not abnormal. Usually I argue a bit, but I just went with him. Went to the front door of a house I have never been too and all my family and friends where there! It was wonderful! Happy 30 to me, finally going down and a great year ahead!!

It's been tough

I love food way too much and can't help buying it and eating it.  With a hubby and 4 kids, 3 of which eat...too much food in my house.

So I am just plugging along.  And I do mean plugging.

So I looked back at my posts and noticed that Sept to lose the weight I want is within a doable amount of time.  I can do it!  It would mean then that for my 10th Wedding anniversary I would be back to my original body, give or take the whole 4 kid thing!  I was married Nov 10th!

So I am recommitting myself, which I am going to have to do everyday every hour at this point to get through it.  

Tomorrow is my 30th birthday, and I am going to celebrate in a big way, I am super stoked about the new age and my life!  I love life and love where I am at.  I have a wonderful Hubby, who works hard, I have 3 wonderful boys and 1 beautiful princess.  I am blessed beyond measure, and am going to take care of myself so when I am 50 and all my children should be out of the house!  My hubby and I can go on trips and enjoy our family and grandkids.  I know totally getting ahead of myself.  I love to dream and my new one is just to lose the baby weight~

Thanks to those whom I read and find inspiration, I don't get on too much trying to be outside and playing...

But thank you!

T

today

My food for the day

breakfast, 1/3 cup homemade yogurt with 1 tsp of raspberry jam and 2 tbsp bran buds

1 homemade tortilla, 1/4 cup egg whites, 2 slices ham and 1/4 salsa

Dinner was a veggie soup that was homemade, and a whole wheat pretzel homemade.

Then my little girl and I  had a date, so we got a doughnut.  

I drank lots of water when I was feeling munchie.

I find that being home all the time, I get board when the kids are playing and all I want to do it eat, because there is so much yummy food.  I love so much!

oh well, I am down almost to the 5 lbs that I lost a few weeks ago, my jar has $20 in it now!!  I like watching money grow!

yup still sick

Went to the doc and she said there was nothing that she could do for me, it's a cough that will drive anyone nuts.  So I still have it!  But I have been working out regardless, I feel if I don't then it won't get any better.  I have been doing okay with eating.  I love to eat and that's a problem!  I have gained again this week I am at 212.8.  A lot of it has to do with being sick and the heat is getting to me and I am so tired that I just sleep!  My 6 month old has been keeping a bit of a hard schedule for me to get my sleep in.

Just wondering anyone else who has had a baby recently or in the past find it hard to lose weight? With my 1st 3 it always took a good year before the weight really started to come off...which is okay I guess but I don't want to wait that long!!!.  I turn 30 in 11 days, and I hope to be a little less~

I hope this week will be better, I am really going to try harder!  Why is it such a hard switch to make. I  know I want to do it, but really!!

Good luck to you all!!