Wednesday: weigh in day and Before & Afters

Wow, I have been slacking.

I haven't done a weigh in Wednesday in a couple weeks. 

Sorry.

Well, today I am weighing in at 171 lbs.

Yep, still there but that's ok, I have noticed changes in my body and my clothes are fitting better.

Someday the scale will move and I will love it but for now, whatever.
I am linking up with Erin and Alex

 

 

Now onto the good can't believe I am posting these part.

Last year on March 20, I took some before pictures.

Looking back I wish that I had taken them with a shirt on but I remember feeling like it didn't look as bad with clothes on so I wanted to remember just how awful I looked and felt.
And man was I good at not having my picture taken, trust me, I looked through a ton of pictures to see if I could find just a regular picture to compare to now so that you all didn't have to be tortured but no such luck.
Anyway.

Now, a year later, honestly I am not where I wanted to be but I also didn't put in as much hard work as I should have. 

Can't expect great change if I eat ice cream and chocolate almost everyday. 

I have come a long way though and am proud of what I have accomplished over the year.

When I started last march I could not run for even half a mile. 

Now I can run for over an hour and still feel good at the end.

Just last weekend I finished a 5k in 36:13.

I remember the first time I ran a whole 5k without walking, it took me almost 50 minutes.

Since last March I have lost almost 20 pounds.

I wish that I had taken measurements then but I just couldn't face those numbers at the time.

I went from a size 16 to a now comfortable size 12. 

I have a lot of fun races lined up for this next year and I hope that my post on March 20, 2014, will be about how great I feel at goal weight. 

 

I still can't believe that I am posting these for everyone to see.

Please be kind.
 

                              Before March 20, 2012                         During March 20, 2013

Can we just focus on the side shot cause that is the friendliest one. 
Ick, I can't believe I am going to hit publish. 
I'm throwing in a picture of my adorable baby and a little bit of my scruffy man just cause I love them.

 This picture was right after we cut the baby buggers hair.

 

Thanks for reading!

I am gonna go workout now, pictures are such great motivation to get my butt moving.

Operation Red Bikini here I come!

A parental fail and wednesday weigh

Yesterday I got that call.

You know the one from your kids school, where you answer thinking it must be a sick kid or something because it is only 1:50 and they don't get out of school until 3. I answered and there was an adorable little voice and all she said was, "hi mom." I of course answered with "what's wrong baby? Are you not feeling well?" She ignored my question and said, "we are in the office." And at that moment I realized I completely forgot that it was early release and they had gotten out of school at 1:30!

 I then proceeded to accidentally hang up on my sweet child while trying to gather my other two and get in the car as quickly as possible.  I called the school from the car, apologized and let them know I was on my way.  I snapped this picture after getting them.  William is not amused but Jordan is super happy because they had asked her what my number was and she remembered it and was able to call me, she was very proud. 

I made up for it by taking them to get ice cream from McDonald's.  Ice cream fixes everything right? 

 

I hate that I forgot them, my mom did this to me and my siblings on a weekly basis growing up and I hated it.  Of course, now being older I know she didn't actually forget us she just got caught up in other things, still, I hated it and never wanted to do it to my kids.  Oops. 

 

Funny though, I rushed out of the house so fast that I didn't notice I had put on two different flip flops, must have been what was closest to the door.  =)

 

On to my Wednesday weigh in, I am down from yesterday but still up from where I was before Christmas.  Oh well, at least the scale is moving in the right direction again.  So I weighed in this morning at 175.2. 

 

Happy Wednesday!

Wednesday: weigh in day

Well, I am up this week, I can't say I am surprised.  I haven't worked out hardly at all this week.

  It is what it is. 

I weighed int his morning at 174.2, that's right, up 3 pounds. 

 

 

I joined a weight loss challenge called the Last Loser Standing and today was our first weigh in.  The last weight loss challenge really helped keep me motivated.  I am hoping this one will do the same.  This challenge is a little different because it isn't based on how much weight you loose just as long as you are losing.  So every week we weigh in and as long as your number hasn't gone up then you are still in the competition.  The last one standing wins.  Pretty cool, huh. 

 

That is all for today, happy Wednesday!

slacker

Man have I been slacking on this blog and I need to change that.  I have been so unmotivated to exercise this past week and coming up with excuse after excuse.  Well, enough is enough.  This whole blog community is really motivating and I need to keep up so I am getting back to it. 

 

I lost .2 pounds last week, so for those keeping track I am weighing in at 171.6.  So close to reaching the 160's, hopefully next week.  I am going to start training for a 10k.  I think that I am going to follow Hal Higdon's training program.  It looks doable.  And I am going to start hitting the weights hard. 

 

I think I might actually set a schedule for myself to follow for blogging instead of this going by the seat of my pants thing. 

 

I tried to take some pictures of my adorable little buggers to use for our Christmas card and this was the best one I got.

 

I thought about just using it but it sends out the wrong impression of the baby, he isn't a crier, he was screaming in this picture because his beautiful, innocent sister sitting right behind him had just tried to snatch his stick, he fought her off though.  Jon and I are going to go tomorrow and try to get some better ones.  It is hard to place a baby then get back and take the picture before he moves, I need help. 

 

Anyway, have a great weekend!

Oops, it is Wednesday: weigh in day

Apparently, last week got away from me, I haven't blogged anything since last weeks weigh in.  I didn't mean to do that, oh well, I guess I will do a quick recap of my week.  Just because I am sure that you are all wondering what I have been doing. ;)

 

Thanksgiving was good, lunch at the in laws and dinner with my family, yep, two big meals in one day.  They were both super delicious, especially the desserts!  Except I only got one tiny slice of my favorite French Silk pie, which makes me sad but it payed off on the scale. 

 

Friday was my daughter, Rexy's 3rd birthday.  I can't believe that she is 3 already, I know everyone says it but time really does go by way to quickly.  We celebrated her birthday on Thanksgiving with each meal, she loved/hated all of the attention.  She was so excited to sing happy birthday but she didn't realize that we would all be singing it while staring at her with crazy happy faces.  She of course burst into tears, it was adorable. 

 

Black Friday happened, I am a big black Friday shopper.  We went all night long, I loved it but I think that my mom and my sister and I have decided that next year we are going to go back to getting up at like 3 am to start instead of staying up all night.  One reason being that JC Penny is one of our favorite stores and they haven't lost all morals, so they still open at 6 am Friday morning.  Which I like except since we went all night we ended up with two hours to kill before JCP (that's what the cool kids call it) opened.  Keeping ourselves awake those two hours was hard, we are old!!

It was still an awesome shopping time, I am almost finished with our Christmas shopping.  Woohoo!

 

The weekend was very relaxing, just played with family and got some little stuff done around the house.  I don't think that I have ever mentioned that we live in a construction zone, I think that is going to need its own post. 

 

Back to school for the kids and regular life for me on Monday.  I did really well last week with the Pile On The Miles, last weeks total was 15 miles, it felt great.  I am going to have to get in around 20 miles this week to make my 50 mile goal but I am determined. 

 

And lastly, my weigh in. 

 

I am happy to report that even after consuming two Thanksgiving day meals and all of the left overs I am still down.  All that running/walking paid off.  I weighed in this morning at 171.8.  I love this loosing streak!  Hope it continues, I love it when I move the number in the tens column, that's right, the tens column, can you tell I have a second grader.  =)

 

Loved reading about everyone else's thanksgiving!

Wednesday: weigh in day

It is weigh in day and I was actually excited to step on the scale this morning. 

It has been consistently going down, WONDERFUL!

 

I weighed in this morning at 173.2!

 

I love seeing results from all my hard work. 

 

Now I am off to start my crazy busy Wednesday.  We have doctor appointments for possible ear infections, a park play date, meeting up with someone to sell some cloth diapers on craigslist, and then I am watching a friends kids this afternoon while she gets to act in a small commercial, pretty awesome.  Busy, busy.  And to finish the day we are meeting some family that came into town for Thanksgiving for dinner.  Should be an exciting day. 

 

Hope everyone else has a great Wednesday



Wednesday: weigh in day

The scale keeps going down! 

 

Slow but steady, I weighed in this morning at 175.2!

I hit 175!  I get to celebrate now right?! 

Except, no cause I am exhausted, I have been up all night with a sick bugger.  The stomach flu is so disgusting, especially when they are too little to get to a bucket fast.  I am going to celebrate by doing loads and loads of laundry.  Yeah!  Actually, I don't mind today, I mean come on, I only weigh 175.2.  Woohoo!!!
 

 

Also this week Melinda, my sister in law, and I are challenging ourselves to see if we can make it till Friday without sugar.  I don't know if I can do it.  I LOVE sugar.  That is why we are only trying to make it five days.  I can do five days...right?  I have made it two hopefully I wont cave before Friday. 

 

I am so very addicted to sugar. 

Wednesday: weigh in day

Check it out, I weigh 176!!

 

 I am so excited!  The number keeps going down, finally.  I swear I had been gaining and loosing the same 1 pound for weeks but the scale is finally, slowly going down.  I love it.  Can't wait to weigh in next week, maybe I will hit that 175 milestone.

On an unrelated topic, I had to wear a dress yesterday because my normal go to yoga pants are wearing holes in the thighs and just looking pretty much inappropriate for wear outside of the house.  Will I retire them, of course not, throwing out exercise clothes is a sin right?!  I don't know why, but I feel like it is.  I finally put a pair of capris in the garbage that should have been tossed probably a year ago.  I put them in the trash Monday and I am seriously feeling loss, how silly is that.  I guess I will use retail therapy to get over the loss, I need to buy some pants that fit now.  Because I am the last of my friends to loose weight I have about 10 pairs of beautiful jeans in size 10, hand me downs, but I need pants that fit now.  So shopping I must go.

 

Man, seeing results is ridiculously motivating.  I seriously can't wait to weigh in next week. 

Happy Wednesday!

 

 

 

 



Wednesday: weigh in day

Down 1.2 lbs!!!

 

Weighed in today at 177.8

 

I couldn't be happier with that number

 

I know some people wouldn't think that much weight was a victory but I do. Any weight off is something to celebrate.  I worked hard this week to shed those 1.2 pounds. Having my workouts scheduled on the fridge has been really good for me. It not only makes me stick to my workouts but it reminds me to make good choices every time I open the fridge. I can't wait to see what the scale says next week. Annie over at Crazy/Simple Mama posted about hitting a 20 pound weight loss and I am inspired! I am so looking forward to the day I get to post about my own 20 pound milestone.  And I am chipping away at it everyday! 

 

Thanks Annie for sharing!

Wednesday: weigh in day

Well, sadly I am back up to 179.  But it was 179.0 so that was kind of fun.  Not sure why but it made me happy having the point 0. 

 

I have been in a slump this week and I want out of it so I decided that I am going to make a calender and schedule all of my workouts on it.  Then I am going to put it up on the fridge so that I will see it everyday several times a day.  Hopefully this will help me be more motivated to accomplish the workouts.  I think it will cause I love getting to cross things off lists, silly I know but it just makes me so happy to cross things off that I think I will do the workout just to cross it off the list.  Who knows, maybe if I miss a day I will do a double workout the next day so I can cross off both workouts.  

 

Plus I started a fitness challenge today and I have an awesome group of ladies on my team working towards winning prizes for our weight loss, talk about motivation.  I love it when people are depending on me cause I hate to disappoint.  I lost so much weight when I used to have to meet my friend, Linette, for our daily workouts, I couldn't not show up cause I might disappoint.  So I am excited to step on the scale next week.  Maybe I will actually hit that 175.  

Wednesday: weigh in day

It happened...

 

I lost weight!

 

 

I finally busted through and am down on the scale.  I am very excited about this.  I think that I might owe Jillian a big THANK YOU.  The 30 Day Shred is the only thing that I have been doing differently and now I lost weight.  Wow, I really hope the scale keeps moving downward.  I can't wait to hit that 175 goal, hopefully that will happen next week. 

 

Here it is, my weight is...

 

 

176.4

 

that is right, I lost almost 4 pounds! 

 

Yippee!!!

 

 

I weighed in over on Roni's blog again, go check her out.

Oops! Wednesday: weigh in day

Whoops! 

 

Yesterday was Wednesday and I didn't weigh in. 

 

I thought it was Thursday all day yesterday, don't ask me why.  'Cause I have no idea.  Tuesday is a very busy day for me and I even had playdates scheduled, that I went to, that I knew were scheduled for Wednesday.  But none of that stopped my silly head from thinking it was Thursday.  It wasn't until I got online and was going through my blogroll last night that I realized that it had in fact been Wednesday.  And that I had completely missed weighing in. 

 

So here I am, weighing in on Thursday.  Better late then never I guess.  And my current weight is...

 

180.2

 

Yep, still there, on the up and down train.  Oh well, I feel good about it this week.  I made it to level 2 of the 30 day shred and I feel good about that too.  I am going to finish this month and see where it leaves me.  Hopefully down just a little but I will take whatever comes my way.  Have a great Thursday!  I know I will because it is like I gained a whole extra day since I totally thought I already lived Thursday.  

Wednesday: weigh in day

179.4

 

I don't want to repeat the words that came out of my mouth when I stepped on the scale this morning.  I am up .3 pounds, I know it could be worse but I was so ready to see 178.  That's it, I wasn't even hoping to make it all the way to 177, just 178.  Stinks.  At least it was only .3, not 3 pounds.  I am working on eating better, I almost wrote cleaner but to be honest I am intimidated by "cleaner" diets.  I don't know why, I know plenty of people who are eating that way but it still intimidates me.   I might take the plunge though and figure out exactly what it means to eat clean.  I am a pretty picky eater so for all I know I already eat that way.  Chicken on a plate with a side of steamed broccoli sounds like a wonderful dinner to me.  Hopefully I will see results starting next week since I will have been doing the 30 Day Shred for over a week. 

 

And I am weighing in over at Roni's Weigh again.  Go check her out, she is encouraging!  I like that she wrote about being accountable no matter what.  Seriously, no one reads my little blog and I could easily stop weighing in here but I need to keep accountable no matter what.  Even if no one reads it this way I feel like somebody out there might see it and so I need to keep going even though I am really down about not loosing weight this week.  I have been running my butt of every morning and doing the 30DS for six days now so I was really thinking that the scale would reflect my hard work. 1 pound was all I was looking for, ugh, oh well. 

Hey, check it out!!!

My stomach doesn't stick out past my boobs!

 

That is awesome!  I may not be seeing huge numbers in the weight loss department but I definitely notice a difference in size.  My pants fit a little better, which is nice, but the fact that I can look down at my feet and not see my stomach sticking out past my girls is FABULOUS!  And they are in the ridiculously ginormous category so for my stomach to be out past them was a very, very sad thing on my 5'2" tall frame. I didn't take any measurements before I started this journey, I couldn't face the tape measure.  The tape measure is worse to me then the scale, it is brutally honest, I have to stand there and look at how large around I am in different areas all over my body.  No thank you, I would rather watch the scale.  But I am almost feeling motivated to take measurements now since I can tell that I am loosing inches.  Almost. 

 

 

I am so happy!!!!

 

Check it out! Feet, no stomach!

 

 

 

 Isn't he the most adorable little bugger you have ever seen?!

 

 

 

30 Day Shred

I did it, I actually stopped making excuses and did my first day of the 30 day shred.  I have been planning on starting it since the beginning of July, sad right?  I have made an excuse everyday for the last what, like 60 something days.  Telling myself that I will start tomorrow, I don't want to start on the weekend, or I will start first thing Monday.  It annoys me how much I let myself make up excuses.  Anyway, I was surfing around in blog land last night and am so motivated by all of you fellow bloggers out there who are doing or have done and posted about Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred.  I am grateful to all of you for posting about how much you despise her but feel good after cause that is how I feel, a love/hate kind of relationship.  I was actually excited to do the video this morning after reading everyone's results and looking at all the progress photos.  So I am doing it, no excuses.  I am going to let Jillian kick my butt every morning for the next 30 days.  And since I love seeing everyone elses results I am posting before photos here.  They aren't great, which I guess doesn't matter for before pics, but they are the best i could do by myself.  I tried to have Rexy, my two year old bugger, take the photo but she kept cutting my head off, weird I know, why isn't my two year old a pro with my Nikon?!  Just kidding. 

 

Well, now it is out there and I am accountable.  I know I will feel guilty now if I don't stick with it and post updates.  Please feel free to yell at me if I start to slack, I need it.  I am looking forward to the end results and hoping to see an all over difference, weight loss and pant size included.

 

My starting weight is 179, I think I might post weekly progress photos. 

  

 

 

Wednesday: weigh in day

179.1!!! 

 

That's right, I lost weight this week!

  Now if I can make it another week with that number going down instead of up things will be good.  I think that I might throw a party when I reach 175.  I know that is not even my goal but I feel like loosing weight is such a challenge that I need to start celebrating the smaller milestones. 

 

On a totally different subject, I am loving watching old episodes of The Biggest Loser on Netflix.  I didn't start watching until the fifth season and now I am able to watch the first four.  Poor Jon is tired of watching.  He is good about me watching it once a week but now that I can watch whenever I want he is done.  I swear every time that he comes in the room one of the contestants are crying, it is now a joke.  I don't what it is about this show but I love watching it.  Sorry Jon, I will be all caught up soon. 



I am weighing in again over at Roni's Weigh.  

Wednesday: weigh in day

180.8

 

Up from my last weigh in which sucks but I am going to move on.  I was so sick this past week it was horrible.  I said it before but man, I do not think that mothers of small children should ever have to get sick.  It stinks!  I did not workout all week due to being sick and just making up every excuse in the book.  Pathetic, I know.  But I made my fat booty get out of bed and go running this morning.  It was a nice run.  I did better then I thought that I would after not running for over a week and still having this lingering cough.  I think that running was actually good for my cough, it brought up a lot of nasty flem that had been stuck.  I am sure that it must have looked yummy seeing me run this morning, poor neighbors who opened their door to leave right as I stopped in front of their house to hack up some nasty stuff. 

 

Oh, I used my new phone app this morning.  That was pretty rewarding to hear my phone tell me that I was running a 10:30 minute/mile pace.  I definitely thought that I had been running at a much slower pace then that.  Super cool!  So according to the app I covered a distance of 1.82 miles this morning, I didn't run the whole thing, I ran a mile in the middle then walked and coughed the rest of it.  I mapped out a 5k in my neighborhood last week and was planning on finishing that this morning but the cough and other excuses brought me home quicker.  I plan on finishing the 5k tomorrow.  No more excuses!

 

 

I weighed in over at Roni's weigh, go check her out.

stupid cold & Wednesday: weigh in day

I have got a stupid cold.  I hate being sick.  I think that if you are a mother with small children you shouldn't be able to get sick.  It is just cruel.  Here I am feeling like crud and the kids of course feel fine.  How am I supposed to rest and get better when I still have four little ones who need me.  Seriously unfair. 

 

Ok, I am done whining. 

 

Today is Wednesday, weigh in day, but I am not weighing in.  I am taking a week to be sick.  I haven't felt good since Monday.  I went for a run Monday but didn't make it very far cause I just felt crummy.  I haven't made it since then.  I don't feel good.  I am hoping this week goes by quickly and I get back to feeling good.  My family and my house sure takes a hit when I am sick.  Ugh. 



Wednesday: weigh in day

It is weigh in day again. 

 It always surprises me how quickly the week goes by.  It was a good week, our family is back into the rhythm of school life, things are good. 

 

So lets get to it, I weigh in this week at 179 pounds, yep, I didn't loose any but didn't gain any either.  I can't call this week a good week but it definitely wasn't bad either.  I'll take it, I'd rather stay the same then gain weight.  Hopefully next week will be better. 

 

 

Oh, I weighed in over at Roni's weigh again.  Go check out her page!

Wednesday: weigh in day

I can't believe that it is Wednesday again.  But it is and that means that it is weigh in day.  I was really not looking forward to weighing in today.  I haven't been eating as healthy as I should be this week and I had slacked with the running until yesterday.  So when I weighed in at a pound more then last week I wasn't all that surprised, bummed but not surprised.  I really need to step it up in the eating department.  I just love chunk food, I love it!  I wish that I didn't but I do.  And I crave it, I know once I start eating healthy again my cravings slow but it is that initial step that is hard for me.  I'm not sure the world would go on without ice cream. 

Anyway, I am weighing in today at 179, up from last week but still down I guess. 

Oh, I am weighing in over on Roni's weigh also, ya know, the whole accountability thing, maybe if I put my weight and goal out there it will help.  You should go check out her blogs.