Been a while

It has been a crazy long time since I have blogged. So much has happened.  So I will start with the new year 2012.  January 1st I started the C25k program, an man was it amazing! Besides joining weight watchers this program was one of the best things I had decided to do for me. I was and still am a slow runner but I am passing everyone that is sitting on their couch! I took pictures after every run to hold myself accountable and to see the progress I was making. Finally my weight had started falling off pretty consistently. I completed my first 5k race May 12, 2012 my time was 44:16. I ran the whole thing, see told you I was slow ;-). It was the most exhilarating feeling ever. Just amazing. i swear I had a runner's high for the whole weekend! My weight loss as of last Thursday was 40 lbs!!! I know still not very fast but I am so pleased to say in the past year I have lost 40lbs. I still have about 60 or so to go until i am at a healthy weight. I have a goal I hope I am able to achieve by the end of September. Though after this weekend holiday i have a feeling I will be a little farther away from it. I would like to be down another 20 to 30 pounds by then. We are going to the beach and I am hoping to be a lot smaller than what I am now! Surprisingly I have not dropped a pant size yet, I am not sure why but I just haven't. So part of my major goal for September is to be wearing a smaller size in clothing. Anyways its amazing how I feel much healthier now than I ever did when I was skinny before kids! An I love working out. I have just recently started taking a class called Piloxing at the gym and it is a blast! I hope it helps kick start some weight loss for me again and helps me shrink my middle. It seems as if my belly isn't going down as much as I would of expected. I still need to get my weekend eating under control. I am eating salads whenever I can when we do eat out though. I had started drinking green smoothies as well but I haven't drank one in a few weeks.

                                                    Before my 1st 5k

                                                   After i crossed the finish line!

Okay so now on to the mother part of this blog :) Masen turned 1!

                                          His cake and cupcakes I made :)

                                              Mommy and Masen

He had a great 1st birthday! Hard to believe how fast his 1st year went. Both kids are doing great and just growing up on me.

Here is a picture of Addison.  This is from some family pictures we had made. Hard to believe this rugrat starts pre-k this year! I am so excited for her though and she is so ready!

Now just some other pictures from our family shoot and some from Pigeon Forge.

Hopefully I will be able to stay on top of blogging. So much was going on that I just kind of forgot. Plus I am not sure if anyone really follows anyways :) Until next time!

This week

First of all for anyone that may follow, sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things gets hectic with a 4 year old and a 9 month old! I haven't really had the time to sit down and blog.
I managed to lose 3 pounds this week!  It feels pretty amazing! I have been having some slow weeks with just a .2 or .4 loss then last week I gained a pound :( So the 3 lb loss this week was very encouraging and a big shock!! My first thought was WOW Halloween didnt screw me! Though I did decent I was still afraid of a gain.
We have a nasty habit of eating out on the weekends and this past weekend I didnt eat out as mch and made better decisions when we did. I also dropped to half of my nursing points. Because Masen does get solids 3x a day now so 14 extra points is just too much!

Anyways back to Halloween! My little ones dressed up as bees :) They looked adorable! (picture above) Masen finally got the "hang" of trick-or-treating. By the end he would look at the people then back at his little bucket as if to say " Hey put whatever that is you've been putting in this thing they keep trying to get me to hold"  He also enjoyed his first sucker :)

Addison loved getting all the candy and couldnt wait to get home to eat it all! In fact first thing she said Tuesday morning was "get my candy down mommy!!"
Hoping this week goes just as good as last week!

Dread!

I am really not looking foward to tonight's weigh in! This week has been horrible we ate out way too many nights and thanks to a infection of some sorts under my arm I have not been able to work out. Oh and I am on antibiotics. So I am sure I havent lost anything and have probably gained :( Sometimes I feel like I am just wasting my time. I wish I could have it easier like some women. They just lose the weight without fail! But me no that doesnt happen! I know I didnt go over my weekly points yet I know I have probably gained. Something has to give!

My thoughts today

It seems that every night when I go to go to bed I have all these great things I should blog about. but then when I get up in the mornings I seem to forget them. Anyways, I have really been thinking about my weight loss and goals the past few days. I at times feel so overwhelmed with what I have to lose that I lose sight on what I need to do to acheive my goals. So I think that this week I am going to try and remember to just simply eat right and not make stupid choices. I know easier said than done. My goal is to by this time next year be at a healthy weight. That is a HUGE goal though and that is what I need to stop focusing on. I need to focus on 5 lbs at a time. I would said 10 but that seems like a ton too! That being said I do want to at least be at pre pregnancy weight (from Masen) by his first birthday. It is completly attainable I just have to kick my ass into gear!

Wow!

I have to admit I am shocked that i had a loss this week! Granted it was only a whopping 4 ounces! But hey I will take that over gaining any day! As I had previously stated I was going to try lowering my points some to see if that helped and I would love to say it did but this was actually the first week that I had used weekly points almost every day ! I know that I have got to try and remind myself why i am doing this and what motivated me to lose weight and to join WW when I did. So I may dedicate a post just to that when I get a chance(hopefully today!) Though I have busy weekend ahead of me so I may not get a chave to do that until sunday. Tonight I have to make my daughters Spongebob birthday cake and then of course her party is tomorrow.

Anyways, yesterday I had to take the kids with me to my weigh in because Roy had to work late and 2 hours away :( Thankfully it went better than expected though. :) On the way to the weigh in Addison proved that maybe she watches a little too much Dora the Explorer. This is her on the way there. " WHERE ARE WE GOING? TO THE WEIGH IN! WHERE ARE WE GOING? TO THE WEIGH IN! WHERE ARE WE GOING? TO THE WEIGH IN! YEAHHH!!!"

An with that I am out! :o)

Finally a update

I realize it has been some time since my last blog. I am really struggling with my weight. I keep bouncing back and forth with the same few pounds. The weekend is the worse time for me since we are usually not at home like we should be. So therefore I eat out more than I should. Usually during the week I do pretty good except for on Thursday nights after weigh in. I know I can do this I guess I just need to start over per se. I am also trying to lower my nursing points and see if that helps as well. Well until next time everyone be well!

How life happens

Wow. I realize it has been about a month since I last blogged. I am apparently as I expected bad at this!
Updates: I am now finally down 11.6 lbs. It only took me 16 weeks arghh. But I am here. That leaves me with 79 lbs to go. I know its probably to much to ask for but I am hoping this time next year I am at my goal. Being fat is a pain in the ass. I hate the way it makes me feel and I hate the fact that I can't eat whatever and not gain. I use to be lucky.

My sweet baby boy is 7 months old today. Time has flown  by. He is sitting up now and trying his damnest to stand up! Why do they grow so darn fast?! My beautiful daughter is going to be 4 in a couple of months and I just don't know when she got so big on me. She is extra sassy these days and is already talking about wanting to drag race. Man thats gonna be FUN! Hahaha, right...

On to some seriousness. My grandmother battled and beat breast cancer 15 years ago and has been great since then. Until a week ago when she went to the doctor because she felt as if she was sitting on something. Come to find out she has ovarian cancer and had the grapefruit sized tumor removed this past week. So now her new battle is about to begin. We are hoping she makes it the 5 years they said is possible and maxium they usually tell you that you have.

So all of this is why I have blogged. Apparently life happened. And if we are lucky will continue ;-)
Until the next time. Everyone stay safe. Live life.