The scale is a ditry natsy machine

 I have decided that I will no longer weigh myself first thing in the morning. It seems my body likes to retain water over night and I wake up gaining a pound or 2. So I weighed myself one day after the gym (after already weighing myself that morning) and I had lost 3lbs!! So now I weigh myself after I workout. I really believe that after you work out is the best time because if you are holding onto extra water weight, you sweat it out!

SO.... I come home today peel off my nasty sweaty clothes and step on the scale to see a number I haunt seen since before I was preggers with Ten. I about had heart failure!! It said I had lost 20.2lbs!! I knew it was a joke before I even stepped off but as soon as I stepped off it said error. HA!!

So I get back on and it reads a more accurate number. But man my heart stopped beating and I was breaking out all in a new sweat thinking about that other number. I can not wait to the day where I step on the scale and it really is that and I really am skinnier then I have been in years!

Overall in the past week and a half I have lost 8lbs!! I'm so excited and I think soon I will be ready to post my actual weight =)

First Day of Preschool!!

Marcus starts preschool today! He is so excited about going back to school. He was in preschool from feb to may going tues and thur and he loved it. But we didn't love that by then the teachers had their favorites and they seemed to have no more room in their heart for my little man =( It made me very sad and broke my heart every day when they would say Bye Marcus and that was it, but to other kids they would hug them and tell them they would miss them over the weekend. They always would tell me when Marcus did bad things, but never when he was good or did good jobs. I was not a fan of that preschool, so over the summer he kept asking to go to school (since he loved it and he didn't seem to mind the favoritism). So we found out that the Ymca had a summer camp for 2.5 year old and up as long as they were potty trained. We were working on Marcus being potty trained for weeks, but as soon as I told him he could go if he could potty in the big boy potty he became potty trained in one day!! He went to the Y all summer and fell in LOVE. We love the teachers and they LOVED him!! They praise him and talk about how fun he is and how they look forward to seeing his face every day. I feel like that's how it should be. There should be no favoritism, teachers should care for all their students, and they should never make a parent feel badly for placing their kid in their class room. So we signed him up for the Y and that's where he is going. I had originally signed him up to go to the other school, thinking that the 3 year old teachers would be different, but after seeing these teachers with Marcus and seeing how much they care for him I knew that that was the place for him.

Here's a few pictures of him before school this morning =)

 

 

And of course Ten had to get involved with the picture taking =)

 

And a little update on his day at school. He had such a good time and told me he ate stickers, danced, sang songs, and colored. And yes he really did say he ate stickers. I also asked him if he learned anything and he looks at me and says "Ummm no mommy, I learn nothing!" Ha Ha! So glad to know, Marcus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too much Biggest Loser...

So I know today is weigh in Monday but I just cant get over my fear of posting my weight for all my friends and family and strangers to see. Maybe next week.I have the post all written up, but I just cant seem to hit the post button!!

 I will report that I lost 5lbs this past week!! I am so beyond excited to be losing weight. I guess I just wish it was more. I know that sounds horrible, but I have been working my tail off, eating only 1200 calories a day and I feel at that rate I should have lost more. Or maybe I have been watching too much biggest loser and was hoping for like a 20lb weight loss in one week kinda thing. HA! But that doesn't happen to people outside the biggest loser or maybe it does if you weight that much. Which thankful I don't. So I will take my 5lbs and shoot for another 5lbs next week.

The Hubs and I made a deal at the beginning of last week. The deal was if I ate clean for 3 days I could get a calorie and heart rate monitor. He at first was like go ahead and get one, but then I started thinking about all my failed attempts to lose weight and decided to give myself and challenge and he agreed. So I did my eating clean, which I'm still doing, and I ordered my calorie and heart rate tracker.

I LOVE IT!! I wore it all day yesterday to see what my daily calorie burn was and in 24 hours I burned 3,775 calories!! I didn't even work out yesterday!! So I'm excited to see what happens today when I work my tail off at the Gym.

So you know it takes 3500 calories to burn a pound. So if I naturally burn 3700 I would burn a pound a day but I kinda need to eat. haha. So, doing some math here, If I eat 1200 calories a day that leaves an extra 2500 calories a day and if you times that by 7 and then divide by 3500 you come up with exactly 5lbs a week. Which is what I lost last week. But I also worked out last week, which means I burnt more calories which means I should have had more. But like I said I will take it and move on to next week and losing 5 more pounds.

Here's a few pictures of my new toy.

Thats almost 24 hours of calories burned =)

 

 And then this thing around my belly is how it tracks the calories and my heart rate

 

Love love love it. If anyone is looking to lose weight this thing is amazing, I think it pushes me more because I know exactly how many calories I need to burn a day to lose weight and if I haven't hit it yet, I can go run and make sure I do hit it.

 

So here is to sticking with it and hopefully having a good week =)

 

Been awhile.... ok its been a year

So its been over a year since my last post. One of the things you forget about it how crazy life gets with a new baby and then add a crazy toddler to the mix and Ive had other things to do. But I'm back and excited to start documenting my crazy life, fabulous children and my newest adventure weight loss.

As I mentioned one of my new journeys is weight loss. Yes I know I have tried to lose weight before but I am in a whole new ball game, a whole new area that I have no clue about or what I'm doing. A little back story for yall =)

I have always been a yo yo dieter. I was a fat kid, skinnish high schooler, a fat newlywed, got skinny again, then got pregnant twice. I have been all over the place my whole life. I'm also an emotional eater. I eat when happy, sad, bored, whatever the occasion I eat. I am right now at the biggest I have been ever!! Ever since having Ten a year ago I have tried to just exercise or just eating right or not doing anything at all or diet pills or weight watchers. I feel like I have tried it all, but have I?

I started to realize you are SERIOUSLY what you eat. It started about a month ago I realized how much soda and juice and crap that I drank and that I never had water. So I cut out everything and went to drinking 100oz of water a day! My skin is beautiful and my hair is softer then its ever been and I don't have headaches from caffeine with drawl. Its been glorious. But then I started thinking, if water can do that, what can eating clean do?

I started researching eating clean and cutting back on processed foods and realized that we eat CRAP! I couldn't believe what we put in our mouth and how much calories and fat we consume every day.

So I decided to start with a 3 day cleanse, where I would eat fruit and veggies and one meat for 3 days and see how I felt afterwards. Well let me tell you that I felt amazing!!! I started craving fruit instead of chocolate, I started looking forward to making fresh food and green smoothies (which the kids love). I am so excited to keep doing it and see how far I can go. I'm not saying I will never eat anything else ever again I'm just saying we need to do things in moderation. We need to put good fuel into our body and not crap. I'm not saying I'm never gonna eat crap again because I obviously LOVE food, but I will know when to stop, and I will know how to make it healthier.

On top of eating clean I have been working my tail off at the gym. For the first time in a very long time I can run a mile and do a body pump class. Before, after a class I would quit and say its too much to run, but now I look forward to doing both. I have so much more energy and my kids get such a better me =)

I hope to by the end of my journey be at my goal weight, be healthier inside and out, know the good foods vs the bad foods, and be a happier me.

So look for my weigh in on Monday where I will announce to the whole world my weight and what I have lost this week. Also on Monday my little man starts pre k =( He is getting so big so fast and I'm so not ready for him to be a "big" kid. But I know its good for him and I know he loves it and I know its helpful to his speech. The 3 months he was in pre k last year were amazing for him and he blossomed and I cant wait to see what happens when he can spend a whole year in pre k. =)