Progress and our weekend in Review

So not alot of progress this week. I'm done 9.2lbs in 3 weeks. I got stuck at a plateau and finally busted through it with a 1.2lb weight loss. Not exactly as much as I wanted but I will take it.

I mean its a little over 2lbs a week. So slow and steady wins the race. I also think why this week was only a pound weight loss is because sat night I kinda crashed into a wall!

 

This wall =(

 

Ok so my little sister turned 11 and she wanted to go play mini golf and go gokarting. So while in a car with Marcus it had kinda started sprinkling. Not enough to shut down the track but enough that occasionally you could feel a drop of rain. Well Marcus and I took a turn and we lost control and ran smack into a wall. It hurt so incredible bad. Marcus was screaming, I was crying. It was bad. I felt like a horrible mother for crashing with Marcus in the car with me, but after a LONG time of Chris telling me it wasn't my fault I began to feel a little less guilty.

But I have a super banged up knee and some serious seat belt burn. Marcus so far has no brusing or pain. So I think it more scared him then hurt him. So all sat afternoon I was stuck on the couch icing my knee and most Sunday on the couch icing it. LOADS of fun.... NOT!

 

 

Also, I feel like my little man is getting all beat up this weekend. He got in a accident, while holding a hand while walking down the stairs he stopped paying attention and fell down 4 stairs and landed on his little wrist and now that hurts. While icing it, Tenley wasn't paying attention and tripped over him and her chin went into his eye and now he has a black eye. He is on pitiful little man today.

 

I woke up today feeling much better and took the little man to the chiropractor and his back was all messed up and he actually had popped his wrist out of place. But he got his wrist back in place and his back fixed and he is feeling so much better =)

 

Even considering our bumpy, crazy weekend we had a blast =)

 

Now time to get my butt in gear and workout.

A Mommy and Tenley Date =)

I ADORE when my mom takes my little man because that means I get plenty of time to just play with my baby girl. With her being the second child I feel that she doesn't get a lot of my time. Marcus got me and all my attention for the first 2.5 years of his life and not with all his speech therapy's and food therapy and taking him to school and soccer practice and soccer games. Ten kinda sometimes gets the short end of the stick. So I LOVE being able to spend time with just her. And yes you could say don't you see her everyday while Marcus is in school. And the answer would be yes and no. We go straight from dropping Marcus off to the gym and then we go home and she naps and then we go and get Marcus. So we really don't get to spend that time together.

 

So at first it was going to be a Daddy, Mommy and Tenley date but Daddy had to work so it turned into a mommy and ten date. Which was fine by me =)

 

We went to Starbucks and for the first time I allowed her to have non almond milk (the organic milk) and she LOVED it! Then we went to Hob Lob and have fun playing around and she was extremely hyper from the chocolate milk. HAHA. Then we went to chipolte and let me tell you, Girlfriend LOVES her some spicy chipolte. And last but not least we went and got frozen yogurt, which is her second favorite thing in the whole wide world.

 

Once we got home she helped me clean up a bit, we did pedis, she got a bath and then it was off to bed for the little one.

 

I Love Love Love her so much and think she is just a HAM! She is the easiest baby and the best little shopper and just has such a laid back personality. I guess she really isn't a baby anymore. Tech she is considered a toddler but she will always be my baby. Marcus will always be my little man and Ten will always be my baby.

 

Here are a few pics of the little miss and I

 

 Is she not the sweetest and cutest thing EVER?

And just because I cant end this without a picture of my little man here he is at his Aunties wedding rehearsal looking like the stud he is =)

 

Our Super Long Weekend

This weekend was the best weekend we have had in a LONG time because for the first weekend (in weeks) Daddy was HOME!! We loved every single second of this weekend.

 

Friday, The Hubs let me have a girls morning and I went and had coffee and did some shopping with my bestie and then I was able to go to the Gym. It was so nice and so needed. The hubs and I don't get to go out on dates very often so we do date nights at home ALOT. This weekend we decided to do something a little different. Friday night was ALL ABOUT ME and Saturday night was ALL ABOUT HIM. So on my night, I got to pick my favorite dish and dessert and pick any movie I wanted. I picked my favorite shrimp Alfredo and I had a glass of wine as my dessert. HA! But I ended up so sick that I went to bed early and the hubs watched football. But it was still a super nice night to be waited on and not have to do ANYTHING =)

 

Saturday morning we woke up bright and early and headed to the ZOO! We were so excited!

We got this double stroller for the kiddos and they loved it. Ten spent most of her time in here eating and drinking and she loved every moment of it

I had such a blast with Marcus looking at all the animals and seeing how excited he was

Of course I had to share Marcus with his Daddy

My crazy little monkey man

This was a vent and since it was 100 degrees outside this was our favorite spot =)

This was Ten's first time ridding on the carousal.

 

 

We had such a fun time at the Zoo until it started raining and we had to leave early. But it worked out perfectly because it gave me enough time to run to the store and make french bread pizza for the Hubby's night. We ate fatty pizza and watched Michigan LOSE big time. But it was fun =)

Oh did I forget to mention that we also had enough time to go Sears and buy a bike for me to be able to do workouts at home =)

 

Sunday was pretty uneventful. We hung around Sunday morning, I went to the gym, we had lunch, the kids napped and then we went to the In laws for some super yummy shrimp in grits! Amaze-Balls!! Then we played some volleyball and took the kids home and went to bed.

 

Monday, We took a family trip to the Gym and the Hubs kinda killed me, like literally! I was running sprints and I landed on my foot wrong and was in extreme agony. So we went home and did nothing all day long so I could sit on my butt and rest my foot.

 

The reason my foot was so sore was when I was like 15 weeks pregnant with Ten I was taking a Zumba class and landed on my ankle wrong. Why I thought dancing and being pregnant went well but I thought I would have enough balance to do it, obviously I didn't. HA! So a few days after that happened I went to the doctors and they said I had fractured it. So every now and then when I run hard my ankle flares up.

 

I do have to say we found this show called Falling Skies and it is so GOOD!! We cant stop watching it!

 

 

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. =)