I'm Back!!

Before I say anything, I just need to get something off my chest--I fell off the wagon. And I fell hard! Turns out I gained back almost 10 pounds in about a month. Totally scarey!! But I am happy to report that I am back!

I realized that I needed something to work toward and once the 1st quarter of our family goal competition came to an end, I'm sorry to say that most of my goals did too. But now I have something else to work toward and look forward to. This year is my hubby's and my 10th anniversary, so we are going to take a little trip toward the end of the year to celebrate. I am hoping to get down about 20 lbs. between now and then. My husband is also going to try to lose some weight, so we are going to compete against one another.

I think my biggest obstacle is going to be finding time to devote to hard-core exercising. My 1-year-old has been on a sleeping strike for a couple of months, so I have been choosing to get extra sleep rather than get up early or stay up late to exercise. I need to figure out how to squeeze some good cardio in. One good thing about the summer is that I have been going on a lot of walks with my kids. I have my girls ride their bikes and I push the baby in the stroller and try to keep up.

I have updated my weight-loss ticker and I am happy to report that I am down 2 pounds since Monday. Here's to healthier living and looking better on the beach for my trip!

Weigh-In

Sorry, still no pictures. Things have been pretty crazy around our house lately. I am hoping to get some taken soon. As for the progress this week, I am pleasantly surprised to say that I broke through my plateau! This week, I had a loss of 3 pounds! It would have been 3.5 pounds if that pesky 1/2 pound hadn't come back this morning. Grr! Anyway, I have now lost 24 pounds! 7 more pounds to go until I hit my 3rd goal. I'm pretty excited about it.

I thought I should also mention that I got my fitbit this week. It is really cool! I love how it tracks my activity level all throughout the day. And it motivates me to try to keep it out of the evil sedentary state! It also tracks how well I sleep at night (or how poorly I am sleeping, which is probably more accurate). For example, it told me that I woke up 10 times last night. Granted, some of those times were just me rolling over, but a good chunk of them were spent rocking my little guy back into dreamland. At any rate, it is an interesting study of how I spend my day and night. That's all for now.

Pictures to Come

I just realized that I haven't posted any new pictures yet. Things have been a little crazy around here, so I will get them soon, I promise.

Hmm . . .

Well, I think my body is on about a week delay. Last week was a good week, yet I had a pretty significant gain. This week was a not-so-good, very busy week, and I lost 2 pounds. So, next week, I had better be extra good or things could get really bad. I am excited to get my Bountiful Basket tomorrow. I think that will help me make better food choices. We've actually taken 2 weeks off from it (one by choice and the other because the co-op took a weekend off), so I am looking forward to planning my menu for the week around the goodies we'll get in our basket.

I've got to be honest . . .

I wish I could skip writing this post, but I want this blog to be an honest record of my weight-loss journey. So, this week was really bad. More accurately, last week was really bad, but it caught up with me this week. I gained 2.5 lbs. The funny thing is that I actually had a good week with eating and drinking my water this week. My exercise has yet to pick up again, due to my little guy still not sleeping well. I thought I got away with having a bad week without seeing negative results, but in truth, they just took a little longer to show up. But, rather than get discouraged, I need to just chalk it up to having a bump on the road and continue on rather than take the next exit to head back to my old bad habits. I'm hoping to get outside more now that the weather is improving and I think that if I am spending more time outside working and playing, it will be easier to eat better because I won't be bored. (I have discovered that when I'm bored, I eat.) Anyway, onward and upward. Here's to turning things around.

YIKES! (Weigh-in)

I was not looking forward to this weeks weigh-in. As of Monday, I was up 3 lbs. from my weigh-in last week. Not only that, my cardio exercise has been non-exsistent all week long. I don't want to make excuses, but here's why the week was so rough: My baby has decided that he does not want to sleep and if we try to put him down at night, it is always a big fight that he has been winning. So, since I exercise on my elliptical at night, that hasn't been happening. My husband has been really good to help out with the baby, but I have to admit that when he tells me I can go and exercise, I just don't have the eneregy. It is physically draining to deal with a baby that cries as much as mine has for the past week or so. However, I have been trying to watch what I eat and drink my water, but I have to admit that I have not been as diligent as I have been in the past, but not horrible. Also, I have gone on some long walks this week. Once to and from my daughter's school, which is about a 60 minute walk; and I walked for another hour with my daughter at her Relay for Life. I also walked home from the dentist yesterday, but not at a very brisk pace. So, this morning when I weighed myself, I was sad to see a gain, but happy to see that it was only a 1 pound gain. Back to where I was two weeks ago. Oh well, I'll try to put this behind me and try to do better this week.

Weigh-In

Yay! Another pound lost. This brings my total weight-loss to 22.5 pounds. I was hoping it would be a little more, but I wasn't able to get my work-out in last night and my baby was up too early this morning to allow me to exercise this morning. All in all, I feel good about it. I do need to be more aware of my water intake though, especially since we are heading into the warmer months and I will be spending more time outside.

Wish I had more to report, but that's all for today.