Lent

So Lenten season is here. What did you give up? I've not always participated in giving something up but I have for the last several years.....I can only remember the last 2 though. Last year I gave up coffee and I tell you what....I got a nice big beautiful cafe mocha from Starbucks on Easter:) The year before I gave up chocolate.....it was pretty horrible too. This year may be the worst though....I gave up.......brace yourself........


FACEBOOK!

Seriously I've not been facebooking for like a week and I may just die. That's the point though right? You make a sacrifice to remind you of the sacrifice that was made to save you.

Hope everyone has a joyous beginning to the Easter season!!!

Week 4 = It's All Good:)

So I always weigh myself in the morning. With that being said, this morning I woke up and stood on the scale and got to FINALLY see 153!!! I was, am so excited! I finally have less than 10 lbs. to go!!! I am going to run 7 miles later today and that will make 4 times running this week and 3 times I have done squats, lunges, push-ups, and crunches with weights. I have been tanning a lot too so I feel a little less pasty and that helps too. Not so much in the health department but hey.....not tanning everyday all the time is one thing and tanning for a month to get some color are very different. I have been eating about a billion times better and my fave lunch right now is turkey on wheat with alpha sprouts, spinach, mustard, and cheese. My poor hubs hasn't really joined in so much with the fave lunch and says he tastes dirt when he tries my sandwiches. LOL! My 3 year old on the other hand loves them as well! We have been eating a lot more fish and chicken for supper instead of pizza. Next week's goal is 151.....yes I have a 2 lb. a week goal right now but that will change once I hit my pre-preggo weight....until then I feel I still have a lot of extra that I'm just hanging onto and as long as I eat healthy and work out it should go pretty quick.

Anywho, I haven't done pics. I will update with those tomorrow.

If you are working towards a weight loss goal I really hope that seeing some of my progress motivates you to push hard for your own progress. Change your diet and MAKE time to walk or run. I pretty much ONLY run after 9 p.m. and sometimes in a bit of a drizzle. I am tired, I generally don't feel like it, but I just do it. If I really, really don't feel like it I'll run one quick lap around my subdivision (1.34 miles) and call it good.

Happy Birthday Victoria Rose!!

My sweet little girl turned 3 on Sunday. I cannot believe it has been 3 years since she was born!! On a side note I went in to have her on the 18 and it snowed the day after she was born....one of my besties just gave birth to her little girl (12 days PAST her EDD poor girl) and she went into the same hospital 1 hour later exactly 3 years after I did (she was in labor though and gave birth that day) AND it snowed a little the day after she was born!!!! CRAZY! I was feeling some weird daja vu kind of stuff. LOL!

Anywho...back to Victoria....she is so excited to be 3. She's been dying to turn 3 since her cousin/bestie turned 3 last month. Now when you ask her how old she is she says, "3...........like Kadince!!!" We'll see how excited she is about this when there is a 0 beside that 3. LOL! We had her party through Nothing But Bounce and I cannot sing their praises enough! I LOVED it and so did Victoria. I am seriously already pretty sure about doing it there again next year. It was just easy and great and had an amazing price! We started the day going to Cracker Barrel for breakfast. She LOVES that place....apparently she wasn't feeling it that morning though because she only picked at her pancake and bacon ("I don't love sausage. I just love bacon."), but that was okay.....she still got a big sucker on the way out. Then we went home and decorated cupcakes.....very quickly. Here's some pics of them at the party...but this way the story and pics kind of have a flow.

This first picture is kind of backwards....does that make sense? The "ears" were the back of the cupcake.

Here's a front on pic

We were themed to the MAX...Victoria loves Minnie and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (side note: I'm annoyed Minnie is now pink instead of the classic red and white). So we had to have some big Minnie ballons! So after the girls were adorned in their Minnie gear and I found a red shirt we went to Party City and grabbed some balloons.

Then we were on our way! Victoria LOVED bouncing with her friends:)

She had some ears, but as you can see she quickly tossed those. When her "boyfriend" got there (whose Mommy was the one in the hospital delivering her beautful princess au natural cause she rocks like that) Victoria showed him around and bounce with him.....because they are in love like that. We've had them together since they were teeny....of course they love each other.

And, then she needed to pout a little before cupcake time. She wanted cupcakes and it wasn't time yet. LOL! Eventually she got to have a cupcake.

And then she opened presents of course:)I'll spare you from all the prsent pictures.

She gave hugs and kisses goodbye (this is her Pappy) after a little more pouting. Her Daddy and Aunt Jessica tried to cheer her up.

Emily had a good time too! She was awake the entire time! (with a very crooked bow)

I will say that I tend to feel like I have to talk to everyone at the parties and I miss a lot. I never even once looked in 2 of the bounce things. I only went around with Victoria to one thing (the slide which she was grumpy and not feeling it). Next time people will just have to feel ignored I guess because I am going to play with my baby! Still, it was a nice day:)

I hope my baby girl had a wonderful day. She is an amazing little girl and I tried to make it magical for her. I ask her if she is my baby girl (because that is what I call her) and she says "I not a baby! I a big girl!" Of course your are darling but you'll always be my baby.

Week 3 = More of the same

So, I stayed the same but that's okay. I went up a little on Monday so I was pretty stoked to end the week the same as last week.....especially since V-day AND Victoria's b-day were this week:) Anywho....I will be going for that 153 again this week.

I totally don't remember the workouts this week either. I need to track them. I am sure I did run at least 3 times ans walked 1 day but I think I ran 4 and walked 1. I did the butt workout once...I did do some squats, lunges, crunches, and push-ups 1 day though.

Short update for this week. Next week will be pics and measurements:)

More out of the mouth of Victoria

Oh, man this kiddo is full of crazy stuff lately. Like just now....she has been telling me she wants a hot dog. I know....such a healthy option. Anyway, I keep telling her Daddy will bring her one for lunch and so she just sat down beside me and said with the biggest smile on her face, "Hot dog is not for lunch, it's for snack!" Then she broke down into a huge giggle fit. Then she proceded to bury her head into my free boob (I'm nursing Emily as I type). I asked her what she is doing and she says, "I eating your other boobie! Emily have boobie and I have boobie. We both have boobie!" Ummmm....nice. Then she actually bit me. GREAT!!! She apparently thinks Emily actually does eat my boob.

Yesterday on the way home she informed me she had to pee. I asked her if she could hold it and she said yeah...then the fun began. She says "I want to pee in the road!" Oh yeah that totally sounds like a great idea! LOL! Anywho, I tell her no and that we are almost home. Well, she got all kinds of excited and yells "I pee in the grass!!!!" Oh yeah...you should definitely pee in the grass instead of walking inside and using the potty. This is my fault....I will take the blame....I pee in the yard all the time.....LOL! Not really. I did however teach her to pull down her pants and go anywhere outside because I didn't want her having an accident. She potty trained at 20 months and I just felt like she was too young to understand holding it. So, because of this the response I get when I tell her she can't pee in the grass is "But I LOVE to pee in the grass!!" When I let her out of her carseat she did her incredibly limber, fast, ninja toddler move and was in the middle of the yard with her pants down laughing and peeing in a heartbeat. Just awesome.

This kid is seriously cracking me up, astounding me, and all around throwing me for a loop on a regular basis these days. She is changing and learning soooo much!

Week 2 = A bit better:)

First, I can't believe that I never put the starting weight with the horrid pics! Seriously what is wrong with me?! Anyway....I don't remember:/ Most likely 158.5. That's what it kept staying at and not budging. Sometimes if I was lucky I got a 157.5. These week I still did not get the running in I wanted. I'm not going to lie. Between watching kiddos all day, running Victoria around to her activities, cleaning, cooking, and school work......I'm POOPED most nights. Oh...and I don't generally get to run before 9 so that makes it harder. I am majorly awake until like 2 after a run at 9. This week went a little like this:

Sunday: Nadda (I think it was raining?)
Monday: Ran 1.34 miles (a.k.a. 1 lap around my subdivision) as hard as I could
Tuesday: Zumba
Wednesday: Nadda
Thursday: Sadly more nadda
Friday: Ran 4 laps around my subdivision for a total of 5.36 miles and did the butt exercises.
Saturday: It was crazy cold!!

I have GOT to start running 3-4 times a week to get those miles up and faster and to lose weight and be in better shape. I also need to do that killer butt workout at least 4 days a week if I want my butt to go back up to its rightful spot. I also have been meaning to take my measurements but of course I have been forgetting that too.

I did go to the grocery store and spent $30 more than budget to have healthy meals and snacks. It has been working in my favor...I am down to 155:) I am hoping for 153 next week. It would be AWESOME to be in the single digits left to lose.

Also....I think I bit off way too much wanting to add in the book review. I LOVE that book so I am very slowly reading it but coupled with everything else going on right now it is just too much to try to blog about that as well. I just think that is way to important of a topic to half heartedly blog about so I will just stick to trying to blog about the weight every weekend. I know ya'll probably don't care much about the weight but it makes me feel accountable:)Plus, I'm hoping that with my pics within the next 2 weeks (maybe not next week because it's my little V's birthday weekend) that there will be a pretty noticeable difference that will get other people pounding the pavement! I really do love to run and I think once you get past the feeling like you're going to die that anyone can develop a love for running. You get a huge endorphine release from it:) It keeps me off my anti-depressant meds (not saying there is anything wrong with those because they have saved my sanity and probably my life at times).

Nuts!

First, sorry for missing my basically first Sunday blog. I will blog it tomorrow. Anywho.

Today, Victoria had her first appointment with the allergist. It was rough. First, she was having one of those days anyway. I was having trouble wrangling her and the appointment was at 8:30. We were going to be late so I tried to call but they apparently don't open until 8:30 anyway. Then I tried to find parking because it's in a part of town that parking is difficult. I parked 2 blocks away and transported 3 kiddos....fun stuff. I was 20 min. late and when I got there I saw that they had their own parking lot which is just unheard of! It was rough seeing that after my walk. I wouldn't have been 20 minutes late had I known they had their own parking. Anway...they worked us in which seems to be the constant of my life these days.

The got us back pretty quick....Victoria was glued to me.....awesomeness. I finally got her to not be so glued to me and a little over an hour after getting there we saw the doctor. He was great I must say. They did a skin test on her back and that pretty much broke my heart. 19 pricks. Poor baby. She cried and fidgeted and was miserable. Later she said it hurt and itched. It basically confirmed that she is allergic to tree nuts. It's really hard to see your baby go through that. It took me and a nurse to hold her down.....and suckers and fruit snacks to keep her there for 15 minutes. Turns out puking and getting hives everytime you eat those nute is a severe reaction. She now has 2 epi pens and 2 medical ID bracelets (well those are ordered). I was told if she eats nuts she has to get the epi pen right away. So now I have even more motivation for trying to make sure the poor kiddo doesn't eat tree nuts.

I feel so sorry for her. She's a trooper though. She said that they did a lot of little pinches at the doctor but she got 2 stickers and 3 bags of chewies (that's what she calls fruit snacks for some reason and she only got 2), then we went to Starbucks and got her a cake pop and hot chocolate. I called the hubs to tell him how it went and he said someone needs a treat and when I told him I was going to Starbucks he said "a treat for her....not you!" LOL! Of course I did get drink as well;) Mommy needed a treat after watching her baby go through that.

Week 1 = Not a Success:/

So, this has been my laziest workout week in a while. I'm not going to lie; I'm feeling VERY discouraged by the fact my weight is not buding. I do go to the grocery store this week though so I am going to put together some meal plans and I plan on getting lots of veggies to snack on (so I don't snack on chips, cakes, cookies, etc.). I am also getting oatmeal for breakfast since that helps milk production and it's better than toaster strudels and waffles. Surely this will make a difference. I am motivated by my measurements and how my clothes fit so I tend to work harder when I see results.....doesn't everyone though?

Anywho....I'm not doing pictures every week. Did I say that last week? Those were depressing enough. I will do them the first Sat. of the month from now on, so March 3rd will be the next.

Let's see...I PLAN to run 4 days per week. I ran Sun. and Fri. At this rate I am not going to be able to complete the half. I also plan to do that butt exercise from the first post 4 days per week. I did 3 so that was not as bad. I plan to be active at least 5 days per week....check:) This is what my week looked like

Sunday: Ran 3.75 miles and walked 1.25 = 5
Monday: Butt workout....that was hard on back...
Tuesday: Butt workout and Zumba
Wednesday: Not a danged thing
Thursday: Did you read Wednesday?
Friday: Ran...not sure on distance but it was a short one. 2.5?
Saturday: Butt workout...it rained all flippin' day so I had 0 desire to do anything else. Rain makes me lazy.

I am just going to have to start running everyday it doesn't rain because it is seriously raining like crazy round here! Overall...this was a crapshoot week. This week will be MUCH better though and I will have better things to say. Oh...anyone that likes to or has to run outside....I LOVE mapmyrun.com