Today I made a pact with a friend. Most of it was over Facebook, just commenting back & forth.
The other part, the real part, was in a phone call with her later this evening.
Last year, I had a goal to lose 25 pounds by my 30th birthday. I started in January, and by April 9th, I had lost 30 pounds! Throughout the rest of the year, I lost another 5-7 (it fluctuates), and kept off the 30 pounds I had lost earlier.
Of course, this is all baby weight. And we can talk baby weight all we want, but let's be real. When I say baby weight, I mean, for both of my pregnancies, I ate what I wanted, didn't exercise, and I had two girls, so the sugar cravings were GINORMOUS!!
I totally did it to myself. I'm being very honest here when I tell you that I gained 65 pounds with my first pregnancy. Of which, I lost 20 lbs in the two years in-between pregnancies. With my second, I gained another 60 pounds. And I thought I was doing great! By the 5th month of that second pregnancy, I had only gained 9 pounds! But come Thanksgiving and Christmas and all the food and the winter months, I gained A LOT in those last 4-ish months. If you do the math, that means from pre-pregnancy to just after my second was born, I was over 100 pounds heavier than ever. EVER.
Mortifying.
I lost 35 of those pounds pretty much right away after having my second baby.
And that's where it stopped. My baby is almost 3 years old. I have allowed life to take over me!
Last year, I said enough was enough. I worked out every day of the week but one. I was burning over 1,000 calories each day. And it worked! So, I'm down 70-ish pounds and have 30 more to go. Wow! I just read that back and I've never actually thought about how much weight that is!!
But when April came last year, I had my 30th birthday and right after that... SUMMER!
Who wants to work out in the summer?? Not this girl!
I know how to lost weight. Calories in vs. Calories out. It will be that same way until the end of time.
So, getting on with it, today I made a pact. I posted on Facebook, "Someone please give me a start date and hold me accountable!! Ahhhhh!"
Well, someone took me up on that and now I have to follow through with it! I meant what I said, I just have ZERO motivation. Zero.
So when my friend called me tonight just to vent about how she thinks she looks (she is B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L) and areas that she wants to work on and reasons why she needs a buddy... I knew I was hooked.
I am very grateful for the phone call, the shout out on Facebook and the encouraging words that she shares with me every time we meet.
I am looking forward to getting my life back. It's more than just a few vanity (baby) pounds, it's a state of mind. It's overcoming so many things by feeling good about myself. It's choosing good habits and making good choices - and having a great time doing it!
So, thank you, Friend for the call.
We're gonna do it together.
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
We Had Some Words (5/365)
I am having so much fun right now!
But... I'm not really getting anything done that I should be.
I started playing Words With Friends a couple of weeks ago and
I.
Am.
Addicted.
At first I only had a couple of friends that liked to play. Then I hooked my husband's iPod Touch up with the game, and more friends were found in the meantime.
Tonight I had 6 games going at the same time.
Oops!
Well, needless to say, I put the girls to bed around 9:00 and I have been playing ever since! Instead, I should have been folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, going through the mail... something else besides playing this game.
So, tomorrow starts a new day. I needed a new routine anyway, so I'm looking on the bright side and saying that just as I did when I first joined Facebook, I will find a happy medium.
I will say this though, anyone who has ever seen my Facebook status updates on the weekends knows that Scrabble is a serious super-fun pasttime of mine and my husband's. We play it almost EVERY weekend, year round, after the girls go to bed.
Today, I'm thankful for pasttimes, and technology that brings people together.
Oh, and I won all 6 games - beat my husband by 4 points on the last word!
But... I'm not really getting anything done that I should be.
I started playing Words With Friends a couple of weeks ago and
I.
Am.
Addicted.
At first I only had a couple of friends that liked to play. Then I hooked my husband's iPod Touch up with the game, and more friends were found in the meantime.
Tonight I had 6 games going at the same time.
Oops!
Well, needless to say, I put the girls to bed around 9:00 and I have been playing ever since! Instead, I should have been folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, going through the mail... something else besides playing this game.
So, tomorrow starts a new day. I needed a new routine anyway, so I'm looking on the bright side and saying that just as I did when I first joined Facebook, I will find a happy medium.
I will say this though, anyone who has ever seen my Facebook status updates on the weekends knows that Scrabble is a serious super-fun pasttime of mine and my husband's. We play it almost EVERY weekend, year round, after the girls go to bed.
Today, I'm thankful for pasttimes, and technology that brings people together.
Oh, and I won all 6 games - beat my husband by 4 points on the last word!
Sunday, January 8, 2012
My Cup Runneth Over (4/365)
We got some good news at the end of last week.
A letter came from school that said our Hannah is going to be named Student of the Month for December! She, along with a few other students both in her grade and other grades in the school, was chosen as Student of the month for being an exceptional model student for that month's character trait: caring.
Of course I knew that Hannah is exceptional. From the minute she was born, she was exceptional!
She's the one that cried so exceptionally well! (See my first ever blog post Flashbacks to Losing It).
She said her first real word at 7-ish months old. She was putting sentences together by her first birthday.
She was crawling by 5 months, walking by 9 months, running by 10 months.
Everything she has ever touched turns to gold.
She is great at every sport she plays.
When she sings, she has a natural vibrato - at the AGE OF 5! And she's in tune!
She is tenderhearted, loving, selfless (for the most part - after all, she's 5)!
She has needed discipline, like, a total of maybe 5 times ever in her life.
She minds well, she is sweet and oh my goodness does she LOVE her little sister!
So, of course, I'm not surprised that she is receiving Student of the Month for Caring. As parents, we are so overjoyed at the smallest accomplishments for our children. I don't know if this is big or small. It's probably HUGE in her world! In the big picture though, will she remember being Student of the Month in Kindergarten when she goes off to college?
Probably not.
But I will.
It's character traits like these that give us parents not only a sense of accomplishment, but immense pride!
I sent an email to all of Hannah's grandparents tonight letting them know that there is an assembly at school where Hannah will be presented with a certificate, a t-shirt and probably one of those cool bumper stickers for my car. As I was typing the email, my eyes were welling up with tears. I had to choke them back, and I actually felt a little silly. I will be THAT MOM that cries at this assembly.
And the next one.
And the next one.
And prom. And... And...
But I'm okay with that.
My beautiful, talented, smart, amazing daughter is growing up so fast! I am so proud of her every day smaller accomplishments as well as the bigger accomplishments! I've always said that I couldn't have designed better children in my dreams.
God gave me the perfect children... for me.
My cup runneth over.
...Go Green ;)
A letter came from school that said our Hannah is going to be named Student of the Month for December! She, along with a few other students both in her grade and other grades in the school, was chosen as Student of the month for being an exceptional model student for that month's character trait: caring.
Of course I knew that Hannah is exceptional. From the minute she was born, she was exceptional!
She's the one that cried so exceptionally well! (See my first ever blog post Flashbacks to Losing It).
She said her first real word at 7-ish months old. She was putting sentences together by her first birthday.
She was crawling by 5 months, walking by 9 months, running by 10 months.
Everything she has ever touched turns to gold.
She is great at every sport she plays.
When she sings, she has a natural vibrato - at the AGE OF 5! And she's in tune!
She is tenderhearted, loving, selfless (for the most part - after all, she's 5)!
She has needed discipline, like, a total of maybe 5 times ever in her life.
She minds well, she is sweet and oh my goodness does she LOVE her little sister!
So, of course, I'm not surprised that she is receiving Student of the Month for Caring. As parents, we are so overjoyed at the smallest accomplishments for our children. I don't know if this is big or small. It's probably HUGE in her world! In the big picture though, will she remember being Student of the Month in Kindergarten when she goes off to college?
Probably not.
But I will.
It's character traits like these that give us parents not only a sense of accomplishment, but immense pride!
I sent an email to all of Hannah's grandparents tonight letting them know that there is an assembly at school where Hannah will be presented with a certificate, a t-shirt and probably one of those cool bumper stickers for my car. As I was typing the email, my eyes were welling up with tears. I had to choke them back, and I actually felt a little silly. I will be THAT MOM that cries at this assembly.
And the next one.
And the next one.
And prom. And... And...
But I'm okay with that.
My beautiful, talented, smart, amazing daughter is growing up so fast! I am so proud of her every day smaller accomplishments as well as the bigger accomplishments! I've always said that I couldn't have designed better children in my dreams.
God gave me the perfect children... for me.
My cup runneth over.
...Go Green ;)
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