Our weight loss journey so far.

Yes that's right, Michael and I have started on our weight loss journey.

After Avery was born we both realized that we had baby fat we needed to lose. Michael called his sympathy weight, I called mine Avery weight. We are on a mission to get rid of it!

Five weeks ago we both set goals with no time line to reach those goals. Sometimes I feel like when I have to do something in a certain period of time I feel rushed and then back out.

 I will not be posting before pictures due to my lack of self confidence in my body after baby. I will however post pictures when we reach our goal weight. I will then use those pictures to motive Michael and me to continue to keep those goals and not go back to our old selves. 

Michael's Starting Weight: 219 pounds

Michael's goal: 190 pounds

My starting weight: 160 pounds (yuck :( )

My goal: 140 pounds

At the beginning we both had about 20-30 pounds to lose.

This is the first time I have EVER had to actually diet and exercise. When I had Tae I literally walked out of the hospital weighing what I weighed before I got pregnant. Yeah, with Avery not so lucky I walked out of the hospital weighing about the same as I did when I walked in. I wasn't used to being so heavy and not fitting into my jeans. I mean went from a size 6 to a size well larger than a 9 because I won't try on anything bigger. 

Michael took this diet thing and ran with it, he is a professional at getting fit and knowing what he can and can't eat. I mean he is only 5-8 pounds from his goal weight and here I am with only losing 8 pounds. 

The hardest things that I am dealing with are soda, I love me a Dr. Pepper and just can't cut it out of my diet, snacking, I seriously get so hungry I snack on anything and everything, and finally candy bars, oh how I love me a Butterfinger and a Twix. I. MUST. STOP. EATING. BAD. THINGS.

Struggle to me is a good thing because it proves to me that I am only human, everyone struggles with something, and mine is eating. Struggling gives you something to work at and to fix. I desperately want to fix my eating problems and become a more healthy person not only for me but for my kids. Every day I will keep trying and keep facing this struggle. 

Here is to a new me and to a new Michael! I am very grateful to be on this journey with him, without his support I would never have the motivation to work out every single day and to eat broccoli or asparagus, two vegetable I never thought I would put in my mouth (they are actually not that bad if you put A LOT of garlic in them). 

Progress updates to come!!

August 10, 2012

This is what happened a year ago...

I looked at it and couldn't tell, positive or negative?!?! It kept going back and forth in my mind. Positive, no negative, no definitely positive. These thoughts led me to a very early trip to Wal-Mart for 10 more tests! After those it was definitely POSITIVE!! 

I was ecstatic, I was pregnant! Ah I could barely contain myself. Tae was going to have a sibling. I was always told that the greatest gift you can give a child is a sibling. 

8 months and 2 days later we had precious sweet little Avery! 

That face is so hard to say no to sometimes. 

Now a year later Avery is almost 4 months old and such a happy baby! 

I feel in a way Avery was a gift from my Papa. I could have taken a test the next day or a week later, I wasn't even feeling sick, but nope August 10 I woke up and HAD to take it. This also happens to be the day 8 years ago that I lost a very special man who I think about daily. Taking this test turned a day of sadness into a day of overwhelming excitement. 

I love my boys dearly!! Tae and Avery will always have my heart! 

August 9, 2010...Holy Smokes 3 Years.

This happened 3 years ago and I will never EVER forget Michael's reaction, it was priceless! He was in such shocked I had to pick his jaw up from the floor. He couldn't even move and I had to go to work. All I could think about was is he going to be okay??? Poor guy! 

We were definitely not prepared to have a child but it happened and we had to get ready!

8 months and 2 days later we had Tae!

3 years later the feeling of being scared is gone! We love this boy so much that being worried and scared, while looking at that test, was pointless! He is our pride and joy! 

The project...

I've been telling Michael for a long time now that I really want a coffee table! I found some on pinterest that I really like and we narrowed it down to one....This one: 

I just really like it because it is different! Well, we looked everywhere for crates that looked like these, or ones that we could stain, but couldn't find any. So brilliant Michael said he would make the crates and we could bolt them together. He was super excited when I said okay.

So we went to Home Depot and bought the wood and materials needed! We probably looked like 2 very lost people in that store because neither of us knew what we needed exactly.

We got home and started staining the pieces. When we went to put them together the next day we realized that we miss counted the number of pieces needed so back to Home Depot we went. 

Well after 2 days of staining and a day of nailing the coffee table is complete. Although it doesn't look like the one in the picture it looks alright and it is Tae proof! Michael says that it has "character" because of all the mistakes! 

The finished project! It still needs to be bolted together and decorated with stuff in the crates! 

Michael is already starting to think of what he can make next! I told him he needs some practice first!

Holy Smokes it August...

It's seriously already August...where did time go? 

July went by so fast I didn't even take 3 month pictures of Avery because I forgot and by the time I remembered, well it was almost August! He is getting so big! I am already selling most of his things because he has out grown them and Michael says no more kids :( boo...

So much is happening this month and I am very excited because I am finally going to be BUSY, hopefully!

Let's see...

We have school starting for Tae on the 14th and school for me and Michael on the 19th, that there will keep me busy enough.
This month will also be 31 days of no fast food! This means no McDs, no Burger King, and absolutely NO Taco Bell. I just have to get my cooking on and learn new and fun recipes! It will be hard but we can do it and it means we will save money too!
We are also starting Insanity to day to lose weight for our pictures! Hopefully we will get our butts in shape and not be lazy anymore.

Plus we are getting family pictures done this month! (I am going to keep Tae's mohawk just for you San!!!)

Also! We might, just might be moving. That's right MOVING! Not sure where yet, Michael comes home everyday and the first words out of my mouth are "Do you know where we are going yet?"

I love this little town of Wickenburg and I have made some great friends, but friends will be the only thing I miss about this town. I will not miss the sitting in the house all day because there is absolutely nothing to do. This town is made for tourist, not for me to live in on a daily basis. I am a big city girl and hopefully we will be moving to a bigger city! 

This month I also want to make it a point to blog almost every day (I won't say every day because that just won't happen!) I feel like in 5-10 years when Facebook and Instagram are no longer this blog will be what I go back to and read, so I would like to keep it updated!! 

Oh and did I mention that it being August means only one more month until my BIRTHDAY!!!

That makes me even more excited for August to fly by! 

Tomorrow my post is going to be about the first project that Michael completed! It's a work in progress and has a few minor problems that Michael says "gives it character" I call them mistakes that he is trying to get out of!!