Rant

So far I have had a great week weight loss wise. which is good, because that means that I have overcome stress eating. It has been a stressful couple of weeks with my husband having left on deployment and how hard it has been on the kids. Instead of eating, I just take my frustrations out on zombies in video game :) Hope that everyone has a great week.

Another Week

I don't really have much to say this week. The weather has been fantastic. We actually hit 60 degrees today and the last of the snow melted from my yard. That was a real accomplishment. Of course it is suppose to snow again tomorrow and Saturday with an accumulation of another 6 inches. I just don't think it ever ends in this state. Such is life, soon I will be back outside running instead of on an indoor track or treadmill, so hooray for that. Of course that also means pushing 70 pounds worth of kids and the stroller :) Good times. Anyway thats about it for today.

This week

So, I know I am a few days late with my post. Why is it times seems to go by so fast when you don't want it to, but when you wish it would hurry up it just creeps by? So anyway this has been a busy week and it has flown by. My husband leaves for the Middle East tomorrow so our days have been filled with getting him packed, all of the stupid military briefings that he has and even one for me, and overly emotional kids. We got to go to the zoo for one last fun outing before Daddy has to leave, and had a great time, it is finally starting to warm up here and I can see most of my yard. I do still have a few pretty frozen patches of snow. I actually got to go run outside for the first time in about 4 months. It will still be a little while before I get to do that consistently since it is still to cold to have my two youngest out there with me, but hopefully by the beginning of the month we will be able to do that. I am sure my pace will suffer since I will be pushing about 80 pounds worth of kids, not including the weight of the stroller that really only counts when I am going uphill. I am so excited for spring!!!! Anyway hope that everyone has a great week!!!

A Few Days Before Weigh in

So I haven't done much this month. I will have a loss, but it will be a small one, which I am OK with. My goal most of this month, or at least the last 2 weeks has just been to maintain, which I have successfully done. So that has been nice. I still have a few more pounds I would like to get off, but I figure I will wait until my husband leaves for his deployment, which will be in about 10 days. I was looking through my pictures today, and came across one from my birthday this past year, which was right before I started to lose weight, and even though the picture is only from the top half, I was surprised at the difference. Through out this whole process, I haven't been able to really see a difference in myself. I know that the weight has obviously gone somewhere since I certainly can't wear the same clothes anymore, but to me when I just look at myself, I look the same. Part of it might be the way I carry the weight, but looking back at those pictures, I was surprised what a difference 55 pounds makes. I mean, I know when you think about it, that seems like a pretty significant amount of weight, but while I have been losing, it really hasn't seemed like a big deal. I know I have changed a lot about my eating habits, one of the things I had to do was actually eat more, when I started this whole thing and started counting up my calories, I was surprised to see that except for weekends, I was eating less than 1000 calories, the biggest change I have made, is to up my calorie intake to 1600 calories and keep it there consistently. Funny thing for me (not funny ha ha but ironically) is that if my calories drop to 1300, I start to gain again. So I have to make sure that I get my calories, because I have a bad habit of not eating breakfast or lunch, and getting my meals has been incredibly helpful for me and for the energy I need to exercise. I haven't changed my exercise habits at all, and I don't intend to. I just found out about a triathlon that the base here is having, so I am thinking about maybe doing that. It is the week before my half that I always run, so it will mean training for both at the same time. We will have to see how that goes, but I would love to do one. Since I can't train for a full marathon this year, that would be a nice compromise. Anyway, enough rambling. Hope that everyone has a great rest of the week and a fantastic weigh in!!!!!