Play Date

A couple weekends ago, I watched my nephew Max (middle child in the group pictures) and I thought it would be fun to invite my friend Jen's little boy Jace over (they live next door) to play. Jen was going to be tutoring so it would give her hubby a break and be fun for the boys. The boys played SOOOO well together. Max is 5 months older than Jace and Jace is 6 months older than Robert. It's super fun!!! We watched, "Monster's Inc" because Jace picked it out. We played cars and toy story and we had GUSHERS---hence the blue mouths. :) They were so cute and I wish I had a picture of all of them looking but I think it's great that 2 are looking in most of the pictures.

Weight Watchers Update

Week 1 Weigh in was last night. I was down to 192.8 which is a loss of 4.0 lbs! So excited about that! Feel great to be losing weight!! Hoping for at least 3 lbs this week to break the 190 mark!!!

Weight Watchers

I did weight watchers after my first marriage. I moved home, I was unhappy and I needed something to help me get back in shape. I didn't do it very long but it got me on the right path.

Well, I lost all my weight and then some and was back down to High School graduation weight of 145 (yes that's heavy for someone my height but I get to count 15 lbs of muscles from the killer swim workouts I used to do) when I met Bryce. Shortly after that I was put on anti-depressants (which I should have been on YEARS ago--but that's another story) and birth control. From the end of May until end July. I gained 15 lbs and went up 2 dress sizes. Yeah, talk about SURPRISE when I went to pick up my wedding dress. By the end of 2007, after we got married I was back up to 185. Sometime in the next year I gained another 10 lbs and then I got pregnant. I only put on 35 lbs while pregnant and I lost all 35 lbs within 6 weeks (most of my weight was water weight). But for the last 16 months I have been STRUGGLING to get that extra 30+ lbs that I had before I was pregnant. Nothing is working.

I'm still on anti-depressants (I will be for life so that's not an option) but I have an IUD. Some people say that's what's causing it, well, I can be on the pill because it makes my depression worse which I recently found out the hard way so I need to do something else. My next door neighbor, Jen, and I are doing Weight Watchers. It's day 1. We weighed in last night after dinner so yesterday didn't count. I'm at my steady 196. The lowest I got after Robert was 192. So 196.8 isn't bad. LOL. My goal is to loose at least 20 by my 10 year high school reunion. But for NOW my goal is to be under 190. That will feel fabulous!!

I LOVE WW's new plan. It makes so much more sense. I'm glad to have a buddy doing it with me and I'm excited for my mom and Aunt to join soon as well. We're going to loose weight and keep it off. Our WW Speaker last night said, she has maintained her goal weight for 10 years and with the new plan she's lost an additional 11 lbs!! That's amazing. Maybe I can really get to 145 (which is a size 4 for me). That would be AMAZING!!!

I'm going to track my weight loss with the tracker above. Now I told you all my dirty secrets :)