Grandma Chris!

My Grandma Christiansen was an amazing women. She was a WASP in World War ll. A couple a weeks ago my Dad and his brothers and sister got to go Washington DC to receive Congressional Medal of Honor in her behalf. They airred the cermony on CSPAN and I was able to watch. It was really neat. As a little girl I always knew my Grandma flew planes in the war but I really didn't understand how amazing it was until I watched the ceremony. Here is an article about her from the Desert News!


http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700020290/Siblings-receive-gold-medal-for-mom.html?pg=1

Fat Tuesday

Carb Week is over! Thank goodness. It was probably one of the longest weeks of my life. Some times I would be like this is fine, I can handle it, and others I would be in almost tears because I was so hungry. But it was worth it in the end because I lost........4 lbs! Yippee and 4.75 inches! I am so happy. I could totally see a change in my body this week. Before I could see it in some places like my chest and up looked really good and my knees and down looked good but this week I could feel my tummy leaving and I was happy to see it go. I am very proud of myself to sticking to it so I could find out what was causing the problems. So the plan now is before in my meal plan 60% were carbs and carb week it was 15% and most of those carbs were from fruit, so now we are going to 30% carbs to see what happens. I think one thing I learned this week was portion size. I had to look at lots of labels this week and it has shown me that I can still enjoy carbs but I need to watch how many I am eating.

Now at week 8 I have lost 23.75 inches and 6 lbs! I have a dumb sinus infection this week and haven't felt up to working out so hopefully it will go away soon so I can have another good week!

The Petting Zoo

Last Friday we decided to go to the petting zoo for Family Fun Day to enjoy some of the nice weather. Ashlee got to come with us so it was extra fun. Sorry there are tons of pictures :) I had a hard time even choosing these, there were so many cute ones.

First here are some pictures of some of the baby animals. I absolutely love baby anythings so I was in heaven.



I am a totally chicken when it comes to animals so that is why I am not in any of the pictures feeding them. It seems like when ever I get up the courage to feed one it sneezes or something and scares me to death :) so I decided to just watch this time. But Brinlee loved it.


I absolutey love peacocks and have never seen a white one before. I was excited it decided to show off while we were there.








I was pretty nervous about having Brinlee ride the pony because I didn't think she was old enough yet but she was so excited to do I decided to let her and I am glad because she loved it :) She looks like a little girl in these pictures, not a baby anymore.





Then after we got to go for a ride behind a tractor.




I am excited it is finally spring so we can go out and do fun things.

Fat Tuesday

So the carb week has begun. It is only Tuesday and I am miserable. I have visions of cookies and wheat thins dancing in my head :) I am hoping that maybe the first 2 days were hard and it will get easier. Carbs are just much more filling than anything else, so I am finding myself to be very hungry, and when I am hungry the last thing I want to go eat is veggies or an egg. But hopefully it is worth it and I will loose some weight.

My dear friend Beth wanted to know excatly what I am doing so I thought I would share. I am working out 5 days a week (6, if I feel crazy on Saturdays). In the mornings I do about 45 mins of cardio depending on what Brinlee allows me to do. I usually do a workout video because we have exercise TV on demand so I usually choose something from that to keep in new and different. Some days I will walk 2 miles outside with Brinlee instead or if she is having a bad day and just wants to watch a cartoon, I will jog or walk in place while she watches one. Then when Dave gets home at night, he will have me do 30 mins of weight training. We usually go non stop to keep my heart rate high. We do a lot of boxing because we have a bag in the basement and I really like it. It seems like a lot but it is nice to split it up into 2 parts. Then I am eating about 1300 calories a day and Dave has a nutrition website through work that we can enter the normal food I would eat and find other foods to go with them to make sure I am getting the right amount of carbs, protein, and fat. It is pretty cool, if anyone is interested I am sure Dave would love to help you with one.

So the past week I lost another 2.25 inches :) and no weight. I decided for my own benfit to make me feel like it is working I am going to keep a running total. So this was week 7 and so far I have lost 19 inches! and 2 lbs. :)

Scentsy Party

Thanks to all that came to my party! If you didn't get a chance to come and still want to order something, you have until Saturday to order. Go to http://kallie.scentsy.us and click on my name. You should check it out. There is allot of fun stuff. Thanks!

Scentsy Party

I am having a Scentsy open house at my house on Saturday from 11-1. I would love for you all to come! If you have any questions just let me know! Thanks!!

Fat Tuesday X's 2

I have been suffering from a major case of the "feel sorry for myself blues" the last week and that is why I didn't post last week. Lame , I know. I don't know what my deal is, but I am trying hard to get over it. But last week I did pretty good. I lost another 2.5 inches and we started to do my body fat % to make me feel better about not loosing any weight. (Dave borrow the calipers from work). And in 2 weeks I lost 4.5% body fat. That really shocked me.! I don't know if any of you have used those before but I am a huge baby. I hate them. They hurts so bad and he has to take measurements in 4 different spots. And he talks about pinching the skin so the skin and muscle separate and I have such a weak stomach I nearly pass out :) So I stand there with my hands over my eyes and sing while he does it so I don't think about it. But it is worth it if I can see the body % drop off.
This week I lost another 2% body fat and 2 inches. Not too shabby. I have done great at working out, I am really surprised with myself. Usually I am the queen of justifying not doing it but I have pretty much done it 5 days a week since I have started blogging. I am very proud of that. I have been ok with the meal plan. Sometimes I have a hard sticking to it if I am not loosing pounds.
So the new plan is, after talking more to Dave's boss, and it being my 7th week and I have only lost 2 pounds, we have decided to do a drastic diet for a week to see what happens. Sometimes people with thyroid problems have a hard time breaking carbs down, so starting Monday I am going almost completely off of carbs :( Just for a week to see if anything changes. If I do loose weight, then we will adjust my diet to limit some carbs and if it doesn't then I guess we will see whats next. All I can say is you may want to avoid me next week :) I don't think I will be a very happy person:)