Fat Tuesday

No weight loss this week :( but I didn't gain any either so that's good. I lost another 2 and
3/4 inches. I feel like I am looking better and more toned so that's really good. I don't know why the pounds bug me so much if I am loosing inches but they do. I haven't stuck to my meal plan very well so I am trying extra hard to do that this week. I don't eat is my problem. I am so lazy when it comes to eating. Weird, I know, Especially because I am always making food and snacks for Brinlee so it isn't like I am not around food. I was basically only eating 900 calories before and now I am eating 1500, so I have set alarms in my phone to remind me to eat :) I am hoping that that is the trick to make me loose some pounds. Wish me luck!

Fat Tuesday

It was a good week! I have started to work out in the morning now that Brinlee has given up her morning nap (a very sad time for me because that means my morning nap is gone too). I figure it is a good influnce on her to see us exercising and being healthy. She likes to put her arms up when I do and jump up and down trying to jumping jacks. It is very cute. My results for this week are........... I lost 2 lbs and 3 1/4 inches. Not to shabby :) Hopefully I can keep this pace and be able to look nice in my swimsuit this summer. Here goes another week! Wish me luck!

Valentine's Dinner

We had Sunday dinner at our house last night and since it is Valentines next Sunday I decided to do a Valentine dinner. Yes I know it was the super bowl but hearts are a lot more fun than football to me :) It was really fun but the best part was Brinlee. She is really into feeding herself lately and Italian seems to be her favorite :)

Fat Tuesday

No this is not a post about Mardi Gras :) even though that would be more fun. I have decided to start blogging about my weight loss journey and since I weigh in Monday night I figured Fat Tuesday would be a perfect title. As many of you know I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism in June and along with the diagnosis came 20 pounds. After a few months of trying different medications, I think I have found one that is working for me and so now I can start working off what I have gained. I am very lucky that now my wonderful husband is a personal trainer and can help me out. I think by blogging about my journey will help me stick to it, and be able to share my successes and failures. I wont share the numbers that I am at now :) but I will what I have lost. It may be kinda of boring so if you don't really want to read them I understand but here it goes...

SO week #1- I definitely didn't put 100% in this week but it is hard for me to want to work out after a long day, so I am thinking of doing it in the morning instead to see if that helps . But I still made some progress! I didn't loose any weight but I lost 3 1/2 inches! So I am very proud of that.

Family Fun Day

Last week Dave had all of Friday off, so we decided to make it a whole day event. First we went and bought Brinlee some more sippys. She got some very cute princess ones. Then we went to the mall to let her play on the Dino playground, but it was really crowded, so instead we decided to go look at the cute new spring clothes. After that we went home and took a nap and then we decided to go to Chuck E Cheese that night. Brinlee really loved it. Me on the other hand had some major anxiety with all the noise and children everywhere :) She loved to push all the buttons on the games, but she hated the rides though.
She won like 67 tickets! Here she is with her prizes, a microphone that she loves, and a laffy taffy

I couldn't post without showing you one of her cheesy smiles :) Gotta love them

Bye Bye Na Na

I had big plans to get rid of Brinlee's na na (bottle, I don't know why she calls it that but she does) right after her first birthday but a day or two after she broke out in horrible cold sores and the last thing I wanted to do was take it away while she was so sick. Then after she finally recovered from that it went from getting a new tooth, to a cold, getting a new tooth, and getting a cold. And I personally didn't want anymore grumpiness on top of it. Then the past few weeks I have been trying to get up the motivation to do it. I felt crazy because deep down I didn't want her to give them up. They were the last thing keeping her a baby and I felt like giving them up would mean that I would have to finally accept that she is a little girl now. (I don't even know how I am going to handle my youngest growing up if I had such a hard time with my first :)) But on Wednesday I went to do some work for my sister and left Brinlee with Dave. When I got home, there she was drinking her sippy with milk getting ready for a nap. He had done it for me. I am so grateful that he did. She is doing great with them. She throws a little fit sometimes about it, but we haven't gave into it yet so I think officially the bottles are gone.

Family Fun Day

Now that Dave has the afternoons off, we have had some time to spend together as a family. So we have decided to make Wednesdays are Family Fun Day, where we can spend the whole time he is off doing something fun as a family. This week we took Brinlee to McDonald's for her first ice cream cone. She has been doing so good at walking we figured she needed a treat.

First she didn't really like how cold the ice cream was.

Then she liked it better when she used her fingers

Then she wanted to dip a fry in it.

But when it got down to the cone she loved it! She ate the rest all by herself.