Whooopaaa 10%!

That's right, "whooopaaa" as in "see ya lata foreva"!!! After being in the 9.X% of weight lost for the last 3 weeks, today's weigh-in finally put me over the 10% lost milestone to 10.5%. I know that I'm not following weight watchers, but it's still a significant milestone to me :-)

And I have to say, my joints are thanking me and I got a major runner's high the other night doing 2:2 intervals for an hour. I think I see some new race bibs in my future :-)

In Support of a Bloggie

Most of you out there are aware of what an incredibly supportive online community there is in the blogosphere, whether you blog or just enjoy reading them. There comes a time in many of our lives that we know someone who has been affected by cancer. It's a horrible horrible disease. This is the first time that this has happened directly to a blogger friend. Not that there's ever an acceptable time to be diagnosed with cancer, but being 25 and doing "everything right" to be fit and healthy just makes it all the more shocking to me.  It doesn't seem that long ago that we had the chance to have lunch and meet while she visited Halifax last summer. I'm sure that Susan would really appreciate your comments in support of this long and hard road she has ahead of her...

You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks

I have to say bloggies, no matter how much weight was lost in the past, I still continue to learn so much along this journey of weight loss.  I had been a POINTS counter in the past and I had flip flopped many times trying to count calories instead but for some reason it never stuck. But this time bloggies, THIS time, it has stuck. And it's working.

The lessons I have learned so far this time around is not about calories in v. calories out. That part is obvious. And it's not about learning how to eat healthy because I was already there.  But even though I somehow managed to keep up the pace to lose an entire person the first time around, I still always struggled with being "thrown off" course due to a single circumstance, meal or day.  The proverbial "wrench" that inevitably gets thrown in the way. You know, life. Getting discouraged and feeling like my day or week was somehow "wrote off" due to some particular reason was a common occurrence.

I have learned how to accept less than perfect, to be more realistic about life as a mother trying to balance healthy eating & activity conducive to weight loss and to realize that any day where I've stayed under my maintenance calorie range is still progress. It doesn't have to be 1200 net calories because in general, I have been in the 1500-1600 range and if that is more realistic for me, then I'm ok with a slower rate of loss because this is where it has gotten me so far:

MyFitnessPal - Free Weight Loss Tools

At the time of posting this, the ticker says 25 lbs! Since it is dynamic, it will change as my progress changes even a year from now. I'm on my way "all the way" again and that's a fact.  

However, I'm not so sure I'm going to beat my husband in this competition we're having because he, my friends, is a force to be wreckoned with. He's doing amazing and at tomorrow's weigh-in, he expects to hit is 30 lbs lost milestone which I couldn't possibly express to you how happy that makes me. He's really taken his health seriously and has 100% committed himself to getting healthy.  He's feeling wonderful, has lost at least half of his "beer belly" where he carries 80% of his weight (a very dangerous place to carry extra weight!) and notices huge changes in his stamina and fitness level. This is MY HUSBAND we are talking about! I'm floored and extremely happy & proud :-)

I'm not even sure who still reads this little blog, but whoever is still out there, I appreciate your readership and not giving up on me and my sparse blogging. I can't explain why I haven't been blogging regularly other than the good ol' "busy mom" excuse, but maybe that's best left for another day...

Seaport Shenanigans

Down about 23 lbs now and feeling great :-) The husband is approaching 30! I think he might be kicking my butt in this one and I couldn’t be happier! Counting calories on My Fitness Pal is really working for us.

We took LO to the Farmer’s Market today and it was a nice bright and sunny day here (finally) and we went on the Seaport rooftop to give him his lunch. It was also fun to get a few photos goofing around :-) The Moms usually NEVER get IN the pictures, because we’re always the ones taking them!




“Oh, what’s that flying around your head Mommy? You usually don’t have any of this stuff flying around!”

 

    

   

  

Yoink!

Ah, the “sunglasses headband" trick! Should have thought of that earlier!


          I am finally updating my blog as we speak, so please don't mind the mess! In addition to no longer being “with one on the way”, every time I post pictures, they end up looking grainy and low quality regardless compression. Not sure if it’s a blogger thing or my template? No one else’s pictures seem to do that so hopefully updating the template etc. will take care of that. We’ll see how these ones turn out!