Ok-don't congratulate me YET

Remember my vent about not losing weight?? Of course you do...LOL....

I did...I lost weight...I didn't believe it for OH TWO WEEKS...but that 4lbs is really gone. LOL! Yay me. I know it's only four pounds but it's gone...hope you all didn't find it. I hope it's really LOST somewhere.....ROTFLOL

How you ask? I don't know. Not really. I gave up my daily dose of chocolate again. But this time I went longer than ten days. And on the 11th day the scale started going down. It was as if my body wasn't gonna let go of the weight even if I took out the calories because it didn't believe I was serious about cutting them. So it would wait me out...and then of course I would get sad that cutting out an extra 500 calories a day didn't help me lose weight. And I would start eating them again. So I guess my body realized I was serious.

NO I DID NOT GIVE UP CHOCOLATE PERMANENTLY...in fact I had some today. It's just an every day thing anymore. OK...enough rambling bout that one.

No new LO's to share. I don't feel like scrapping. Sorry!

Positives

OK...so yesterday you got my vent about not losing weight so tonight I am focusing on the positives of the last year of working out. :D It's not been all bad (and I did lose a pound this week..or so the scale said this morning..maybe complaining out loud to you is what made it go away-LOL).

1. I am stronger...without a doubt, I am physically stronger.
2. I HAVE added muscle definition...my shoulders are less rounded and more squared off...I have some upper arm muscle beginning to show where I have been working my biceps/triceps. My back has almost lost ALL the extra "back fat" around my bra area especially. My calves make a "V". KEWL! My hamstings are nice too. I've lost that added bit of fat that pokes out around your waistband of your jeans (well unless I put on a pair that's slightly too small-I avoid that!!). My bottom is lifted in the back-no sagging...it has a nice curve to it.
3. I DO feel better about myself..really!!! I was just irritated yesterday. LOL
4. I've gained endurance-not huffing and puffing like I was a year ago when doing aerobics (I still despise them though-LOL).


OK ENOUGH of that....it feels weird to give myself compliments. ;-)


Tonight Pat and I took a different trail. This one is 2 miles long and PAVED...thank the Lord. My shin muscles ACHE from trying to keep my balance on the loose rock going downhill-LOL. We walked it really fast (as in I had a "stitch" in my side) TWICE. It's cooler tonight so it was a really beautiful night to walk too. I enjoyed this walk with Pat (as I did the last two days) because we got to talk UNINTERRUPTED for an hour. About nothing...oh we talked about stuff but nothing important. LOL!! Just enjoyed one another's company. I wonder how long we will keep this walking together up. He's exercising twice a day to meet the weigh-in next week for school.

I've been bad and not shared ANY photos this week so here's one of Emily. Or two... LOL... She's 2.5 years old. We had her weighed and measured yesterday and she is 34.25" and weighs 22.75lbs.
LOL...this one she was SUPPOSED to be napping-the photo speaks for itself! HAHAHA



My little poser decided to ham it up and posed herself all cute!



I just love this serious photo!


This was before church a couple of weeks ago-she is adorable-doncha think???

Not much going on around here

I spent several hours today doing 6 weeks of lesson plans for our upcoming school year. Fun-NOT! But at least I have an idea of what we are doing. It looks like the kids are in for a HUGE surprise this year-they are actually going to be required to work HARD. Sheesh and they already think I am a slave driver!

seth wants to "Do school" with us this year too. So I am going to be making up little activities that he can do too. I might even be able to include him in on some of the things we are learning.

We went to the river today and had such fun. A lady there caught some tadpoles and gave them to Emily and Seth to play with (we had an ice cream bucket that we were filling with rocks and dumping). Emily was so tickled at those "shish"!! She just giggled. ANd where was my trusty digital camera? At home! :(( Seth loved them and wasn't quite sure about them being baby frogs. But Emily liked the idea of them being frogs and was calling them that after attempting the word tadpole unsuccessfully. ;)

I am sore. WHY?? Overkill on the exercising the butt muscles this past week. Oh well, I want to get it back into shape and so I am doing as much as I can without killing myself.

On Wednesday I go back to SG HQ for the local DT meeting. Not thrilled with the papers and the technique looks really HARD. I would rather just skip the kit-LOL. I do have an idea in mind for a LO so will just see if I can pull off one LO and call it even. After all I worked my bum off last month.

2.8 Down...9 to go!

Yeah that is my goal...I want to lose 9 more pounds. Technicall to get to my pre-Seth and Emily weight its 14lbs to go, but I will be happy with the 9. In fact (don't share this with my body or it might rebel), I would be happy to go under 140 and stay there. I was 138 when we left Germany. I was okay with that. I like 132 better though. :D

Anyway, its swimsuit season. YUCK! I don't care who you are or what size your backside is, most women do NOT like swimsuit season. But Pat wanted to take the kids to the indoor pool at the fitness center. After all, its free to us so why not use it. I gave him the deer in the headlights look. But I don't have a suit that fits right. Let's go buy one he says...darn the luck, I was hoping to get out of it. I went to Wally World yesterday and looked at suits. I tried on one top and two bottoms. Its not entirely true that I don't have a suit already that fits. What's more accurate is I don't have a suit I will wear because I don't like the "Cottage cheese" on the back of my thighs. :( I mean, WHO does? So the bottoms I picked up were a) a black skirted bottoms and 2) pink printed boy shorts. The boy shorts were horrid. Black skirted bottoms and the pink printed tank top came home with me.

We went to the pool and the kids had a blast playing the water. Even Emily who I was SURE would hate the pool was trying to dunk her face in the water and kicking and splashing in the baby floaty. So the lifeguard calls an "everybody out" so she can take a break and I sit on the edge of the pool. I stand up and my suit sticks to the edge!!! Yikes-I ended up with some glue stuff on my BRAND NEW, looks decent on my butt swim suit!!!!!!! UGH!!!! Anybody have some Un-Do? I am in need of a bottle to save my new swim suit.

No, I did NOT take pictures. I didn't bring it. For Shame! Next time though. I wasn't sure how things worked at the fitness center so didn't want to have my very expensive digital camera get stolen or wet.