Follow Through Friday I

So I'm going to do my first ever link up with these beautiful ladies...

I'm really trying to get back into the blogging world. I've seen how much blogging has helped everyone have a successful journey and I'm excited to try it myself on my "Better Body after Baby" adventure. So.. Goals for the week.. Here we go...

OVERALL GOALS

• Continue to log everything into MFP (jenn577)
• Continue water intake 5-24oz
• Add in elliptical after morning #jmdvdchallenge
• At least 8 workouts in the next 8 days. Some days I may can double up but be sure to get a daily burn on. A workout is considered something I've dedicated at least 30 minutes to, with a 6 mo I'm doing good to do something 30 minutes at a time.
• Get the jogging stroller out at least 3 times (dependent on weather)
• Finish Dietbet strong. I need to lose 2 more pounds this week. I'm going to buckle down and plan and prep like a boss and get it done.

Weigh-In

I'm down a POUND!! This is HUGE! This was Kb's birthday week so we went out twice. Once for pizza and once for Mexican food. AND it was bunco week so 3 dinners I didn't prepare myself. PLUS we went to the deer lease this past weekend. (deer lease = beer) I was just so excited I didn't gain!! I knew the nights we were going out and tried to prepare my day around them. I also added in a little bit of elliptical after my morning workouts just to up my calorie burn.

I let myself have a piece of pizza and a couple of beers and when we went out for Mexican I got the tortilla soup. I LOOOOVE the tortilla soup at El Con so I didn't feel deprived. I also got a beer that night too. It was the Hubs b-day!! I gotta live, right? I really think this means I'm getting this whole "everything in moderation" thing down. I'm so proud of myself. I only have 2 pounds to go to meet my diet bet and we have NO plans to go out next week so I'll meal plan and prep like a boss and work my ass off.

Let's DO THIS!!

Don't mind if a brag...

Well another week in and it's going great so far. I'm in 2 diet bets and I may or may not make my weight loss but I'm not too worried about it. It's not for lack of trying. I'm made some serious changes that are becoming routine and for that I'm grateful. I know I've lost some inches and I'm dying to measure next week.

Here's a little brag list...

• I've done 21 workouts in the past 23 days
• I've made a habit of getting up and doing the workouts before work. I get up around 5-530 and do my #jmdvdchallenge video and this week have added in some elliptical to take my workouts until around 615. I don't even think about getting up anymore I just do it. I love getting it done in the morning since I know I won't have time in the evening and if I do have a little time, it's a bonus workout.
• I'm consistently logging into MyFitnessPal.com (jenn577) and using it to plan my day. This was Korey's birthday week and while I let myself indulge a little I logged all my calories so I could plan my day around it so it wouldn't set me back too far.
• I'm meal planning and prepping like a champ.

Here are a few NSVs

• This weekend on the way to the deer lease I convinced myself I deserved a snack. I didn't want a good snack either. I wanted Hot Fries or Cheetos or something like that. I went in and thought "No one will know what I get" & "You've worked hard and been keeping to your plan this won't hurt" you know what I walked away with?? Pistachios. Boom.
• I haven't taken measurements but I'm sure I'm down quite a few inches. My pants are fitting better. Those extra boobs on my back are getting smaller and overall I feel leaner. I'm getting there.. one day at a time..

Rounding out the month: Goals and Rewards

• I've really enjoyed the JM videos and as a reward to myself for keeping up with my workouts I'm going to buy Ripped in 30 to add into the rotation.
• I'm going to schedule my workouts again for February. I'm going to add in 6 week 6 pack (available on Amazon Prime) just for added torture.
• Once I reach my 4% whether it's at the end of the month or not I'm treating myself to my pedicure Korey got me for Christmas.

I'm working on my goals for next month and will post once this month is over. I can't wait to post my progress. Stay tuned!

And because I haven't put him out here in a while. Here's a couple of the latest pics of my little man. He makes me smile everyday.

Just keep going.

Just a quick update... I'm a week in and I've lost 20 pounds! Yeah, right.. Why is it I think all this hard work I put in for a WEEK would result in some drastic weight loss. I mean, I didn't gain it all overnight why am I disappointed that meal planning, prepping and working out for a week ONLY resulted in a 2 pound loss. I say 'only' in jest because I know how hard I worked to get off 7000 calories. I know how easy I could shove 7000 calories in my pie-hole and working them off was a lot harder. I wasn't perfect but I'm keeping at it.

I look to all of those that motivate me and honestly they have a lot more to lose than I do and some of them have done this whole planning/prepping/working out for 52 weeks or more. And they're still going! Good weeks and bad they keep going. That's what inspires me and lets me know that I can do it too. Just keep going.

This week I meal planned, Kb meal prepped with me in the kitchen and I have the rest of January lined out with my #JMDVDCHALLENGE. This whole "have a plan" thing is actually working out ok...so far..I have to just keep going...

So I will get up and workout when I can, eat according to my plan when I can and just do what I can do. Small changes will result in one big change one of these days.

I still owe myself some goals, I'm working on that. This whole "working mom" thing is no joke. Where does time go?

I am a Food-a-holic

Kinda like an alcoholic but with food. At least that's the realization I came to this weekend...

We have a guy on our deer lease, T,  that's an alcoholic. Like real bad. Like get up in the morning and drink whatever's left out from the night before. 1/2 drank beers, whatever's left in the whisky bottle on the table, bottles of beer that have been left out in the sun. It doesn't matter, he drinks it.

He tries to hide it from his wife. Like that's even possible. You know when someone's had too much to drink. He has so much alcohol in his system it doesn't even take him much of the leftovers before he's a stumblin, mumblin drunk. He has a stash of empty vodka bottles in a bush on the way to his stand. He's stashed empty bottles in the kids fort. It's sad, really.

But I can relate.. I've tried to hide my actions from people too. I've bought a bag of hot fries that I made sure to eat before I got home and hid the evidence in the trash. I've thrown away old cupcakes I was proud I didn't eat but not before I had one more cupcake top. This weekend Kb asked if I wanted a Star Crunch and I said "No, you know I'm watching what I eat" but after he was gone I snuck one out, ate it and hid the evidence.

All this to say everyone can tell by watching T that he's a drunk. Everyone can tell by looking at my ass that I don't eat right and workout all the time like it seems. Neither one of us are fooling anyone but ourselves.

I'm making a vow right now to STOP hiding. If I'm embarrassed for someone to find out what I'm eating, here's a crazy idea.. "DON'T EAT IT"

I've planned my meals this week and my workouts. I made a calendar and am highlighting my accomplishments. Looking back on that should give me the confidence to keep going.

I AM GOING TO HAVE A BETTER BODY AFTER BABY. That is my motto for 2014.

Starting over again... again

Well, here I am again. Starting over. Claiming this year will be THE year. I'm going to do it. I'm going to get busy and lose some weight and have a better body after baby. I know I KNOW what to do and what to eat I need to just DO it.

I've caught myself following all these great "afters" and thinking to myself, "man, these are great but I could never do that" That's the same thing all these successful "afters" thought before. Now I'm following a lot of people like me. A lot of "durings".

I've joined a couple of dietbets and a January #jmdvdchallenge. I've got my month planned out and some goals. I'm going to fine tune the long term goals and post those after this weekend but for January they are:

1. Log what I shove in my piehole into MyFitnessPal
2. Log in my calendar and mark off daily goals (Workout, MFP, water)
3. Meal Plan
4. "Clean up" my diet.
5. Try 2 new clean eating recipes a week
6. Work out 5 mornings a week and follow my DVD plan
7. Drink gallon of H2O. At least 4 of my big Tervis cups while at work = 96oz
8. Lose 4% or 7 pounds in January = mani/pedi

Also, I'm about to get real REAL up in the bish. This is MY place on the interwebs. I've been afraid to be myself in case family or friends don't like what I write but I can't do that anymore. I am who I am and if you don't like it don't read. I cuss, I drink,  I'm opinionated, I'm a gun-toting conservative Texan, a new mom trying to figure out this parenting gig, I have bad days and can be a real bitch but that's me and I've made it in this life so far and been pretty successful if I do say so myself. Now I just need to take this attitude and kick 2014 in the teeth.

NSVs

**Non-Scale Victories for those that don't know.

This week I've had a couple of NSV's. One that I'm really proud of is my habit of tracking. I've been tracking just about everything on MyFitnessPal.com. (Except for this weekend. The wagon I was on crashed and burned this weekend. Just to paraphrase... Deer lease, beer, kid-less weekend.. that's really all I have to say about that.) But once I got back in town I dusted the wagon off and put it back together. I planned and prepped on Sunday and regained some sense of control.

I've been able to get up and work out twice this week so far. They've been pretty intense workouts too. I've been planning them by finding a workout on fitnessmagazine.com and pulling them up to review the night before so I'm ready to go in the morning and I don't have to think about it. I've also been incorporating Val's November Challenge workout as my warm-up. While I'm working out I've figured out if I just put on music instead of try to get caught up on the nation's events I'm a lot more focused and seem to get more out of my workout. Yeah ME!

I'm still taking Advocare MNS and that's going pretty well I think. I'm still drinking tons of water and really trying to get in my fruits and veggies errr-day. My hairdresser even said my skin was glowing! Whaaa? Maybe there's something to this whole eating right, drinking lots of water and taking care of yourself scam.

I'll weigh myself on Friday and see how I did this week. Honestly I'll be happy if I didn't gain after the gluttony of this weekend.