Misson 1 has been accomplished!

I haven't been updating on my recent weight loss journey at all, but I have still been working on it. I am proud to say that I am down a whole 10 pounds since March! Yippee skipee! I am so happy about this. I have literally been working my butt off. It has been taking some time, but I am very proud of myself for sticking with it.
There might be some confusion though.... not sure how many have noticed, but I do have a weight loss ticker on here. It says that I have only lost 3.3 lbs, but that is only because I had to start over the in the recent weeks. Last month was crazy hectic, with flying to Nashville to get Cadence, then Spring Break, then a 3 day trip to Pendleton! I didn't even think about working out at that time. Thankfully, I didn't gain any weight back. So, since I had to start again, that is how much weight I have lost since then.
My journey is far from over. I still need to lose 25 pounds overall. For the remainder of this month, I am setting another 5 pound goal. I am hoping to lose more than that, as so far this month, I have lost 3.1 pounds. The extra 0.2 pounds are from last month from when I decided to start again. Not bad at all if I do say so myself. I just gotta keep it up!

This working out is starting to work out....

Every Thursday is my weigh-in day. I usually dread it, because I'm afraid the scale will decide to not like me, and it won't tell me what I think I need to hear. The scale was never my friend before, but maybe its starting to become a bit of one now. My goal for the past 3 weeks has been to lose 5 pounds. At the beginning, I weighed 195 pounds. This morning, when I weighed in, I was very pleased to see that I am now 189 pounds!
This is really huge for me. In the past, I'll try to start working out and eat better, and then, I get absolutely nowhere, and fast. I think that maybe in the past I have set goals that seem to big for me to reach. This time, I wanted to try a different approach and see if I could lose the weight. I made my goal small, and I was able to see that it is easy to reach. I have been eating smaller portions. I have been drinking water throughout the day. I have been working out. I have proved that I can do it!
Now that I have reached my goal, I am setting another goal: to lose 5 more pounds in 4 weeks. I am hoping that I will lose more, but this kind of goal setting seems to be working for me at the moment. I am going to stick with it. There is no turning back now!
Now, if only it would stop raining, I could go out on a walk.

The battle of the bulge continues on.....

So, way back in December of last year, I said that I would use the Wii Fit and see how it helps me lose weight. That lasted about a week or so. I got so caught up in the holidays that I didn't even think about it.
Then New Year's rolls around. I decided to not just make a resolution, but a promise to myself. I will lose this weight. I'm doing this for me. I don't feel like me. I want to have myself back!
In the past month or so, I've been working really hard on losing weight. When I first started this, I weighed in at 195 lbs. Not something that I'm very proud of. I've been told I don't look that size, but indeed I am. The things I've decided to do are to not drink soda. To not eat such big portions at meal times. To get my booty moving!
So far, I've lost 3.5 lbs. Its not a huge loss, but its a start. I will take that. The weather outside is starting to improve over here in the great state of Montana. I'm going to take advantage of this while I can. I'm going to start with walks. I'll work my way up to jogging. I'm still going to do all of my other ab and booty workouts. My goal for now is to lose 5 lbs. I'm over half way there. I know I must make small and realistic goals. So far, so good. I know that I can do this!

Does the Wii Fit Plus actually work? I'm going to find out.

Today, I decided to use my Wii Fit Plus, and I am glad that I did. I was able to work out, and I felt pretty darn good afterwards too. After working out for a while, I realized that it has been a long time since I've had a good workout. Lately, I've been feeling pretty sluggish, and, well, chubby. For a while, I was using the Wii Fit every day, and I was proud of myself for that. I was also jogging at the time, and I was seeing some results. But, then the weather changed, and I didn't go jogging anymore.... and then I stopped with the Wii Fit. Also, we were in the middle of moving to our new house, and I just let everything kind of go.
It has been about a month and a half since then, and I decided that today, I'm going to start exercising again. Granted, I can't go jogging at the moment because of all of the snow, plus its just a little too cold for me and Nico. So, I am going to use the Wii Fit. I have wondered though, does just using the Wii Fit show results? Before, I was jogging along with using the Wii Fit. I have decided that I am going to find out just how well the Wii Fit works. I set my goal on there to weigh 5 pounds less from exactly a month from now. I haven't heard any stories of how people have lost a lot of weight from this alone, so, I am going to see just how well this actually works.
What I am going to do for the first week, is work out for a half hour every day. Then, each week, I will increase it to 10 minutes more. Today, I was able to work out for 34 minutes, and burned about 204 calories. Not bad at all, if I do say so myself. I will also keep track of how many calories I should have burned as well. I will also weigh myself every Monday to see how much weight I have lost.
I am hoping that I will see some results. I love setting a bit of a challenge for myself. Wii Fit, I hope that you are as good as you say you are!

Can I win the battle of the bulge? I think so.

Once upon a time, before I had children, I used to weigh 130 lbs. It was a good thing at the time. I would often get asked though if I was starving myself or anorexic. I could eat a whole pizza plus some ice cream, and not gain one single pound. It was amazing! I totally loved it. I could wear whatever I wanted, and I looked pretty damn good! Then, came kids.

After my first pregnancy, I lost pretty much all of the weight. I was about 140 lbs. I finally had some curves! No more looking like a stick figure. I liked that a lot. I was able to maintain my weight, and could still eat a lot of whatever I wanted. About 4 years later, I became pregnant again. Now this pregnancy, I gained A LOT. Like 100 lbs too much. I couldn't believe it. Granted, I did have a big baby, but it was just outrageous. How in the world did I manage that? Maybe it was all the ice cream I craved. It took a very long time to lose at least half of what I had gained. I got down to about 170 lbs, and about 9 months later, bam, pregnant again! Now that time, I was careful to watch my weight. I didn't want to literally be as big as a house. I only went up to 215 lbs. Not bad. I was able to lose all of the weight again. I was thinking, now if only I could lose some more.... but then I got a little lazy. I didn't really think about it, as I had way to much going on at the time. About 3 years later (2009) I became pregnant again. Gained about the same weight as the previous time. I lost almost all of it.... and then I started to gain it back. This was a problem.

So, I am going to do something about this problem. I was jogging for a while, but since it started getting all rainy, I very well couldn't go jogging since I had Nico with me. Thank God for the Wii and the Wii Fit! We have had the Wii Fit for a while now, and I do like it. There are many different kind of exercises. They even have fun activities for kids to do, which is a huge plus. Also, we have Netflix on the Wii, and they have little work-out videos. Now that, I really love. So far, I've started on the beginners work-outs, since I'm greatly out of shape. Since last week, I've lost 1.4 lbs. Not too bad at all if I do say so myself.

So I'm dedicated. I'm determined. I know I can do this. I'm not happy with how my body looks. Having kids has changed a lot of how my body looks, and I'm okay with that. My body isn't perfect, but its real. I just want to be in shape again. I've got my old jeans waiting for me, and I will wear them again! I know its going to take some time. This weight loss isn't as much for me as it is for my girls. I want to show that I do take care of myself and that I do matter. I've put myself on the back burner for way to long. Now its my turn to get back to being a better me. I've got lots of time.

My goal is to hopefully have lost at least 5 lbs by the end of October. I know that doesn't seem like a big goal, but its within reach for me. I only have about 4 more lbs to go, and I can do it! I will indeed win the battle of the bulge.