Day 1

FACT 1: Having a baby makes you gain A LOT of weight!
FACT 2: Once the baby is here, if your like me, he/she will help you loose weight because its easy to forget to eat. When I wake up in the morning I get Kastyn fed, and go for an hour long walk. I try to go up as many hills as I possibly can. By the time I get home, get cleaned up, and feed Kastyn AGAIN its lunch time. And even then I get Kastyn down for a nap and that is my "get stuff done around the house time." Therefore I usually dont get any food in me until about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. For example, today I ate 5 or 6 potato chips, a chocolate chip granola bar, and my husband is home from work for the weekend so he took me out to eat. DELEMA!! I wnated so bad to get 2 soft shell tacos with lots of cheese, or chicken with greasy potato rounds...but I didnt!! Instead I ordered a chicken fajita salad. I knew that I didnt want to write down one of the first two as my total screw ups for the day. So far my idea of documenting my daily eating had hung in the back of my mind and helped a lot...But its only day 1...wish me luck!!!

Here We Go...

As I was walking this morning I thought to myslef, "O how I wish that I could look as good as I feel after I excersise." So I have decided to turn my blog into a motivator for myself. Something that I have to be acountable to everyday. Yes, I'm going to share it on Facebook. Yes, I'm going to post pictures. And I might even give away my weight.(I havent decided if I'm that brave yet)

So, this is either going to be the most embarissing thing I've ever done, because I put all of these personal things on the internet and then make no progress whatsoever. Or its going to be the best idea I ever had, because I accoplished what I wanted to. I would love to end up as one of those inspirational girls that gets her blog "pinned"! :-) And I would love feedback, ideas, healthy recipies to try, anything.

This is Welsey and me about a month before we got married. And even in an oversized hunting vest you can see that I was a lot smaller then than I am now. Which is ok, I have a baby. Not everyone is lucky enough to go right back to the weight they want to be right ater having a baby. Lucky for my that as long as I stick with an excersise program and eat good I really dont have that hard of a time looseing weight. The problem is I LOVE FOOD!!! I would love to say I'm going to eat healthy, and stop eating sweets. But the truth is that is never going to happen. I have more sweet teeth then Willy Wonka.

YUCK! This is me now :( Yes I gained 60 pounds during my pregnancy. And I have lost 50 of those pounds.  But now I'm stuck and I havent lost anymore. So here it goes, this is my before picture. And hopefully by the end of the summer I will have an after picture I can be proud of. Every Monday I am going to weigh my self. That will help me eat better during the weekends(I always eat so bad on the weekend) And everyday I am going to document everything that I eat and what excersising that I do. I am never going to be a twig. Thats just not the gene pool I was thrown in to. But I know that I can look and feel better then I do. And I'm going to work as hard as I can to get there. And dont worry, this is not going to be all about me. I will still be updating and bragging about my amazing family!!