DIET DONE!

WOW! That was hard! but I did it =) I lost 14 lbs and noticeable inches on my waist and thighs =) Now I am working on maintaining a healthy diet and losing the other 15 lbs I want to lose! Dieting SUCKS! and I definitely just want to work out enough to enjoy whatever I want!

Day 16

I am so over this diet! LOL no, but seriously! I just want to eat!!! *sigh* When did it all get so complicated?! I never ever used to have to worry about my weight!! I gained a little after getting married, lost it and then had babies!!! After my first my weight went back down to my pre-pregnancy weight (which was about 10lbs more than I wanted to weigh). After my second I got stuck 10lbs heavier than the 10lbs I had already wanted to lose!!! Boo. I really want a tread mill....but the darn things are so expensive! Ive decided that I would rather run and work out a lot so I can eat what I want than be on a diet all the time!! I mean, eat what I want within reason! Not gorge myself on the good/bad stuff! I am not one of those people who can eat the same thing everyday and I am NOT satisfied with just veggies and chicken!! Come on!!! Why is it so bad to love potatoes???? *sigh*

I'm on day 16 and I'm still only at minus 11 lbs....and its that time of month which is not gonna help with the scale gosh darn it. (sorry tmi) I'm annoyed. I've worked so hard and I'm only at half my goal with only 7 days left....we'll see the end results. I'll tell you one thing. I am not doing this diet again! While it may be effective, its a pain the butt and not much fun! Although....I do really like eating apples everyday, that part I will keep I think! =) You know what they say...an apple a day keeps the dr away! ahh, I'm a nerd, but you love me!

Day 11

Ok, so the diet is hard, but completely do-able!! i've lost 10lbs so far, but have gotten stuck =( So I am observing an apple day...guess what that is! lol I only get to eat apples all day...joy! So hopefully that gets me back on track. I really just want to eat...a sandwich, chocolate, an egg....something. ugh! Soon enough, soon enough!!! I'm getting there! Half way done! Woo hoo!

ALL MOVED!

Ok, I will start out by saying that I did the detox for 6 days and it wasn't so bad....until we started moving and I was working really hard and not able to eat anything!!! I start my diet tomorrow and will write more about that on Wed probably.

Anywho....the move!!! Friday my Mom watched the kids and I borrowed my cousin in law's truck and took a load over to the new house and then drove to Tacoma to get our stuff from Nathan's sister's house where we were storing it. I managed to fit it ALL in the truck! Because I am amazing! Then I drove the hour back to the house and unloaded it. THEN I went back to where we were moving from to get more stuff and moved that too!!!

Saturday...we started early and moved everything else out, including furniture. Then my mom and painted one of the rooms for the lady we house sat for. After that Nathan came to help me clean while Stephen stayed at our new house with the kids!! We were done by 7, which was good because that is when she got home!!!!!

Sunday....we skipped church because we could barely move! Relaxed a little and then went shopping for all the necessities! Including a new set of pots and pans for ME!!! YAY!!! We also got to see a family friend from Japan AND went to a birthday party for my cousin! Super busy weekend!!! Now I have to put everything together...the kitchen is an absolute wreck and there is laundry covering the whole floor in our room!!!! LOVING all the new space though =)

Day 4

Ok, so this is a busy week because we are moving this weekend and have lots of stuff do. ANYWAYS, I have been good! I've been following the detox and I have never wanted to eat so much in my life!!! The grocery store is torture and even driving down the main road with all the restaurants is brutal. But I have been strong!!

I lost 6 lbs as of yesterday, but I weighed myself after eating this morning and it said that I gained back 3lbs. So...I don't think that is accurate, but the purpose of the detox is to cleanse your system not to lose weight.

It's not so bad. It's definitely making the week a LOT longer! But on the up side, it will make the diet I go on seem a lot less restrictive!!

Anywho, that is the scoop. I'm still doing it, I'm hungry, but hopefully my body will be more ready for the diet I start next week.

Detox Day 1

Alright, it is day 1 of the detox I and doing before my diet. So far so good. The only thing I am really sad about is that I can't have coffee during the detox =(

The Ugly Truth:
I weigh 145. Ack! And now its online! Out in cyberspace!! Eww! Haha!

During the detox I take a supplement 3 times a day, drink lots of water and eat only whole foods ie: fruits, veggies and some unrefined grains like brown rice and quinoa. For a whole week! It's like a diet before my diet! But at least on the diet I am doing I can have coffee!

More later as I continue on this journey of rebooting my body =)

Ok ok ok

I'm terrible at keeping up with this thing. Anywho. I wanted to chat about Friday. Not the stupid song by that annoying teenie bopper, but last Friday. I was invited to go an event called Basic to Bombshell. Basically a lady I know from church, who is a photographer, got together with a couple of her friends who do makeup and styling and thought it would be fun to combine all of them into one fun filled girly night extraveganza!!! And so we did! And, because it was their first one and they needed promo shots, we got to go for FREE!!

I have wanted to do something like a makeover/photo shoot forever! Not because I think I am so gorgeous, but because I just think it would be awesome, as a girl, to get your hair and make done perfectly and have on the latest greatest clothes...and to have that moment documented so that on your normal bad hair day you can look at it and remember what it was to be pampered and that you really are beautiful despite how you may feel right then!!! This was just that!! Now granted, it was not a professional studio with all the outfits from all the designers and all that...it was better!! It was 5 or 6 ladies I'd never met before, who I got to know while munching on yummy treats, sipping wine and getting beautified!! It was FANTASTIC! I would do this again in a heartbeat for a party with close friends!!!!

Anywho...so that is where the profile pic came from. My glam night with the ladies! Def my fave picture of me now! =) But I haven't seen all the other ones she took yet!!

WAY OVER DUE

Ok, so I took a break from blogging while we were in Japan because Nathan had already come back to the states for a job interview. We had already planned on coming back, but it was a surprise to some of our family! Anywho, then we got back and it was Christmas time and Nathan started working and blah blah blah....so here it is! WE ARE BACK IN THE USA!!!

Nathan got a great job in Auburn, WA! We are up in Edmonds at the moment. We are house sitting until April and we are trying to figure out where to live. Nathan would like to be closer to work so that he is not commuting for so long. His brother also came back here with us and just got a job in Bellevue. So we are thinking either Bellevue or West Seattle. We shall see.

I joined MOPS at our old church and am having fun with that! We are also going to a parenting class about how to deal with crazy (which is normal) kids! AND we will be going to a fusion group at our church covering the same subject. We are excited about that because we are hoping to finally meet some other young families at Canyon Creek!!!

That is it....well, in a nutshell anyway! Super excited and happy to be back in the US!!! =)