This Lifestyle Change

Well the last week or 2 I haven't really lost anything and I think I finally figured out why. I'm not eating enough calories to meet my goal. I joined MY Fitness Pal and realized today that I was under 805 calories. I'm like holy cow no wonder I'm feeling hungry, because if you eat less than 1200 calories you're basically starving your body. I'm definitely eating better tomorrow (not that what i was eating was bad). I'm still getting in my exercising which makes me feel better after I do it.

Makes me happy

As I was headed into church yesterday, I ran into a friend from the ward I had just left. She was teasing me and said that we didn't want 8 am church anymore, then she said that I was looking good. It makes me feel so good knowing that people are noticing my weight loss and it helps me continue. Encouragement is very helpful to me and helps me know that I can do it.

So Far

Well i guess i'll post my success so far. I took this about a week and a half ago but i'm about the same still. But i can tell a difference in my clothes at least :)

I still have about 80 more pounds to lose to get to my goal weight but it is at least a start.

Determined

I'm very determined to get to my ideal weight of 120 lbs. I'm working so very hard on this and I'm not going to let things stop me. I've lost 13 lbs and very excited about that. I'm already seeing the difference in my pants which is adding to the excitement. I've changed my eating habits which and have started an at home exercise video (which I believe I've already said). Kaylee makes sure I do the exercises everyday and she and Mackenzie even join in. Mackenzie usually ends up sitting on me during push-ups and crunches but it gives me more resistance. I'm thinking about posting before and after pictures. But the before picture is before I had cut my hair and before I was this determined. But lets see what happens.

A cute drawing

I had to share this cute drawing Kaylee drew. She told me it's a picture of her getting married in the temple.

been a while

I seriously need to post more often. well Easter was yesterday and Kaylee was really enjoying it. She kept asking is it still Easter all day long. She got lots of candy and I've been pretty good about not eating it. I do have to say I've had a tiny bit but it's ok. I've changed my diet and I'm very proud of myself. I've cut out soda and I'm doing very well at cutting out sugar. I've started the Jullian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD. I LOVE IT. I've only been on it for 4 days but I can feel it working. I do need to get the actual dvd so I can do other levels besides just level 1 that I have on youtube I've lost a total of 10 lbs in the last month, and I've gotten that I look a little smaller. I'm hoping to be able to get down quite a bit before we have another baby. (here's to hoping). What I'm really enjoying is that Mackenzie and Kaylee join in with me on my exercising. Well Mackenzie does the knee warm-up exercises and than climbs on me when I'm on the floor doing crunches and push-ups. It at least gives me more resistance. Kaylee gets my vitamin water bottles and uses those for hand weights and tries to do the jumping jacks. It's so cute. One of these days I'm going to need to get the girls exercising on video.
Spencer's been really busy with work but he only has about a week left of busy season. He comes home and eats dinner than basically goes straight to bed he's so tired. I'm very blessed to have a husband who works as hard as he does and is able to make enough money for me to stay home with the girls. The Lord has blessed us in many ways, I can't thank Him enough.
The girls are growing up way too fast but I can't help but cherish the moments. I try to capture everything I can on my camera or my phone (mostly my phone). Mackenzie loves slides. She's a dare devil when it comes to them. She'll get to the top and slide down like there is nothing stopping her. One time she went down her Kambrya's slide face first and was laughing all the way down. She nearly gave me a heart attack because I wasn't expecting it, but of course I laughed at the end of the whole ordeal. Kaylee loves to write and color. She loves asking me how to spell things. Her favorite things to spell are names. She has got her first and last name down along with me, Mackenzie and Spencer. She also knows how to read some words. It empresses me how much she knows how to read even though I really haven't taught her much (even though I need to).
Life is just wonderful for me. My Family is great and I have great friends, I also Love how the church is true anywhere you go.
Here are a few pictures from Eater.

pardon my eyes my eczema flared up 

She found the first egg

She was excited she found an egg

They love each other

She's growing up too fast

Cute shoes

I've been crocheting just for fun and hoping to get my store reset up to sell things. Here are some shoes.