Those of you who have been following me for a while, know that I have been struggling working on losing weight. The weight really piled on with the last two pregnancies and it at times feels impossible. But what choice do I have? Do nothing and be fat and put my health at risk? Or do something--as long as something might take? So I am doing something. Halloween and the multitude of Halloween festivities meant lots and lots of treats in our house. I ate lots and lots of those treats, skipped a ...
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Weight Loss: Before & After
As far as this campaign goes, this is my after. My journey is far from over. Hudson is six months old and while I have made progress--I am far from where I want to be. Please be kind, as it takes A LOT of courage to share these photos. I actually was feeling pretty defeated, because all I see is what is left to do--and it is a lot. Putting these pictures side by side and really looking back and thinking about how I felt when I started this journey makes me appreciate how far ...
Just Dance + A Big Milestone
I have so much I want to tell you friends. Excuses and reasons why you haven't heard from me. Why I stopped paying attention to what I stuffed my face with or why exercise got put on the back burner. None of that matters. Tomorrow is fresh with no mistakes in it. This campaign and this game, Just Dance, got me moving again. It got me moving when I was feeling pretty low and pretty overwhelmed about how much weight I had packed on from the last two pregnancies. I started exercising to the Just ...
When Losing Weight Gets You Down
It is really easy to obsess over your "failures" and your "shortcomings" when you are focused on losing weight. I know I fall into the trap of putting myself down and obsessing about the one part of my life where I just cannot seem to get it together. It gets to be a vicious cycle. You feel down about yourself, you have negative self talk, you don't feel like putting the effort in because you feel like a failure which leads to more feeling down about yourself, etc. I'm over ...
Getting Healthy, Losing Weight & Tea Time
I'm sharing how tea has helped me make healthier choices as part of a sponsored post for Collective Bias® I became a tea drinker when I started trying to lose weight and I am sharing how it has helped me. At the start of this summer I found myself drinking a lot of soda. It was all diet, but it was becoming a bad habit. I grew up on milk and water. Eventually I became a casual soda drinker and before I knew it I was drinking 4-5 a day! Whenever we ate something that tasted good with ...