So I have been on the 90 Day Challenge for 4 weeks now. This week has sucked horribly (but I did lose 2 pounds!)
Food:
I stress ate all week. Tristan has been super clingy which in turn makes mommy a super bitch which then makes me want to eat everything in sight. Of course, then it has to be Halloween and there is candy galore every where you go. It's been a bad week. On a good note I discovered a butterfinger shake which is DELICIOUS!
Working Out:
Since my child has been clingy I have not been able to work out. He hates daycare normally so when he is clingy he hates it even more. I was able to get 30 minutes in on the bike with my mom on Saturday. I really wish I could be more consistent with my exercise but in order for that to happen I need a consistent child and my child is FAR from consistent.
As always here are my stats so far:
10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24 10/31
Weight 202 199.4 198.8 196.8 194.4
Bust 46.5 46.5 46 46 45
Waist 40 39 38.5 37 37
Hips 50 49 49 48 48
Leg 24.5 23.5 23.5 23.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12 12 12 12
Monday, October 31, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Open Letter
Dear Natural Hair Color,
I hate you. No, really. I HATE you. You remind me of a dead brown mouse.
I can't color you yet. I have an expensive trip to Napa Valley in December to pay for and sadly you are just not on my priority list right now. But I still hate you.
Give me three weeks and you shall be gone and I will be very very happy. Until then please try to work with me.
Thank you very much.
Me
I hate you. No, really. I HATE you. You remind me of a dead brown mouse.
I can't color you yet. I have an expensive trip to Napa Valley in December to pay for and sadly you are just not on my priority list right now. But I still hate you.
Give me three weeks and you shall be gone and I will be very very happy. Until then please try to work with me.
Thank you very much.
Me
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
"Spirited"
So another term used for High Need Children is "Spirited." An amazing mommy friend of mine is studying in a family and parenting class and is currently writing a paper on spirited children. She sent me a quote one day that just meant the world to me. It literally made me cry because it rings so much truth in my life. If anyone else there is struggling with a "spirited" child, please print this quote out and hang it somewhere where you will see it EVERYDAY as I am going to do. Lord knows we need consistent reminders and extra support especially when we get so knee deep in that it is so hard to climb back out.
"Listen and share with other parents of spirited kids. Don't let parents of "easy" children make you feel inadequate or guilty, as if you have done something wrong to make your child what he/she is. They do not and cannot understand, nor should you expect them to. Do what you feel in your heart to be right to you and your child...and when you are not sure what what that is take it one step at a time and it will come to you. Enjoy your unconventional child in unconventional ways-free your selves to be yourselves and pooh on what anyone else thinks!"
THANK YOU SAVANAH!
"Listen and share with other parents of spirited kids. Don't let parents of "easy" children make you feel inadequate or guilty, as if you have done something wrong to make your child what he/she is. They do not and cannot understand, nor should you expect them to. Do what you feel in your heart to be right to you and your child...and when you are not sure what what that is take it one step at a time and it will come to you. Enjoy your unconventional child in unconventional ways-free your selves to be yourselves and pooh on what anyone else thinks!"
THANK YOU SAVANAH!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Week 3 Check In
I feel like I accomplished a lot this week! I was faced with many challenges and over came them with great pride! Did I mention I lost 2 pounds?
Food:
My snacking has been much better. My snacks usually include sauteed squash or zucchini, or an apple with string cheese, or a banana. I won't lie though, I still have a few animal crackers with Tristan. I faced eating out 4 times this week, and I feel like I won each time. I first hit up Mcdonalds because I was out and didn't bring any snacks. I only got a grilled chicken snack wrap to hold me over til dinner. I for sure could have gotten a big mac! But I resisted. We went out for hubby's actual birthday on Thursday to TGIFridays. I had a whole wheat pasta with veggies dish and a salad. We had a birthday family celebration at a Mexican food place on Friday night. I had fajitas with out the tortillas and rice. Plus I only had ONE sopapilla! This is a huge accomplishment for me. Saturday morning we went out to breakfast and I had an egg while omelette. It was delicious! So I proud to say I took control over my food this week. I just hope I can continue.
The one thing that I LOVE LOVE LOVE about these shakes is that I have almost completely LOST all my cravings and urges for food. I am finally at a point where I am fueling my body, not falling into temptation of what sounds good at the moment. This is something I have struggled with all my life. I can go through the grocery store and get what is only on my list and not feel like I have to grab everything on the shelves that looks good (but is sooo bad.) It's a beautiful thing.
Working Out:
We had one great work out this week at the rec, and I got out and walked twice. I feel like I can do better though. I am hoping this week we can hit the rec twice. It's supposed to snow though, so I don't know how much walking I will get in. Maybe I will hit up Flatirons mall again.
10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24
Weight 202 199.4 198.8 196.8
Bust 46.5 46.5 46 46
Waist 40 39 38.5 37
Hips 50 49 49 48
Leg 24.5 23.5 23.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12 12 12
http://brittnie.bodybyvi.com/
Food:
My snacking has been much better. My snacks usually include sauteed squash or zucchini, or an apple with string cheese, or a banana. I won't lie though, I still have a few animal crackers with Tristan. I faced eating out 4 times this week, and I feel like I won each time. I first hit up Mcdonalds because I was out and didn't bring any snacks. I only got a grilled chicken snack wrap to hold me over til dinner. I for sure could have gotten a big mac! But I resisted. We went out for hubby's actual birthday on Thursday to TGIFridays. I had a whole wheat pasta with veggies dish and a salad. We had a birthday family celebration at a Mexican food place on Friday night. I had fajitas with out the tortillas and rice. Plus I only had ONE sopapilla! This is a huge accomplishment for me. Saturday morning we went out to breakfast and I had an egg while omelette. It was delicious! So I proud to say I took control over my food this week. I just hope I can continue.
The one thing that I LOVE LOVE LOVE about these shakes is that I have almost completely LOST all my cravings and urges for food. I am finally at a point where I am fueling my body, not falling into temptation of what sounds good at the moment. This is something I have struggled with all my life. I can go through the grocery store and get what is only on my list and not feel like I have to grab everything on the shelves that looks good (but is sooo bad.) It's a beautiful thing.
Working Out:
We had one great work out this week at the rec, and I got out and walked twice. I feel like I can do better though. I am hoping this week we can hit the rec twice. It's supposed to snow though, so I don't know how much walking I will get in. Maybe I will hit up Flatirons mall again.
10/03 10/10 10/17 10/24
Weight 202 199.4 198.8 196.8
Bust 46.5 46.5 46 46
Waist 40 39 38.5 37
Hips 50 49 49 48
Leg 24.5 23.5 23.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12 12 12
http://brittnie.bodybyvi.com/
Sunday, October 23, 2011
The Pumpkin Patch
Monday, October 17, 2011
Week 2 Update
I didn't do so well this week. I had bad snacks (animal cookies with Tristan!) and ate too much for dinner. I didn't get to the gym once, but was able to get out an walk a few times.
I do feel like I have tons more energy, and my body just feels better. I am liking how I feel, but would feel much better if I had lost more weight!
Here are my stats this week.
10/03 10/10 10/17
Weight 202 199.4 198.8
Bust 46.5 46.5 46
Waist 40 39 38.5
Hips 50 49 49
Leg 24.5 23.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12 12
I do feel like I have tons more energy, and my body just feels better. I am liking how I feel, but would feel much better if I had lost more weight!
Here are my stats this week.
10/03 10/10 10/17
Weight 202 199.4 198.8
Bust 46.5 46.5 46
Waist 40 39 38.5
Hips 50 49 49
Leg 24.5 23.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12 12
Friday, October 14, 2011
The Things You Never Thought You Could Do
Do you look back on your life and see all the mountains you had to climb and remember thinking "how the f*ck am I going to do this?" I think that should be one of the motto's of motherhood. You are looking up at that huge mountain that is raising a child and wonder if you can climb it.
However, now looking back at some of those mountains you are saying to yourself "wow I actually did it and it wasn't so bad!" I have been thinking lately at all I have accomplished that I just never thought I would accomplish at the time of facing it.
1. Labor/Delivery- What woman isn't afraid of this aspect of having a child. It is amazing how that even through all the time, the pain, and the healing I am still willing to do it all over again!
2. Sleepless Nights- Yes, you do adjust and it's unbelievable what you can still accomplish with only 4 hours of broken up sleep.
3. Breast Milk Weaning- So I didn't have much of a struggle here as Tristan had decided he was done and had made the decision for the both of us. My struggle was the emotional turmoil that came with it. I wanted to breastfeed until at least a year, I only made it 6 months.
4. Solids- This is still a challenge for me because of my one choking incident. But it is a mountain that I am slowly climbing down the other side of, but just don't feel like I have accomplished it yet.
5. Naps- As many of you know I had been holding Tristan for naps for an entire year. Yes, that means an entire year of holding my son for 4-6 hours a day. Everyone should be in awe of what I could actually accomplish in those few hours of not holding him or when my husband had him. But for about a month now Tristan has been taking 98% of his naps IN HIS CRIB! Yes, I worked hard on this. Yes, it has been one of my biggest if not my biggest struggle. A mother needs those few hours of downtime to recharge and for an entire year I was not getting it. My friends and family are lucky I am not insane locked in a room with padded walls. Who knows, maybe I still should be.
6. Formula Weaning- I thought this was going to be a huge mountain, but really it was the smallest hill ever. Tristan took whole milk like a champ! Like father like son I guess.
7. Bottle Weaning- This is the one I am terrified of. This is the one that kept me up at night, that I dreaded for 3 months before he turned 1. Cutting out the daytime bottles was cake. The morning bottle was somewhat of a harder battle. It just consisted of lots of distraction and a filling solids breakfast. I have yet to remove the bedtime bottle. I don't think I plan to remove that bottle for a few more months. Tristan is just not consistently sleeping through the night and not needing a middle of the night bottle anymore. I am just not ready to disrupt that with taking his bedtime bottle away. You pick your battles in motherhood.
I am sure I have tons more mountains to climb (did anyone say potty training?) and I am sure there are many more I forgot, these are just the ones on my mind. So for all of you moms out there in the midst of starting to climb or in the middle of climbing those mountains, remember once you reach the other side you are going to look back and no longer see that huge mountain but just tiny grain of sand (huge thanks to Miss Carrie Underwood!)
However, now looking back at some of those mountains you are saying to yourself "wow I actually did it and it wasn't so bad!" I have been thinking lately at all I have accomplished that I just never thought I would accomplish at the time of facing it.
1. Labor/Delivery- What woman isn't afraid of this aspect of having a child. It is amazing how that even through all the time, the pain, and the healing I am still willing to do it all over again!
2. Sleepless Nights- Yes, you do adjust and it's unbelievable what you can still accomplish with only 4 hours of broken up sleep.
3. Breast Milk Weaning- So I didn't have much of a struggle here as Tristan had decided he was done and had made the decision for the both of us. My struggle was the emotional turmoil that came with it. I wanted to breastfeed until at least a year, I only made it 6 months.
4. Solids- This is still a challenge for me because of my one choking incident. But it is a mountain that I am slowly climbing down the other side of, but just don't feel like I have accomplished it yet.
5. Naps- As many of you know I had been holding Tristan for naps for an entire year. Yes, that means an entire year of holding my son for 4-6 hours a day. Everyone should be in awe of what I could actually accomplish in those few hours of not holding him or when my husband had him. But for about a month now Tristan has been taking 98% of his naps IN HIS CRIB! Yes, I worked hard on this. Yes, it has been one of my biggest if not my biggest struggle. A mother needs those few hours of downtime to recharge and for an entire year I was not getting it. My friends and family are lucky I am not insane locked in a room with padded walls. Who knows, maybe I still should be.
6. Formula Weaning- I thought this was going to be a huge mountain, but really it was the smallest hill ever. Tristan took whole milk like a champ! Like father like son I guess.
7. Bottle Weaning- This is the one I am terrified of. This is the one that kept me up at night, that I dreaded for 3 months before he turned 1. Cutting out the daytime bottles was cake. The morning bottle was somewhat of a harder battle. It just consisted of lots of distraction and a filling solids breakfast. I have yet to remove the bedtime bottle. I don't think I plan to remove that bottle for a few more months. Tristan is just not consistently sleeping through the night and not needing a middle of the night bottle anymore. I am just not ready to disrupt that with taking his bedtime bottle away. You pick your battles in motherhood.
I am sure I have tons more mountains to climb (did anyone say potty training?) and I am sure there are many more I forgot, these are just the ones on my mind. So for all of you moms out there in the midst of starting to climb or in the middle of climbing those mountains, remember once you reach the other side you are going to look back and no longer see that huge mountain but just tiny grain of sand (huge thanks to Miss Carrie Underwood!)
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Talking To A Puppet
My lovely grandma made Tristan a cute little duck/flamingo puppet thing for his first Christmas. Now that he is starting to build imagination, he is loving this puppet. He will actually bring it to us so we will stick our arm up it's butt and make it talk. Cute right? So cute.
Anyway, my husband, Tristan and I were all hanging out in his room after his bath like we usually do. He handed my husband the puppet and like usual Bryan was talking with the puppet and Tristan was loving it...until he got bored and/or distracted like all toddlers do. But my husband just kept talking with the puppet. Not talking to Tristan anymore but talking to me. AND I RESPONDED! Yes, I was talking to a puppet for a good 5 minutes before I even realized WTF I was doing. Not so cute. No, Tristan was not even paying attention, so I wasn't talking to the puppet for his sake. I was talking to the puppet I decided because motherhood has made me CRAZY!
Carrying on a conversation with a puppet was not on my bucket list, but it sure as hell was hilarious!
Anyway, my husband, Tristan and I were all hanging out in his room after his bath like we usually do. He handed my husband the puppet and like usual Bryan was talking with the puppet and Tristan was loving it...until he got bored and/or distracted like all toddlers do. But my husband just kept talking with the puppet. Not talking to Tristan anymore but talking to me. AND I RESPONDED! Yes, I was talking to a puppet for a good 5 minutes before I even realized WTF I was doing. Not so cute. No, Tristan was not even paying attention, so I wasn't talking to the puppet for his sake. I was talking to the puppet I decided because motherhood has made me CRAZY!
Carrying on a conversation with a puppet was not on my bucket list, but it sure as hell was hilarious!
Monday, October 10, 2011
1 Week Check In
I have been on my 90 Day Challenge for 1 week now! It sure has been a week of learning. Learning what kind of shakes I like, learning the best snacks and dinners for me to eat, learning to exercise, learning learning learning!
I had some really good shakes this week, but peanut butter is by far my favorite. I have made everything from cafe mocha to pumpkin pie all which have been delicious!
However, I know you are just wanting to know my status, so here it is!
10/03 10/10
Weight 202 199.4
Bust 46.5 46.5
Waist 40 39
Hips 50 49
Leg 24.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12
So slowly but surely things are changing. I totally feel more energy, and feel better about my body in general. I just really need to get back into the gym and back to walking. Anyone want to join me?
I had some really good shakes this week, but peanut butter is by far my favorite. I have made everything from cafe mocha to pumpkin pie all which have been delicious!
However, I know you are just wanting to know my status, so here it is!
10/03 10/10
Weight 202 199.4
Bust 46.5 46.5
Waist 40 39
Hips 50 49
Leg 24.5 23.5
Arm 12.5 12
So slowly but surely things are changing. I totally feel more energy, and feel better about my body in general. I just really need to get back into the gym and back to walking. Anyone want to join me?
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Monday, October 3, 2011
90 Day Challenge!
Today is my first day on the Body By Vi 90 Day Weight Loss Challenge! If you want more info see it here
http://brittnie.bodybyvi.com/
Basically you are replacing two meals a day with meal replacement shakes that can taste really good! This morning I had a cafe mocha shake. However, I used too little coffee and too much chocolate so it tasted just like chocolate milk. But it was still good!
Ultimately I would really LOVE to lose 30 lbs (baby weight!) in my 90 days, 10 pounds a month. Will it happen? Maybe, maybe not. I am going to try to take it one day at a time, one meal at a time.
Here are my beginning stats. I plan to get the pictures up later tonight so stay tuned!
Weight: 202
Chest: 46.5
Wait 40
Hips 50
Thighs: 24.5
Arms: 12.5
http://brittnie.bodybyvi.com/
Basically you are replacing two meals a day with meal replacement shakes that can taste really good! This morning I had a cafe mocha shake. However, I used too little coffee and too much chocolate so it tasted just like chocolate milk. But it was still good!
Ultimately I would really LOVE to lose 30 lbs (baby weight!) in my 90 days, 10 pounds a month. Will it happen? Maybe, maybe not. I am going to try to take it one day at a time, one meal at a time.
Here are my beginning stats. I plan to get the pictures up later tonight so stay tuned!
Weight: 202
Chest: 46.5
Wait 40
Hips 50
Thighs: 24.5
Arms: 12.5
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