Before & After Video

I just posted a new video on my YouTube channel. It's got some before pics and then some "my journey so far" pics. 136 pounds lost so far!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3QJHdDpHxo

I've been asked to either add my recipes here or start a recipe blog. Not sure yet...I mean I do such a good job of keeping up with this one, right? *wink* LOL

Before & 134 Pounds Later

Woot Woot!

Five pounds lost in three days.

Five.

FIVE.

FIVE gloriously wonderful pounds!

Happy Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Yes, I Know....Muscle Weighs More Than Fat

I'm going to preface this entry by saying that I'm feeling uber-bitch-tastic today. I'm a crab. So take that into consideration when you read by rant below.....

Muscle weighs more than fat they say and although I know this, I'm still annoyed. I weigh daily and track my weight using an iPod application called "Lose It!" I feel like I've been stuck around the same few pounds for weeks on end and it's getting to me. Here's a cut & paste from my Lose It spreadsheet. It begins with today's weight and goes back one day for each weight thereafter. The last weight listed is from April 8.

258 257 257 257 258 258 260 259 260 260 261 257 257 257 260 260 260 261 261 261 262 263 263 263 263 263 265 265

So I've lost 7 pounds since April 8th, and today is May 5th. I went through my weight for the last couple months and I've lost about 10-12 pounds per month. That seems low to me.

One drastic change in my life that's happened recently is that I quit my job as a preschool teacher to stay home with my own two kids and do home daycare for other families. I thought it would be hard but so far I'm loving it!! When working outside the home I didn't get back at night until about 6:30 and then sometimes it was hard to go to the gym because I hadn't seen my own kids all day. But now, by 5:00 or 5:30 I'm free...and I have no guilt about leaving my kids home with daddy or at the gym daycare while I work out. So I've been putting in a lot more time working out and going much more frequently. I'm also doing more toning and I can feel my muscles under my skin. It's possible that my loss rate has slowed because of the increased level of exercise. I'm holding onto that.