Lake Time!

This last weekend Tucker and I set out on a roadtrip with my mom to my Aunt & Uncle's lake house outside of Fort Worth! It was Tucker's 1st time to the lake, and needless to say, he had a blast! And of course, there was never a dull moment because my 3 cousins (all girls, 18, 17, and 11) and one of their friends, were all there, so of course my little attention-starved toddler had a big time!

Skinny(ish) here I come!

What do you get when you put this...

with this...

This...

And this????

Hopefully a much skinnier me!!!!

In case you don't know what all of those things are...

• the top picture is the group fitness place I work out at, Fusion Fitness -- I especially love Turbo Kick & Hip Hop classes, I don't go as often as I would like, but I 'm going to change that!


• the second picture is the shake mix I bought from a friend of mine, its supposed to boost your weight loss -- you can check it out at bodybyvi.com.


• the third picture is my fitbit! it tracks your daily activity, specifically how many calories you burn, steps you take and miles you walk. It also tracks your sleep patterns so you can see if you're getting "good" sleep.


• and the last picture... and don't laugh! It is called It Works! Seriously, that's what it's called. It's a body wrap that is supposed to help take inches off your waist, or thighs, or pretty much wherever you put it! And lets face it, whenever you are pregnant, your stomach is never the same, I don't care what you say! Especially if you were carrying a 9 1/2 pound baby around!

So today I'm OFFICIALLY starting my weight loss extravaganza!

I'm doing a 90 day Challenge, but my first goal is to lose 15 pounds in 6 weeks (in time for our 4 year anniversary!)

Here's the deal, before I got pregnant with Tucker, I had JUST LOST 15 pounds, doing a Special-K-ish type deal. Then, it probably goes without saying, I gained all of that back, plus some! More specifically I weighed (don't fall over in shock) 208 pounds when I went in the day I had him!!! (:-0) !!!! Yes, crazy, I know (but remember, he was 9 1/2 lbs. of that!)! So then I breastfed him for about 11 months and lost a lot of it, I think I got down to 155, then of course I gained a lot of it back, so today on the OFFICIAL start day of this venture, I weigh 170 pounds :-/ Trust me, I don't like to publicize it, because women aren't supposed to do that kind of thing, right? But I'm hoping that if I put it out there, I will be more accountable and want to change it! So that brings us to the NEW purpose of this blog - sharing my weight loss journey. Sorry if that doesn't interest you but I will try to work in some family happenings also to keep you interested! ;-)

So here we go! Day 1!

Here I am!

Okay! So maybe I'm not so good at blogging as I once was.

Oh well.

But here I am!

So, we decided to take a spontaneous trip to Fort Worth to take Tucker to the zoo yesterday! We just left Tuesday after I got off work and stayed at the Downtown Fort Worth Embassy Suites (for FREE! Thanks to my Hilton Honors card!) then we got up, went and got some Corner Bakery for breakfast (YUM!), and headed to the zoo. Did I mention it was 90 degrees by 11:00? Well, it was! But undeterred we toured around for about 3 and a half hours! We had fun, and I'm sure Tucker did too, it was funny to watch his face when he saw the animals, because if they were sleeping or far away, it didn't really register I guess, but once they started moving and up close he got excited! Here are some of the pics from my phone, I still need to upload all the pictures from our "big kid camera" but here are a couple: