Working out and Losing the Weight

Husband texted me on Wednesday afternoon and said, "It feels really good to be down 18 lbs! I think it's time to start working out now."

Sounds good to me! I'm thinking like every other night? Yep....that's the plan. We're going to start tonight. Hopefully, if Chloe goes down to bed at a normal time. We will be able to get a workout in before we eat dinner. So that will be nice. And I'm really excited.

Wednesday at work is Weight Watchers weigh in day. I weighed in at 124.6. So that means I'm down a total of 13 something. Omg, I'm like overly excited about that! And, as you read above, Husband is down 18! 

I went into the lunch room at work for my afternoon coffee fix and there was a lady in there eating lunch. She knew me before, during and obviously after having Chloe. So, she looked at me and said "You don't have a butt anymore Crystal. But, you're looking really good! Keep up the good work." Well, gee....THANKS! I have no butt, and well, I have tube socks for boobs. Yep, so there's that.

So, how have I been able to lose this weight and keep losing it if we haven't been working out at all!? Well, in all honesty...I don't really know. I haven't really been doing anything but keeping track {sometimes} of what I'm eating through My Fitness Pal. That App has been my God Send. Without it, I wouldn't have ever started this journey. I try to keep myself pretty on beat through the week. Eating a nice low cal breakfast. Either oatmeal, bagel thins and fat free cream cheese, or just a cup of cheerios. And then I have been eating an apple for a snack before lunch so that I'm not starving by the time 1:00 hits. And then for lunch it's either soup, Smart Ones or Lean Cuisines. And that's it. And then sometimes, if I remember, I'll have an orange sometime between lunch and before I leave work. That usually holds me over until dinner around 7:30-8ish. But sometimes I don't remember to eat my orange, and I'm starving by the time dinner comes. So then I just have to pace myself and force myself to not snack after dinner....and that's really tough sometimes. But I just remind myself that if I snack, I gain weight. And we don't want that to happen! Ick, I will NEVER go back to the {bigger} me. Uh Uh, NO WAY!

Another one of my secrets is to give myself a cheat day. One day that I don't track my calories. One day that I just try not to care about what I eat. Obviously within moderation. Sometimes we will have Burger King for lunch, or McDonald's for breakfast or something. So, it's nothing huge. But just something that we both hate to love! And it seems to be working for the both of us.

One thing we are both excited for though, is for when we get to move into our new house. It's a colonial. Which means all the bedrooms are upstairs. And we will have the room to work out and the capabilities of utilizing our basement for that. Eeek! I'm so excited! I really want to buy a yoga ball and maybe a mat and some weights. And a bunch of work out DVD's. I'm so crazy excited about it!

Well, I think that's it for now my loves.

Happy Birthday To ME!

I find it hard that I'm writing this post right now. I can't even believe that it's ALREADY my birthday again. Just seems crazy to me. But, it's all good. I don't feel bad about it. I just have a hard time believing that I'm over half way to 30. Eeeek!

I have the day off work paid today. 

THANK YOU TNG!!! So, I'm going to get a tattoo. My girl Melissa is coming with me and we're going to grab some lunch afterwards. SO, you will get to see all the good details tomorrow! I promise! I already have the draft started! LOL!!

Flashback Friday

And, just for good measure....(and cuteness) because I missed the first Friday in February. Here is miss Chloe at the beach at 11 months old!

Weekend Blog Hop

Spreading the love this weekend with a Weekend Blog Hop!! Hosted by Stephanie over at Gumdrop Pass! She does this every weekend, and it's so much fun to go through all the different blogs that link up! I love it!No rules! Just link up, post the button on your blog. {if you want} and enjoy the blog traffic!!

Calling all Sponsors

I love this little world called blogging. Need I say more? It's like our own {little} big community of friends. Some of us feel like we know each other personally. And I think that's pretty cool. I couldn't be happier with where my blogging has gone. When I first started doing this, I never thought I'd be where I am today. 5-6 months into it with over 60 followers and over 6700 page views. That is just amazing! I would have never thought that there would be so many people out there interested in reading about me and my little family. It's just crazy to me. But I am loving every single second of it! And I want to thank every single one of you who has followed me and supported me and commented on my posts! It seriously means so much to me, you will never know!So, with that being said. I'd like to take this blog thing to the next level. I'd love to offer YOU something. If you are interested in some advertising, I'd LOVE to help you out. I would love to get some Sponsors. Starting in April. I would take your button, put it on my page and do a write up on your blog at the beginning of the month. The price will be determined on the size of your button and the location. I will keep your button up for 1 month. So, let me know if you are interested. You can email me at crystal.seed7@gmail.com, and we can talk about the details. If I'm completely crazy, and there would be no way that you would put your button up on my page...then you can tell me that too! :-)
If I'm completely honest, I have my button up at Life After I "Dew". 

Shannon has so graciously taken Sponsors for the month of March, and I'm so happy that I got on her list! She's part of why I started this whole blogging thing. And I couldn't be happier about it. If you don't know, Shannon and I are cousins. We haven't seen each other in over 11 or so years. But once we found out that each other was pregnant back in December of 2009, we started talking and kept in touch through the whole thing. And now, well, we really don't go a day without texting/emailing. It's a relationship that I wouldn't give up for the world.
So, again, if you would like to be a Sponsor on Life As A Seed, please, let me know and we can work it out!Thanks Girls!