So I have decided that goals are a good way to measure progress. We recently lost weight for our diet bet on dietbetter.com and have felt super stoked. It was a 4 week challenge to reach a certain goal weight. My goal was 175.3 or less and Alex's was 166.3. I had started this last week at 177 and I knew I could reach my goal. Weigh in day I hit 174 and I was SOOO happy, Alex came in at 165.8 and he went and got Taco Bell and there was much rejoices in our house. Then came the hard part, keeping that spirit up. This weekend to say the least SUCKED. I have been on weight watchers for the past month so my stomach has defiantly gotten smaller as I can not eat the same amount I used to. But anyway, we traveled to Cedar City on Friday for a swimming invitational for the high schools Alex coaches and we made a few unhealthy but delicious choices. We had In and Out Burger, delicious food and a lot of it at SUU's cafeteria, eggs, fruit smoothies, doughnuts, cookies, chocolate covered pretzels, and Pizza. As Cedar city and our hotel had no 4G and the wifi was terrible I did not use my weight watchers tool this weekend but I know i went over my points and then some in the last 3 days. It happens I guess but sometimes you have to allow your body to veg and pick it up the following week, that is what this week is going to be. My workout schedule has been fairly consistent and I've started to love running again. My farthest run thus far was 4.6 this last week and it was awesome, I always feel like a rock star when I do something I am proud of, it has mostly been just 5K(3.1m) because I am comfortable with that I know I can do those without killing myself. But do to this run I overworked my poor feets. And the last 3 days we decided our bodies needed a little R&R. You can't continue to just work out and work out, our bodies need to catch up at some point. Yea I may be back up to 178 tonight but I am ok with the fact I am going to hit it hard this week and I am going to start lifting weight and do a lot more strength training. I still have a goal to meet by 12/24, I want to be at 169 or less, thats 6 weeks folks. It is possible but I know I need to stay dedicated!
We were watching one of our vlogs today and I FINALLY noticed that Alex wasn't lying. I have lost weight and it is starting to show. Shocker. I have had time believing him as I see myself everyday in the mirror and there is no drastic change but watching a video from this morning made me feel more confident. I am getting healthier and that is the goal. After all, I do have a half marathon in May I need to be ready for.
Family Life
SO Saryn thinks its the funnest, coolest thing to put herself in Kaiya's kennel, I don't know why but we keep finding her in there. She's crazy... Alex has 4 weeks of class left for this semester and he is so excited for the holiday break. He's got his schedule for next semester and it looks like an all online which will be so nice for scheduling. He can still do his high school swimming and his surfer's swim practice but it also means less time we need someone else to babysit during the day. We have not figured out his work schedule but we are hoping it will be nice and possibly a break for working 4:45am's, we shall see. I'm trying to find a purpose in life between working, playing with my family and my weight loss goals. It's hard to decide if I want to obtain my Master's and if so in what and what I want to do with my life. We want to get Alex through school but then what? Does he get a full time job and I stay at home, do we both work opposite full time shifts and never see each other, do I get a higher paying full time job and Alex just stay at home? Who knows we have to cross that bridge when it gets here and as uncertain as it may be our happiness is what matters. We love our supports and love those who don't support us. We are Whacky, we are crazy, we are vloggers and we are awesome. Don't you forget it!
Love you all!
Alex, Kelsie, Saryn and Kaiya
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