February Photo Challenge Days 4-8

Ok Here are Days 4-9....20 Days Left!

 Day 4: Stranger (This was more than a little creepy to take)

Day 5: 10am

Day 6: Dinner (I forgot my dinner so I took a picture of my sweet baby Declan's dinner)

 Day 7: Button (ok lots of buttons)

Day 8: Sun

Day 9: Front Door (We are visiting my mom and dad so it's their door)

We will be back in town in a few days so I will post pictures 10-12 when I get home!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, I am running a 5k Saturday and hoping or a good time!  I will post on that soon too!!

February Photo Challenge

I came across this Challenge on Pinterest to take a picture everyday in February.  Since my 365 for this year has not been doing so well I thought I would try something smaller and since it's my birthday month when better to try.

Here are my first 3 days:

Day 1: My View

Day 2: Words

    Day 3: Hands

Pictures

So lately I have seen lots of pictures of adorable siblings.  An older brother holding his baby brother with a sweet smile is one picture that I would LOVE to capture.  But no, this is what I get:

Now, Seamus loves his brother and always wants to hold him but suddenly anytime there is a camera, even if I have my phone trying to take a picture, he gets mad and makes these wonderful faces.

This one is not too terrible, I did for a moment think he was going to throw his brother off of him.

Seamus loves to just wear his underwear, it is really quite funny and annoying at the same time.  We are constantly asking him where his pants are and then he just runs and hides under a table laughing like the mad man that he is!

So, anybody have any tips are getting siblings, well older siblings, to take pictures?  

I will leave you with 2 pictures I was able to capture that I love:

This one of Daddy and his boys is ADORABLE, this was right after we moved to NC and only really seeing each other on the weekends.

I was able to snatch this picture right before Seamus started yelling about pictures, if only laundry wasn't on the back of the chair but such is life :)

I am one lucky lady!

Weigh-In Wednesday: Success!!

So this morning when I stepped on the scale I saw 207!  That's five pounds since last Wednesday!  I have been doing well exercising but Weight Watchers was just the kick I needed to get my eating on track.  For anyone struggling I highly recommend Weight Watchers.  I tried just counting calories and for some reason that does not work for me.  With the extra weekly points you get on Weight Watchers is allows you to enjoy going out while still being able to lose weight.

We have a wedding to attend President's Day weekend and my original goal was to be at 189, I am thinking that is not going to happen now since I didn't buckle down when I set that goal and am really just getting started.  So new goal is to be under 200, which should be doable since I have just over 2 weeks.  I don't expect to lose 5 pounds every week (wouldn't it be nice though) but I am super happy and the task now is to keep my head in the game so to speak because I tend to be a food rewarder and get lots of yummy stuff when I see a loss on the scale.

 I have decided that my 20 pound reward is going to be a new pair of running shoes.  I am hoping that 20 pounds comes right around the end of February which would also be around my birthday (Feb. 28 for those who care) so I will actually have money to buy them as well :)

With the Knoxville Half Marathon quickly approaching I have signed up for the Marietta Mardi Gras 5k on February 11th in hopes that a little competition will kick my butt into high gear.  I have a real mental problem when it comes to running and I always have.  When I am running I start thinking about why I am running when I could walk and then it becomes an internal battle to keep running, turning my music WAY up helps to drown out my inner voice but it is still a struggle.  Anyone have anything they do that helps keep them running, I am fully capable physically I just mentally struggle!

I am in week 4 of Hal Higdon's Novice Half Marathon program which means only 8 weeks until the race.   I really enjoy this program, especially since they have an iPhone app that tell me how far I have gone and how much more I have to go.  This is actually the longest I have stuck with a program on my own in a LONG time! Second 5 mile long run on Sunday we'll see how that goes.

Weigh-In Wednesday 4: On Saturday

So I actually did weigh on Wednesday 211.2, not as much as I hoped for but that goodness for a loss!  We were visiting family this week and eating wise was not perfect but I did keep up with my workouts and training for the Half Marathon.  I am happy to be doing Weight Watchers again, it makes eating so much easier for me and really makes me stay on track.  We have a wedding to attend in just over 2 weeks and I am hoping that I can work my butt off and get under 200, that would make me so happy.  I still have a long way to go to be where I should but at least progress it being made.

Weigh-In Wednesday 3

So today was not pretty (213.4) yeah that would be a 1.4 gain and it really makes me mad.  But instead of eating ice-cream and wallowing in self pity I have decided to rejoin Weight Watchers and continue to train for the Half Marathon.  I don't really have much more to say because it makes me so mad, so until next week.

Weigh-in Wednesday 2: REALLY

So I have been exercising and exercising and exercising and yet still when I weighed myself this morning I saw 212.0.  6 ounces REALLY!!!  I mean I could have been eating better, and a trip to Marietta to visit this weekend probably didn't help, but REALLY, REALLY!  I guess at least the scale moved because it hasn't done that in weeks, so there's something.  I plan on working on my caloric intake more this week so hopefully I will see a big number next Wednesday.

My Half Marathon training officially started on Monday which also coincided with me trying to start doing no carbs (again) and again I discovered that I cannot do a no carb diet, it just doesn't work.  Especially with all the cardio and running I am doing.  So I am trying to stick to around 1200 calories and get only good carbs when I have them.  I have thought about signing back up for Weight Watchers because I really enjoyed it while I was doing it before Declan was born but right now I am choosing to pay for the gym instead and work on my eating habits on my own.  Ok enough is enough maybe I will actually see some real loss next week.