the2beths

Here is my picture after losing ten pounds.  

 
Here is my picture when I passed the twenty pound mark. The main difference I see is in my face. 

  
And if I scrutinize it I can see other differences. Most people haven’t noticed except those who know I am doing this. When you’re as heavy as I am to start with other people don’t usually notice until 30-40 pounds. 

It’s amazing to me how my clothes fit. Meaning, I can not believe I wore these clothes 23.6 lbs ago. They must’ve looked so horrible. I know they were uncomfortable. 

My calories dropped a bit this week and that is going to be challenging. It was like 90 calories. That’s a lot to drop, but I think I can do it. 

How is everybody else doing? 

 I wanted to have a special shout out -Happy Birthday to Bridget and Aunt Angie!!! ❤️😘❤️

Xoxoxo,

Beth WA 

Today was a good weigh in. Hooray! I got to my -20, which is what I was aiming for.  

I went to the dancing to the oldies class at my gym at 4:30 with my mom. We always have a fun time at that class. Then we went back to  my mom’s house and her and Henry ate dinner. 

Then we go back to the gym for weigh in and our Monday night meeting. Tonight they were giving away a prize of a 6 month membership to the gym to the person who had the highest percentage body weight loss so far. I was thrilled to tie for second. I honestly don’t need prizes because the way I feel is prize enough. I can feel my relationship with food transform every day. 

We got back to my moms late so they offered to keep Henry over night. So Craig and I had an impromptu date for dinner. We spent 25 minutes, just the two of us, wolfing down dinner and chatting about some stuff we needed to talk about. It was a lovely 30 minutes and now I am home in my pajamas ready for my tea and then bed!  

 
Here’s a picture of Henry from last week when we went to the funeral. I think it looks like he is breakdancing. 
Xoxoxox,

Beth WA

Today was a day I never would’ve experienced two months ago. My gym had an open house and I went to two of their classes. I went to Zumba at 11 am and Dancing to the Oldies at 2 pm. 

I played outside with Henry in between. I was able to run and chase after him, and just have fun. 

We had my parents over for dinner and my husband and I made dinner.  I stayed in my calories. I did use exercise calories but it’s because I was starving. Currently, I am at 16,500 steps for the day! I am spent. 

But, it was an awesome day. It was beautiful outside.  

Tomorrow is my weigh in. I am hoping for a 1.4 loss to cross over to 20 lbs lost since January 11th. Crossing my fingers! (And also working my butt off. lol) 

Have a good start to the week! 

Xoxoxox

Beth WA

This morning Henry slept in until 7!!!! That is almost unheard of for him. Especially when he sleeps through the whole night. I was so happy. I had gone to bed early and needed sleep.  So that started today markedly better than yesterday. (Since I spent most of the day crying yesterday, I guess there is nowhere to go but up..)

Henry and I did our usual teeth brushing, letting Sammy out, making coffee and having a bottle morning routine.  Then we hung out in our Jammie’s watching cartoons. 

I went to the noon class that I like a lot at my gym. Then I picked up lunch came home and hung out with my guys for a few before I headed back out to see a few of my students perform in a play. One of the students was Beth FS’s daughter and she was awesome! 

When I got home, Craig, Henry, Sammy and I went for a walk. It wasn’t particularly warm but it was sunny and Henry hadn’t been out all day. Also, I am kind of maniacal about getting my 10000 steps sometimes. 

For dinner I made this shrimp dinner from Skinnytaste cookbook. It was a take on a meal at Bonefish grill. I think it’s called Bang Bang shrimp or something at the restaurant. It’s called Bangin Shrimp in her cookbook. It was good but not great. It was also my first time cooking shrimp. I am trying to experiment with fish, so we will see how that goes. 

Tomorrow is the open house at my gym and I am excited about it. I am going to two classes, and my friend Amy is going to one with me to try it out. 

Well, I am going to go make my tea. I haven’t had it in a few days because I’ve been going to bed instead! 

I will leave you with a few pictures of my baby boy on our walk.  

   
Have a great Saturday  night, everybody. 

Xoxoxox,

Beth WA

The downs:

Well, as I have talked about before on this blog, my husband and I struggled with infertility for years before I got pregnant with Henry.  This was possible with the help of a doctor. We’ve been struggling with that same issue again and the permanence of my infertility is staring me in the face. Today was a rough day. We could use some prayers if you’ve got some to spare. 

The ups:

Instead of spiraling out of control and binging and sleeping all afternoon, I went to my regularly scheduled exercise classes. One is at 4:30 and one is at 7.  I ate in my calories, and I even passed up pizza for lunch because I knew I was having it for dinner and I had packed my own lunch. I socialized but didn’t eat the pizza.  

The downs:

I graded all day and still have 6 sets of papers to grade. Boo! I hope I get it done this weekend.

The ups:

I have lots planned this weekend including going to a play to watch some of my stents perform – one of them is Beth FS’s daughter whom I love dearly. Sunday is an open house at my gym and I am going to two classes. I am hoping a few friends joined me that I invited. 

That’s all I have for today! 

I hope you are all enjoying your Friday  nights! 
Xoxoxo,

Beth WA 

 This is my sleeping baby yesterday while we were in Columbus for a funeral. He was such a good boy! 

Ha ha. I just had a snack even though I said I wouldn’t. But it was because I had 400 extra calories and I was hungry. I didn’t love the dinner I made and I didn’t have time to eat more. So, I had a Quest bar. And I am drinking blueberry tea. I am not sure how I feel about fruity teas, but I have a box to use up, so blueberry it is. 

Today was a pretty good day. I picked up Henry from my parents and we stopped at Kroger to get cornflakes for this recipe I was making. And wouldn’t you know it when I got home all I wanted was endless bowls of cornflakes in whole milk. I don’t even particularly like corn flakes. Don’t worry, I resisted. But, gheez. I made a coconut chicken salad with homemade dressing. I loved the chicken and did not like the dressing or the lettuce. 

Then my mom and I went to the gym. I did a half hour Zumba class then I did the class with my support group. Both classes kicked my booty tonight. And I have almost 12,000 steps! 

Then I came home and snuggled a few minutes with Henry before he was fast asleep! 

Tomorrow I work until 11 then Craig and Henry are picking me up and we are going to Craig’s uncle’s funeral. Craig’s mom really wanted us to bring Henry, so we are. I just picked out two really cute outfits for him. I am going to let Craig pick the tie breaker. 

I don’t have any pictures today, so I will just say, see ya later!!!

Xoxoxo,

Beth WA

So I am taking a break from evening snacks, besides my tea, this week.  I am doing this for a few reasons. One of them is to get me back on track and focus on the quality of food I eat during the day. I am switching up the way my day goes as far as eating to accommodate more protein and less carbs. I don’t plan on committing to this forever.  I am just trying it out.  And the other is to make sure I can still do it. 

This comes at a terrible time because I just got my shipment of Kodiak Mighty Muffins. Mmmmm. I may incorporate them in my breakfast next week. We shall see. 

When Henry and I got home from my mom’s today, it was sunny and 55 and not windy. So, Henry and I went on a little walk. He walked by me on the sidewalk and I thought I might die from his cuteness. And when we would cross the street or get on some rough terrain he would hold my hand without arguing at all. So, naturally I took a million pictures. 

Here are two of my favorites from today. 

   
 

And here is an adorable video of Henry making me laugh.

 

 
I didn’t even teach him to do that. He did it one day and I died laughing so he does it to make me laugh every once in a while. 

Have a great Wednesday, everybody. Thanks for all of your words of encouragement. 

Xoxox

Beth WA

I had weigh in today and I stayed the same. 

I was devastated and sad and upset and crabby. 

Then I decided instead to look at what went wrong this week, acknowledge it and move on. It took me 4.5 hours and a meeting with my support group to get to that point. But, I am there. 

As I look over my week I know I ate a lot more crap than I had previously. Instead of one indulgent meal over the weekend I had three. I borrowed from exercise points more than just on Saturday which has been my rule previously. I bought those damn Cadbury mini eggs. I got home from my meeting and took out my evening treat of those eggs and then threw the rest away. Deep down in the garbage so I can’t take them out. 

Our group leader and gym owner ran the meeting tonight and both have similar eating issues to me. They said get the crap out of the house. So, that’s what I did. 

I am not beating myself up about this and I am not carrying it with me any longer. I am just moving on.  

I am about to grade some math tests. Please pray that it’s not depressing. I always tell the kids to pardon the tear stains on their tests. 😂 And that if they studied more I wouldn’t have to cry when I graded them. 

I hope you had a good Monday! Thank you to those of you who continue to read. It means a lot to have your support. 
Xoxoxox

Beth WA

I just can’t believe it. I really can’t. And I have to say it has not been easy. Especially in the last 4-6 days. I really thought of getting my binge favs – donuts, cookies, etc and eating it all! I even dreamed about binging on iced sugar cookies! I woke up and was so glad it wasn’t real. But, it just goes to show how much it weighs on my mind. 

Today I had a #nonscalevictory. I went to a baby shower today and it was the first time in years that I was getting ready for a social event and I was actually not in the process of getting fatter. It was the opposite. I have been getting healthier, and therefore less fat! Lol. I planned for the shower. I knew I would want a piece of cake- which ended up to be a delicious cupcake. I planned by walking for an hour this morning, have a low calorie, high protein breakfast and drinking loads of water. I was actually able to eat part of the delicious lunch, and my whole cupcake and walk out of there feeling completely fine with my choice. I also had planned a low carb/low cal dinner because I figured I would be eating lots of carbs at the shower. It all worked out as I planned. 

After the shower I went to the grocery store and spent a million dollars.  I only got was on my list from my meal plan but we were out of a lot of expensive basics; toilet paper, EVOO, peanut butter, jelly, etc…I had major sticker shock. In fact, I think I still do. 😳

When I got home I made my egg bake while Craig grilled dinner. We hung out on our enclosed porch for a bit. It’s a huge mess out there and Craig and I are going to clean it out over spring break because when it is clean, it’s a fun place to hang out. 

Here are Henry and our dog, Sammy hanging out watching traffic on the porch.  

    
    
 
Shortly after this, Henry started “petting” Sammy and she high tailed it out of there. 

Craig’s uncle died yesterday and the funeral is Thursday. He was a really nice and funny man, and had a stroke a few weeks ago that he never quite recovered from. 

I hope you all have a good week. I cannot believe we are one week away from March! 

Xoxoxo,

Beth WA 

Well, my Friday nights have evolved a LOT through the years. They used the be wild and crazy and now they are relaxed and calm. In the last several years many Friday nights would be binge nights. I would sit in my living room and eat all sorts of bad things. Papa Johns breadsticks, pizza and a dessert brownie or cookie was one of my favorite Friday night pig outs. I would eat so much and feel so gross.  

Now, I still have a treat of some kind but I plan it in my day. AND, my Friday afternoons start at 4:30 with a class at my gym called Dancing with the Oldies. Then, at 7:00 I go back to the gym for my support group’s class, which is 23 minutes long. It is very similar to body pump but a lot shorter. And it has cardio mixed in. My heart was beating fast tonight as I increased my weights. Then I come home, have my tea and treats that I planned to have and relax and watch Lieutenant Kenda on ID discovery.  

Tomorrow I plan on taking a long walk with Henry in the stroller in the morning because it’s supposed to be really nice out. I also want to do a half hour Body Pump at home while he is napping. I am saying it out loud to you guys so I actually do it! 

I am doing a meal plan this weekend for next week. I am definitely making the egg bake for lunch but I have some recipes I wanna try for dinner. I got the Skinnytaste cookbook after my mom got it and I wanted to try so many recipes in it. 

Well, I am off to relieve my husband from bedtime. Bug doesn’t want to go to sleep. 

  
Here’s a pic of Henry eating his current favorite, strawberries. 
Xoxox,

Beth WA