There has been lots of things going on with me lately that have been keeping me busy. The main one has been my youngest daughter, Peyton, had started walking! She's only 10 months old, but she has been walking all over the place! My first daughter, Teagan, started walking 2 weeks before her 1st birthday. So this is a little unexpected. Well, it is, but it isn't. My daughters are 18 months apart, so my oldest has taken longer to hit the milestones than her younger sister. We attribute that to the fact that Peyton has Teagan to look up to. It seems and looks like that Peyton is about 2 to 3 months ahead of Teagan in milestones. If you're not a parent and don't know what I mean by milestones, they are basically Sitting on their own, crawling, speaking and walking. There are others, but you get the idea. Peyton sat on her own at 4 months and started crawling 2 weeks later. It was around 6 months for Teagan to sit on her own and she crawled around 8 maybe 9 months. I'm probably wrong on the exacts, but I think I'm close. The point is, this first year that Peyton has been alive has flown by. At the end of next month,April 28th, will be her first birthday. It makes me tear up a little to think about it. Yeah, I'm a puss, so what? I wasn't like this as much with Teagan. Not that I wasn't sad when Teagans first year came to an end. Not at all. I just figured that we would have another baby eventually. I didn't think it would happen so quick like it did, but still. With Peyton, this is probably our last child, At least for a while. And she has grown up so quick, it saddens the shit out of me, her mom too.
So that has been my biggest reason that I haven't been writing blogs or posting statuses to Twitter and Facebook or doing anything much outside of spending time with my family.
Aside from the fact that my youngest girl will be married soon, I've been busy with a few other things. I started a weight loss challenge a few weeks ago. A friend of mine told me of this weight loss site she is on called Reset Nation Project. It's a little site dedicated to health and fitness. And Sara told me that they were doing a fitness challenge for 45 days. The winner will be based on the combined percentage of total weight lost. The prize? An Everlast Heavy bag! I've wanted one ever since I was young! I never owned one before. The closest I have was taking a wood log about 3 feet in length and wrapping it with 3inch foam mattress pad and duct tape. Needless to say, that didn't last too long before I had bloody knuckles and sore hands. I had Sara check to make sure that I could enter seeing how I had gastric bypass and they said, "Bring it on!". I know that I haven't been losing weight as fast as I was in the first 2 to 3 months. Some weeks I might lose nothing and in 3 days I could lose 10lbs. It's very strange. I still felt a little strange about entering a contest to lose weight even though I had a surgery to help me lose weight. So I stepped up my workouts. I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to work extra hard to lose the weight. I started doing 2 a day work outs 4 times a week. Cardio in the morning, lifting in the evening. Well, that lasted the first week of the challenge. Hahahaha. It was easy to do the cardio in the morning, but in the evening there are a ton of people at my gym when I wanted to lift. When I'm at the gym, I like to move fast between each exercise I want to do. Keeps my heart rate up and gets me out of the gym in under an hour. Well, that wasn't happening when I wanted to lift in the evenings. So I stopped doing two a days and started only going in the mornings. The best part about my gym is they got a new heavy bag!! So I started using that and I love it! I loved it so much that last weekend I went and bought on from Dunhams. Haha! I was so impatient that I had to go buy one for my house, Instead of just waiting to see if I would win one from the challenge I entered. I guess in my mind, I'm not guaranteed to win this challenge, so I figured when we got our income tax money back, I'd just go buy one for $50. I love it!! So who knows, if I do win this challenge, I could always sell the one I just bought. Haha, man I'm such a schmuck. To wrap this all in a pretty bow, I weighed in for the challenge two weeks ago at 286lbs. On Friday, I weighed in at 275lbs. 11lbs in two weeks isn't too bad for me. Again, I'm use to seeing that in a week. #RNYProblems, right? Haha. I'm just trying to make this tool (WLS) work for me as fast as I can. I want to enjoy this honeymoon period while it lasts. :) Thank you again for taking the time to read my ramblings. I'm gonna try hard to update this a lot more frequently! Until next time, have a great day everyone!
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