R6:D15 - Falling Off The Wagon

Current Weight: 260.6

This past Saturday, the 9th, I weighed in at 253.6 lbs. We left that morning with the girls for a surprise trip weekend! I picked up Chrissy Friday night and surprised the girls with a sleepover. They thought we were going bowling Saturday morning. It was a weekend full of fun and laughter and lying...lots of lying! Damn inquisitive children!

The Saturday morning trip started with...a nap.

Every single time we road trip these two crazies end up asleep! Like they party hard or something! LOL!

We spent Saturday at Busch Gardens - are you shocked? Its like our favorite place to be! I didn't take a whole bunch of pictures this time. We had a great time!

We headed to the hotel that evening. The girls really wanted to go to the pool, but we still had to grab dinner and it was already 8:30 pm. We decided on Pizza Hut. By the time we had eaten it was 9:30 pm and both girls looked ready to pass out. I promised to take them to the pool first thing in the morning. They were out within 5 minutes of hitting the bed.

True to my word, I took the kids to the pool first thing Sunday morning. We had the whole pool to ourselves and the girls swam for about 2 hours.

The original plan was to go back to BG Sunday morning, but we decided to hit the Yankee Candle Store instead. That place is awesome! They have a whole Christmas Wing. The girls love going there!

Chrissy comes running into Yankee Candle to Will. "My tooth fell out!"

LOL! I took the tooth and put it in my wallet and off they went! 

From there we headed to lunch at Cracker Barrel! Yum! ( Yes, I am aware this is supposed to be a Whole30/Diet Blog. Shush!)

By this time we had convinced the girls we were headed home because they had school on Monday. Yeah, remember me saying we did a lot of lying. That. From CB we headed 8 minutes away to Great Wolf Lodge! I wish I could post the video of the arrival, but its on facebook and I'm not sure anyone who isn't friends with Will will be able to see it.

We headed inside to get our wrist bands so we could go play in the water park until check in at 4. Lucky for us, our room was already ready! So we parked the car, got everything into our room and headed to the water park! No pictures for us in the WP. I left my phone in the room and went to have fun!

We got tired of waiting on the elevator real quick and started taking the stairs everywhere we went. All of all 4 floors of Great Wolf. 13K steps on Sunday alone! After the WP we headed to get our wands for Magi Quest! We had a blast!

Pretty certain the girls were still talking when they fell asleep Sunday night. It was a fantastic day!

Monday morning we headed to breakfast. I swear I think we ate more on this trip then we have in the last year!

After Breakfast we headed to create their critters! The critters came with a game that took us all over the first and second floors of the hotel. Super fun! **Fun Fact - Magi-Quest takes place on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor**

A little bowling!

A little speed racing game!

Some 4D theater action!

The Wall of Candy!

Hugs!

Tattoo's!

And Ice Cream!

I think its safe to say that fun was had by all. Will and I let the girls go play in the water park on their own. We went and rode some rides and hung out in the adult only hot springs and the wave pool. The little sharks found us in the wave pool...we ran for our lives! LOL.

We headed home Monday evening and arrived at about 9:00 pm. The girls were so tired that they didn't even want me to blow up the big mattress. They just wanted to sleep in Gwen's bed. Poor things didn't make it 2 minutes before they were both snoring. :)

Needless to say, I did not make it to the grocery for the week and I most certainly didn't prep any meals. So we have kind of been winging it this week. I did have chicken and pork tenderloins in the freezer, so I have been able to stay compliant for dinners and both of us take leftovers for lunch. Breakfast is the only issue at this point.

Tuesday morning I got on the scale. Now, I would like for everyone to remember that while we ate nothing compliant this weekend, we were also extremely active. I'm certain that we went up at least 50 flights of stairs on Sunday and Monday and we walked around BG all day Saturday. That being said, on Tuesday morning, my weight was 263.6 lbs. In 4 days of not being compliant, I gained 10 freaking pounds. All of that is the food. All of it. But you know what...I don't care. I will lose that weight again. I had an amazing time with people I truly love. We laughed, we played, we got exercise and now we all still need naps! I am down 3 lbs since Tuesday. I'm not mad.

Out pottery creations came in on Wednesday! They turned out super cute!

Chrissy - Left     Gwen - Right     Me - Middle

Last night I got my walk in! It felt so good!

When I got home I threw together Buffalo Chicken and Broccoli. This has become one of my favorites! Its super easy and super filling. The original recipe calls for 1/4 cup hot sauce. That's not happening in my house. The first time I made this, I used 1 tbsp. This time I used 2 tbsp. I think 1 1/2 tbsp is gonna be the magic number. I served it over cauliflower rice, but really I think its great without it. 

Today is our little girls last day as a 3rd grader. I am so exceptionally proud of her. This coming year has lots of changes. Her last day at daycare will be the 29th of June. She will be spending the summer with a friend down the street and then come the school year, she will be riding the bus with her as well. Everyone is super excited about this change and I hope it all works out! 

I made the comment to Will this morning that I am considering taking pictures of everything I eat. Part of me thinks it will keep me better on track. The other part of me thinks I will just not take pictures of the things I am not supposed to eat to hide things. We are going to be back on the STRICT whole30 starting Monday I believe. No more little cheats here and there. I also think we will be holding off on going back to BG until the second weekend in July. That should help with the food situation. BG has such amazing food...its hard not to eat when you are there! 

I promise I will get back on track and add to the Whole30 portion of my blog soon. At this point, this blog has kind of become more of a Tell All instead of just a Whole30 journey. I think I might be OK with that. 

See you all next week! :) 

R6: D6 Seeing Progress

Current Weight: 256.4 lbs
Weight on June 1, 2018 - 256.3 lbs

December 31, 2017:

May 31, 2018:

I am starting to see progress. I see myself everyday, so its harder for me to actually see it. But its there. Progress I mean. I still have a long way to go, and currently I am fighting my way to 249.9 lbs. FIGHTING.

There have been nights where I have had absolutely no want to cook and had grapes for dinner.

There have also been nights, like last night, when I forced myself to make dinner even though my legs were going to fall off!

Potato Soup  AKA: Crack

There are days of complete mental clarity and others where I have to really struggle fight to see things clearly and think things through.

My menu/meal prep days are becoming easier. Saturdays are menu prep days and grocery shopping. Sundays are actual meal prep days. At this point I have a pretty good staple of breakfasts that I make for the coming week.

Pork Sausage - Recipe  ( I cook mine in the air fryer. Super easy!) This recipe makes between 25 and 30 sausage balls depending on the size you roll them into.

Veggie, Egg and Sausage Bake - Recipe  (I have started subbing the chicken sausage for 1 lb of the pork sausage above. Instead of rolling it into balls, I cook it in my wok and set it aside to add back into the veggies before going into the oven.)

Ground Beef and Sweet Potatoes - I use an electric skillet for this. Super easy. Slice the Sweet potatoes into 1/4 inch rounds and season with salt and pepper. Heat 2 - 3 tablespoons of coconut oil in skillet. (I cook 3 taters for the week. Use less if making less taters!) Place in skillet at 350 degrees. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Flip taters, cover and cook another 5 minutes. Remove to paper towel and let cool before putting in a container for the week. For the Ground Beef I leave the used coconut oil, if there is any left, in the skillet and turn the heat to 250 degrees. I put in the beef, break it up and season with salt, pepper and Wahoo Chili from Tastefully Simple. Sometimes I add in chopped onion and bell peppers. Put the cover on and let it cook until done. Come back and break up the meat and stir every so often. I cook about 4 lbs of ground beef for the weeks breakfast.

My stomach still really messes with me when I eat certain things, so I am having to avoid pineapple and sweet potatoes. Which sucks because they are both so good! My breakfast during the week is 5 sausage balls and 2 hard boiled eggs. It fills me up and is super tasty.

Normally by the time I am finished with meal prep on Sundays I have to then start dinner. Its a long day in the kitchen and I am normally doing other things while cooking. Laundry, dishes, Pig laundry, vacuuming, taking out trash, etc.. So by the time Sunday evening rolls around, I'm done.

This weekend is going to throw me for a bit of a loop. We are surprising the girls with a trip to Busch Gardens and Great Wolf Lodge (Thank God for Groupon!). I wont get to do any shopping or meal/menu prep this weekend and at first I was kind of freaking out about it. I sat down Monday night and went over my weekly planned meals. Luckily, I planned dinners through Sunday with extra crock pot meals and since I wont need a Sat/Sun dinner, I can move those two dinners to Tuesdays lunch and dinner. I will just have to go shopping Tuesday evening after work.

Speaking of shopping...I decided that Chi and I needed new shorts for our upcoming trip. Chi needs new shorts in general. Everything from last year has a booty short look to them now. Darn long legged kid. I don't own any jean shorts. Correction...I DIDN'T own any jean shorts...before Monday night. It has been YEARS since I was able to fit into jean shorts and be comfortable. Also, I swore I wouldn't buy anything over a size 20 at one point and from there I just went to wearing yoga pants. You know, cause ignoring the problem made it completely go away.

So when we went to Target Monday night after gymnastics, I was not excited. I just knew that I was going to have to buy at least a size 20 if not 22 to fit me and it made my heart hurt. As I was looking through the rack and picking out a few pairs of 22's to try on, I picked up a few 20's just in case the 22's were too big. And then I saw the 18's. I almost didn't take any into the fitting room with me. I almost left them there. I'm glad I didn't!

Both of those pairs of jean shorts are 18's. Both of those pairs of jean shorts came home with me Monday night. I will wear them this weekend and not sweat my tail off in black yoga pants at the park.

You know what else? The blue bathing suit that I was wearing for water aerobics - its too big. The pink bathing suit I only wore to water aerobics when the blue one was dirty because it was far to tight and I couldn't keep the stupid thing from sliding down my chest...that one fits beautifully! I will be wearing that at Great Wolf!

And another thing...or two! The shirt that I wore the day Will and I got married...this one...

We were having a great time! Love these two ladies! 

I love that shirt! It has sat in my closet for years because I wasn't comfortable enough to wear it again. It fits! And it looks good! I'm wearing that shirt to BG on Saturday with my new jean shorts!

And then there is this shirt....Mom got me this shirt last year I believe. Its an XL. I'm not quite sure why Mom would ever buy me an XL shirt, knowing that I am/was in 3x's at the time, but I'm glad she did. After I sent her the pictures of the shorts she asked if I had tried on the shirt she got me. So when I got home, I did.

Its still a little tight across my stomach, but it fits! I may not be seeing progress in the numbers on the scale, but I am starting to SEE the progress in the way my clothes are fitting. I am hopeful that I will be able to wear this shirt confidently in NC this summer.

One more thing before I go. We got our dragons back!

I am certain that I will have some things to talk about come next week. Hopefully I can make the time to get back on here to share them!

Have a great week/weekend everyone!