Weigh-in Sunday, Week 26!

Well you've probably already noticed, I've been 110% completely sucking on writing my blogs...I've also 110% completely been sucking at Weight Watchers. I've weighed in every week on Sunday and starting today I've thrown all my excuses out the window. I may not be posting on IG as much because I'm super duper busy getting ready for a craft fair I'm doing in July. But none the less I'm here and not giving up. I need to hit 199 by Jan 1st. I don't have anymore excuses I am enough and I will treat myself like I'm enough!! So here last week I weighed in at 245.0 and the week before I was at 244.8. Today I weighed in 2.1 pounds less at......

So this week I've been extremely busy! Making skirts, dresses, bibs and burp cloths for a craft fair in Salina Kansas. I've also had a super sick little guy who got strep from god knows where. Now my Kaitybugs has a fever, poor little girl doesn't want anything to do with medicine so we've been pulling the ol' drink some juice mixed with medicine trick. Pretty sure she has gotten what her brother has because tonight she was complaining of a sore throat so that's freaking awesome! I'll post a detailed post by Tuesday about my craft fair with tons of awesome pictures!!

Here is to getting my ass back on track!! Have a good week, y'all!!!  

Weigh-In Sunday, Week 24

Well here we are again another weigh-in.... This past week has been a complete struggle. I struggled to get back on track 100% and I knew it wouldn't happen in a week, but I was hopeful it would. When I was home in Kansas I over drank, I over ate, I ate s'mores almost every single night for Christ sake... It was a rough week to say the least. I felt like I was starving most the week. Even today I still feel like I'm starving my ass off. So here are the results of this weeks weigh-in.

In case you didn't read week 23's weigh-in I didn't lose or gain weight. I'm very thankful and kinda let down. But I didn't gain so that's a huge plus. It was a week full of struggles. I think I'm finally off the struggle bus, at least I hope so. I'm having a lot of trouble getting my water intake back up to 160+ ounces a day. So I feel like that might be why I didn't lose this past week.

This past week we had lots of fun with my kids, all the water splash pads and spray grounds in Iowa have opened up so we hit them up more than once this week. We went Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday! I'm working on that tan y'all. I read somewhere if you can't tone it than tan it! So I've been working on my tan!! My dads Hawaiian roots are really coming out with this tan! Here are some pictures of this week/end of our adventures!

So yesterday after the splash pad we got home. Gman feel asleep in my car so I got him into his bed sound asleep and I changed and laid in my bed. Eric and Kaity were watching a movie and I was looking at homes for rent in Wichita,KS. As soon as Gavin came into my room from his nap. Eric went and laid down in our bed, but the kids were back there with him playing and having fun. I could hear their giggles and jumping on the bed. I assumed they were playing with daddy and just having fun. A few minutes later it was so silent I was scared, after a few more minutes of silence I was freaking the heck out. No noise, no Eric, no nothing. So I went back to our bedroom, Eric was sound asleep and Kaity walked in from the bathroom and went directly under our bed and said "don't spank my ass mommy" I was like, what the hell was that about? I needed to go pee, so I walked to the bathroom and there it was her evidence....Her luscious blonde beautiful locks laid on my bathroom floor. Oh wait, they weren't just hers they were her DAMN BROTHERS TO.... We got her out from under the bed, looked at her hair and she wacked a whole chunk off from her pony tail. I still at this point had no clue she cut bubbas hair off. Until she's laying in the bed, knows she isn't in trouble and says I cut bubbas too, I did it, it was me mommy. I was like holy fucking shit Gavin Matthew Hammes gets your little ass over here now. Sure enough she wacked his hair in the back off too. Aunt Coco says he's balding at the age 2! She's going for a hair cut tomorrow or Wednesday, I haven't decided yet. My mom said when I was a kid I did the same thing. I'm not even mad at her I couldn't be, she was so damn proud of herself I just couldn't believe she did something like that. Where she found the scissor as in a box we hadn't unpacked because our bathroom doesn't have room. So she found then in a completely packed box in our closet...

Hope your Sunday was better than mine!!!!!

Weigh-In, weeek 23!!

Goodness didn't May fly by or what? I went home to Kansas on May 5th and just finally returned for a longer than 4 days on June 3rd. I had so much fun and loved every minute of being home. I didn't count a single point and mainly because I had shitty service and couldn't even check points. I tried to stick to the plan, but honestly I was at home enjoying my family and didn't want to miss out. So I enjoyed myself ALOT! I was expecting a way bigger gain mainly because at one point I weighed myself at my moms and I was up to 247.9. I was up a little over 7 pounds. I in all honesty didn't even care. I was drinking, eating s'mores nightly and just enjoying being around my family! So Friday the 3rd before I left to head back here I weighed myself just to see where I was.

This was the results of that weigh-in....

I was only really up 3.7 pounds and lets be honest that was probably mainly water weight because I barely drank any water at all. Opps!!! So this morning Hello, Sunday! Is my normal weigh-in day so I stepped on the scale this AM after only 1 day of being 100% back on track!!

Here were the results and my real weigh gain for the past month I've been MIA for.....

So I'm up 2.4 pounds since May 1st, but down 1.3 since Friday. If I'm really only up 2.4 pounds since May 1st I'm 110% okay with that gain!!! I had so much fun and enjoyed every minute of being home! I've never laughed so hard in my whole life!!

There will be a whole blog post about my month home in the next week or so, but for now enjoy these pictures!!!

Boo Bear & I at my dads surprise 50th

My grandma and I

My grandpa and I

Uncle Eric pushing our kids, our neice, and nephew

Eric, my brother Matt and myself

Camp Fire, where I spent every night for a good week eating 2 reeses s'mores!!

Making the camp sidewalk BEAUTIFUL

Aunt Holly and all the kiddos!!

The 3 of us tried to go fishing when our mom got there to watch the kids!!

Sister in law Holly, Matt and I

My baes and I!

Stopped for lunch on our way home Friday!!

#craftymomma

So I crochet like a grandma. No for real, I really can crochet and I feel like only grandmas do that. I learned when I was like 8-10ish? (Grandma, I have no idea when you taught me!) I know I was super small and not a teen or anything like that. She taught me how to make pot holder and I put them in the fair that year! Then I never did it again until I was pregnant with Gman and made his hats that were in his newbie pictures! Well now apparently crocheting is a "thing" and turns out an assload of people do it! Who the FUCK knew!! So over the winter I crochet and own an etsy store (Not linking it here, because its on VACAY mode) This past Christmas I made roughly 150-175 FUCKING mermaid tail blankets. Lets just say by March 1st, my fucking hands HATEDDD my ass. I don't even care to look at another mermaid tail blanket for as long as I live. And unless you're my uber cute ass niece Ava, NO, no I will not make your child one! It is on facebook and your more than welcome to check it out if you'd like! It's called K&G Crochet after my two baes!

Here are a few pictures of some stuff I've made!

So lets rewind a bit to like last fall. I'd been throwing around the idea of really wanting to get a sewing machine and seeing if I could at the very least sew some pillow case dresses for my KT and niece Ava. Save both her mom and me some money because they both are crazy dress girls! So Eric and the kids bought me one. Then for Christmas to feed the addiction my awesome aunt Nic got me a ton of stuff for the sewing machine and patterns and all sorts of stuff to help me learn! Well I still had an assload of crocheting orders to do and had ZERO time to get any self teaching sewing in. I know a few people who sew.  My grandma makes us kids quilts (she does a bad ass job!) My aunt Nic knows how to sew and so does my cousin's aunt Janelle. Well I know I'm super crafty in the crocheting world so I figured why not give it a go. Well 1st time I wasn't sure I would ever use that fucking machine again in my life!

Safe to say I use it on the daily now! My shelves that were once completely full of yarn are now PACKED full of fabric. (I have an issue!) So I tried to follow a pattern, got pissed, confused and annoyed and GAVE THE FUCK UP! That 1 experience and I almost never touched it again because I was like holy shit this is so fucking hard! Then one day I was like let me just see if I don't follow a pattern and look a picture and make some shit up if I can come up with something useful. Guess FUCKING what??? That shit worked! From then on momma was HOOKED! My friends keep asking if I'm going to open up an etys shop for this and as of right now I have zero plans to do that. It's a lot of pressure. Selling for K&G, I felt like if I fucked up one order I was letting down every single customer and that wasn't true. Some people you can't please. Win some, and yah lose some!

So I've been sewing for about monthish. Reason I've been kinda BLAHHHH on IG with weight loss stuff! I'm still here y'all, make sure to check out my most recent weigh in HERE!

Basically I'm a basic ass mom who makes her own kids clothes! Something I actually can say I enjoy way more than crocheting. Anyone who's about to ask me I got a Singer Talent, my grandma said if I bought anything other than a singer no way she could help me learn if I needed because all she's ever used in a singer. So Singer WON and Singer is kicking some serious ass dress/skirt/blanket game!!! I actually decided this past week if your in Wakeeney,KS go check out Vintage Soul Salon & Boutique and check out some 4th of July skirts starting TODAY!!! Plus if you go, tell Shelby she looks extra adorable today!!!

So here are a few snaps of some stuff I've made over the past month or so!!

I will also be attending both the Trego Co and Graham Co Fairs this year with my mom!! Make sure if your in the area you come by and say hi to me!! I've got lots to get done and I'm in the process of renamed my business and the name we have picked is....

K&G Stitch'N by Britanie

Struggling MotherFUCKING city....

Hello blogging friends!!! What a crazy past few weeks I've had... My brothers family arrived back into Kansas a few weeks ago and we made the trip to my moms to see them. They are spending a few weeks at my moms with their kids so I chose to come stay at my moms and visit for a few more weeks! It's been a longggggg 3 years since I saw my niece last and I had never met my adorable nephew yet! We were home for a weekend, went back to Iowa and the kids and I loaded up and when Eric left for Chicago we left to make the 8 hour trip 2 kids, 2 dogs and momma back to grandmas house!!! It's been amazing being around our family and soaking up all the time and still have about a month left here in Kansas before we will make the trip back to Iowa!!

So now that, that is out of our way lets discuss my weight and what I've been riding the STRUGLE fucking bus on....

First we left for Kansas on 5/5 and got here because we made a small pit stop on 5/6. Since 5/7 I've been HALF ASSING like there isn't  no damn tomorrow....boooooo!! The struggle is mother beeping reallllll! Being home and around my family and I want to eat the world and enjoy myself. I refuse to let myself not have fun but I also refuse to not stay on track. #mommasgotgoals I thought not weighing myself would hid all my issues but that isn't the right thing to do at ALL. It's just going to put my ass even farther behind when I arrive home on 6/14. So on Sunday I'm going to suck it the FUCK up and weigh myself. When I weigh myself it'll be a whole week back on track and 2 weeks of kinda on and off tracking and half assing. I'm here for a month enough time to get back on track and in a groove. Then when I go back its 8 hours to get home and I'll stay on track the whole way there. I don't have time for fuck ups! Since there is little traveling its much easier to stay on track. When I drove back and forth 3 times 8 hours it wasn't easy and it sucked! So my eating has been shit, I haven't really weighed myself and just overall I feel like crap! I haven't really drank much water or got my steps in. I need to get my arseeee in gear!!!

Just wanted to quickly up date y'all on what has been up in my life and where the heck I have been. I'm still here, hanging on tight and here! No excuses starting right now!!! I have goals and those goals need to get their asses kicked!!! So get ready to be UBER annoyed with my post and if you fail to see me posting kick my ass for me!!!

**fair warning, Eric isn't here in Palco with me to re-read these. Sorry (no not really) if I sound like an asshat!!!**

Do you reward yourself? I sure as shit do!!

     So I of course believe in some motivation and what better motivation than buying something new for myself? I normally only buy new shit for my kids, because well I'm that mom who doesn't need anything. As long as my kids are taken care of, I don't need shit and that's just me, don't be hating. So every 5 pounds I try to get myself something even if its something small I do it. I don't believe in rewarding myself with food, I'm trying to change my lifestyle so just feeding myself with an ass ton of food doesn't help the path to get where I want to be! So I figured I'd share some of the stuff I have on my "reward myself list" and we are skipping ahead to what weight I have left to lose. Here we go....

• 40 pounds- New thug life shirt (best shirts ever so soft go check them out!)
• 45 pounds- New hair cut/color (hopeful this will happen while I'm in Kansas, my hair needs it!)
• 50 pounds- New outfit (pants, shirt, cute clothes and not more gym clothes)
• 55 pounds- Mani/Pedi (momma liveeessss for this!)
• 60 pounds- Another new thug life shirt (I basically live for them!)
• 65 pounds- Full body massage (I'll be over my half way mark, I'll deserve that shittt!)
• 70 pounds- Family day out, Dinner/Movie/Jump up whatever just family day out!
• 75 pounds- New tennis shoes ( I live for new tennis too!)
• 80 pounds- Eric has to cook/clean up dinner! (normally ends up being bubble up pizza)
• 85 pounds- New sports bra (my boobies are SHRINKING..)
• 90 pounds- New workout clothes (by then I'll be so itty bitty!!)
• 95 pounds- Mani/Pedi (Again who doesn't love a feet rub?)
• 100 pounds- New hair cut/color (last time was 55 pounds ago, its okay!)
• 105 pounds- Family day out (Same as above we love this!)
• 110 pounds- Date NIGHT (KID FREEEEEEE)
• 115 pounds- I honestly have no idea what I get here I'll probably shit myself!
• GOAL WEIGHT-SHOPPING SPREE with my mom, aunt and Shelby to get me new normal cute size human clothes!

       I actually really have no idea what I want my GOAL weight to be but every chart at my doctors office says somewhere between 130-170ish. Ideally Eric says 170, I really just want to look sexy as FUCK butt ass naked! I know I'm going to have loose skin, I had 2 csection, with over 100 pounds to lose and I don't even care I rather have loose skin than die to a heart attack because I'm obese!

So that's my list, do you reward yourself??

Weigh-In Sunday, Week 19.

Sunday is here again, and I'm exhausted!! This past week we left our home in Des Moines, IA to drive the 8 hour trip back to my parents home in Palco, KS. We stopped in North Platte,NE on Thursday to stay the night and made the small 3 hour trip from North Platte to Wakeeney, KS on Friday AM to my Aunt Nics house. We came home because for the first time in 3 years my whole family is together at my moms house. My parents picked up my brothers family in Texas on Saturday AM and drove back to our childhood home and my sister came in from Wichita so we are all spending the weekend with our parents and kids. My mom says its the best Mothers Day gift any of us could of got her!!

So here we are weigh-in Sunday and to be 110% honest I didn't even want to weigh myself because I ate dinner at 11PM last night. I'm never even up at 11pm let alone eating a meal with my family so yah. Plus I can tell I'm super bloated my hands feel so damn swollen and hurt. But, I weighed myself anyhow. I'm not 100% sure I'll weigh myself next Sunday because on Tuesday I leave to take Eric back to Iowa and spend a few days at our house before I drive back to Kansas next Sunday. So here is this weeks weigh-in.......

So I lost a total of .4 pounds and how the fuck that happened I have no idea, but I'll take it!

I hope all you momma bears out there have an awesome Mother's Day and enjoy being with your families!!!

Hit or Miss April Goals!!

My April goals were basically like any other month. Lose some weight, work out and drink an ass load of water!! Did I hit or miss them? I'd say it was a crap shoot month!! Here is why!!

1. Lose 7 pounds-- I lost a total of 9.7 pounds even with my only gain of the18 weeks I've been doing this, so I totally kicked that ones ass!! Plus I lost 8.5 inches over my body for the month of April, so that's kinda awesome!

2. Team NO cheat meals--Now lets talk about a cheat meal, to me its when I go absolutely crazy and don't count a single point. If I count the points and know what I'm eating, than that doesn't count. I had 1 cheat weekend. Lets call it a cheat weekend! It was beautiful outside in Iowa and we wanted to spend the whole weekend out with our kids so I cheated. I counted half the points and half of them I didn't even care. I was enjoying my family and to me that's all that mattered!! So I did pretty well, could have done better. But, hey ya win some, ya lose some!

3. Workout 5-6 days a week--Yah I blew ass on this one. I don't know why. I kicked the first two weeks ass at the gym then it faded and faded fast! We had an incident at the gym between my daughter and childwatch teacher and now my 3 year old bawls when we go (most times) so I just don't even go with her because I'm not leaving her somewhere she is uncomfortable and I honestly don't blame her. I wanted to kill the child watch teacher for the reason, so yah. We went on Saturday and Kaity was okay so I'll be going this week before we leave for Kansas! Again win some, lose some!

4. Drink 160oz of water daily-- I always drink all my water. I love water, water to me is good. If I don't drink enough, I know what happens so I chug a lug that shit! I love love love Crystal Light Grape Energy and Strawberry flavor so it is a good mix to my water! I kicked this goals ass too!!

5. Weigh-in only on Sundays-- basically did this too. A few weeks back I started having a super unhealthy relationship with my scale. Where I was weighing myself multiple times a day and getting pissed when it went up. So yah, a few weeks of no scale and it kicked that habit to the curb! I might weigh myself on Wednesday just to make sure I'm on track but mainly just Sundays!

I'd say overall I did okayish! I didn't hit them all, but I also didn't not hit some of them! What counts is that I'm still on track to lose my 79 pounds by November 24th! I only have 40.6 pounds to go and I honestly feel like this is a good goal that I will hit! Ideally I'd love to lose 100 pounds in 1 year of this journey but if I don't I'm 110% okay with that. This for me is a lifestyle change and my lifestyle has changed a lot this time around!

Did you hit or miss your goals for the month of April? Did you set goals for May? We are just a few weeks away from the official start of summer so kick ass for the month of May!!!

May Goals!

1. Lose 9 pounds, this will be difficult for me this month but I need a bit more motivation since I will be back in Kansas all but 9 days the month of May!

2. Win my Mama Laughin diet bet and meet my goals for my transformers diet bets! Mama Laughlin's diet bet I weighed in at 244.1 and need to weigh 234.3 by May 22nd! I think its doable, I just need to stay on track to keep losing even after the diet bets are over. I'll spend the last weekend at the lake with my family so hopefully I get lots of exercise in that weekend and try to eat as healthy as I can!

3. Work out 2-3 days a week. I'm not going to set some crazy goal this month for exercise because lets face it , I will be visiting family. Most weekends I'm sure I'll be at my aunts where we stay up too fucking late and laugh too fucking much. So I'm hopeful I'll be able to walk the empty streets of Palco in the evenings with my two bae's and get some exercise in. Palco is so small, there isn't really a gym. (well there is but I'm not paying fucking $100 for the month I'm home to maybe or maybe not use it!)

4. Drink ZEROOOO soda. When I go home I tend to drink more soda and consume less water. My goal is to take my cup with me and chug a lug every single stinking day! Trying not to miss 1 day of getting my 160oz's in!

5. Enjoy my family and the time I'm home. Being a military family and with my brothers family who is also military, its hard to be home at the exact same time. My parents miss their kids and grandchildren like crazy as much as they miss me. I am not willing to not enjoy my family just to hit all of these goals but I think I can stay on track and meet my goals while still enjoying being home. I haven't seen my brothers family in 3 years, its been a LONG LONG LONG time. We use facetime, but its not the same as smothering those kiddos in hugs and kisses (my niece and nephew!)

6. Post blog post at least twice a week. Something I slack like a crazy slacker on this. The past few weeks to name a few!!

7. Last but not least is to try and stay within my points every day. I'm lucky that I grew up in such a small town that there are NOT any fast food places in the town my parents live in. I would have to drive 30 minutes to get to one. So there will be lots of home cooked food and I need to make sure that I'm staying within my points and not going over every day, because that will lead to weight gain and I don't want that!!

So those are my goals! I'll see you all June 1st to update you on whether I hit or miss them! Pray I hit the shit out of them. Because if I see 229-230 on my scale by June 1st, I'll probably bawl my eyes out! When I hit 210-215, I will officially weigh less than my husband and lets be honest, it's been one HOT ass minute since that happened!!!

Weigh-In Sunday, week 18!

Why hello, week 18 of my weight loss journey! It's awesome to see you so beautiful and chipper this AM!! All this considering I'm pretty much super super happy with this week's weigh-in. I really wish I would have hit 239.9 by today but ya know, ya win some and ya lose some!! On Thursday we leave our home in Des Moines, IA and head to North Platte, NE so my husband can inspect some Marine Recruiter offices there. Then on Friday we head to good ol' Palco, KS! If your coming to kill me or my family, good luck. Its like a tiny ass pimple on the map. HA! We will get into our trip in a few minutes. Here is how I did for week 18 weigh-in! I basically killed the game y'all!

Y'all that is freakin' 3.3 pounds down in 1 week!!! I kicked this weeks ASS! I've slowed down a little on IG posting because I've been super busy with dress/skirts and ahh it's been a crazy ass week. But I'm still here, still slaying the shit outta this weight loss game y'all! Just because I don't post weight loss related things doesn't mean I've fallen off the wagon. I'm in this for the long haul! I've been in it for 18 weeks and I'm not about to give up now!!

This brings my total weight loss as of today right now to 38 pounds! I can seriously smell 50 pounds gone!! I put on some clothes that at Easter time fit for the most part but I could of sized up and it was big and I loved that it was so big on me! I hope by Thursday I've entered the 239's by the time I leave for my moms but we shall see!!!

I'm posting a picture of my weight watcher app because some asshat on IG messaged me saying that I was lying and haven't lost every week except for 1 in the past 18 weeks. It might be a .2-.4 loss but I assure you my ass isn't lying and I've been losing weight every SINGLE FUCKING WEEK ON MY OWN for the past 18 weeks! SO FUCK YOU! Yes I don't need to address this but hey. I'm slaying this shit and I've already shouted to the roof tops how much I started at and in case you can't add 240.5+38=278.5!

I hope you all kick next weeks ass and enjoy today!!

Weigh-in Sunday, Week 17.

Here we are another Sunday in the books. I went to bed with the worst headache ever and woke up with it again. I didn't even want to get out of my bed. But, here we are so lets get to the point!!

On Tuesday I weighed 245.5 after my weekend binge. So seeing this much more of a loss is nice to me! It's a total of 34.7 pounds down since I started 17 weeks ago. I'm hoping to get as close to that 239 as I can this week. It's my last week before heading to Kansas for a week to see my family!

Today is short and sweet, my head is POUNDING and I'm getting hangry. So I hope you have an awesome Sunday! Kick ass this week!

Weekend Binge....

Lets talk about my weekend...

Like a lot, a lot!!

So Friday was here and my husband somehow ended up having the day off and didn't even need to waste his leave. So that was awesome. I had a doctors appointment for my feet again at 9:15 Friday AM. So he was going with me because I can't watch two kids and get shots shoved in my feet they are too interested in what is going on. So we all went to my appointment, then Dr.Evans said make sure your daddy takes you guys out for ice cream since mommy had to get a 2nd set of shots. So Kaity demanded that basically all weekend long. Well play Dr.Evans, well played! We can't tell her ice cream loving face no when its 75+ outside and just beautiful so we went for ice cream EVERY day! Friday, Saturday and Sunday...After my appointment none of us had ate breakfast before we left so we went to Denny's where we ate strawberry ice cream!

That night was date night, so we dropped K&G off at our gym(parents night out) and off we went to Spaghetti Factory and then Crème Cupcake. We were going to go to the expensive chocolate store but thankfully they were closed by 7:45pm! By no means did I go expecting myself to eat healthy. I knew it was going to be a shit storm, free for all, it was an I had zero regrets!!

Saturday was upon us and I need to go to the store before the weekend really got underway and we were stuck inside getting groceries and other shit we didn't need to spend time inside getting. So I got up extra early to get it done before the kids and Eric got out of bed. I picked up some donuts for Kaity & Gavin and grabbed some breakfast sandwiches for E & I from the gas station. When I got home it was so beautiful outside everyone was awake the kids were watching toons and daddy was doing dishes (I know y'all he does dishes basically all the time!) We got the kids dressed and he started watching the LONGGGGGGgggggg ass new Star Wars movie (I was annoyed!) but what can ya do. He had some daddy time while the kids and I played outside and went on multiple walks in their trucks we got them for Christmas around our apartment complex. It was so much fun and so so nice outside. We decided to walk 2-2.5 miles pushing them in their trucks to the park (STUPID FUCKING IDEA) not walking wasn't stupid but those damn truck was dumb as fuck. So we got to the park and the kids loved it, they always do. We didn't realize it was almost lunch time when we left I took a few snacks but not to keep us full until 3-4 when we headed home. So we ended up ordering pizza and Kaity was in pizza heaven. She keep saying I'm so hungry, my belly so hungry mommy my belly is hungry until the pizza arrived. Kaity asked daddy for ice cream again and we agreed considering we were going to my favorite frozen custard place in Des Moines! Saturday night we grilled and I still ate like complete ass and had zero regrets. I was enjoying my kids and husband and it was just a good time. In the back of my mind I knew I was going to have to face the scale the next day but I honestly was okay with a gain in Week 16.

So Sunday was here already. Where does the weekend go?? Because I wasn't ready to tell it good bye...I got up early again 5:30 EARLY. To get all of our laundry washed and dry'd before it had taken up too much of our afternoon. Sunday we just stayed around our apartment complex. We got the kids convertible battery car out my parents got Kaity for her 2nd Christmas. They drove that thing all over the complex and had we not plugged it in every time we got back would have killed the battery 3 times over. They loved it and had so much fun. Kaity is actually getting much better at driving as long as you tell her to stay on the sidewalk. We walked over to family dollar and got a little baby pool just so they can play in outside our door. The kids who live in our apartment complex are not very nice so we won't be using the pool much here. Thankfully Des Moines has a ton of splash pads near us we will hit up this summer! We grilled again and meal prepped so Eric and I would have chicken for the week. We would of never even thought about ice cream but Eric needed to go pickup some keys from a few guys leaving for the week so they could move their government cars back to Camp Dodge in DM because they didn't want them sitting at the hotel all week so we all went with him and guess what is on our way?? Dairy Queen. So on our way back we begged daddy to take us for one last ice cream of the week and he agreed to we went and got us some strawdberry(how kaity says it) ice cream. She wants PINK or RAINBOW ice cream all the time!

So Sunday AM I had to weigh-in. I already knew it was going to be a gain, on Wednesday when I weighed myself I was at a new low this time for myself by Sunday I was up 1.6 pounds. I wasn't concerned and still ate like ass on Sunday. I reweighed myself Monday to see where I was for the week and what I needed to get off. It was roughly 2.5-3 pounds I needed to lose just to lose my gain. I didn't think it was a true gain because I barely consumed any water. So before this weight loss journey I would binge then the next day try to starve myself to make up for it. Not this time. This time I started Monday like I would any other Monday. I weighed myself saw what damange we had done and got to work. Ate all my points like I normally would (I went over 4 points) drank my 160+ ounces of water. So this AM I needed to weigh out for a diet bet and I'm happy to report I lost my water/food baby I had gained over my weekend crazeeee!! Moral of this story. Just because you eat like shit don't do something stupid like try to starve yourself to make up for it. Its not going to work in your favor and more than likely your going to gain ever more weight and turn that water gain into a true weight gain. You don't want to do that shit so just eat normal like you would any day and it'll come off. I'm thankful it was off and can't wait to weigh in on Sunday and see what kind of a loss I have this week! hopefully what I gained and then some, but I'll be happy just getting most of what I gain off!!

What I weigh-out in my diet bet weighing! On Sunday I weighed 247.3.

I hope you guys had a good weekend and that the weather was just as beautiful for you as it was for us! Have an awesome week!!

**Disclaimer** Eric isn't home to proof me so, don't be an asshat!

Weigh-In Sunday, Week 16.

This week has been nothing short of an awesome week! We've had beautiful weather here in Iowa and I taught myself how to sew! What else could get better??

It's weigh-in Sunday and as much as I didn't want to weigh myself, I did it anyhow so here it is!!

I gained 1.6 pounds....Am I upset? Not really. Am I surprised? No not at all. Am I concerned I've completely stopped my journey? Not at all. Am I confident I'll lose what I gained this week next week? Yes!

So lets talk about why I gained weight! I have been sitting in front of a sewing machine ALL week long. I didn't go to the gym, do I think that's why I gained? No not at all. Tons of people lose crazy amounts of weight without ever stepping a foot into a gym. Why didn't I go to the gym? Because my daughter is terrified of an asshat there so she cries when I say lets go to the gym...That's another annoying blog though that I'll probably NEVER write about. I had date night on Friday where I ate pasta, bread, dessert, just amazing food and had an awesome kid free 4 hours with my husband!

Now lets chat about why I think I really gained weight...Yesterday, day before a weigh-in we went to the park, we walked there 2 miles pushing out kids in their trucks (STUPIDEST IDEA EVER). We got there not realizing how late it was, the kids were getting hungry but weren't ready to leave so we decided to stay and just order pizza. So I ate pizza drank, little water and enjoyed the sun, my family, and the pizza! It was so much fun and I don't regret anything about it. I haven't gained in 15 weeks and 1 gain isn't going to set me back to where I'm not reaching my goals. I just know that this week I need to push myself harder and lose the weight I gained and kick ass!!

I hope you guys had an awesome Saturday & enjoy your Sunday! Here are a few super cute pictures of my baes yesterday

Weigh-In Sunday, Week 15

Weigh-in day is upon us again. Did this week go fast, or what?? Maybe its because my little guy turned 2. I have no idea but I felt like the week flew by us!! We had so much going on this week from G's birthday on Thursday, his 2 year checkup on Friday, & we were all sick in between those days. It was a crazy week!  

So lets get to weigh-in day! I was hoping to see a larger loss this week but I played around a bit with my points and still had a loss so I'm happy with that!!

I had a loss of 1.8 pounds and that brings my whole total since 12/30 to 32.8 pounds gone forever! We are still at an average of about 2 pounds and I'm hoping to keep it that way into the summer/fall. This year my main goal is to weigh 199.9 by 11/24 my 28th birthday! I still have 45.8 pounds to lose to hit it and I feel like I can as long as I don't get off track! My next goal is to hit 50 pounds loss, I really really really want to be out of the 240's by the time I go home to Kansas in May and be nearing the 220's by the time we go back home to Kansas again for our family camping trip for Memorial Day weekend! (Yes, gram if your reading we are coming home!!)

We also decided since we will be moved back to Kansas late summer/early fall that we are going to the Carrie Underwood concert on 11/22 pending neither of us have to work that evening and Aunt Coco (my sister) can watch our kids for us. So I'm even more determined to hit my goal and have an awesome date night out with husband for an awesome concert!! I've never been to a real life concert and where we are moving to in Kansas (Wichita) seems to always have some good ones so I'm excited for that! Not that Des Moines doesn't but we don't have reliable sitters here and in Wichita we will have Aunt Coco & Jon and Grandma Marcotte (my momma) will only be a few hours away!

So I have a fitbit and if you do too add me-- brittanie.hammes@yahoo.com I had the basic flex and loved it. I've had it for almost 2 years I believe maybe even a little longer. I can't exactly remember when we got my fitbit flex. So I've been side eyeing the blaze ever since it came out and found an awesome ass deal I didn't want to pass up, I was going to just go with an HR because my sister in law has it and seems like she really likes it. But everyone I talked to said if your going to spend the money, you might as well just get the blaze. So I went all in head first and I must say I've had it since Thursday and I'm in super love with it!! It connects to my iPhone so it will send me my phone calls and text right to it. I guess I can no longer ignore my husbands silly text....damnit! It also shows my heart rate and I must say as a 27 year old overweigh woman I have a super low resting heart rate 48-50...I've been to a heart doctor and my heart is fine, I worked for a heart doctor and he said it was fine so I suppose I'm going to live to see a few more days!! I'm basically in love with it and if your in the market for a new fitbit or too cheap to buy an apple watch this is PERFECT!!! Also there is some stiff competition going on in my house I set my flex up for my husband so this week should be interesting!

Also you know ya girl participated in pamper yourself Friday!! Lush, cupcake is perfection.... Seriously if it didn't have to be in the fridge I'd send it to everyone I know to try because I'm that in love with it! I felt like it was tightening my face and it was kind of weird but didn't have the awkward smell that coffee had (I don't enjoy a cup of coffee at all!) If you have a lush go check that place out!!

I hope you all had a good week!! If not improve this week and kick some serious ass!!!