Weight Loss Update

Well, as optimistic as I seem to be...it was bound to happen. I backslid this month and gained back 2 pounds. SOB! I said at the beginning of June that I had a goal to get my eating back under control...well joke's on me because it was worse in June! 

But I do not want to spend the rest of this post beating myself up! It could have been worse, and I do have things to celebrate:

• I have continued to be really active! I do 6 real workouts a week and then try to just move some on day 7 {take a walk, do pilates, etc}. I've stuck with my routine of Jazzercise, Body Combat, and 1 day of jogging. I am so excited though because we just got some Body Pump certified instructors, and I CANNOT wait as that is my ultimate FAVORITE group exercise class.
• I've had more comments from others noticing! It's exciting when people are noticing and commenting on the weight loss being visible. I know it shouldn't be about this outward validation, but I was DEFINITELY an unhealthy size, so this is nice.
• Things still fit great. I am really close to being down another size, and that will be 1 size away from my goal, yay!
• I didn't go back up into another 'decade'. My mother-in-law calls every 10 pounds a decade.  So while I gained a little I stayed in the {high} 140s. I'll take anything at this point ha.
• My BMI has improved! Under a normal BMI calculation, I'm still barely overweight, but I found an updated BMI calculation called 'Smart BMI' which takes a lot more into account, and under this I'm normal. Yay!

My 40th birthday is 4 weeks from today. I weigh 149 pounds, my pre-Paige pregnancy weight was 143. It's going to be a BIG stretch, but I would LOVE it if I could hit my pre-Paige weight by my birthday. Ultimately I want to continue to lose weight, so if I can just get myself going back in the right direction, I'll be happy, but my stretch goal is to lose 6 pounds. Fingers crossed!

Trent's Covid 11th Birthday

It's one thing to be an adult and celebrate your birthday in quarantine. It's another to be a kid. I guess the longer this goes on, the more people have to do this, ha. Luckily for us, our first COVID kid birthday was Trent's, and he hasn't had a 'big' party to celebrate his birthday in YEARS {he historically doesn't do well with large crowds for his birthday, so we stopped celebrating that way when he was 4}.

His birthday celebrations actually started when we went to celebrate my mom's birthday. He and Miles asked if they could spin the night together, so my sister and I decided to swap a kid - she took Trent, and I took Blair. 

I had Blair for 2 nights, and we traded kids back on Wednesday...except I also brought Miles home and didn't give Patty any other kids.

My girl gang

Friday afternoon, I also picked up Trent's best friend, Jaxon. His grandmother is our next door neighbor, and she couldn't handle not seeing her grandkids anymore about a month ago, so we've played a little with them. All Trent wanted to do was hunt Pokemon on our town square and have burgers for dinner. Easy enough!

Trent and Jaxon {yes, it was 95 degrees outside}

My Pokemon birthday gang

After Pokemon Go and burgers, I promised the kids snow cones. Trent doesn't like cake or cookies, so I didn't get him a birthday cake. BUT both snow cone stands in our town were closed. Womp, womp. I spent $30 on candy at a gas station instead, ha!

Saturday afternoon, after dropping Jaxon off, and on the way to meet my sister, we finally found a snow cone stand!

Happy birthday, Trent!

On his actual birthday, June 30, he wanted to hunt more Pokemon, so I took the kids back to the square.

Masked up and ready to go!

{Nana-made masks, this is the weirdest thing ever}

Happy 11th birthday to this beautiful boy! {hold me}

We hunted Pokemon for about an hour and a half, and some of our neighbor friends were also on our square so we got ice cream together. 

All-in-all, I'd say Trent had about as good a birthday as he could have hoped for. We'll see if I handle it as well next month ha!