Babies and Bulges: October 2011

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Katie Day 73

Check out my weight loss ticker!! Only 0.4 lbs to go and then I will have reached my goal!!! What a GREAT day! I was hoping to be to my goal by Christmas and its not even Halloween! I will now have to set a new goal and that feels great! The day is still young so I haven't had any food yet therefore no stats :) But I will post tonight!

So until this evening . . . Happy Dieting!!

Friday, October 7, 2011

Katie Day 68

True to my word I am blogging again! Today was a fairly uneventful day so this post is going to be short as I don't have much to report. My little man slept in today til about 8:30 so I slept in too :) Dan is starting a new club at school and so James and I wanted to go and surprise him and take his picture as he was holding sign ups so my morning was a bit rushed as we had to be to the school by 9:30. I fed James and didn't have time to eat but I knew that I needed to have breakfast so I grabbed a 100 calorie granola bar. When we got back home I was hungry so I had 1/2 a cup of cheerios. For lunch we had leftover chicken tacos that I made on Wednesday, it was yummy! Then for dinner I wanted to make an autumn type dinner so I made this new chicken casserole with wild rice and boy was it good! It was only 166 calories for 1 serving so I had 1 1/2 servings but I should have only had 1 serving as it was way filling. For dessert tonight I had a skinny cow ice cream cup for 150 calories, thanks Kaisi for introducing me to those! Oh and while I was at the grocery store I stopped by Starbucks and bought myself a child's hot chocolate without whipped cream for 160 calories. Those little hot chocolates are the perfect size and temp!! My calorie count total for today is 1257 so Im a little over my 1200 but oh well. Its only 9:30 but I am tired so I think that I will now head off to bed!

Until tomorrow . . . Happy Dieting!!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Katie Day 67

Wow I can't believe that I haven't posted for such a long time! I am still on the diet wagon and things are going WAY GOOD!! Today I was at the mall and just for fun I walked into GAP and tried on some jeans and I am in a size 8!!! That was my goal for Christmas time and it isn't even Halloween yet! I was super excited and even did a little dance in the dressing room! Not only do the size 8's fit they fit just right and I don't have to suck in to button them up! When this diet started I was squeezing into a size 12 and I haven't seen a signal digit number since I got married 5 years ago! I have said this before and I know that I will say it again but counting calories WORKS!! Today I watched my calorie count up until dinner tonight when we went out with the Crofts to Plutos and they don't have their nutrition facts posted so I don't know how many calories I ate but it sure tasted good. Here is what I ate today :

Breakfast : Cheerios and 1 cup Skim Milk 193 calories

Lunch : Home made pizza 282 calories

Dinner : Chicken Sandwich

Snacks : Rice Cakes, Granola Thin, Truffle, Pinkberry 480

Exercise : Walk around Mall for about 1 hr Burn 232 calories

I feel GREAT! Until tomorrow . . . Happy Dieting!

Katie's Story

Well this is going to be exciting and I am excited to begin my blogging and also my weight loss adventure! I'm Katie and am the very proud mother of an adorable little boy! I love being a mommy and I do believe that I have one of the cutest little guys in ALL the universe! Growing up I was a Ballet dancer and therefore I never really had to worry about my weight. I say that loosely because I was always dieting and not eating and dancing. So I was always skinny. Therefore I have never really been a healthy dieter nor have I ever enjoyed exercising because to me Ballet isn't exercise its just fun! I would do Ballet now but there is NO WAY I am ever putting toe shoes on again n0t to mention a leotard and tights :) When Shelley and I discussed doing The Biggest Loser I was excited and nervous as I have in the past 5 years failed at losing weight and working out. However I have hope that this time it just might work as I now have a blog and others watching and I have always been fairly competitive and so here goes nothing! Wish me luck! I sure hope I am a gracious winner :)

UPDATE: I am now a lucky mother of 2 adorable kiddos! My daughter was recently born and it is time for me to get back on the diet wagon. So here we go again!!

Kaisi's Story

Hi, my name is Kaisi Grow. I have never had to write a profile about my weight journey so I am not really sure where to begin... I guess I will just start where everyone does. I enjoy long walks on the beach, but lately it seems they have turned into short winded waddles. I am just kidding...but seriously I have never really been good at dieting or exercising because frankly I never stick to it, I am all talk. So when Shelly & Katie asked me to do the "Biggest Looser" with them I though what a great way to be forced into sticking to something rather than having it stick to me!. I recently had a baby girl that we named Sadie. When I was pregnant I gained roughly 38-39lbs, so you can imagine my surprise when Sadie came out weighing only 7lbs 11oz. My mind immediately went to all the food I chowed down over the last 9 months. Muffin tops are my favorite, but I hadn't taken that "you are what you eat" thing seriously. I knew it was time for a major rebound, but have not had the moral support or peer pressure until now!. December 1st is my deadline and I am hoping to hit my goal of 135lbs! I am exited to take you along the way, so please hang in there with me through my mood swings and bitter days because I know by cutting down on my Diet Coke there are bound to be some!