The Cardboard Diet Week 13

 

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This week I don't have much to report or any pictures. I am contemplating signing up last minute for a 10K this weekend, and I have until tonight to decide. Also, only 37 days until my half marathon race.

  Weigh-in: Down 1 more pounds, making it a total of 13lbs lost.   Exercise Completed: Still running 4 times a week and cross training two of the days and resting every Sunday.

Splurge/Guilty Pleasure: A cheeseburger with bacon, grilled onions and jalepeno's. It was delicious and I don't regret it.

Success story: Down another pound and some great runs this week.

Recipes/photos: Sorry, next week will be better.

Lately

With Mason starting school, I feel like the weeks are already flying by. Every Tuesday and Thursday he has football practice. Every Monday/Wednesday the girls and I have playgroup and Mason has his football games on Saturday. If you add in any Open House for Kindergarten or any other activity, it makes for a very busy week.

Mason is still loving Kindergarten. His teacher tells me that he is an extremely hard worker and listens very well. He does on occasion get over excited about the next activity and needs to learn to speak softly, but we are working on that with him. Every day he has gotten a green card, which means that he had excellent behavior and did everything the first time the teacher asked him to.

This year, the Kindergarten classes have 100 site words that they must know by the beginning of the the 5th six weeks, which means by March or April. We received the list and flash cards and have started to work with him every night.

Taylor loves being home with just Mommy and Peyton. We already have a routine down, which helps me out a lot. The other day Taylor was eating her breakfast and told me that I was her hero. It made my day, week, year! I pray that she has a lot of great examples of women in her life.

Peyton is less than a month away from celebrating her 1st birthday. I have come up with the theme and sent out the invites. We are just having family and a couple of friends. I know the party is mostly for the parents and the kids, but I can't wait to celebrate our little pumpkin.

As of last week, she is officially off of the bottle and only drinks from her sippy cup. We stay away from juice because of the sugar, so she really just drinks water and milk. I took her off formula last week as well. All of my kids transitioned to milk around this time and did really well. I have kept a close eye on her to make sure she doesn't have any aversions or allergies, but so far so good. Not having to buy baby food or formula saves a ton of money. My goal by next summer is to have her potty trained.

 Love all of her leg rolls. She is starting to thin out and I'm going to miss them. This how Peyton drinks her "WaWa."

 Taylor and her cousin Faith cheering Mason on at his game.

 

 Mason warming up before the game.

 

 The team running through the banner at the beginning of the game.

 

 Mason is one of the team captains.

So proud to be his mom!

The Cardboard Box Diet Week 12

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I realize that it is Sunday night and I'm just now posting my #cbdiet post, but it has been a crazy busy week.

 

I'm on a journey to lose weight. I've been on this path since January, when I stopped nursing my youngest daughter. Knowing that Peyton is our last biological child, I vowed to get back into shape. I gained the same amount of weight with all three of my pregnancies, 30lbs. However, each time I started out a different weight.

 

By March, I had lost 18lbs and gained eight of those pounds back by June. I've lost weight since June, but I still would like to lose another 23lbs. It was at that point that I really started to get serious about changing how I looked at food and taking better care of my body. Signing up for The Chosen Half Marathon also provided motivation to get back into shape.

 

Through this journey, I've realized that I don't have to be to my goal weight to feel strong, healthy and beautiful. I might not be at my goal weight, but I have never felt better in my life. I know it's due to making smart choices and living a healthy lifestyle. I can look in the mirror and be proud.

 

Weigh-in: Down 2 more pounds, making it a total of 12lbs lost.   Exercise Completed:  Still running 4 times a week and cross training two of the days and resting every Sunday.

Splurge/Guilty Pleasure: I love Chili's Triple Dipper Appetizer. I get it as a meal and let me tell you, it tastes great when I eat it, but I feel awful about 10 minutes later. Not out of guilt, but when I have been eating and feeding my body optimal nutrition and then have a splurge to that extent, it hurts physically.

 

Success story: I'm taking a series of pictures during my weight loss journey. As I was looking back on them (no, I won't post them because I'm in my underwear and a sports bra), I realized that I can see a difference. I'm taking them every 10 days and will continue to do so. I always heard that it takes a week for your to notice, four weeks for your spouse, and eight weeks for everyone else. We will see.

Recipes/photos: No recipes this week, but here are a few photos from one of my runs last week. We have a neighborhood Katy that has some pretty scenery. I love going for runs around the lake.

 

 

 

 

The Cardboard Diet Week 11

  If you are new to LFT's The Cardboard Box Diet, go HERE!   Weigh-in: No weight loss this week and I'm not complaining. Total loss of 10lbs. I know there will be weeks like this and I'm okay with that. I'm seeing a huge difference in how my clothes are fitting me and overall I feel stronger. I might not be to the number on the scale I want, but I'm healthy and happy and I know one day I will be to that number, due to hard work and smart choices.   Exercise Completed:  I had a really great week of running and training. The heat is brutal and I'm still doing my runs on the treadmill, but I can't wait to take them outside. 8 Weeks until my race!
Splurge/Guilty Pleasure: My family came over to our house and we grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken, and sausage. When my mom cooks, there is always an over abundance of food. She wants to make sure that everyone has a chance to eat what they want and so that always means she tries to feed a small army. I love her for this and so does my husband because that means we had leftovers this week. I kept the chicken and he kept the burgers, sausage and hot dogs. Back to my splurge...everyone was eating hamburgers and they looked so good, so I opted for a burger instead of grilled chicken. It was delicious and I'm happy with my choice.
Success story: My mom tried to leave her tray of brownies at our house on Labor Day and I had to force her to take them home with her.   Recipes/photos: I baked some garlic and herb salmon the other night and used the leftover salmon for my salad at lunch today. I took fresh baby spinach, added the salmon and flaked it all over, a few slivers of almonds, and squeezed fresh lime on top. So filling and delicious! I also love fresh fruit when I'm needed a snack. These strawberries are seriously the best I have had all season. Not too ripe, but just right.
 

Opening College Football Weekend

Every Labor Day weekend, we celebrate the start of College Football in the Kaye house. We are avid football fans and count down until the season starts. For the last couple of years, Baylor has started the season on a Sunday evening, which makes it easier for us to make it to the games. Last year, we had season tickets, but given that Mason is now playing football, we opted not to purchase them this year.

Since the game didn't start until 5:30pm, we thought it might be best to leave Peyton behind for this game. Thankfully, my sister was kind enough to volunteer to watch her for us. Mason & Taylor were so excited about this game, except for the drive up to Waco. They kept saying before we even left that Waco was very far away, which it is only 2.5 hours from our home. We left after church and they were able to take a short nap and then we played a lot of car games the rest of the drive. They were so good and did very little complaining.

We showed up about 2 hours before the start of the game, which allowed us time to park, walk around and find our seats. Thankfully, we were in the shade and up high enough to feel the breeze. Also, we were seated right in front of NFL Scouts from the Falcons, Saints, Cowboys, Colts, Texans, Chiefs, and Rams. We were able to visit with some friends and see Adam's brother and wife and my cousin and her boyfriend at the game.

Mason & Taylor before the game.



Mason loved these banners that they gave out at the game.



Papa bear and his cubs.



Daddy and Taylor



Uncle David with Adam and the kids



So excited to see Uncle David



My cousin Taylor who the kids refer to as Aunt Taylor

Cousins