85!!!

I hit the big 85 lb. mark this morning! That's like the size of one of one of my tallest boys in my class! :) Chris made some comparison photos today, since I hit that next milestone, and after I came home from shopping he surprised me with this cool video. (it plays music, in case you're at work :)



It is so cool to see the weight just melt off...



The comparison photo shows the changes that have happened, even since 77 pounds, which confirms the fact that I'm still losing inches despite the fact that the scale hasn't gone down much. Chris made a good point--when I first started losing weight, it was probably more of my muscles with a little bit of fat. Now, as I'm building my muscles through exercise, I'm mainly losing fat which is harder to come off. I went running 3 times last week, and Chris is back at it with me. Yesterday, we went for 20 minutes!! We had a 5 min warm up, 20 minutes of jogging, and a 5 minute cool down. What an accomplishment!! The next run tomorrow is back to being a little easier again. The program wants you to really push it, and then ease back a little. We've decided to do The Second Empire 5K on May 2nd. We're on the 6th week of couch to 5K, and once we finish the 9 weeks, we're going to start back at the beginning with the program, but instead of alternating walking/running, we're going to run the whole time and alternate our pace. Chris came up with that idea today, and I thought that sounded good. Not that I'm trying to become really fast necessarily, but it's good to have a program to follow and it keeps us motivated and focused.

My birthday is on Tuesday and I will be 32. As I've been thinking about my birthday last week and where I thought I'd be when I was 32, the thought of children has entered my mind. When I was younger and had just gotten married, I thought I'd have 2 kids by now. In all that I have gone through in this journey over the past 7 months, I am so glad that I will be healthy and ready physically to have kids once it happens. Going through the surgery and everything since then has been life changing, and I think it would have been totally different if I had kids to worry about. So, as I always tell myself, everything happens for a reason and it is obviously God's plan that I went through this first before having kids.

I bought a skirt today at Target in a size 12! It was a little snug, but I bought it knowing it should fit well soon. Well...lots of exciting things this week. :) Yay for spring!