Diets, Diets, Diets

So, as most of you know I have been doing the HCG diet and it is not as easy as some people think! I'm down 22#'s and the scales have stopped moving. I originally wasn't going to post about my weight loss journey but my lifecoach has really, really been pressuring me to journal somewhere so I would just prefer to do it all in one place! Maybe I can pick and choose what I want to print when I order it in a book, especially the one I print for Chayse. 

It has taken me 7 months to actually change my lifestyle so that working out every day is a normal part of my day. I have given up all my extracurricular activities to focus on the gym and I have done well! I seriously work out about 2 hrs a night 6 days a week and I can't stand it if I don't get to go for some reason. Now... the doctor has suggested that I stop working out temporarily so that I can eat only 500 calories and I just can't do that! I do not want to lose the weight to turn around and put it right back on. Through this HCG doctor I have found out that my thyroid is not doing much at all so to stop working out will not be good for me in the long run. I have worked too hard to get here to stop now so I am taking a break from the HCG and trying South Beach for 30 days.  Hopefully I can get the scales to move and then just need to use the HCG every other month to get rid of the "hard to reach" fat. Wish me luck! :)

For those of you wondering...I have not deprived Chayse of anything by spending so much time at the gym in the evenings. He loves to go and work out himself. I don't let him do much on the weights...not yet anyway but he has made a tremendous amount of friends there and they play basketball and football almost every night. He is playing sports and I let him make the decision and he has decided to play all of his sports with the Y league so.... for me that is great! I have considered "upward basketball" and then he also has a T-ball competitive league he has played in but unless he changes his mind, we will stick with the Y league. That way I can work out while he practices! Yea!!

HAHAHA

I guess I should learn what grade my kid is in...it's actually "First Grade with Mrs. Bolles!" :)

Kindergarten with Mrs. Bolles!

Again!!

In the car and on the phone...

C: can you ask Becky to hang on a second please?
A: hang on a sec, Beck
C: you aren't suppose to have sex until you are married!!
A: I know son, momma messed up
B: Do Not Laugh! (while she is cracking up on the other end)

( i did not laugh btw!) I'm worried about what is going on in his head!!

What Next???

All you girls have something you call it when your kids say funny stuff (ex: jacksonism's) but I can't seem to come up with anything unique for Chayse so I'll keep thinking about that. Last night at the Y, he pretty much had me speechless...and I mean speechless!! When we first get there he always wants to do some weights on the kids machines so last night he runs and jumps on the very first machine that is right by the opening to the weight room for the adults. (I have to give you a little bit of important info here...

1) Chayse is only 6 yrs old and just starting 1st grade

2) He runs, doesn't walk, does not know how to talk quietly and everything is very dramatic to him. He uses a lot of expression.

3) There are two grown men standing beside the towels talking and watching Chayse lift and can hear everything going on between Chayse and I along with whoever else is in the area. It was packed in there.

Chayse is really intense on this machine and then he just stops and looks at me with the most sincere look and loudly says...

"mommy, do you get pregnant from having sex?"

 (I just stare at him wondering what in the world do I say as I see the two men trying not to laugh)
"Well".... (long pause) "yes, son, you do".

Chayse: "How did YOU get pregnant?"

(the one man actually laughs and has to walk off)

Me: "Can we talk about this later?"

Chayse: (with his head tilted and his eyes open wide looking at me like "don't lie to me because I already know" very loudly says..."mommmyyyy"

Why did I feel like I was in trouble???? ;) I will leave it at that because I am still trying to figure out what and when I tell him this stuff or if I should let his daddy tell him.

Dear Lord, why can't he just be curious about cars and trucks and spiders and all that stuff!!

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Then an an hour later I go to the gym to check on him and he is playing dodgeball with about 10 other boys of all different ages. He takes a break to have this bit of conversation with me.

A: Having fun?

C: Yes, but that dude hit me in the nuts with the ball and it hurt so bad!

A: Are you ok?

C: Yah, I wanted to cry though but I didn't.

A: I think you will be ok.

C: I checked. They are ok.

A: Did you go to the bathroom?

C: No, I just pulled it out over there and looked!

Good Grief!! Right there in front of everyone he just pulls out his personal property and checks it out!!

Test

Breakfast In Bed

So Chayse wakes me up this morning about 7:15am to bring me breakfast in bed. He was so excited and so sweet. I was anxious to see what he had made me....

I'm upset that I didn't take a picture. He had taken a bagel and tore it into pieces in a bowl and added some onion (GAG) from the garden that him and his papa have been growing all summer. (garden post will be put on here eventually) I was like.."Ohhhhh...thank you so much" while thinking must put in trash asap! Except that Chayse decided to lay beside me in bed to watch me eat the wonderful breakfast he had created for me!

(I did manage to NOT eat the onion for breakfast but he does not know that)  :)