Author Archives: Jos
Wanderlust
Travel is one of my greatest passions in life. I love being a mom. I love being a social butterfly and having gatherings with my friends. I love going on rafting trips and ski dates with my hubby. But above all, I love being a mom and friend and wife who travels WITH her family […]
NYE
Well, as long as I’m back writing in this space, I figure it shouldn’t all be about weight loss or that would get boring quickly. 😉 As I mentioned in my post on the 31st, it was our final morning in Mexico (family vacation with my husband’s family), and we had an overnight layover in […]
WWW – Week 0, 0%
What is it about a new year that makes it feel exciting to start fresh on a project? 🙂 This year, my project is ME! I started tracking my food yesterday (even though it was a travel day home from Mexico), and this morning I stepped on the scale at 190.3#. I figure that’s as […]
WWW – January 2019 Goals
Hey everyone… I’m back! Somehow, it’s been nearly 8 months since I’ve been in this space again. I’ve been thinking about things, and really, it comes down to the fact that I avoid it when I feel down about my life choices and embarrassed that I haven’t gotten a handle on my health yet. At […]
The Monday Snapshot – Camping Edition
Last weekend I took the kids to Moab for a camping trip with some friends. It was a lot of work without Charlie with us, but we had so much fun!
WWW – Week 9, 27%
Starting Weight (3/1/2018): 186.9# Last Week’s Weight: 178.0# This Week’s Weight: 177.2#
The Monday Snapshot – Reading!
Over the past few months, Stella’s reading skills have just exploded. It is SO fun to listen to her read to us now! How does it seem like just yesterday that she was a tiny baby on my chest?
WWW – Week 8, 24%
Starting Weight (3/1/2018): 186.9# Last Week’s Weight: 179.5# (3 weeks ago) This Week’s Weight: 178.0#
The Monday Snapshot – Springtime in the Rockies
The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of springtime weather swings here in Colorado! Saturday morning we woke up to a fresh blanket of incredibly wet, heavy snow, but by the afternoon it was mostly melted, and by the following day I was laying out in my swimsuit with a cold beer, watching […]
The Monday Snapshot – #80DO
I’ll be back with my normal WWW posts on Wednesday, but today I started the Beachbody Program named 80 Day Obsession, and I just wanted to put it out here that I am SO excited, nervous, motivated, scared, and determined to do this program! With Day 1 today, that puts me at Day 80 on […]
WWW – Week 5, 20%
Starting Weight (3/1/2018): 186.9# Last Week’s Weight: 181.9# This Week’s Weight: 179.5# My goal was to be in the 170s by today (I leave for a work retreat in Mazatlan early tomorrow morning), and I did it! Honestly, I stood on the scale at 5am when I woke up and saw 180.0# on the dot, […]
WWW – Week 4, 13%
Starting Weight (3/1/2018): 186.9# Last Week’s Weight: 183.1# This Week’s Weight: 181.9# (down 1.2#, though I was down to 180.8 on Sunday) Well, I had a great week overall. My weight was actually the lowest on Sunday morning, and even though I had good food tracking days Sunday-Tuesday, for some reason my weight popped back […]
WWW – Week 3, 10%
Well, I went a little off the rails last Wednesday – Saturday. There was a lot going on (snowboarding with my brother, the anniversary of my SIL’s death, a friend’s band opening for a local concert, my husband’s hockey tournament, and an overnight 3 hours from home for St. Patty’s Day with an old friend […]
WWW – Week 2, 14%
Quick post from my phone in the car this week, but I’m so happy to be on this journey and feeling great about it! Onward and downward. 😉 Last Week’s Weight 3/8/2018 – 184.6# Week 2 Goals: Work out an average of 30 minutes / day Track my food every day in MFP. You can’t […]
The Monday Snapshot – Childhood
On Friday night, Stella got to go to her best friends’ house for a sleepover (twin girls – the 3 of them are so in love with each other!). We promised Harvey he could pick something fun to do with me and his Dad in the meantime, and he requested a bike ride to the […]
WWW – Wk 1, 6%
Last week I wrote a post about Fear. Fear of failing…fear of so many things. I’m tired of being afraid, so I’m doing something about it. For many years I was great at writing my Weekly Wednesday Weigh-In posts. It transformed to TISW for awhile (The Incredible Shrinking Wife) and to MILF (pretty self-explanatory, ha!), but […]
Fear
It holds you back. It entices you to make excuses. It convinces you to close your eyes and remain in denial about reality. It causes you lash out at people who care about you who are simply trying to help. It convinces you to wallow in complacency instead of being determined and taking action. In […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 9, Rewriting the Narrative
I had a post all planned for yesterday that was a total rant about having to always be the cruise director of the family to make sure the kids are taken care of – even though I work full time, just like my husband. Then at the work conference I was at, one of the […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 7, My Parents
Last November when I did #NaBloPoMo, on Day 7 I alluded to a big surgery my Mom was going in for. Basically, in the end of October, my Mom went to her family doc for a routine acute issue. While there, she mentioned in passing a pain she had experienced on her left side 10 days […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 6
Dangit! 12 hours ago I opened my browser window to write a post for today, and now at 9pm in bed I realize that I never did. This is the story of my life lately… so much to do, so little time. At least I got in a solid workout this morning, made a decent […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 5, The 10 Week Challenge
2,917 That’s how many days ago I started this blog. That’s 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days ago. Also known as, the more things change, the more they stay the same. For my long time readers, this post will sound all too familiar to you, and I’m sorry for that. Ha! ——————————————————————————– It’s funny […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 4
Well, I just realized I already forgot to post yesterday on day 3. Oops. Since Harvey didn’t get into preschool this past fall, I’ve had to cut back my hours at work and do a lot of juggling to get childcare covered. Part of that includes watching my friend’s daughter on Fridays (she watches Harvey […]
#NaBloPoMo – Day 2, R+F
As you can tell from the last 8 years of me posting in this space, I am not much of a makeup girl, and IÂ struggle to feel put together on a daily basis. With that being said, over the past few years I’ve begun to focus a lot more on taking care of my skin, […]
#NoBloPoMo – Day 1
It’s the bottom of the 9th inning in game 7 of the World Series… do or die time for my favorite sport, and I just realized that it’s that time of the year again when I try to post daily for the entire month. Gah! Basically, that’s one long run on sentence to say, Hi! […]
Full Up
The comic You Should’ve Asked by French cartoonist Emma made the rounds on Facebook a few weeks ago, and it SO perfectly sums up my life right now. Go ahead, click on it and read it before you come back here. It’s important. I don’t mean to lay the blame all on my husband – he’s […]
