#Mcfatty monday :: Scale or tape measure? #

Here we go again, another week and all I have to say is WTF?!?!?!?! I have been working my butt off and cuting calories like if my life depends on that & yet I just lose ONE pound this week.

Not that I don't like to lose at least 1lb because adding the other 8 I already lost that is a gran total of 9 lbs in a month and that makes me very happy but I can't stop feeling dissapointed.

We live in Arizona for God's sake so 2/3 of the year I have to wear shorts, tank tops and sandals and the other 1/3 is not that cold so I can't hide my fluffy self with a lot of winter clothes.

So there is my motivation to keep going, I'm visualizing how good I will look on my new bathing suit for the summer or how comfortable I will feel for spring training wearing shorts and sleevless shirts not to worrying about my super fat arms.

Which makes me think about this, what do you trust more the scale or the tape measure?

The other day I weighed myself on that freaking, ugly, devil scale of mine and I weigh more than before I started to working out so I was in shock and about to go and eat all the chocolate I could find on my way because I was sad and dissapointed, I mean if you are working your butt off the less you are expecting is to see some results, right? Well I asked my friends on facebook and most of them agreed that the tape measure is better than the scale or the way your clothes fits you.

I definitely can feel a difference but it would be great to SEE a change on the numbers on the scale.

This week I kinda going to start over and not to pay attention to the number on the scale but the numbers on the tape measure so (please don't laugh) my numbers are as follows:

Waist: 34"
Breast: 38.5"
Tight: 22.5"
Arms: 11.5"
Hips: 39.5"

We will see if I can see a difference next week.

Overall I'm happy so far and as my husband says it's always better something than nothing or "pian pianito" as my grandma used to say (That its a say in spanish that means little by little).

So what do you do, scale or tape measure? Any feedback would be greatly appreciate.

Happy week and see you next monday!!!

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Is not new that I love love love photography and I really wish 1. I have talent  and 2. I have a nice DSLR but since I don't have neither I'm happy just stalking visiting my favorite photographers blogs and having some eye candy everyday every once in a while.


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Jessica Claire 
Kamee June
DrewB
Marnee Marriot & Latricia Soucy
Bethany Graham


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Happy 14 months my dear love!

Oh my! 14 months already and I'm just getting over the fact that she turned ONE!

Where did the time go?

How did this happen?

Please someone explain that to me, when my tiny and fragil baby became such a fun, hyperactive, smart little girl?

She can now say mama, dada, papa, ball, dog, bye-bye, balloon (oh she LOVES ballons), she says mooo mooo like a cow and quak quak like a duck.

She blows kisses, she does "give me 5", she does "touchdown".

She takes 1 or 2 naps a day, depends on at what time she wakes up in the morning.

She eats almost everything as she is getting really picky about vegetables and such, her favorite is cheese tortellini with marinara sauce, strawberries, pancakes (McDonald's pancakes) and she loves her milk.

My favorite part is when she is playing and all of the sudden she runs towards me and hug me so tight! or when she hears the garage door opening and she runs to the kitchen pointing at the door saying dada, dada! because she knows daddy is home.

Happy birthday my princess!

We will love you forever

we will like you for always

as long as we are living

our baby you will be.

#Mcfatty monday :: week 4#

As I'm eating a full bag of popcorn I'm very happy to announce that I lost 1.8 more pounds this week!!!

I have been very good at counting calories so I don't end up eating more that I should and I really think is not that complicated and the best part is that I can still eat whatever I want just being careful about the serving sizes.

I haven't drink anything but water and I feel good about it, I don't miss soda at all.

Now let's talk about exercise, I'm lazy and I don't like it but I realize that if I want to reach my goal in less time I need to get up and work my butt off.

I found a very cool gadget on my phone call cardio trainer where you can setup everything about your weight loss program, how many lbs you want to loose, how many calories you are eating everyday, your BMI, everything about your work out, it tells you if you are wlaking or running, for how long, how many calories you burned, it also has a GPS !!! I'm in love with this application but I found it yesterday so I didnt do to much exercise this week, I just walked 5 miles yesterday and I'm planning on doing this everyday, 3 miles with my baby on her stroller and 2 more miles with my dog at the dog park!

(Note for myself: Get a jogging stroller)

This is the longest that I have ever follow a plan to lose weight and I'm happy, energized and motivated to keep going.

I want to thank to my wonderful husband for all of his support because I couldn't do this without him cheering me on!!! Love you babe!

My goal for this week is to lose at least 2 more pounds and start walking faster everytime so I might be able to start jogging in no time.

Until next monday

#Mcfatty Monday Week 3 #

Yes, y'all!!! (As Blair, the creator of Mcfatty monday would say) I already lost *EIGHT* lbs and I'm so very happy and proud of myself.

I have to say that it haven't been easy to count calories and restricted the amount of food that goes to my tummy everyday or drink just plain water mostly because 1. I do like to eat like a pig and 2. because I love soda and sugary drinks.


But the results oh! the results are wonderful, 6 lbs this week and my skin looks much more hydrated.

Love it!

The bad:

I haven't done exercise AT ALL! Not even 10 minutes
I'm obsessed with the scale and weighed myself every single day which some day made me so frustrated as I wasn't seeing any changes.

The good:

I drank lots of water

I didn't have ANY soda not even diet.

I scrumptiosly counted my calories every day

Goals for this week

Do some exercise (I don't promise I will but at least I will try)

Keep counting calories (5 days - 1500, 1 day - 1700, 1 day - 2200)

Hide the scale until next monday

So yeah! I still have a long way to go but I can feel this time I will do it!!!

Until next monday