Hey hey it's announcement day ya'll!

Today I met my first goal in my weightloss journey and I'm so happy to share it with all of you!

This morning I went out for a run and felt like crap so I called it quits after 1 mile which is totally not something I normally do. Most times I will stick it out but I took it easy on myself since I did an easy breezy 3.4 miles last night. Which felt amazing by the way.

So anyway, when I got back home I decided to go ahead and do my weekly weigh in. I stepped on the scale and almost jumped and screamed for joy! (But decided against that because hubby and baby were sleeping.) ;-)

 I'm FINALLY at my pre-pregnancy weight. It's only taken 11 months and 6 days. Ha!

This is a huge accomplishment for me and I'm so excited to finally be at this weight. I still have another 15 lbs to go to reach my ultimate happy goal weight and I know that if I keep eating right and working out I'll reach it before too long. 

So anyway, that's my big announcement for the day. Thanks for letting me share it with all of you and thanks for all your support and encouragement. Especially from my hubby who has totally motivated me all along and told me how great I'm doing and for two groups of ladies on Facebook that have been great motivators and a big inspiration to me.  I love you all!

Talk to you all soon!

xxx

Ryan

Progress and daily life update!

Hello my followers!

I know I haven't written an actual blog in a while but I promise it's only because I've been so busy lately. I say this all the time but I will be SO glad when Ryan's night shift is over. Looks like it will be just in time for summer too. That makes me happy because we will get to go out and do stuff together with Charlie while the weather is nice. It hasn't been terrible during the winter but I would hate to spend the summer nights without my love.

SO! As most of you know I started a weightloss competition on January 5th. I'm in one with all my friends, who are totally kicking ass by the way, and considering most of us girls had babies last year we totally rock for wanting to get back in shape as soon as we could. (I'm a little late, my kid is almost 1 :-) ha)I'm also in another one on a website called dietbet.com. Totally genius idea and concept but you really have to be focused to at least win your money back. I bet $125 that I would lose 10% of my body weight by July. I'm well into that bet, I've already lost 6% and I fully intend to lose the 10% plus more. My friendly diet bet ends in April so I really need to kick my butt into gear for the next two months.

I've really been focused on eating right and staying away from fast food and garbage that I know my body does not need. I haven't totally kicked the diet cokes, I maybe have 2 a week but I know I need to give those up too because really they do absolutely nothing for me. I've been running 3 miles a day 5 days a week and sometimes my weekend runs are a little longer. Running at 530  in the morning is really the hardest thing ever, especially in the cold, but I would rather knock my workouts out early so I can spend time with the little bug when she wakes up. My pace is getting better too. When I first started running again my pace was like 12:50 per mile. haha. I'm back down in the 10's now so that makes me smile. 

I've decided not to run the mini or any of the triple crown races this year. Those races take so much out of me and by the time they are done I don't want to run again for like 6 months! So, I've decided to take this year off and focus on fun running for ME!

I'm still working on my 365 project and it's coming along. Shooting everyday has done wonders for me. It sometimes hard to think of things to photograph though. Especially in the winter. Especially this winter. IT'S BEEN SO FREAKIN' COLD! Ugh. I'm so ready for it to be over, but nope, snowed again last night. Jeez.

So yeah, that's what's been going on with me lately. I'm also planning little bugs first birthday party! That's probably a whole different blog I should write because there is no way a 1 year olds birthday party should stress me out the way this one has. More on that later. Probably after the party.

I'll be posting another blog later with the 365 update and following that up with a special blog about a special client of mine having TRIPLETS! I've snuck some in on Pinterest. Check the link--->

Hope everyone has a great day!

xxx

Ryan

Well hello there! A 365 update!

Hey friends! I just want to update the bloggy blog with my 365 pics! I've been super busy lately with the snow, the babe, birthday's, friend and family time & relaxation!

Thanks for following along :-)

Day 34. "Home"

 Day 35. "Reflection"

Day 36. "Ice"

Day 37. "Happy birthday Grandma"

Day 38. "Birdhouse"

Day 39 "Bowling with friends"

Day 40. "Scrunch Face"

Day 41 "Inspector Carrot Head"

Day 42 "Salt Rocks"

Day 43 "Reading My Mom & Me" *Love*

Day 44. "No 10 month pics mom"

Day 45. "Favorite" *Happy valentines day :-)

Day 46 "Debating on running the mini again this year"

Day 47. "So fresh and so clean"

The SUN is finally out here in Louisville and all this snow is melting. I seriously cannot wait to get outside and start shooting again. This winter has been such a drag. Hope everyone is enjoying the warm up!

xxx

Ryan

It's just one of those days...

Sitting here listening to Lana Del Rey Radio on Pandora, playing around with photos and hacking the husbands Facebook account. It's a lot of fun. :-)

Yesterday was Charlie's 9 month doctors appointment and of course Dr. Hubbs didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Our little bug is perfect :-) She weighs a whopping 22 lbs and is 27.4 inches long. Last Friday she started crawling and then out of no where yesterday she started pulling up to her knees on her toy box. I guess this means she's going to be pulling up to standing position and walking before I know it. I can't believe how fast this is all happening! Make it stop! Just kidding, I enjoy watching her grow, learn and discover things.

She only had to get one shot yesterday so she was pretty happy about that. Here is day 20.

Today is the last day to post my week 3 image for the lyric "It's like you're my mirror, my mirror staring back at me" for The Photographer Within's P52. I had this whole idea planned out in my head that incorporated Charlie but she just didn't want to cooperate with me this week. So instead of Charlie, I completed another selfie.

Day 21. Week 3.

I feel like it was kind of cliche to take a picture of myself in the mirror. I guess I was a little uninspired this week. Hopefully I can have some fun with next week's lyric.

I haven't really talked much about my weightless journey recently. I weigh in again Saturday but I'm currently down 7 lbs. Hopefully I'll be down another 2 by the time I weigh in again. I've really been doing great running and eating right. I feel so much better than I did 20 days ago. I'm not really trying to diet, I'm just trying to focus on making lifestyle changes and not eating crap that I was before. Luckily for me I've got a lot of motivation $$$ and some good friends along for the ride. :-)

Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts just came on. Wow. I love this song, it reminds me of a million different things.  I think I'll go ahead and sign off for tonight and sing this song at the top of my lungs. (Hope my neighbors can't hear me.)

xxx

Ryan

xxx

Ryan

365......Attempt 2. Among other things......

Well here we go again. It looks like I'm going to attempt yet another 365. This time I have a lot of motivation and I'm in a wonderful Facebook group with some awesome photographers that are doing the same thing so hopefully we can all motivate each other to finish.

This was my image today.

This image means two things.

#1. This is the first image of my 365-2014 project.

#2. I'm FINALLY going to start training again. I've been running on and off over the past 8 months but it's really time to focus and get back in shape. I've joined two bets for weight loss. One with a group of friends and one on dietbet.com. The one on DietBet is HUGE. I've never seen a pot so big for a weightloss comp. This bet is over 6 months so I have to stay focused!

The triple crown of running and the mini marathon are coming up again. I haven't ran a race since the mini in 2012 so maybe if I start today I can whip my butt into shape. Plus I cannot wait to try my new outdoor running face mask my sister and brother in law got me for Christmas. That thing is SWEET!

Anywho, I'm going to be keeping up with my 365 project on here and on Facebook. This is where I'll elaborate a little on the image I've shot for the day. Obviously this is a huge time suck so I may not be able to post everyday. I hope some of you will hop over and follow my blog.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and safe New Years Eve! Welcome to 2014!

Thanks for the love and support!

xxx

Ryan