#20byThanksgiving

I started reading Mama Laughlin's blog several months ago when someone repinned it on Pinterest and immediately fell in love with her.  She was like my long-lost skinny BFF.  She lost a lot of weight after her second son was born last November, which happens to be when Superbaby was born.  However, she works full-time, doesn't have a husband with a crazy schedule, and wasn't breastfeeding.  I told myself that all of those differences were definitely stopping me from losing weight. I think I'm the only person in the world that doesn't lose weight with breastfeeding.  Anyway, last month, Superdad's crazy schedule stopped being so crazy and I started feeling a whole lot less like a married single mom.  I've had a lot more time to myself [hence the TWO recent blog posts!] and decided 2 weeks ago that it was time to change my weight for good.  Two Mama Laughlin super fans created a Facebook group for readers of the blog that were trying to lose weight and I joined right as it was created in July.  However, I never really interacted with it until a few weeks ago.  Right before Labor Day, I started all out stalking the group and it. is. AMAZEBALLS. I love that group so much.  The women are so encouraging and everyone has everyone's back.  There are people there trying to lose 10 pounds and there are people on a 150-pound weight loss journey. For the first time in my life, I feel like I CAN do this.  I don't have to be a slave to food or the scale or whatever else.  I've been logging everything I eat into myfitnesspal and working out [almost] daily.  I've lost 8 pounds since I started!  I broke into a new decade of numbers on the scale yesterday!  I know that I have such a long road ahead of me, but I will lose 100 pounds.  I deserve to feel beautiful.  Superboy & Superbaby deserve a mom that isn't fat.  Superdad deserves a hot wife.  I have SO got this. And I'm not giving up.

I joined a challenge to lose 20 pounds by Thanksgiving.  That's why my instagram and twitter posts have the #20bythanksgiving hashtag on them when I post anything fitness related -- we are all encouraging each other to lose 20 pounds and we will all make it there!  Join me on my challenge!  You won't regret it!

Until next time...

xoxo,
Supermom