Day 3

Well, today was not the best food-wise. I just need to get that out there. We did a lot of running around and I did a lot of dealing with kids being kids--which is to say breaking up fights, calming tantrums, and holding a little girl that was demanding a lot of attention. So that's the bad news. The good news--I stepped on the scale out of curiosity and I'm down 3lbs already. I know, I know, I shouldn't get scale-happy (or scale-sad, for that matter), but I just wanted to know. I think it is relatively easy for me to lose weight at this point. I really think my body wants to shed these extra pounds. The tough part will be keeping it off and changing things up along the way as it gets harder and harder to make the scale budge.

What I ate
Breakfast- Bologna sandwich (I was packing a picnic lunch, ended up being short on bologna, so I made myself a sandwich, and packed something different for the kids. See, I said it was a weird day).
Lunch-Chicken salad, leftover potato salad
Snack 1- Luna bar
Dinner- Chicken fingers, mashed potatoes, and mac & cheese YOWSA.
Snack 2- Crescent cinnamon bun

How I moved
I had two active periods today. First, I went geocaching with my three kids. Imagine this: It is 90 degrees out, you're 80ishlbs overweight, and you want to take three children on a hike of unknown distance to look for a hidden treasure so you put one in a hiking backpack on your back, and another one in an infant carrier on your front, and then you load up all of their gear (water bottles, diapers/wipes, snacks, bug spray)...and set off into the wilderness. That was me today and it was AWESOME. I felt so triumphant that we succeeded at this adventure--we found the treasure AND we had fun.  I also had a bootcamp class tonight. I was definitely a little more drained than normal, but I pushed myself as hard as I could. Then, due to a fiasco, we ended up picking up takeout for dinner. It was delicious, but the thought running through my head was I worked out WAY too hard to eat this bad. I had practically zero fruits and veggies today (meanwhile my kids ate a pint of blueberries, a pint of raspberries, 4 bananas, carrots, and celery)--and I felt it. Oh well, on to tomorrow. I have a big mom's group pot-luck so I volunteered to bring a salad to be sure I have something I can eat to stay on my plan.