Last night hubby and I went to a concert at a local club /bar. I wore my only 'going out' shirt and my tightest jeans which are pretty loose. (XL shirt and 16 plus size jeans) I didn't particularly feel 'small' but felt fine. As you can imagine it got tight in the crowd and hubby ended up standing behind me. During the songs, he would wrap his arms around me. Yup. That's crazy. His arms fit all the way around me. He would block the a holes from squishing me. That was a lot of fun and really, really crazy.

At one point a girl beside me saw my phone with our 3 kids. She couldn't believe I had 3 kids and said "wow, you look great" I was like "excuse me? What?" That's just insane.

Well, it had to happen sooner or later; I went back to work. I was glad to have some structure, alone with the kids is a little tiring for me. Grateful for the time with them, but ready to teach come end of summer.  This week was pre planning so didn't have to be at work at the crack of down, since I've been getting up at 5 am to work out, I decided to sleep til I had to get up. I did workout two days this week after work which was good but hard to deal with the kids and juggle the gym.

I'm hoping to get back to my 5am mornings next week. I also have lunch duty so will need to bring my lunch and my girls start kindergarten so lots and lots going on. The girls will be taking their lunches as well and hubby's new shift means I'll be getting all three ready by myself and doing the dropping off and picking up so we will see how that goes. I did that this past week and it was exhausting. Craig has offered to go in later but that just puts me with no help in the evenings so I am going to try to make this work.

Carbs have definitely been sneaking in. I've had a piece of bread here, a hersey kiss there, etc. I'm sure that in addition to not exercising 6 days a week like I was, my weight has stalled a bit. I know it will get better with the structure of work so I'm not too worried. I honestly think a little carbs like the wheat bread is good for me now that I'm running.

I'm very excited about my couch to 5k training. Its going really well. I have done up to 4 weeks. It is now very difficult but mostly a mind game. I'm trying to get past that. About five people from my work are doing it so there is some pressure to stick with it.

Going back to work was fun.  A few people saw me when I taught summer school but even they were amazed I had dropped another size. So that was fun. The new people didn't know what I looked like five months ago so it was nice to be around people that know the 'normal' sized Emily only. Feeling really sexy lately and hoping to get even smaller. My plus sized 16s are loose and now I'm hoping to get to 12s or so.  Before I would have been happy with 14s but I would like to know what 12s would look like.

I met up with the Jville wls support group for the first time since pre op. There were only two people there but it was nice to talk the 'talk' with people who have been there. I still haven't met a dser in real life so can't wait for that day. There is one dser in the group but she was on vacation. Hoping I can meet up with her soon.

Just got back from a few days at a water/theme park with hubby and our 5 year old twin girls. There were so many wows. I wasn't worried about fitting into rides AT ALL. I fit all of them and the girls were happy that I was participating with them so much. I would just say "I want to ride it" and they would smile and go with me. It was a great trip.  I'm a little sad, hubby couldn't fit on one ride. He was saying how he was too 'tall' but the ride says it fits until 6'6" so I'm a little sad but even more sad bc he is in such denial. I wish he would understand he is overweight but he doesn't think he is.

I've worked out for a 1.5 months pretty hard and I'm so happy I have. I would have NEVER made it without losing 70 lbs and all that exercise. We were in the park for 7.5 hours on Wed and 5 hours today. That included climing stairs about 10 times for the water slides and walking all over the whole two parks for those hours. My legs feel like jello, but I did it and could keep walking with no problems.

I know I've lost a few more pounds bc I got on the scale at the end of the day in jeans, fully clothed and it said what my lowest was two days ago. woohoo.

I did well with my vites and drinking. I found out mixing fruit punch and water at the park was good and kept me pretty hydrated.

So great trip. School starts next week and I'm really really nervous about leaving my baby boy but I'll survive. Saw one of my girls' teacher from last year and she said how great I looked so that is cool.  Also, asked the secretary at work if I could use her computer since mine wasn't working and she stared at me like I was crazy. I just looked and finally she said she was sorry, she didn't know who I was! That was great.

So hope to get this school year started off in a healthy way. woohoo!