Work out Wednesdays

I am dedicating Wednesdays on my blog to working out.  There are all kinds of work out inspiration photos, instructional videos, and smart pieces of advice on the internet these days so I think I want to use this platform to talk about them and how they are helping me in my life and hopefully to inspire you to do the same.  I am really trying to get myself in shape and working out is a major factor in that.  I have a few problems with working out: 1) I hate it 2) I feel like I have better things to do 3) I get bored within the blink of an eye.

After I had Kate my body had completely transformed it's self.  I was pretty proud of the fact that I had only gained 30 pounds during pregnancy (because I already had some to lose) and actually got that off pretty quick.  Since the day I came home from the hospital I have lost a total of 51 pounds. sounds pretty good right? I have dropped all of my pregnancy weight and lost an extra 20 pounds.  I should be feeling awesome about myself right? Well guess what. I measure everything by pant size.  My pant size has not changed one bit from my pre pregnancy size. Thanks to pregnancy my weight, my body shifted so much that I lost weight in other areas like my arms, thighs, and butt, but my hips, stomach, and boobs have stayed exactly the same or gotten bigger! How frustrating is that?! Well it was all for the cause and I would do it 100 times again if I had to, but It made me realize that to get where I want to be regular exercise and toning is going to have to be a part of my life.  

I have recently started jogging/ walk-running intervals and felt like that was good enough, but I know that I get bored easily so I have started going to my trusty friend pinterest to find some fun things to do to switch it up! I want to share one of my new favorite things I have found.  

I have started doing this quick short work out during a quick 10 minute break at work a few times a day.  I love this because it is a small quick calorie burn that adds up.  If you can do this 3 times a day on top of your regular work out that is 300 calories extra burned. If you do this 5 times a week thats 1500 calories! How awesome is that?! I just recently started doing this but I will report back on how it's going and how I feel like it's helping.  I do know that i'm trying to do it when I'm wanting to snack and taking my mind off of food and onto burning calories! 

Let me know if you try it and how it's working for you! 

-K 

New Look, New Blogs

I hope everyone has been doing well and getting into the fall mood! I personally have been loving the weather recently!

As you can see we have a new look here at The life of Kate's Mom! I wanted to streamline and really make this blog about the story of our lives.  I hope you all like it! I'm sure as I get more sophisticated at blogger and html there will be new features at some point but for right now we are going simple. 

So along with the new look I have two more exciting announcements to make! I have taken on two more blogs that I can't wait for you to be a part of! I know what you are thinking, 'but Kylie, you don't even blog enough on this blog, what are you thinking?'.  That is a very good point and I have big plans to bring you new fun blog posts to this blog and the new blogs.  

The first one is a super fun blog for me and I have been wanting to start for a while now.  I have started a photography blog for all of our photo ventures.  I have recently been asked by multiple people to do some photography and shoots for them and I wanted a place to display all of our fun work! It is called Katherine H photography, after that sweet baby of mine, and I am so excited! I have a full time job so this is really just a fun fun hobby for me.  I hope to get that going soon and have some photos up for you all to see! 

The second blog is something I am SUPER excited about.  I am a big reader and I love the idea of a book club but lets be honest, who has time to get together with a bunch of people and talk about them? Not me. So one of my super hilarious best friends Jessica over at JessandJacy.com and I decided that we were going to start an online blogger book club.  The way this works is that every monday we will dedicate our blog to the book club.  We will pick 2-3 chapters of a book and write what we think about it.  Heres how you join, Write a blog on the same chapters we are on mondays and add our blog buttons to your blog and we will do the same that way we can easily go read each others!  Now let me just warn you/let you in on a little secret of mine.  I LOVE trashy romance novels.  I know I know, but your a MOM? Well most of you reading this blog are either in your 20's, a mom, or like me, both.  Don't lie to yourselves people, you like reading trashy romance books too.  Which is why i'm going to put this disclaimer out there for people before going to read or join our blogger book club.  Most of our books will be trashy romance novels.  Think fifty shades, Nora Robert's, Sylvia Day etc etc.  What this means is there is going to be some topics that people might be uncomfortable with, language for adults, and adult content. That's why I made a completely new blog just for this :)  The book club is cleverly named: The Monday Seductive... Not your momma's book club, and you can find the link here and the button to share on your blog at the bottom of this blog site! I really hope I can convince some of you to join us because it's going to be a fun time to unwind and take some time to yourself ;).  

Talk soon blogger world! 

-K