We're PHAT!

Yes I know the 90's want their acronym back... and let's be real here, we're not "PHAT" these days, just fat. Jake and I realized we gained the feared weight you always hear about when getting married... We thought we would be immune to being overcome by such an atrocity. Sadly, we were wrong and have each gained our dreaded 15 lbs.... maybe 20 but who's counting? *tear shed* I've decided we needed to do something about our current predicament. Usually I would love to have a new wardrobe, but having to get a new one because I need to get clothes a size or two larger is not so joyful. So instead of going out and buying clothes that "make me look fat", I decided we are going to get our lazy butts into shape.
And our weapon of choice is:

I don't know how much longer I can stand watching this crazy on my TV

Never in my life have I ever worked out so much and been in so much pain. We've only done it for 2 days and have 13 weeks of this torture! I'm sure no one thinks we'll make it the whole time, I have my doubts as well, but we think we can do it as long as we can keep each other motivated. We even took before pictures!
I am working on my photoshop skills, no one panic!

Our lack of clothing in our actual ones keeps me from posting them, but you get the gist. Probably the most motivating thing I've done when trying to lose weight. Definitely recommend doing so yourself if you need extra motivation. Our final goal look is something like this.

We plan on winning every competition we go into

We haven't really changed our diets much other than getting rid of our giant portions. I did find a wonderful smoothie recipe that allows me to get yogurt into my body. I really wanted to start eating it but tried and couldn't stomach it. Thanks to this wonderful recipe I can add that to my diet! Yay! It's only strawberries, bananas, skim milk, fat free vanilla yogurt, and a few squirts of honey. So yummy!

That's some of what is going on with us right now. I'm currently unemployed and am on the hunt for a job. Elliot is pretty much completely healed. His eye is still a bit swollen and he still has to take antibiotics daily but he's back to his silly self and we couldn't be happier. Thank you everyone for your concern. I love that little guy. Now we're just looking forward to Jake's Birthday coming up on Monday! To celebrate I got him tickets to the Real SL game on Saturday and hanging out with friends. Looking forward to that!

-Jen