BODY AFTER BABY / WEEK 3 & 4 - travel vlog

Good morning! So today we are flying out to Arizona but before we go I am gonna get some hair extensions put in my hair. I bought these like a year ago so okay I'm getting like beaded ones put in. I used to have these for like years. I had beaded extensions in my hair for like five years straight and then I took them out. I bought 22 inch long ones and I'm definitely not wanting them that long. I think I just want them a little bit longer than my real hair. Really more for thickness. I just like it's so thin. I hate my hair right now. So I'm excited to see what she does. Okay so I just have to say because this is pretty funny. I only brought three bags of hair with me thinking that's enough. No we need like three more bags at least. So we have half my hair in. I have a I got a straight up mullet right now and we are going to buy some more hair and then I'm going to go get my hair finished. So got the mullet. Rocking the mullet. thing I have to do is unpack. I cannot stand living out of a suitcase so I just make myself at home and I'm going to unpack all my crap. I was just going to show you guys the difference between my suitcase and Thomas' suitcase because I am so nice and pack everything so perfectly and then he just he's sort of folding everything up. I'm like you know what? I didn't pack until like 20 minutes before we left but she packed last night. So she had lots of time. Well see now he's folding it into his suitcase like you seriously. Yeah what are you doing? We're not we're not going home right now but let me just show you guys. Okay I'm so proud of my suitcases. So proud. Look at that. Look at that. Perfection. All right I want to show you guys what I brought with me food wise so you guys can kind of get an idea of what you can bring when you're traveling and trying to stay healthy. So this entire bag is full of food. Got a pack of almonds. I brought a whole box of power crunch bars. Like 10 things of oats because I'll show you guys how I'm going to make my oats in the morning. Genius. If you have a hotel room that's a coffee maker I'll show you how to do that in your coffee maker. Then I bought four packs of instant rice. Some quaker rice cakes. These ones are caramel and then I also brought just the plain ones. And then because plain ones completely suck I brought some almond butter to spread on top of them. See what else was on here. Oh my goodness look they let me get through with knives on the plane. They didn't even. Oh my gosh. I had plastic knives. I forgot about that and some spoons because I'm like you know what there's there's one for each of us. A spoon and a knife and they did not. I don't know if I would attempt that again but I'm just saying we did get through TSA with a knife. We are heading out to dinner. Thomas is just getting little Ezzie ready but I am starving. All I've had on the plane was a power crunch bar and some water. So I could really use an actual meal right now which is what we're going to go do. Then we're going to go check out the gym because we're going to go do probably some cardio or something tonight and the pool. We're going to go see what's up there too. We found the pool. It's awesome. Which is right here. So I think we're gonna I think we're gonna I know this is like really blurry but I think we're gonna go get dressed and some gym clothes and then we're gonna come back down after our stomachs settle a little bit from eating dinner. So catch you at the gym. All right we're gonna show you guys a workout that you can do at any hotel typically but to be honest this gym is much bigger than a typical hotel so we basically are at a normal gym but we're still going to show you a shoulder workout for today to finish off week four. Good morning guys. I'm going to be making my oats this morning in the coffee machine so I'm going to show you guys how to do that. If you have a microwave then that would work. I mean just as what's up but I'm going to show you how you're just going to steam some hot water and pour your oats in. So here we got ourselves a nice little coffee maker and a little cup but I just poured in just a little bit of water. Okay so you are just going to pour in some water right there. Pop that down and turn it on. So this is just going to be steaming water. There we go. All right cheers to some delicious breakfast. Ashley's taking pictures with people right now and Ezra has been like super good this I wanted to close out week four's vlog of body after baby. And so I just want to talk about some things this week. Some ups and some downs and then kind of what my results have been. So um so far let's see we've been in Arizona for the last couple of days for my work and I'm sure I'm going to be including some of that stuff in here in my workout but you know I think this week was a little bit more challenging since we've been traveling and I haven't had like my meal prep ready. We have eaten some foods that would not that would definitely not be on my meal plan. French fries for one. The first night that we were here I had some french fries and I haven't had french fries in over a month and or really even like greasy food and I was so sick and you know what it really just impressed me because I'm like that just means my body is so not used to this food where whereas you know a month ago that was like a daily thing was was eating out multiple times a day and so the fact that my body is so not used to this junk food or or um fast food greasy food you know my body is just not used to that anymore so I'm like yay finally it's feeling so much cleaner and um honestly my cravings have gone completely away. I do not sit and crave junk food or candy and if you guys know me my best friends and my family would know I live for candy and sweets and it like I swear as soon as the sun goes down it's like I just want to eat everything in sight and so I've just been so happy to finally see those cravings go away that I never thought would ever go away ever in my whole life since I can remember I have lived for sugar and candy and junk food and whatever so I swear you guys if I can do this anybody can do it you just got to get past those hard days uh those days that you're like oh I really really want to eat this junk food or I'm really craving this the more you say no the stronger you are going to get so just wanted to throw that in there um as for some really awesome improvements that I've seen personally in myself again the scale has not really moved much but I did weigh in um at my gym and we had the owner do my body fat test again you guys I have almost lost four percent body fat she was blown away she was like are you kidding me four percent I I was like gonna be excited if I lost a point something percent because I there was no way I thought I lost almost that much so since I started this that's how much body fat I've lost and um right now I'm at 23 body fat I was almost 27 when I started this just a few weeks ago my goal is to get to about 16 body fat that is where you know I feel like I'll be really toned I'll have definition on my arms and on my stomach area and I've never in my life had abs I've never even seen one ab on my stomach and so if I can just see like some lines or some definition I would just be so thrilled so again there's not like a there's not a weight that I have it's more a body fat percentage I just want to drop that a lot um and my scale like I said has has gone down about one to two pounds it really just depends on when I weigh myself I've tried to weigh myself in the mornings when I weighed myself but I've lost um two inches in my waist I know that for sure I need to I need to do all my measurements again um but I measure myself every Thursday I don't know why it was just the first day I happened to measure myself so I try to do that weekly and see what those improvements are and then I weigh myself once a week but I'm really again way more interested in my body fat so if you guys don't have a scale that has that um ask around see if you know our gym has a body fat uh scale and actually what you do for hers what I did was I I like held on to this um I don't know it looks like a controller like a like a video game controller but you hold on to it straight like this and then it just you type in your weight and your height and your age and then it tells you what your your body fat is so it's pretty cool but um I think that's all I have for you guys thank you again so much for following along and I am sorry I actually I forgot to tell you guys why my week three and four are combined so I I should tell you that really fast because I am sorry that I didn't get one up last week um if you've ever heard bad things always happen in threes I don't know if you've ever heard that but I swear that is true so uh last week um broke my camera uh my vlog camera I spilled water all over it and so that stopped working and then my laptop my kids dumped milk all over it and it doesn't work so literally all of my electronics stopped working last week and I was like oh my gosh we were vlogging with our phones then we hadn't I don't know it was just really hard to get a video up last week one quick tip that I have because I have been really struggling with my water intake I feel like that has been my biggest challenge um I normally just drink a bunch of water bottles every day and I was like I swear I get maybe three water bottles in me and that is so bad especially when you're trying to lose weight it's just bad in general you do not want to be drinking hardly any water your body really needs it so um I got myself a hydro jug this is legit so I think it's 73 ounces all I know one full hydro jug a day and then I fill it up again about halfway and then that's a full gallon but I am really proud of myself if I at least get this full thing down and I have gotten it down every single day since I've had it so I've had it for the last almost two weeks and it's made a huge difference I've noticed a really big difference with me bloating my bloating has gone down but because if you're drinking enough water every day then you're not holding on to it you're not holding on to all this extra water weight so it has made a huge difference I sleep so much better I feel so much better I have way more energy and again all from water so if you have a struggle with your water intake I would suggest getting something like this for me this is so much more convenient I just cannot do gallons of water like Thomas can he just carries around gallons of water I feel like it's way too heavy I don't like drinking out of gallons of water this is so much easier for me so whatever works for you just make sure that you get something that's going to help you with your water intake