As I'm typing this my baby lady is half in her crib and half on our bed, my little man is laying down in MY spot (happens every night) and my wonderful husband is now hollering at me to come lay down so he can go to sleep.
That last bit was supposed to read: my wonderful husband is sleeping. So, since that isn't true this will be a lot shorter than I had planned.
Blogging isn't easy when you have three other people in the room who want to sleep!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Body After Baby week 3
Has it really been over a week since I last posted?
I have been quite busy, I suppose. The weather has looked cheery for once and I like getting out occasionally. Not too often, because then I wouldn't be my lovable-hermit self, but occasionally.
Body after baby is going well, I feel. I can no longer track my weight loss because *someone* wanted to be a big boy and get himself a cup of water, which was then spilled on my digital scale. Alas, RIP my scale that told me my H2O %, body fat %, BMI and... my weight. Now I cannot obsessively step on it ten times a day hoping that I magically lost 90 pounds.
So that leads me to do what "they" tell you to do anyhow, track your progress by inches lost and how you feel, not the number on the scale.
Well, after signing up at the gym and heading out every other day I can tell you that I am feeling much better. I am getting in a decent amount of cardio (35+ minutes, minimum now) and I am going to add in some weight training as soon as my girlie can stay asleep, or at least not scream the entire time I am gone. Except for next week when my lovely husband will be heading out of town on business. Bugger is looking for a hotel with a gym while I get to sit at home and think about doing Turbo Jam in a house with nearly tropical humidity. Sweaty and swampy and no fun at all!
I am thinking of getting a juicer. I think its so funny to watch those infomercials and everyone is talking about "juicing" all the time... it sounds so... illegal. But I love juice and I love fruits and veggies and I think I could consume more if I did juice them. I think I could get my hubby to drink fresh juice, too. It's a fabulous breakfast and lunch option. That would make us eat raw for two out of three meals, which is pretty dang healthy.
Um, let me see... I am having massive budget fails lately. I just cannot seem to stick to it when there is cuteness on sale! Dang me. Oh, and a new cafe opened up and they serve food that tastes like Mexican food is supposed to!!! That is unheard of in this state! Oh my goodness, I ate there last Saturday, a huge burrito with black beans and fresh salsa and rice and oh my goodness it was the most delicious thing ever. So I might head there a couple times when my man is out of town. I never feel like cooking when he is gone.
Anyhow, I think I will go for now. My baby lady appears to have woken from her nap and I would like to hang out with her for a bit :)
I have been quite busy, I suppose. The weather has looked cheery for once and I like getting out occasionally. Not too often, because then I wouldn't be my lovable-hermit self, but occasionally.
Body after baby is going well, I feel. I can no longer track my weight loss because *someone* wanted to be a big boy and get himself a cup of water, which was then spilled on my digital scale. Alas, RIP my scale that told me my H2O %, body fat %, BMI and... my weight. Now I cannot obsessively step on it ten times a day hoping that I magically lost 90 pounds.
So that leads me to do what "they" tell you to do anyhow, track your progress by inches lost and how you feel, not the number on the scale.
Well, after signing up at the gym and heading out every other day I can tell you that I am feeling much better. I am getting in a decent amount of cardio (35+ minutes, minimum now) and I am going to add in some weight training as soon as my girlie can stay asleep, or at least not scream the entire time I am gone. Except for next week when my lovely husband will be heading out of town on business. Bugger is looking for a hotel with a gym while I get to sit at home and think about doing Turbo Jam in a house with nearly tropical humidity. Sweaty and swampy and no fun at all!
I am thinking of getting a juicer. I think its so funny to watch those infomercials and everyone is talking about "juicing" all the time... it sounds so... illegal. But I love juice and I love fruits and veggies and I think I could consume more if I did juice them. I think I could get my hubby to drink fresh juice, too. It's a fabulous breakfast and lunch option. That would make us eat raw for two out of three meals, which is pretty dang healthy.
Um, let me see... I am having massive budget fails lately. I just cannot seem to stick to it when there is cuteness on sale! Dang me. Oh, and a new cafe opened up and they serve food that tastes like Mexican food is supposed to!!! That is unheard of in this state! Oh my goodness, I ate there last Saturday, a huge burrito with black beans and fresh salsa and rice and oh my goodness it was the most delicious thing ever. So I might head there a couple times when my man is out of town. I never feel like cooking when he is gone.
Anyhow, I think I will go for now. My baby lady appears to have woken from her nap and I would like to hang out with her for a bit :)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Body After Baby - The 1st Week
Hello to all my imaginary blog readers. How are you? Magnificent? Good to hear. No, you stop. No really.... you stop!
Ahem.
So I'm detailing my first week a little early. I'm only a few hours short of one week since I took that horrifying picture and sent it for everyone to see at Mama Notes (yeah, I just linked to my own version of the walk of shame) so I suppose a one week blog post is appropriate.
I don't want to say I have an exact plan. Or did I already say I have an exact plan? I don't know... Maybe I did. Mom brain gets me sometimes. Basically I'm not tripping all over myself and stabbing my thigh with a steak knife every time I do something that is "diet inappropriate" so that I don't forget next time. I don't believe in diets being effective. I believe in changing your life for the better and I think that is what works. So if I go and have a slice (or 3) of pizza someday I'm not going to declare myself finished for good. I think I went into this a bit in my last Body After Baby post.
I am a member of Spark People and I think that site has done quite a bit for me over the years. When following their program and logging my food I have lost quite a bit of weight. I neglected it during my pregnancy, though, and I've always been pretty crappy at logging my food. I can take a mental picture of what I have eaten throughout the day usually. And overeating really isn't my problem (I know, picturing my rolls and fat really conflicts with that statement) it's the lack of water and movement.
This week I have totally stepped up my water game and it has paid off more than I thought it could. In fact, this morning I stepped on the scale and it read a flat 197. That is still obese for my height (5ft 3.75in) but it is 7.6 pounds less than it was a week ago! So that is a huge win for me. I doubt that my weight loss will continue like this, but that is okay. (Oh! But could you imagine if it did?!? What, that would be over 60 lbs lost by Labor Day. I would no longer be obese! I wouldnt even be technically overweight anymore. Wow! That would be so awesome!) I'll take what I have gotten and run with it. I don't want to get overconfident or cocky about this at all. I want to look at how dehydrated I was and learn a lesson from it. Drink water and you will lose weight. Sure, if you chug and then step on the scale it will read a higher number, but in the end you are doing something good for your body and that water won't turn into pounds!
So maybe if next week goes really really well I will be able to meet my 10 pound goal. After that I will set a 5 pound goal, then another 5... on and on like that. I know I can do it now. Before I really doubted myself. I still do a little, to tell the truth, but now I am that much more confident in my ability to lose weight.
I'm not destined to be a "big girl" (ugh!) my whole life.
I have watched my mom struggle with her weight throughout my life, and as much as I love her, in that respect I do not want to be like her. And I know she wouldn't take that the wrong way, especially since she has gotten herself on track really well in the last few years. That is the part I want to emulate. Sometimes it would make me get a little down to think of the "genetic role" that I had inherited, but you have to look past that sometimes.
I think we can set ourselves up for failure before we even begin. We decide to restrict everything and do ____ every single day, not eat ____ ever again, work out ___ minutes every single day to the point of utter exhaustion. And when we don't meet those unrealistic goals, we give up. At least I do. A lot of the other Body After Baby ladies I follow on Twitter and I cannot tell you how many "I cheated" or "I'll do better tomorrow" tweets I've seen. (And no, I'm definitely not singling anyone out or putting anyone down because it is exactly how I have felt a million times over.) But I don't believe any of them cheated anyone or anything. Doing better tomorrow is something we should all strive for, regardless of how our day was.
I wish I could motivate people. I wish I had the right words to say to make them realize that not only are they not failing anything or anyone, but that they are utterly worth every minute they spend on themselves. As moms (and I know there are a couple dads, but I really think it's different for women) we tend to think of "me-time" as something that we have to steal and sneak, and use for indulgences like wine and a book during a bath. (OMGosh, how nice that sounds!) But "me-time" could and should be about making yourself a better person any way you feel like doing so. Right now, in my life, it's time for me to shed these nasty pounds so I can be a healthy momma.
But more importantly, I think - at least for right now - it's for me to be a happy momma. Because I don't want my children to remember how miserable I was when I was fat. And how I really didn't like myself. I don't want their sense of self to become warped like mine was. (And I'm putting blame nowhere for that) I have enough to deal with when raising my children without letting them catch my bad-self-esteem bug. It really does feel like a disease sometimes.
I had very disordered eating when I was a teenager. I would often go days on just an apple, I had a bout of puking up everything I ate because it sounded to me like the right thing to do. I then went to eating the wrong foods. Then I stopped being vegan and I gained a bunch of weight - at the same time I got pregnant and didn't know it because I never had regular periods and I thought I was just gaining weight from starting to eat dairy again. After I had my son I went through a few different fads and did them poorly. I started "selling" Herbalife (only to myself, I'm no cold-caller, that's for sure!) and then I half-assed an attempt at the Master Cleanse, I did Slim-Fast shakes (actually quite good, though horrible for you) and the Special-K diet. I read about the Best Life Diet and all those other little gimmicky things that grab ahold of you when you're a fatty and don't let go. Oh, and I even did Nutrisystem for a while. It worked really well but was too expensive for me to continue. $300 a month is what I was spending on all our groceries/month and suddenly it was what I was spending on just mine - dairy, veggies and fruit not included. There was little I didn't do.
But nothing really worked for me. I mean, I would start to lose weight, but nothing was sustainable. I couldn't keep up with them.
What I can keep up with, though, is eating fruits for breakfast most days (it's really delicious and filling) and something mild for lunch - a sandwich of some sort with some protein, and a simple dinner. Exercising at least 10 minutes a day, with three days a week kicking that up to 30 or more. Starting to do some weight training because the more muscle you build, the more efficient it is at burning calories. And drinking water. Yes, diet and exercise. It's not a one size fits all thing like some people would have you believe. I know everyone says "diet and exercise, diet and exercise" when talking about losing weight and getting healthy, but it's not like everyones' forms of having a healthy diet and proper amount and type of exercise is the same. It's not. Finding what works for you is essential.
So is sleep! And it's starting to get near 8pm and that means it's wind-down time over here. I'm glad to have had a pretty successful first week of the Body After Baby Challenge. :)
Ahem.
So I'm detailing my first week a little early. I'm only a few hours short of one week since I took that horrifying picture and sent it for everyone to see at Mama Notes (yeah, I just linked to my own version of the walk of shame) so I suppose a one week blog post is appropriate.
I don't want to say I have an exact plan. Or did I already say I have an exact plan? I don't know... Maybe I did. Mom brain gets me sometimes. Basically I'm not tripping all over myself and stabbing my thigh with a steak knife every time I do something that is "diet inappropriate" so that I don't forget next time. I don't believe in diets being effective. I believe in changing your life for the better and I think that is what works. So if I go and have a slice (or 3) of pizza someday I'm not going to declare myself finished for good. I think I went into this a bit in my last Body After Baby post.
I am a member of Spark People and I think that site has done quite a bit for me over the years. When following their program and logging my food I have lost quite a bit of weight. I neglected it during my pregnancy, though, and I've always been pretty crappy at logging my food. I can take a mental picture of what I have eaten throughout the day usually. And overeating really isn't my problem (I know, picturing my rolls and fat really conflicts with that statement) it's the lack of water and movement.
This week I have totally stepped up my water game and it has paid off more than I thought it could. In fact, this morning I stepped on the scale and it read a flat 197. That is still obese for my height (5ft 3.75in) but it is 7.6 pounds less than it was a week ago! So that is a huge win for me. I doubt that my weight loss will continue like this, but that is okay. (Oh! But could you imagine if it did?!? What, that would be over 60 lbs lost by Labor Day. I would no longer be obese! I wouldnt even be technically overweight anymore. Wow! That would be so awesome!) I'll take what I have gotten and run with it. I don't want to get overconfident or cocky about this at all. I want to look at how dehydrated I was and learn a lesson from it. Drink water and you will lose weight. Sure, if you chug and then step on the scale it will read a higher number, but in the end you are doing something good for your body and that water won't turn into pounds!
So maybe if next week goes really really well I will be able to meet my 10 pound goal. After that I will set a 5 pound goal, then another 5... on and on like that. I know I can do it now. Before I really doubted myself. I still do a little, to tell the truth, but now I am that much more confident in my ability to lose weight.
I'm not destined to be a "big girl" (ugh!) my whole life.
I have watched my mom struggle with her weight throughout my life, and as much as I love her, in that respect I do not want to be like her. And I know she wouldn't take that the wrong way, especially since she has gotten herself on track really well in the last few years. That is the part I want to emulate. Sometimes it would make me get a little down to think of the "genetic role" that I had inherited, but you have to look past that sometimes.
I think we can set ourselves up for failure before we even begin. We decide to restrict everything and do ____ every single day, not eat ____ ever again, work out ___ minutes every single day to the point of utter exhaustion. And when we don't meet those unrealistic goals, we give up. At least I do. A lot of the other Body After Baby ladies I follow on Twitter and I cannot tell you how many "I cheated" or "I'll do better tomorrow" tweets I've seen. (And no, I'm definitely not singling anyone out or putting anyone down because it is exactly how I have felt a million times over.) But I don't believe any of them cheated anyone or anything. Doing better tomorrow is something we should all strive for, regardless of how our day was.
I wish I could motivate people. I wish I had the right words to say to make them realize that not only are they not failing anything or anyone, but that they are utterly worth every minute they spend on themselves. As moms (and I know there are a couple dads, but I really think it's different for women) we tend to think of "me-time" as something that we have to steal and sneak, and use for indulgences like wine and a book during a bath. (OMGosh, how nice that sounds!) But "me-time" could and should be about making yourself a better person any way you feel like doing so. Right now, in my life, it's time for me to shed these nasty pounds so I can be a healthy momma.
But more importantly, I think - at least for right now - it's for me to be a happy momma. Because I don't want my children to remember how miserable I was when I was fat. And how I really didn't like myself. I don't want their sense of self to become warped like mine was. (And I'm putting blame nowhere for that) I have enough to deal with when raising my children without letting them catch my bad-self-esteem bug. It really does feel like a disease sometimes.
I had very disordered eating when I was a teenager. I would often go days on just an apple, I had a bout of puking up everything I ate because it sounded to me like the right thing to do. I then went to eating the wrong foods. Then I stopped being vegan and I gained a bunch of weight - at the same time I got pregnant and didn't know it because I never had regular periods and I thought I was just gaining weight from starting to eat dairy again. After I had my son I went through a few different fads and did them poorly. I started "selling" Herbalife (only to myself, I'm no cold-caller, that's for sure!) and then I half-assed an attempt at the Master Cleanse, I did Slim-Fast shakes (actually quite good, though horrible for you) and the Special-K diet. I read about the Best Life Diet and all those other little gimmicky things that grab ahold of you when you're a fatty and don't let go. Oh, and I even did Nutrisystem for a while. It worked really well but was too expensive for me to continue. $300 a month is what I was spending on all our groceries/month and suddenly it was what I was spending on just mine - dairy, veggies and fruit not included. There was little I didn't do.
But nothing really worked for me. I mean, I would start to lose weight, but nothing was sustainable. I couldn't keep up with them.
What I can keep up with, though, is eating fruits for breakfast most days (it's really delicious and filling) and something mild for lunch - a sandwich of some sort with some protein, and a simple dinner. Exercising at least 10 minutes a day, with three days a week kicking that up to 30 or more. Starting to do some weight training because the more muscle you build, the more efficient it is at burning calories. And drinking water. Yes, diet and exercise. It's not a one size fits all thing like some people would have you believe. I know everyone says "diet and exercise, diet and exercise" when talking about losing weight and getting healthy, but it's not like everyones' forms of having a healthy diet and proper amount and type of exercise is the same. It's not. Finding what works for you is essential.
So is sleep! And it's starting to get near 8pm and that means it's wind-down time over here. I'm glad to have had a pretty successful first week of the Body After Baby Challenge. :)
Feed Your Stash Fridays
Every week clothdiaperblog.com hosts "Feed Your Stash Fridays" with the winner getting something drool-worthy and cloth diaper related.
This week they have up for grabs (or really, comments and blogs) a box of Tiny Bubbles detergent as well as a Gro-Baby one size diaper and a wetbag! See how pretty?
This week they have up for grabs (or really, comments and blogs) a box of Tiny Bubbles detergent as well as a Gro-Baby one size diaper and a wetbag! See how pretty?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Body After Baby Update
I'm totally rocking this thing right now. I mean, ok, nevermind. I ate pizza tonight. I was a pig. It probably undid everything I had worked toward today, BUT it's okay. I mean, what's life but a bunch of second chances? I doubt I even ate too many calories because the rest of the day my calorie intake was barely 500 (pb&j and some fruit) AND I'm burning extra calories because I have an exclusively breastfed baby! Yeah!
But that doesn't make up for the fact that I didn't work out today. I mean, I walked a bit. And sure it was better than not doing anything, but I feel like a flop for it. It's an "off day" for me, but still, I think I want to take this thing a little more seriously.
I had a crappy day yesterday. Kids were whining and my poor baby lady just wouldn't stop crying. It was rough. Then I was a hormonal bastard from then on. I apologize to my husband for that... Baby, I'll be more sane tomorrow. Anyhow, I was just about to be like "screw this thing" because no matter what I feel like a freaking whale right now. But I woke up and got on the scale and was like "Whaaa?" because while I started at 204.yadda (barf) the scale said nothing of the sort. In fact, I wanted to check its mental stability because it said I was down to 198.4 or something like that. I cant quite remember anymore. Either way, it came out to about 6.5 lbs down! Since Saturday night! Yes!!!
So fruit for breakfast, a small lunch and lots of water is definitely helping me out. Oh yeah, and working out. I feel renewed, refreshed. Like there is actually a possibility that I can do this. I mean, if that wasn't a fluke that means that I could potentially double my 8 week goal from 10 lbs lost to 20. And losing 20 pounds right now, 10% of my body weight, would be beyond excellent. I hope my fellow #bodyafterbaby -ers are doing well, too. I just got a Twitter update from Danielle (@zealandsmom) that she is down 3.7! How freaking cool is that?! Way to go!
Beyond this being necessary for me - the whole weight loss thing, that is - I think that it is going to be really good for me on a deeper level. I'm not shy about self-deprecating and I really hate how I look. On top of that I don't like myself a whole lot. I'm a hermit who doesn't like to leave the house, I'm freaking terrified of meeting people and when I do I'm one of those people who talks a lot but never says anything... I'm horribly shy and that manifests itself in me babbling away. And then I get the "oh.my.goodness.they.dont.like.me.do.they.i.think.they.might.wait.no"s and I always feel like the uncool kid in the group. You know, the one that latches on to some glimmer of hope that someone might acknowledge them? But no, they are making fun of me behind my back. Anyhow, that's me. And I think that a lot of it has to do with my body image. I'm pretty superficial about myself like that. I know I'm more than just my body, but I'm not going to kid myself and say that "inner beauty is what counts" to try to make myself feel better. Sure, it counts, but we aren't comparing right now. It's not like you can have one and not the other, is it? I remember a time when I was very thin and I think I was a pretty stand up kid. Of course I was irritating like every other teenager in the world, but I wasn't a total crap.
I just want to have both. I don't know if I have either right now. But I do know that living a natural and healthy life is one of my ideals and I'm not even living up to my own ideals right now. So that means something has to change. And I was pseudo-ready to make that change before I read about the Body After Baby challenge. And I almost just ignored it. I would have put it off until the deadline had passed and I would have shrugged it off. But I didn't because I needed a kick in the ass, and this challenge has provided me with that. So more than just the weight loss, I'm really grateful for the challenge because it made me do something. And that's not something that happens often.
But that doesn't make up for the fact that I didn't work out today. I mean, I walked a bit. And sure it was better than not doing anything, but I feel like a flop for it. It's an "off day" for me, but still, I think I want to take this thing a little more seriously.
I had a crappy day yesterday. Kids were whining and my poor baby lady just wouldn't stop crying. It was rough. Then I was a hormonal bastard from then on. I apologize to my husband for that... Baby, I'll be more sane tomorrow. Anyhow, I was just about to be like "screw this thing" because no matter what I feel like a freaking whale right now. But I woke up and got on the scale and was like "Whaaa?" because while I started at 204.yadda (barf) the scale said nothing of the sort. In fact, I wanted to check its mental stability because it said I was down to 198.4 or something like that. I cant quite remember anymore. Either way, it came out to about 6.5 lbs down! Since Saturday night! Yes!!!
So fruit for breakfast, a small lunch and lots of water is definitely helping me out. Oh yeah, and working out. I feel renewed, refreshed. Like there is actually a possibility that I can do this. I mean, if that wasn't a fluke that means that I could potentially double my 8 week goal from 10 lbs lost to 20. And losing 20 pounds right now, 10% of my body weight, would be beyond excellent. I hope my fellow #bodyafterbaby -ers are doing well, too. I just got a Twitter update from Danielle (@zealandsmom) that she is down 3.7! How freaking cool is that?! Way to go!
Beyond this being necessary for me - the whole weight loss thing, that is - I think that it is going to be really good for me on a deeper level. I'm not shy about self-deprecating and I really hate how I look. On top of that I don't like myself a whole lot. I'm a hermit who doesn't like to leave the house, I'm freaking terrified of meeting people and when I do I'm one of those people who talks a lot but never says anything... I'm horribly shy and that manifests itself in me babbling away. And then I get the "oh.my.goodness.they.dont.like.me.do.they.i.think.they.might.wait.no"s and I always feel like the uncool kid in the group. You know, the one that latches on to some glimmer of hope that someone might acknowledge them? But no, they are making fun of me behind my back. Anyhow, that's me. And I think that a lot of it has to do with my body image. I'm pretty superficial about myself like that. I know I'm more than just my body, but I'm not going to kid myself and say that "inner beauty is what counts" to try to make myself feel better. Sure, it counts, but we aren't comparing right now. It's not like you can have one and not the other, is it? I remember a time when I was very thin and I think I was a pretty stand up kid. Of course I was irritating like every other teenager in the world, but I wasn't a total crap.
I just want to have both. I don't know if I have either right now. But I do know that living a natural and healthy life is one of my ideals and I'm not even living up to my own ideals right now. So that means something has to change. And I was pseudo-ready to make that change before I read about the Body After Baby challenge. And I almost just ignored it. I would have put it off until the deadline had passed and I would have shrugged it off. But I didn't because I needed a kick in the ass, and this challenge has provided me with that. So more than just the weight loss, I'm really grateful for the challenge because it made me do something. And that's not something that happens often.
Gro-Baby Tiny Bubbles
So I think I have established that I love cloth diapers? In fact, I was having a pretty cruddy day until I checked my mail and got not one, but two fluffy packages! That made me smile huge :)
And now I found out that Gro-Baby is once again giving away products to their customers! Well, Facebook fans, actually. They just came out with a detergent called Tiny Bubbles (It costs $0.22 per load, how awesome is that?!) and their Facebook fans will get some of their new detergent (I've heard good things!) if they just blog about it. That's all you have to do!
You just write up a new blog post, include the link http://www.thenaturalbabyco.com/tiny-bubbles-p-732.html and then you email the blog link to them! Anyhow, I can't wait to get my Tiny Bubbles and write up a review of it. I use Charlies Soap currently, and I've been thinking of trying some others, specifically Tiny Bubbles and Green Acre Designs' Rockin' Green. So this definitely makes me happy happy happy!
And now I found out that Gro-Baby is once again giving away products to their customers! Well, Facebook fans, actually. They just came out with a detergent called Tiny Bubbles (It costs $0.22 per load, how awesome is that?!) and their Facebook fans will get some of their new detergent (I've heard good things!) if they just blog about it. That's all you have to do!
You just write up a new blog post, include the link http://www.thenaturalbabyco.com/tiny-bub
Monday, July 13, 2009
Body after Baby - Magenta Day 1
I'm quite awful when it comes to staying motivated with working out and losing weight. The best I did was when my best friend and I used to go to the gym and then tanning afterward. But that was many years ago and I've turned into a big tub-o since then. I had a gym membership for a while, but going when I had a new baby was really difficult and I never made it a priority. I like to have someone to work out with, but it was just my hubby and me with no one to watch the little guy, so neither of us really went anywhere with it. I think things would be different now that I have a baby who will take an Adiri Nurser here and there, but now we live in a place where the gym memberships cost "only" $3/day per person. Oh, only $100 a month per person? Sure, let my just pull that out of thin air for you.
Anyhow, since we can't do that we bought a Gazelle ("My wife ordered one of those Tony Little Gazelles off the television... I don't know about that guy. He doesn't look right.") and a mini-trampoline, some Turbo Jam DVDs and a weight bench and a couple dumbbells. Seems like a pretty decent setup. (Leave it to me to whine about how I want an elliptical instead.)
Anyhow, so I joined in the Body After Baby challenge that MamaNotes put together because I have too much body after I had my babies and I want to change that. It runs through Labor Day (have I written this before? It seems very familiar) and there is no way I'm going to meet my goal by then. Maybe next Labor Day. I mean, I have 80 lbs. I'd like to get rid of, initially, if not more. I'm on the magenta team, so that's pretty kickass.
My goal for the next 8 weeks, though, is to finally stick to my eating plan, lose at least 10lbs (I think if I was a weight-loss wizard I could lose 15) and to keep an eating log on SparkPeople since that is where I do most of my tracking anyhow. On top of that, my usual goals of at least 10 active minutes a day, 8+ cups of water, and I want to only eat fruit for breakfast from now on. Oh, and I have to actually start eating breakfast. That would be good.
So today I have eaten some yummy organic fruits from Healthy Living. I love the crud out of that store. Every time I go in I just walk around and look at everything for as long as I possibly can. They have so much yummy produce, a great natural hair/body care section with perfumes and makeup, a deli and tons of cheese (my one pitfall on the road to being vegan) they even sell cloth diapers! Anyhow, I had a pear and a plum so far. And I'm about to go make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for myself after I'm done with this. I eat at really weird times.
I also hope to have one other non-weight loss related thing happen during this time. I love that we all cram into our queen sized bed and all, but 4 of us in it with the crib sidecarred, well, it's getting to be a bit of a squeeze. Of course if I lose weight it will be less of a squeeze, but I think my husband is right and it's about time the boy had a bedtime and made use of his big boy bed. He has in the past, we had him in there at 8 every night, no fussing or anything, for a while... but then my hubby would go out of town for work and I wouldn't want to sleep alone. Plus I get ultra-paranoid when he is gone, so I wanted my little guy close to me. So basically every time we had him in there and on a good schedule, I've gone and messed it up.
And I'm cool with him in our bed - it sucks that my hubby and I don't get to snuggle and all, but my little guy will only be little for so long, you know? But lately he has been acting out a lot and I know it's because he isn't getting enough sleep and what sleep he does get isn't that great. He has cut out his daytime nap, too, which makes things a bit harder for both of us. So yeah, I would like to have him on a great schedule, sleeping on his own and no fighting about bedtime by the end of this challenge.
Well, my water bottle has run out again so that means it's time to refill it and get my butt off the computer! I'm sure I'll be blogging about weigh-ins and workouts and the like from time to time.
Anyhow, since we can't do that we bought a Gazelle ("My wife ordered one of those Tony Little Gazelles off the television... I don't know about that guy. He doesn't look right.") and a mini-trampoline, some Turbo Jam DVDs and a weight bench and a couple dumbbells. Seems like a pretty decent setup. (Leave it to me to whine about how I want an elliptical instead.)
Anyhow, so I joined in the Body After Baby challenge that MamaNotes put together because I have too much body after I had my babies and I want to change that. It runs through Labor Day (have I written this before? It seems very familiar) and there is no way I'm going to meet my goal by then. Maybe next Labor Day. I mean, I have 80 lbs. I'd like to get rid of, initially, if not more. I'm on the magenta team, so that's pretty kickass.
My goal for the next 8 weeks, though, is to finally stick to my eating plan, lose at least 10lbs (I think if I was a weight-loss wizard I could lose 15) and to keep an eating log on SparkPeople since that is where I do most of my tracking anyhow. On top of that, my usual goals of at least 10 active minutes a day, 8+ cups of water, and I want to only eat fruit for breakfast from now on. Oh, and I have to actually start eating breakfast. That would be good.
So today I have eaten some yummy organic fruits from Healthy Living. I love the crud out of that store. Every time I go in I just walk around and look at everything for as long as I possibly can. They have so much yummy produce, a great natural hair/body care section with perfumes and makeup, a deli and tons of cheese (my one pitfall on the road to being vegan) they even sell cloth diapers! Anyhow, I had a pear and a plum so far. And I'm about to go make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for myself after I'm done with this. I eat at really weird times.
I also hope to have one other non-weight loss related thing happen during this time. I love that we all cram into our queen sized bed and all, but 4 of us in it with the crib sidecarred, well, it's getting to be a bit of a squeeze. Of course if I lose weight it will be less of a squeeze, but I think my husband is right and it's about time the boy had a bedtime and made use of his big boy bed. He has in the past, we had him in there at 8 every night, no fussing or anything, for a while... but then my hubby would go out of town for work and I wouldn't want to sleep alone. Plus I get ultra-paranoid when he is gone, so I wanted my little guy close to me. So basically every time we had him in there and on a good schedule, I've gone and messed it up.
And I'm cool with him in our bed - it sucks that my hubby and I don't get to snuggle and all, but my little guy will only be little for so long, you know? But lately he has been acting out a lot and I know it's because he isn't getting enough sleep and what sleep he does get isn't that great. He has cut out his daytime nap, too, which makes things a bit harder for both of us. So yeah, I would like to have him on a great schedule, sleeping on his own and no fighting about bedtime by the end of this challenge.
Well, my water bottle has run out again so that means it's time to refill it and get my butt off the computer! I'm sure I'll be blogging about weigh-ins and workouts and the like from time to time.
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