Diets, Food and Everyday Life!

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First I am going to apologize for missing a few weeks in there.  My Uncle Mark passed away and I had to make a emergency trip with my cousin Christina and Xander to Traver City for the funeral.  It was one of the most stressful and sad things that I have ever done.  My Uncle Mark was my father’s younger brother and it has brought to light the idea that really it could have been my father which would be one of the worse things that could happen in my life.

So needless to say for week 6 I did great I lost 1lb being gone and stressed out all weekend and then during week 7 I kept it going with really watching closly what I have been eating and I have discontinued the use of domperidone for increase milk supply because it wasn’t helping me that much and I lost another pount.  So I am now down to 180.4!!!

This is my favorite time next week I am going to say good bye to the 180’s all together and I will be in the 170’s woo hoo!!!

I signed up for a pilaties class on Wednesday night and for some reason I just can’t bring myself to go to it.  The first two weeks of the 5 week class I missed because of the funeral and the next because I threw my back out.  But last night I was all ready to go and I was clean and dressed getting ready to feed the baby and I just couldn’t bring myself to go.  I was 3 weeks into a class I had never been to and didn’t want to just show up where I didn’t know any of the moves I guess, but it’s that shy thing springing up again.  So strange I had never been shy until I was in high school then I have been trying to recover from it ever since.

• So for this week I want to go to the gym on Friday and Monday
• Continue to eat healily and hopefully hit 179 next week, or less!

This week on the Mama Notes, the hostess of Body After Baby Challenge, she talks about accidental exercise and I am a big fan of this.  She suggest stuff like while standing in front of the stove cooking - do calf raises, while you baby is playing on the floor do sit ups next to him and park further away at the grocery store plus lots more you can catch the rest of the article here.

Todays check in is a little late but better than never, right.  I got on the scale this morning and weighted in at 182.4 that’s right the lowest weight since before having Xander!  I have been able to be focused this week and I am very proud of myself for all the great effort I put in.  I have visited the gym three times this week and took a long walk on one day that I didn’t visit the gym.  I have keept my food journal at least 5 days last week and I have been good keeping it so far this week as well.  So like many have always said hard work does pay off and I am starting to move the scale.

For me I think it’s a balance that has to happen where I have several high calorie days and several low calorie days, if I go all low or all higher nothing really happens for me but if I cycle my body keeps guessing and I see some movement.  It’s all really just a guess for me some weeks I stick to it and it happens and some weeks it doesn’t happen.

This week I’ll be starting a Pilate class on Wednesday night and hopefully it will totally kick my ass and make me much leaner!

Goals for this week:

1. Track food consumption 5 days, with one high calorie day (2800 < 2300) and two low calorie day (1500>1800)
2. Do abs every day
3. Go to the gym on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Wednesday

The Body After Baby Challenge has been great for me so far and I hope all you other mamas are going at least as good as I am if not better!  Please feel free to leave me a comment and let me know how it’s going today and this week.

FINALLY I saw some progress this week!!!

I got on the scale this morning and it read 183.0 that’s right I’m down more than half pound since last week and the three months before that. At this pace I’ll be back to pre baby weight by the time the sun goes super nova, lol.  No really thanks to all the women of Body after Baby challenge for keeping me on focus for this week.  This week I did not keep all of my goals but I came close.  I worked out three days, kept close track of my food four days and I did abs three days.  So it was more like 70%.

I believe the big difference has been the food tracking.  So to follow here are this weeks goals:

1. Track food consumption 5 days, with one high calorie day (2800 < 2300) and one low calorie day (1500>1800)
2. Do abs every day
3. Go to the gym on Monday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday

And since I haven’t posted a picture in a while here is a cute one of Xander.

For some reason and correct me if I’m wrong about this but it’s been a hard week for the Body After Baby challenge!  I have tracked my calories every day but I am going over by like 200-300 calories a day and I haven’t done any ab work since last week.

Today I am going to work on having a LOW calorie day and follow it up tomarrow with some time in the gym.  Wish me luck, I could use some kind of weight loss really I could.

The scale has been the same for at least two months now, I just can’t seem to stick to it UGH it’s so fustrating I just need to do it already.

Anyone else having a hard time sticking to it?

I am going to do my update today and just edit the weight part of it on Wednesday/Thursday.

This week I stuck to almost none of my goals, I didn’t track my food all week and I only went to the gym twice.  But it’s not all lost I did make the best food choices possible when eating out, which was a lot.

Here’s the story so everything was going along as planned until Saturday when my husband decided that we or more he was going to repaint our living room and kitchen this weekend.  This meant that I could have no help watching the baby and my kitchen was now out of commission and I couldn’t make food there.  So Friday I made it to the gym and had a good lower body workout with abs and cardio.  Xander was feeling sad and they came and got me just before I was done. Saturday, I also made it to the gym and did a good cardio workout with abs.  Sunday no gym, and I tried to help with the house but Xander cried almost all day.  I think he is starting to teeth and with the house being all torn up there was nowhere he could play or hang out with mom and it was just lots of tears.  We went to Target for some Huggies and breast milk storage bags, and tried to go walk/play at the park but he made it about 1/3 of a mile before he was crying and screaming.  Then on Monday we took him to my mother in laws and she watched him all day while D and I finished up with the help of our friend S, then we went for Chinese buffet, yes I know bad choice.  In my defense they do have sushi and the only Chinese food I really like is the Chinese donuts.

So Tuesday morning I go to hop on the scale thinking after the Chinese yesterday and Wendy’s all this weekend and just eating like crap in general I’m going to see some sad sad numbers, but oh no it says 183.6!

So now on to Body after Baby week 5 goals:

1. Eat clean everyday, write everything down
2. Go to the gym 4 times; Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday
3. Do abs everyday

So recently I have been watching what I eat and the things that I find acceptable to eat, and how those things have changed throughout the years.  When i was my thinnest I would have never eaten more than a kids meal at any fast food place and now I find myself eating whole value meals.  I would only eat half size sandwiches and now I can finish one off and think about another one.  And I used to live on frozen dinners but now I won’t touch them.

I need to stay more focused on what goes into my body especially when I am eating away from home, at home I am pretty good.  But away from home I tend to loose control.  I need to focus on eating the BEST possible option when not eating at home and stick to it.

Often we think of eating out as a special occasion when in our society it really happens all to often to be considered a special occasion.  It really doesn’t deserve a splurge and I need to remember if I don’t splurge I will be way more happy with the outcome than if I do.

I always find myself wanting and dreaming about some easy fix for my weight issue. I used to dream about getting pregnant and having morning sickness so bad I would loose weight, and then being able to tightly control my diet from there and end up looking better than before after baby (yes I know to dream about morning sickness is sick).  I would also dream about breastfeeding just stripping the pounds off my body like some kind of special fat melter, but I haven’t found this to be true either.  In fact right now in life I have a hard time finding anything that makes the scale move in the right direction.  And yes I was also having this problem before the baby.  So what is it, am I really not being up front with myself?  Why do I find it so hard to handle one week of eating on count?  Why do I sabotage myself?

What a great week it has been, I have been going to the chiropractor and I feel like a hundred bucks.  I got on the scale this morning and it said the same thing as last week 183.6 so maybe tomorrow morning I’ll have another pound and a half loose like I did last week between Wendsday and Thursday, lol, my body is so strange.  However if I don’t see a bigger drop than that I will be ok with it, I have been taking Domeridone to help increase my milk supply so I can get through the week without having to supplement and hopefully get a head a little and so Xander can hopefully grow a little bit bigger than his 25% weight bracket he is in right now.

So this week I only made it to the gym three days: Friday, Saturday and Monday.  I was hoping to go more but recovering from my sore back was priority for me.

This week I am going to set some new short term goals for myself.

1. Eat clean everyday, write everything down
2. Go to the gym 4 times; Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday
3. Do abs everyday

I will edit this post tomorrow when I have my Thursday weight, but so far on my long term goals I am behind a little on the weight lose part of it.  I was hoping for 3lbs a month or more and so far this month I have lost zero pounds.

Edit: I got on the scale on Thursday morning to find myself weighing 183.6 so I am the sames.

I am officially changing my weigh in day to Friday morning.  It seems that Wednesday mornings just aren’t a good weigh in day for me, I jumped on the scale this morning and it read 185.4.  Last Thursday morning it read 183.2.

Edit:

So it’s Thursday morning and I got on the scale this morning to see it reading 183.8!  A huge difference from yesterdays number.  Anyone have an explination of why this could be that one day it’s way up and the next day it’s way down. Yesterday btw I ate a bunch of food I was in the 2300 calorie range when normally I like to stay at about 2000-2100.

Let’s review the goals for our challenge so far this week.  I am feeling really accomplished and super accountable with this challenge and I am hoping it helps me get to where I need to be as far as back down to pre baby weight and then some maybe. My short term goal from last week are below:

My short term goals this week are to lose one pound this week and visit the gym at least 4 times.  I weighted 184 5/6

It’s Tuesday and I don’t weight in until Wednesday, but I did make it to the gym 4 times last week and had great work outs ever time I was there.  Unfortunately yesterday I injured my back but I am going to the chiropractor at 4 today to get straighten out, and I will continue my workout schedule as normal.  If my back is still feeling bad instead of weights and a cardio machine I’ll just swim for about an hour.

I have been good on my diet, although yesterday I had a little sugar binge.  Besides that I’ve been eating clean so hopefully I’ll jump on the scale on Wednesday and see a solid 183.

Also I am starting a blogroll to keep up with all the wonderful women who are also participating in this challenge, so if you are one of them and you comment on my post your blog will go in the blogroll.

I hope everyone else had a great week too!  To join this challenge visit Mama Notes.