Archive for May, 2009

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.

Body After Baby Fitness Challenge

Here’s what you have to do:

1. Post on your blog your long term goals. Generally a goal that you want to have accomplished in 4- 6 months. Be specific.

I personally would consider long term goals to be more along the lines of a year or more.  But for the next 4-6 months I would like to loose 3lbs per month so at the end of 6 months I am down a total of 18lbs, or I would weigh 166 that would mean I lost almost all of my baby weight in a year.

My second goal would be to visit the gym a minimum of 4 times a week each week over the next 6 months.

2. List your short term goals for the week. For example, lose one pound this week or exercise four days a week.

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

3. List your plan of action.  How you’re going to reach your goals.

Writing down a food journal every day and visit the gym on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday

4. Re-cap every Monday. On Monday’s we will review our goals and our progress. We will post our success’s and failures and share them with other’s! Be honest.

Honestly this might be Tuesday for me.

5. Leave a link to the post in your blog so that we can all motivate and support each other. Judgment is not allowed, only support and encouragement. (You can leave your link in the comments section for now.)