On last weeks challenge which was Walking Every 15 minutes you walk = 1 point I made a total of 9 points.  Yes I know that sucks!

So I don’t know what the challenge will be this week, Mama Notes has yet to post the Body After Baby post. So I will update this when it’s up.  I hope you all did better than me.

Next week 177!

So I did great in the second week of the Body After Baby challenge that is hosted by Mama Notes. This week’s challenge was to drink water and for each glass of water you drank you earned points up to 8 points a day, well this was an easy one for me because I love water it’s almost the only thing I drink so I got 8 points ever day this week for a total of 56 points.

Weight wise I didn’t do that great I didn’t gain but I staid the same.  I did however run a 5k, when I say run I mean it in the loosest sence of the word I usually run 55% walk 45% but this 5k I ran at least 70% and walked 30% and it felt great! It was a family affair as Dave ran it with Xander in the jogging stroller and my parents both did it, my mom is a better runner than I am but my dad it’s really and exerciser and we all finished in under an hour!  I am so proud of everyone.

So this weeks Body After Baby challenge is walking!  I am super excited about this one I am going to try to walk around the neighborhood at lunch every day for at least 15 minutes plus my normal gym time on Friday, Saturday and Monday.  In addition to this new exercise I am going to be very careful about what I eat this week aiming for a catch up for this week indiscretions and hoping to weigh in at 176 a two pound loss for this week.

I posted my starting stats last week. I won’t be measuring myself every week I’ll just measure again at the end but my weight this week is 178.4! Which is just .2lbs away from he having lost a total of 40lbs since having Xander last Christmas!

This week’s challenge is to give yourself a point for every glass of water you drink, yesterday I drank 5 glasses of water. So 5 points, I am keeping track on my calendar and will add them up at the end.

I swam and hiked and carried my sweet little baby around on my back everyday, and I was hoping this wouldn’t be like most vacations I have taken in the past where I come back 5lbs or more heavier.  I really felt like for the most part I was making good food decisions and I was way more active than I am at home generally.  Well it all paid off, when I got home I was 181.  Not to bad for being on vacation for a full 8 days.

It felt great to come back from a trip and not be for me what is weeks or a month behind when I left.  Also as an update D is also started counting calories so I am aiming to keep track at least 6 days a week and I lowered my calorie target to 1700. Hopefully I’ll start seeing the numbers slide, I just have such a hard time looking at myself in the mirror at this weight.

I am going to jump back into the body after baby challenge this week, mamanotes wrote a great piece on staying fit on vacation that everyone should read.

As for the challenge this last week:

• I did make it to the gym on Friday and Monday as well as being active the rest of the weekend.
• But I didn’t reach my second goal of continuing to eat healthy, I had three slices of key lime pie this weekend and counteless other goodies

But for this week I’m am determined to hit that 179!!!  So that is the goal this week 179.

Also on a side note; D and I plus the big family are contemplating going to St. Thomas for my MIL birthday in May that is 10 months from now if I were to loose 3lbs a month for those 10 months that would be 30lbs total putting me at 149 for the trip.  So this is a good long term goal to keep in mind when I’m kickin ass and takin names this week in the weigh loss depatment.

On the host blog for Body after Baby, Mama Notes‘ was talking about transforming our bodies and that has always been something I believe in fully.  That a strong fitness routine and a low salt content can make 180 look like 160 and 160 look like 145.  Since joining the gym in April I have been going three times a week and I should start doing measurments instead of just weights now that I’m in the swing of things.  It’s really amazing how you can transform your body with out losing a single pound by lifting weights.  Over on the blog Domestic Dork, Holly is going to be doing this 10 minute work out and I think this would be a great circuit for me on the days I’m not able to go to the gym.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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