I weighed myself this morning and I was 147.5! Yay. I have been stuck at 149 for a couple weeks and I'm glad I'm losing still. I know I need to make my diet healthier and this whole exercise thing is about to get harder when we store our elliptical. Oh well. I guess I'll have to make due. And with winter coming in and me going back to work I don't know when I'll have time to work out. Anyone have any good ideas??

Sunday Free Day

I've done this before and so I know I can do it again. Every day I wont eat sweets except for Sundays and Holidays. Just the Major ones-Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines Day. None of the martin luther king day stuff. And I'm not going to eat treats on any "eves" of Holidays either, no Christmas Eve candies. I think this will be good. Then I know I can have the candy/sweets on Sunday and holidays. I wont be restricting myself to the max but I will have some restriction. Last time I did this I ate more carbs at first but then got used to no sweets and I didn't even really crave sweets on Sundays after a while. It was wonderful and I'm going to do it again, at least until the end of the year...

It's been almost a week since my last post. I did exercise on Thursday like I said I would. 25 minutes of (it's way too late because I can't remember and it's way easy and I know what it is!) going fast and then going slow and repeating a bunch of times. Anyway, it was a good workout and I felt so good afterward. But Friday I didn't have time and Saturday either and Sunday was the blessing and then Monday was a recuperating day (recuperating from the blessing day). Today, I was just being lazy. Tomorrow I will begin again with the aerobics.

Tomorrows Plan:
5 min warm up
20 minutes hard work out
5 min cool down
Stretch

Also, sweets have gotten the better of me and I think I'm going to have to lay off all sweets for a while. I don't know about this because it doesn't seem to work out very well unless I have an incentive. So, I'm going to think about some stuff I want and then get back to the details of no sweets...

Food Goal huh...?

Well I guess you can say I had good intentions. My food menu didn't go quite as planned and I am reconsidering how I can make my goals realities... I think it's just SO hard to cook for one. I have no desire to cook when I'm by myself taking care of Hannah. I just want to grab a snack and play with her, or clean my house, or whatever. And I don't like to cook big meals because after eating the same thing for 3 meals it's pretty much done. Tonight at YW one of the leaders taught an exercise class. She's a personal trainer and she's way buff, not bulky, and is very smart about nutrition and exercise. She told me I could exercise but just make sure I have enough calories and drink LOTS of water. I went to the doctor today for my 6 Week Check-up. Things are healing well and I didn't ask but I'm pretty sure I'm good to go for exercising. Also, of course they weighed me, in the afternoon mind you, and I was 150 lbs! So, LONG term goal is to weigh 125 lbs. Weight doesn't matter but when I weighed that much I felt good and I think I looked good!
I'll have to post a pic of me in my thinner days and then one today.
SHORT term goal-get back to pre-pregnancy weight=140 lbs (it's a little embarrassing to admit but I think if I just let it out it will be easier for me to be motivated)
-Do exercise routine
-Eat better and drink more water
-Goal by: November 16th-12 weeks post partum. That's 6 weeks, well 5 1/2, that's good?

2nd SHORT term goal-lose another 10 lbs
-More details later
So, I think if I can get off my butt things will be better. I am going to do a strength work out 2 x a week AND I am going to exercise on the elliptical 2 x a week (to start) and do interval training on it. I would like to go on walks in addition to this with Hannah and Sasha because we all love going on walks and it's good exercise for Sasha (and me...) Tomorrow will be cardio (elliptical) since I did a strength work out today.

Food goal today

Here is the food goal for today
Breakfast- 2 eggs, tortilla, 1/2 c red and green peppers, 1/2 c cheese
snack: 1 yogurt, banana
lunch: 2 oz deli meat sandwich with lettuce, 1 carrot, chips 1 c milk
snack: protein shake, apple
dinner: 3 oz salmon, 1 1/2 c broccoli, 1 c rice, 1 c milk
snack: muffin

Bread: 7
Veg: 3
Fruit: 2
Dairy: 3 1/4 (the yogurt is 6 oz and only counts as 3/4 c)
Meat/beans: 7

Well we'll see how this goes...I haven't calculated calories and nutrition info yet and we'll see how full I feel...

6 weeks

Well, it's been 6 weeks since I had my baby. I gained 28 pounds during my pregnancy and I've lost 19. I only have 9 to go but they are just sticking onto me! I started walking on my elliptical at 4 weeks post par tum and then stopped after a week and now I think I'm ready to get back on it. I will take it easy for the next couple days until my dr appt but I really want to get this weight off. My pre-pregnancy clothes aren't fitting that great and I fee like I should be back into my normal clothes by now. I know everyone is different but geez, I just don't want to have my lame-o muffin top...