Post California and March goal

My California trip was AWESOME! So warm, so nice, so perfect. I loved almost everything about it. I was having so much fun I forgot about my new found eating habits and slipped off the wagon. But I'm back on and my goal this month of March is to be in the 130's! In fact, when I finally reach that momentous occasion I will post a picture of the scale on here. I hope it's sooner than later. Today is the 4th so I better get on it! Good luck to those out there with goals in mind!

Food Matters!

I just watched this documentary the other night and recommend it fully! What a great one. The more I learn about food and what I'm putting into my body the more I am aware of all the gross and who-knows-what things I used to put in my body! I have been changing my habits and eating more fruits and vegetables than ever before! I believe the body can be better and heal itself through food. If only I could convince one of my friends on depression medicine to try the method used in this movie.

Food Matters discusses the importance of Nutrition & Natural Therapies for helping with chronic illness. The film shows which foods and therapies are ideal for optimal health and have been proven to fight Cancer, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Depression and many more Chronic Illnesses and everyday conditions.

I hope that if anyone out there is actually reading this blog that they will take the time to watch this documentary and take a step back and look at what they are eating and putting into their body! 

Be green!

losing and happy about it!

I am losing weight slowly but surely and it feels great! I am down to 143.5 and I am hoping to be in the 130's by my trip to California next month! So, here's to staying strong, healthy, and motivated!

I completed my challenge for the day!

It wasn't as bad as I thought and I already want to keep sucking in my tummy and engaging my core so that I can have a flat stomach!

My future stomach? ; )

500, 50, 5 Challenge!!

It can be a mid-November challenge!

500 crunches- 100 reg, 100 bicycles, 200 side crunches (100 ea. side), 100 reg
50 squats
5 push ups

Every other day I will do this when I wake up before starting all the craziness of my day, Starting tomorrow,  November 15th and ending November 30th. In addition, I will be doing 30 minutes of cardio on the other days. I will either do it in the morning at 5:30 am or in the evening at 8:30 pm after the kids go to bed.

Go Fitness!!

same old same old

I had been working out 3 times a week for an hour of hard step aerobics for almost 2 months. I had lost about 8 pounds and I was looking better and feeling great! Then, in a split second misstep I sprained my ankle! It hurt soo bad! I couldn't hardly walk for 2 whole weeks. Then for 3 more weeks I always wore a brace and still limped a little bit. Then in the last week, the last maybe 5 days I haven't worn a brace at all and it feels pretty good. I still can't run without it hurting but I can jump (little jumps), finally! By the end of the night, my ankle is usually a little sore but nothing to ice over.

So, now here I am, trying to be super careful with my ankle but now wanting to really really workout. I feel like a blimp! I'm not sure where to go from here. I want to just do a really crazy workout routine and eating plan and get myself going but I want to make sure I am eating enough calories and not overdoing it to keep my already dwindling milk supply up.

What's next?

Make a plan!

1st work out back

I just finished my first work out back from "maternity leave" lol. It was good, hard, and I couldn't do everything on the list but still good. I definitely feel flubby and the need to workout more so hopefully this can become a regular thing!

Here's what I did tonight:

50 jumping jacks
50 crunches
45 jumping jacks
45 squats
40 jumping jacks
40 pushups (I only did 20)
35 jumping jacks
35 crunches
30 jumping jacks
30 squats
25 jumping jacks
25 pushups
20 jumping jacks
20 crunches
15 jumping jacks
15 squats
10 jumping jacks
10 pushups
5 jumping jacks
5 crunches
5 squats
5 pushups

so grand total of

275 jumping jacks
110 crunches
95 squats
60 pushups

Ya, I think I want to throw up now. I remember feeling this way after my first run after I had Hannah. Boy am I going to feel this tomorrow!

5 weeks Post baby and still the same....

Well, I guess it's a good thing but I'm still at 154.5. I know I don't need to worry about "losing weight" so until later, like, months later, I am just going to update every once in a while to post my weight and inches lost/stayed the same.

11 days post partum

Well, here I am! My little boy is 11 days old and as cute as can be! I am feeling so great besides major sleep deprivation and thought it would be good to document my weight for fun for the next 5 weeks while I can't exercise.

I went all the way up to 168 and when I got home from the hospital I was 160 (3 days post)

Yesterday I weighed myself and I was 154.5 so that's 13.5 lost and about 8.5 to go if I'm going to be back to 146ish like I was right before I got pregnant.

I'm not going to diet right now but I am amazed at how self conscious I already feel about my body. Sometimes I feel like pregnancy was a get out of jail free card because I didn't have to worry about how I looked or if I was having a "fat day" because I was pregnant! I feel like people are already judging my stomach and the rest of my body. I don't have that safety of being pregnant. Now if someone saw me they could just think I was a chubby mom. Don't worry, I wont let other people determine how I feel about myself. But I am noticing the stigma out there that there is so much pressure on women to look thin, even after just having a baby.

So, for the next 5 weeks I am just going to relax with my kids and heal from having a baby and then maybe I'll start to exercise ; )

Feeling a little big!

I am feeling big and the belly's a growin'! I haven't been as regular with my exercise as I was hoping I would be. Somehow, after I stopped watching my 2 nephews over the summer my energy levels went down, and my exercise motivation kind of left. haha! But I am doing pretty good weight wise, at 159 lbs. I just hope I can keep up with my exercise that's a few days a week instead of the 5 I was hoping for. I think I'm doing pretty good anyway!

26 weeks and gaining

I don't remember feeling like such a whale at this point in my pregnancy with Hannah but maybe it's because I wasn't chasing anybody around all day and feeling "the waddle". I have been sick since Wednesday and it's been quite the uneventful week; laying around, reading books (children one's, of course) and not getting any housework done. Perfect, NOT! So, I decided today that although I am not 100%, I am done being sick! I need to get back on the band wagon and workout and eat right (and clean my house!) or I really will be a whale when the baby is born! I weighed myself this afternoon (I usually weigh myself in the morning)and I weighed a whoppin' 159! Good grief. I decided to weigh myself in the morning tomorrow just for comparison sake because I can't believe I've gained 10 lbs in the last 10 weeks! At this rate I will be gaining a lot before I actually give birth so I need to remember to keep my healthy foods close and my not so healthy foods a walk away! Total weight gain so far this pregnancy is 12.5 lbs according to when I first found out...Ok...That doesn't sound as bad. And I'm more than half-way there so phew!

16 1/2 weeks!

So far so good! I have been keeping up my activity level, which is easy to do when you have 3 kids you are taking care of most of the day. I weighed myself this morning and was 149 so another gain, but not too much so that's good. I want to gain weight, just not tons. I need to keep telling myself that! It's hard to change my mindset about the scale but then I look in the mirror and see that my baby is growing (and so is my belly!) and it's easy again. I know I need to keep eating healthy foods and exercising and getting good sleep and it will all be good. So there's the ol' update : )

weigh-in

Right now it's 10:30 and I'm eating a bowl of fruit loops. I know, I'm terrible. Luckily this is not my usual routine and I've been trying to eat healthier during my pregnancy. I moved and haven't weighed myself for a couple weeks and thought I'd get on the scale this morning to see how I'm doing. I weighed in at 148.5 which is an increase of 2 lbs since last month. Pretty lame if you ask me but I am ok with gaining weight now that I'm in my 2nd trimester. And all the books say you gain between 0-3 lbs the first trimester anyway so I'm good. Anyway, just wanted to mark my progress.

Kumquat

I have been staying at 146.5 for the last few weeks but I have a feeling it's not going to last too much longer. I'm pregnant!! Of course, the two readers out there that have read my blog in the past already know but for document purposes and for fun I must post about it! I have been sick and tired and no energy after chasing my crazy toddler all day. I have still been trying to walk every day but it's more like every other day. I have a goal of staying really on top of my exercise while the weather is still nice because the last couple months of pregnancy will be filled with cold and snow.

When I was 145 lbs I had finally made my goal of a healthy BMI! I didn't even post about it darn it! Now, I am a little over healthy range for BMI (146.5) but I think I will still maintain a goal of a 25 lb weight gain.

It's hard to think I will now be gaining weight again after all this losing I've been trying to do...I would like to maintain my weight until the 2nd trimester and then start gaining. I'm not going to try and lose by any means, just eat healthier regular portions.

Oh and baby future is the size of a kumquat, cute little thing!

tired and up 2 lbs! : (

I have been exhausted the last few weeks to say the least. My workouts have been hard to do and farther between. I have thankfully been walking most days for at least a 1/2 hour with my dog and babe so that's keeping me going somewhat. So, the 2 lbs isn't too alarming for me. I think it's just because I'm bloated and so when that tones down a bit I think I will be back to 145 or close to.

Tuesday

I weighed myself today and I was 145! An all time low since the birth of my babe. I have been concentrating on eating healthy foods, listening to my body, and exercising. I want to be healthy!

Hovering

I have been hovering the last several days at 146-146.5. I am feeling pretty good about maintaining but I also want to see if I can lose just like 5 more lbs. We'll see. I want to concentrate more on eating only good, healthy foods and not over-eating. That is the key!

Thursday

I wouldn't really call what I'm doing a cleanse so I am not going to title it as a cleanse. I'm thinking of it more like calorie restricting. Anyway, yesterday I was very motivated and stayed within my calorie limit and I went to Zumba, a crazy dance exercise class, that was very fun! So, I got on the scale this morning and what did it say?

145.5!

I know I have exclamation points after each loss but it's just so wonderful to be motivated enough to get these extra pounds off, finally!

2nd cleanse day 1

Day 1, yesterday, went great! I wasn't too hungry and when I got on the scale I weighed....

147 pounds!

That is great because yesterday when I weighed myself I weighed a whoppin' 149 lbs! Ekk!!

I definitely don't want to see the 150s again so I'm glad I'm doing this.

Here's to Day 2 (out of three)!!

Hungry!

I don't know why, but I have been soo hungry today! I don't know if it's because I'm just giving in to cravings or what but today has not been a good day. And I also think, now that I'm remembering, that when I weighed myself today I was 148, even after 40 minutes on the elliptical last night. That is probably why I am not so motivated today. I told my hubs that I don't know if I can just do calorie counting. So I think I'm going to do a 3 day cleanse, starting tomorrow. I want to keep losing weight and if I can lose more that would make me very happy. I think I need to start exercising every day too. So here's to tomorrow.

p.s. no more eating for tonight either! : )