I am FREEEEEE!!!

Today was my doctors appoinment. I am free to do what I want. I am human again!!! I no longer have to ask someone else's permission for what I can do with my own body.

I started a weight lifting program today. I am starting really light, just to get back in the groove. My legs and arms are pretty sturdy, but my core is terrible. I guess that is to be expected when your abs have been stretched to the max! It feels good to be DOING something towards my weight loss.

I am down 38 lbs now. I would like to lose 32 more, but 27 will get me to pre-baby weight. I am on myfitnesspal with a great group of girls who are encouraging!

My plan now is, keep counting calories on myfitnesspal, stay between 1000 calories and 1500 calories a day. Do the couch to 5K program on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Lift weights Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and rest on Sunday. Of course I will be riding Roanie

Well, my computer is being dumb and not letting me upload my picture for today. 

I'll try tomorrow! 

1 Month Post Partum

Here I am a month out from being pregnant. According to the scale the weight is falling off. My mirror isn't so kind. I'm down exactly 34 lbs which leaves me 31 to lose still. At our wedding I weighed 130ish, so I only have 20 to go to get there. I want to be down to 130 by Christmas, and then back to 120 by March. I hear that last 10 pounds is the hardest to lose while you are breast feeding so I may have to get extreme to lose that (by the extreme I mean crazy exercise).

As far as what I am doing to lose the weight, I am still walking each day. As far as eating, I am trying to eat when I am hungry and make smart choices. I'm recording my calories about every 5th day or so just to see how I am doing calorie wise. I usually stay under the 1800 calories they say to eat for good milk production, but it isn't effecting my supply at all.

A typical day for food for me is...

Breakfast: 1/2 cup of oatmeal with 2 Tbsp of Peanut butter and 1/4 cup of blueberries.  OR 2 Eggs cooked in a nonstick pan sprayed with olive oil and a bowl of fiber one cereal.

Lunch: anything I can grab! Haha! Usually left overs or tuna. Sometimes its a banana and peanut butter, sometimes a tortilla and some meat left over from a meal, anything easy and handy.

Snack: Fruit- bananas, peaches, apples, strawberries, etc.

Supper: I eat smart portions of what I cook for my Hubby. Things like hamburgers, mexican casserole, taco soup, smoked pork loin, enchiladas.

It isn't the healthiest diet ever, but as we get more and more on a schedule I am able to eat better and better.

11 more days until I am released to exercise! I can't wait!!

This is me on our Honeymoon in 2010. I weighed between 130-135 in this picture. If I get back to this weight I can tolerate myself. I want to be here by Christmas. 

This is me last summer when I weighed 120. This is where I am happiest with my body! 

The pictures on the left are taken week one. The ones on the right were taken today at 1 month post partum. Looking at these side by side I realize I have lost more weight than I realize. It is just so fare from where I want to be!
They say patience is a virtue but it is so hard. I just have to keep saying,

9 months on 9 months off!

I don't like the picture of her, I'll never get those abs, but I do like the saying!!!

Exhausting Week = Stalling Scale

I  am not posting until today because last week my little man hit his 3 week growth spurt. After nursing him every hour to hour and a half, I got no sleep. Then I got sick, ran a fever, and ended up at the doctors office! A weekend of napping every time little man did and a few anti-biotics later I am feeling much better.

I didn't walk all last week, and barely had time to eat. When I did it wasn't healthy, basically just whatever I could grab. My weight loss stalled. I got down to 159.2 and stayed there until this morning when I was down another pound.

Now that my happy baby is back on a better schedule I am eating better again. I got in a 2 mile walk this morning! I did order a BOB last week and I can't wait to take little man for a walk in it! They say he should be able to sleep in it since it is so smooth. It should get here Wednesday. I'm so excited!

I also joined back up with My Food Diary. I am not logging my calories everyday, but some just to get a gage of where I am at. So far I have done pretty well.

Two more weeks and I can start really working out. I will start the Couch to 5K plan immediately. I don't know when for sure I will start the class. Depends on little man taking a bottle. He is refusing right now so I am kind of tied to him. Until then my sweet hubby has said he will help me find an easy weight lifting plan.

Here are my pictures for this week. I look like a fat girl. My husband and mom keep telling me relax, its only been 3 and a half weeks. I tried on jeans the other day though, I bought a pair to get me by. They were double the size of my 'fat girl jeans' before pregnancy!!!

Here is my pictures for the week...

OH My muffin top!!! This view is the worse!

You can tell how much the swelling has gone down though! Most all my shoes and rings fit now! At the end of this week I want to do comparison pictures of the last month. 

If I have any advice for this week, it is don't stress when the scale doesn't move if your sick. Your body often holds on to water weight more if you are ill, just as mine did. 

Who its all for! My growing boy who is now in 3month clothes!!!

This works for me...

THEY FIT....Almost

One of the things that bothered me the most while being pregnant and swollen like a balloon was that since the end of February I couldn't wear my wedding rings. That's right, not only do I look like a high school kid, the one sign that shows the world that I am in fact a mature adult, I had to wear on a necklace. This morning I tried my rings on. They went all the way on!!!! I am so excited, now I didn't keep them on because I know in this west Texas heat that I will swell some through out the day. I was so happy I thought I might cry, but instead I just did a happy dance around the house (well, in my current size I would say that the happy dance looked more like a buffalo walking through a prairie dog town, but hey you get the idea).

I also tried on some of my heels this morning. They fit! A little snug still, but hey, I'm getting there. These little goals make me realize I am getting somewhere. 

As of yesterday morning I was down 27 lbs at exactly 2 weeks post partum. I have a long way to go before I get to where I want to be number wise, but I am almost half way there. Now, as far as appearance, I am light years from where I want to be. Imagine where I want to be is the sun and I am on the former planet known as Pluto. 

I can't wait to have a waist again. I really hope my ribs go back some. 

My belly looks pretty good for only two weeks I think, its the fat on my back that I strategically hid with my arms that I am not a fan of! 

So what am I doing to help me get to the place I want to be. Well, I would be lying if I said I was eating perfectly, because I'm just not. For now I am just making wise choices and trying to practice stopping when I am full (note: I said trying!). I am walking daily, yesterday thanks to our dear friend the west Texas wind I had to walk on the dreadmill! Ugh! On my walks I can't wait to run. I have to fight the urge to break into a run. I miss it so. 

Everyday I tell myself, 9 months on, 9 months off. Make today a day I would be proud of if I wrote my food choices down! 

Well, Little Man is waking up from his nap, snack time! I must be off!