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!!!