Baby Weight

     I wanted to keep track of my progress as far as loosing the baby weight was concerned. At my heaviest I was 232 pounds...or at least the last time I stepped on a scale it said I was 232 but that was a week before the baby. I figure I was actually closer to 235 once the little peanut finally made his arrival.  So lets just say I was a whopping 235 Pounds...lets just say it really quietly shall we.



This was like a month after baby.

      So this morning I weighed myself and I am now down to 197. I remember the first time I passed the 200 mark...that was a great day...I can remember it like it was yesterday..could be because it was only a week ago. But anyway, I was really proud of myself.  I have been exercising and trying to eat well. I figure the hardest part of loosing the weight is to stop eating like a pregnant women.  No one ever tells you that you'll still have the appetite of a pregnant women.  Now that I have my portion sizes cut in half I'm doing pretty good.  I try to eat more fruit during the day and I have started watering down my juice.  I hate water with a passion, it has to have some sort of flavoring in it.  I find cranberry cocktail works the best because it has a strong flavor to begin with. I can put it 1/3 juice to 2/3 water and it still tastes like juice...you have to start slowly though. 2/3 juice to 1/2 juice and so on.
     My husband and I have also started working out together. Some nights we do abdomen exercises and some nights we go for a walk...well I go for a walk with the baby in a pack well he goes for a run.  I prefer speed walking, it doesn't hurt my knees like jogging or running does. Once the weather is nicer I would like to get one of those baby seats for my bike and be able to cycle on the bike trains that go through the state parks.
     My over all goal is to be back to where I was before I got pregnant by the summer.  I really don't want to look like a tubber in a bathing suit. So i need to get back down to 175 at the very least. so let us do the math. If I started at 235 I've already lost 38 pounds. If I want to get to 175 I have 22 pounds to go. If I loose an average of 3 pounds a week which is what I have been loosing since I started keeping track. I'm looking at 7 weeks to loose the remaining 22 pounds....So I'm looking at March 26th as a deadline.
     I will do a weekly check in to see how well I am keeping to my goal. I have high hopes.


This was taken Thursday, February 3rd, 2011