1 week postpartum

I feel very good. I can touch my toes I can sit down and get up. I can twist or curl up on the couch. I am not at the I miss being pregnant stage yet. Maybe because I still look pregnant. About in my 4th month.





With the first baby I had I brought my normal clothes to the hospital to wear home. Bahaahaa. Well it wasn't funny then I cried when they would not fit. I really thought that you can fit right back into your old stuff as soon after you have a baby.

This time I brought my jogging pants and a bigger Lilly shirt. There is still no sense in not having style. I am not in the dark on the weight you still carry around or the fact that I will look early pregnant for a little while. I look at it in two ways
1. I am healthy and feel good with a new baby and that is what is important not my size
2. It can be fun to lose the weight. I do love getting back to the gym, back to running. None of which I have done yet or will for another month or so. I have a lot of stitches and just can't. But I enjoy the weight falling off and being able to get rid of the bigger clothes.

My drawl back is I have not told the sweets part of my mind we are not eating for an army anymore.

Time to dust off my wii fit, find my workout dvd's, and treat my self to a pair of those shape up sneakers. I can't wait for the weather to get warm to throw the babies in the stroller and walk. Believe it or not it SNOWED yesterday! The end of March and it was so cold and snowing.

Does anyone else out there have great weight loss tips?

The pictures I was taking of my 1 week postpartum were self timer pictures. Smiley was so happy to keep saying cheese and would run to push the timer button over and over. I had a great time with taking them with him. This kid has my heart.

floor exercising

Today, is the first of March. The first...a new beginning. What's your new beginning? What do you want to start over or try new? I am going to try to make this month a healthy month. I am going to try to shed a few pounds and get back into something I love this month. I had a goal to run a marathon 26.2 miles by the time I was thirty. That did not happen. This month I turn 31, I never ran the marathon but I did not close the book on that dream in fact it is still at the fore front of my mind. I love to run. I love to walk and hike but I love to run. The human body was designed for it. Running strengthens you and frees your mind. It increases gray matter in the brain which can improve memory and learning, and potentially slow down the deterioration of mental ability. I like the way it makes your body feel when it is took care of and used to it potential. I have been running at the Y. I get on the elliptical machines and just go. Sadly my time has gone dramatically up since I have stopped. I need to get back into shape. I want to get bathing suite ready for a cruise with my love and I want to fulfill my goal of running a marathon. This time I will not put time limits on when it has to be by. I just want to do it for me.

I have started back at the gym and working out at home in order to get back in to shape for running. My boys are so excited. When they see they ask Mom can we do the exercise video? I am thankful I have such motivators in my life.

We tried today to exercise. Tried because I first kept saying later, not now. I did not want to do it. I did cave in and we tried.

I put in the dvd and all the sudden I had 3 little ones trying to work those abs.




Three little ones who believed the only floor room in the house was directly under me.




Three little ones who not only are my cheer leaders, exercise partners, but actually the main reason I have to work out. To work off 9 months of wonderful times, developing love.

A realization about processed foods

In all the posts I like to include pictures of our family and daily life. We are ones who never leave home without a camera so there are hard drives at our home full with photos. Long since the day of photo albums.

Since Brendan's birth there has been an absence of me in all these pictures. Two reasons can sum it up
1. I am 90% of the time the picture taker
2. Vanity

I put on a lot of weight again with this pregnancy and now I need to lose it.

I have made a good start popping out a 9lb baby and all the stuff that comes with it dropped a quick 20lbs off. That is great motivation for more. Plus I have the added comments of my sweet 6 year old and my mother.

6yo- pinches my back and chants back fat. I want to give him nothing to be able to pinch.

my mother- when telling her about going to the pool her honest reply by the speed it rolled out of her mouth, you can't wear/fit in to a swim suit can you? A quick apology did follow as I stood there jaw drop and said yes mom they do make bigger swim suits. Which I did put on and wear to the pool.

Summer is a great time to lose weight. The weather is great for walking my favorite thing to do and there is a bountiful of fresh fruit and vegetables. Lately I have been very observant about processed foods, how much I am eating and how it makes me feel. With the great farmers markets I have been eating a lot more salads and fresh local food YUM. But with the children we are often still doing the fast food lunch. I have definitely noticed the difference I feel afterwards. On the forth we went to McDonald's for lunch. A easy way to make 4 kids very happy and not to blow a budget when feeding 8. Halfway through my lunch I put down the food and started feeling horrible. I know it was due to what I was eating. I could not shake that feeling and did not eat the rest of the day.

The next morning I was hungry and wanted something quick because baby was needing a lot. Rather than grab some quick and easy fruit. I threw in a frozen pizza. Yes still frozen processed but at least its organic. It was pretty good but I did not feel great afterwards but a least not sick. Running errands later in the day everyone became hungry. We grabbed lunch at Sam's Club I got another piece of pizza. I again felt sick and was nauseated by their pizza. Is it all in my head? I don't think so. I took a while before I felt better again.

SO what am I going to do. The answer to me is pretty clear. I am going to try to cut out as much processed foods as possible. I am going to feed my family better than fast food. I am going to attempt to lose weight by changing my diet. Anything to avoid getting on the floor and doing one of those awful crunches. Maybe I will even dust off that stupid wii fit.

Welcome to my weight loss journey.




Me- 5'2" 140lbs
The big shirt is on to hide a big butt
DH- 6' 170lbs?
He will end up loseing too