new year... new game

anyone up for a friendly weight loss competition?!!   It would start Monday Jan. 5 and go for 6 weeks.   I am thinking this is the motivation I need to get going again!  Who is with me?  Would love to hear from all of you again!!!  Just comment on the post if you want to participate and I'll make a tab with a chart of everyone' stats and progress!  Feel free to share on your blog so we can have more people included!!! The more the merrier!  Thanks 

Aaaaghh

I've give anything to just under 130 lbs.... oh just to see the 120s again....  oh maybe someday... it is so hard with BF trying to diet... every time I attempt to cut calories I have zero energy, feel weak and almost faint or feel horribly nauseated.... blah

Finding Time?!

Finding time is so hard these days, time for ME that is.  I have plenty of time of my sweet baby, and then a little time for cleaning and chores... but like zero me time.  Which is ok, to an extent, I mean I did sign up to be a mommy, which is a 24/7/365 job!  

I have been slipping on my healthy eating habits as of lately.   I have come to a stall on weight loss because of it.  I'm at 134.6 lbs this morning.  I would love to make it to 130 lbs by Derby day next Saturday.  So I have given up processed sugar until then, trying to stick to natural sugars like fruits.  I know if I stay focused and stick with this until next Saturday that it will be easier to get back into my old healthy eating habits.  So fingers crossed I can stick this out. 

I've been taking my baby for a walk in the stroller everyday that I am off from work, which is at least 4 days a week, and sometimes 5 days.  It is much harder to run pushing that darn thing tho!  But I am working up to it.  Yesterday I ran 0.8 miles of my 2.1 miles.  (Not consecutive running, but still, gotta RE-start somewhere) 

So my short term goal is reach 130 lbs by next Saturday, and my next goal is to be around 125 lbs by 5/23 (which is a follow up appt with my OBGYN)  I want to be closer to my pre-pregnancy weight! by the time I had a Dr visit my pre-pregnancy weight was 118.8lbs in the office.  at home when I found out it was right at 115 lbs. Also we have 6 month family photo shoot scheduled for the end of June, so my goal would be to be about 120 lbs by then.  So my long term goal is to be at 115 lbs by 9/29, which will be when my baby is 9 months old.  They say it takes 9 months to put on the weight, it should take 9 months to take it back off.  So here is to FINDING TIME and reaching goals!

May 3rd 2014 ~ 130 lbs

May 23rd 2014 ~ 125 lbs
June 29 ~ 120 lbs

Sept 29th 2014 ~ 115 lbs

I'm Back!!!

So on Dec. 29th a had a beautiful healthy little girl, 6 lbs 11 oz.  She is just perfect! Love her so much... she was def. worth every nasty pound of weight I gained!

I started my pregnancy at about 115 lbs... and ended my pregnancy at about 160 lbs!!  thats 45 lbs!  yuck!  I had intentions to only gain 25 lbs... that didn't work to well.. although I stayed pretty on track and keeping running up until October, then when I quit running the pounds just packed on... but o well.  

So today I weighed 139.2 lbs... thats 2 1/2 weeks postpartum.  I'll take it.   I'd really like to see 130 lbs by the end of month (which is my birthday.)  I started back to gym this monday, just walking on treadmill at like 3.5 to 4 mph for now trying to ease back into things. 

In 2012 I lost 26 lbs and was once within 0.6 lbs of my UGW of 110 lbs.... this year I've lost 20.8 lbs so far, most of which was baby and such though.   Hopefully by the end of year I will be back or close to 110 lbs.   

I am breastfeeding exclusively so I cant restrict as much as I used to b/c I want my baby to be healthy, so you probably wont hear too much of a food log this year... just exercise. :-)