My daughter is four months old now. In the past three months I have lost eleven pounds, thats a bit less than a pound a week. That is really not as fast as I was hoping but I guess I cant get too discouraged since I am seeing a slow steady weight loss. I have not been working out much. I do what I can when I can but I rarely get a solid work out it. I have three children, ages four, three and four months. I am really hoping to find more time soon, once the baby starts solids I should be able to get a good run in after her dinner. I am currendly 163lbs but having a tough time breaking into 162lbs. Ive been hung up on 163 for almost two weeks now and that is very annoying. I am hoping by the end of this week I will have hit 162lbs. Ive lost 27lbs since January 23rd 2008
My daughter was born almost a month ago, January 23rd we welcomed Hailey into our family. She was 7lbs on the dot and 20.5″ long. She was born at home with the assistance of an amazing midwife. During my pregnancy I gained a whopping 34 pounds. Dang. I was actually on track until the last two weeks or so when I gained a ton. I delivered Hailey at 41 weeks 2 days gestation. Since she has been born I have done my best to watch what I eat but it isnt easy-I care for three kids ages 4,3, and newborn all day and am just exhausted when it comes to dinner time. Thankfully the baby is sleeping better so I can really pay attention to what Im cooking and eating. I also just started working out again, Im trying to ease into it so my post partum bleeding doesnt start again. That is a good indicater that your body is or isnt ready for exercise just yet. The week after my daughter was born I weighed 177lbs. My ultimate goal is to be 139lbs. But for now Im setting my sites on a few smaller goals to help break up the amount I need to lose. Its easier to look at 10lbs to lose rather than 40. So my first goal is to hit 165lbs. That is the weight I was when I graduated highschool. My next goal after that is 154lbs which is what I weighed when I got pregnant. The goal after that is to hit 143lbs which is the lowest weight Ive seen as an adult. Im aiming for one pound a week loss. Which means Ive got 12 weeks to hit my first goal. Im currently nursing my baby so Im hoping that will help drop the weight since Im not working out much yet. Im 174lbs at the moment at four weeks post partum, 8 weeks from now hopefully I will be at my first goal!
It seems like a few days ago I found out I was pregnant but here I am almost 17 weeks pregnant and showing- a LOT. I have been trying to stick with healthy low fat eating and getting moderate exercise. It hasn’t been ideal with morning sickness and a lot of fatigue but I seem to be past that now and feeling okay. At my last midwifes appointment I have gained a total of between six and seven pounds which is in the healthy range. From 1-13 weeks women are supposed to gain 3-5lbs if they were at a healthy weight prior to pregnancy, after that the recommendation is to gain about a pound a week for the remaining 27 weeks for a total of 25-35lbs total. I am really trying to aim for the lower end since I was still a smidgen on the heavy side when I got pregnant. Once this baby is born it will make it that much easier to drop the few extra pounds I still will be carrying. The prospects of losing 5 or 10 pounds of ‘baby weight’ isn’t too depressing compared to the 20+ I was carrying after each of my previous deliveries!
Ive noticed lately that my nails seem to be a lot stronger than they used to be. I know its not because Im pregnant, Im only 10 weeks along so the free edge of my nails werent made while Ive been pregnant. Ive always had really flimsy nails and had a really hard time growing them to have any sort of cute free edge. Ive tried all sorts of different things, even drinking knox gelatin as a kid to try and make them stronger- it didnt work. Nothing has. But I noticed I have a free edge on all 10 fingers now! And they arent as flimsy, I really have to wonder if this is a perk to low fat eating? I will have to continue to watch my nails after I deliver this baby to see if they stay strong!
So this blog has been all about how I am trying to lose the weight I gained while pregnant- but surprise! Im pregnant! Im 6 and a half weeks along now and have continued eating low fat and healthy. My last two pregnancies I ate a ton of horrible food and even though I didnt gain a huge amount of weight during my pregnancies it was all fat! I ate tons of sugar sweetend lemonade and brownies with my first son and obscene amounts of pastries with my second, mostly chocolate or chocolate chip pop tarts. I am doing great with dealing with the crazy cravings. So far my cravings have been all been for pretty decent foods. My biggest craving is pudding- mainly tapioca pudding with chilled canned mandarine oranges. I make it with skim milk so it is very low fat but a good sources of calcium and vitamine C. My other big pudding craving is pistacio pudding with whipped topping, marshmallows and pineapple. So the marshmallows arent so great for me, but its so yummy!! I want to work hard this pregnancy to keep my weight gain to wieght that needs to be gained, not just a bunch of fat. Ive worked too hard to lose all of that fat to let myself eat crap and gain it back. I am being slightly more leinent on my fat intake since the baby needs it to develope but Im still being very watchful and eating lots f fat free or low fat products. I just let a few higher fat choices slide in once in a while. Like lean cuts of beef- more than 20% calories from fat but its important for me to get some red meat in my diet for the iron. When I took my pregnancy test I weight 156lbs, I hovered around 155lbs for a while and this morning I was up to 157. Im hoping to finish my first trimester at 159lbs or less.