It has been six months since I last checked in with my weight on this blog. This past week I met a huge goal of mine-breaking below 150 pounds. I weigh 149.4lbs. Six months ago I weighed 163lbs. Ive lost 13.6lbs in six months, that is certainly no spectacular feat but it is over 55 sticks of butter that I have lost!! I was wearing a 17/18 in jeans and now my 12’s are falling off of me. Im very happy with my weight loss so far. My next goal is 143lbs, which is what I weighed on my wedding day when I was 18 years old. That is less than seven pounds away. I figure since Im losing about a half a pound a week on average I should expect to hit that goal somewhere around the middle to end of March 2009.
There is a really fun way to track your weight loss progress. I am a totally visual person and seeing a ticker, or a slide or graph with my achievements really helps me keep committed. I have a ticker from www.tickerfactory.com I love my ticker. First you chose the background, mine is vegitables but there are dozens to choose from then you choose the slider which will move as you lose weight, mine is a tomato. I have lost 19 pounds since my weight evened out after having my daughter almost 6 months ago, Ive lost 32 pounds total (including a 7lb baby). You can also track your BMI and waist size. I much prefer to track my weight.
This is my ticker now:
It is amazingly easy to update. You just click on your own ticker (or any ticker from that site) and put your pin number in and it lets you edit. You press save and voila, your ticker is updated with your newest weight loss! You can edit everything about your ticker through your pin number.
It helps me keep up the good work, hopefully you find it will do the same for you!
And the best part- its FREE!
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!