30 Day Challenge: Day 1

After feeling great yesterday, I decided to do the EA Active 30 day challenge.  Don't get me wrong, my thighs are killing me but I feel awesome!!! I slept so amazing last night.  It helps that my 4 month old is starting to sleep better at night as well.  I am excited to do tomorrow's workout. I only had one soda yesterday the rest of the day it was water.  I am also trying to get my body back to not eating after 6pm if it can be helped.  I may take a nap today, I should have yesterday but wanted to get more laundry done.  Feeling motivated and worn out in a great way!

Back to it, I promise this time.

After a very odd and stressful couple of months, I am back to my resolution to lose this baby weight once and for all.  Today, I could only manage the EA Active for about 15 minutes.  I do have a 4 month old.  But that was also after walking the kids to school, so I consider that a victory.  My daughter has become predictable enough that after dropping the kids off at school, she has started taking at least a half hour nap.  Just enough time for me to get a work out in.  Luckily Bruiser likes doing it with me, so we both got in some good activity today.  Now that I have had my slimfast and apple/peanut butter snack/breakfast and my breathing has returned to normal, I am feeling good.  I still have lots of housework to do that I might add to my exercise log for the day.  I don't care what anybody says, that stuff can really get your heart pumping.  My husband and I have a deal...he is going to give his new job everything he can to make it successful for the next year, so I figured I could work on my fitness for the next year.  Either way, in a year, we are hoping to be in a much better place financially, healthily and with our happy kids.  Everyone gets discouraged sometimes, the key is to pick yourself back up and try again!

Getting back to it!

Had a small window of time today where the baby was content enough to try to workout.  I started on yoga and did some other games on the Wii fit disk. It felt good even though it was only 13 minutes.  The kids even did it with me.  I ended with a short distance run. It was good to get us all moving.  I am hoping it won't take too long to get back to the level of exercise that I was doing before.  It was so nice to sweat a little and exert my body.  Maybe I will get a chance to do another 15 minutes later today, we'll see.

In Shock...

You read my weight loss ticker right, I am down 30 lbs.  20 was from before the pregnancy and that was all I gained during my pregnancy.  It has simply melted off since I had my daughter.  That means I have lost an additional 10lbs.  I am sure it has to do with a lot of things like, 4 children to look after, an abdominal binder that is helping support where I had my c-section, which I wear most of the time while I am up and about during the day...I live in AZ, it's super hot so I am sweating almost effortlessly, yuck.  Nursing seems to be going better than it has with my other children.  However, she is only 3 weeks old, I made it at least 2 months with my other kids before they got too big and needed a bottle exclusively to squelch their hunger.  I have been resting but I haven't been as down as I was with my past c-sections.  I am so motivated by all this weight loss and ecstatic!!!  Once I am off weight restrictions I can begin to slowly build up my endurance again.  I have a lot of hope that I might be able to be close if not reaching my goal weight by my 30th birthday.  If I am already starting off with so much lost, all I need to do is keep it off.  I have continued with small meals, lots of water and all I need to add back is vigorous exercise.  Some of which shouldn't be too hard while carrying around my daughter in her sling.  Seriously love it and so does she.  Super happy and motivated :)

New Year, New Adventures and New Hope

It is a couple of months short of a year ago since I posted on this blog last.  I was pregnant and have had a wonderful baby girl since then.  I was happy to find out that I had only gained the weight I had lost when I was pregnant and since having my daughter, I have lost it again!  This means, I am not starting all over, I can pick up where I left off.  Although by the time I am off weight restrictions, my weight may have altered a bit.  I look forward to starting again.  In going through some boxes trying to get rid of things and prepare for the baby, I found my original Wii Fit disc.  This allows me to utilize the Yoga stretches to ease my way back up to my EA Active disc.  It will take some time and I will have to move slowly so that I don't cause any damage where my c-section is.  My goal is to take it one day at a time, enjoying my children and my husband and working on my health.  I would like to say that I would like to be close to my goal weight a year from now, but that might be setting myself up for failure.  It's better to look at getting my strength and endurance back up to where it was and watching the pounds melt away.  Celebrating each small victory is more important than focusing on something too far in advance to see.

Well that's one way to get over your plateau, get puking sick.  It has been a "fun" week so far.  My almost 4 yr old son was sick on Sunday.  My daughter started with it yesterday morning at 1am with my husband to follow.  As they were winding now from puking, it was me and my youngest's turn to have a go around.  So, now that my system is broken down, I feel better today.  It won't be too hard to stick with my shakes today because that is all I trust to eat at this moment for fear of a recurrence.  It was mostly a 24hr thing but my husband had it much worse than I so he is getting some extra rest today.  One thing I know for sure, there will definitely be nap time.  As far as a workout goes, I need to let my sore body recover from yesterday.  It is amazing how much that will just make your whole body ache.  Your workouts are only as effective as the rest you allow your body to get.  I am not staying down, I will get back up!

The season has started for birthdays which means the holidays are not far behind.  Needless to say, I have had quite a few challenging days and feel horrible stuck.  The kids are getting a little nutty and excited for school to start, which means less patient and kind with each other.  I have worked out 3 days this week already but this morning the kids started early and I was not about to try to workout and deal with ornery kids at the same time.  So, trying to stick to my diet today, my shakes, water, my apple and some dinner.  I have got to get back on track.  I haven't gained much back, in fact when I weighed myself Monday morning I was back at my 17pounds.  I really want to get over this hump.  Trying to be diligent because I want this so bad.