Losing Baby Weight

Michelle, hey that's not too bad! It's still a loss! That's great for a "bad week!"

Kristin- don't feel bad about last night. I think it's totally normal to mourn the loss of our old bodies and to have to deal with what we've got now! This fact is only aggravated when we're in pain! But, at least your sweets weren't awful! It could have been waaaaay worse!

Welcome Elle! We're glad to have you here with us! Looks like you are making great progress so far!

Cat- if you are looking for some meats in the crock pot, I have two suggestions that I do. One is a pork tenderloin, and then just coat it with a bottle of Heinz 57 sauce. Add a little water to the bottom of the crockpot. It gets tender and delish! The other thing I love to do (on days where I am not fretting over my sodium) is to get a turkey ham (Kunzler is my favorite) and a giant can of Hanover green beans and baby taters in ham flavored sauce. Just dump both in the crockpot and cook all day. OMG, it is so tender and good, and tastes like a full flavored ham.

I don't know what is wrong with me today. I think it's just cabin fever, but I am lacking any motivation for sticking to my diet and working out. I decided this morning that I was not going to work out today, as my last rest day was 10 days ago. I've been working out so hard and shoveling so much, I told myself this morning that I had earned the right to a day off, and I was not working out. Also thinking my body would enjoy the switch up. Well, hubby came home for lunch, and I suggested we go out for dinner so that I could get out of the house. I told him I was going to order a huge burger sub and fries and pig out on bread. This all sounds good, but I don't even WANT to. I don't want to mess things up, but I want to WANT the food. How weird is that? Then I started thinking, and thought, well, I should just work out, and then I won't have to feel bad about whatever I do choose to eat. But now I don't want to work out, because then I'd be breaking my resolve to NOT work out today! Then I thought, well then I will just eat something healthy when we go out. And then I thought, well if I am doing that, why even go out when I can just cook it myself..... Sigh. WTH is wrong with me? LOL Maybe I am just bored.

Well, I did ok at the restaurant. I ordered a chicken stir fry and baked sweet potato. In the end I could not bring myself to order anything too bad. And we skipped dessert. I had a jello mousse temptations when I got home. I did allow myself to have a roll with one pat of butter. I am glad today, because even though I was over my MFP cals for the day, I was still under my daily calories, so still had a negative for the day. This morning I woke up with a rockin sore throat, and the baby is sick I guess that explains my weird mood yesterday. The poor little babe is all snotty and snarfy, and her poor little eyes are watering.

OOps, I meant to post this all in one.

Thanks ladies for the tummy talk. My stomach isn't all that bad I'm just having a hard time accepting this new body. I don't really plan on ever being in a two piece again with all my stretch marks and c-section scar, but I just hate having this loose flap hanging down, it makes me feel very uncomfortable and I even find myself yelling at my husband when I see him watching me undress. He's a guy, he's gonna look and I truly believe he loves what he sees, but I don't. I think my main plan of attack will be to keep up the cardio and making healthy choices. I already try to incorporate abs, legs, arms and weights during my week. Thanks for your help!

Hello everyone!

I just found this thread and I am new to MFP this week. My baby just turned one month old and I am more than ready to get back to exercising and getting back to my prepregnancy weight. Until my doctor approves though, I'm taking things slow and getting into the habit of counting my calories. We all know how easy it is to give into those pregnancy cravings... and now I'm having a hard time giving some of them up! :-) I'm hoping to lose about 30 pounds by mid-September.

Anyways, I'm beginning to understand the tummy talk. My husband keeps staring at my tummy and poking my stretch marks. I know he still likes what he sees but I don't want him to look right now! I don't know if I'll ever have the same body again, but until it looks a little better I wish he'd not pay attention. :ohwell:

Good evening everyone, I should be in bed but instead my husband decided to make cookies, sugar, none the less, and here it is 1 am and i am exhausted so all i want to do it eat. This is my hard time for me, I am bored and I want to eat. So instead i am going to go and clean, i am far behind in that. I see that i get exercise calories for that!!!

Have a great valentine's day everyone
Michelle

Holy cow Jess; on top of all that crap I ate yesterday afternoon I finished it off w/ 2 pieces of pizza. Worst day I have had to date! I put your girl scout cookies to shame!!! Not sure what came over me but I felt horrible about it when I woke up this morning! I love that you sew! You must be good to be able to make your own diaper bag. I sew a little but am never consistent enough to really be good at it. I need to learn how to hem. All the really cute pants are always way too long on me and then I have to take them to the tailor and pay to have them done and worst of all wait. I hate waiting to wear new pants!! So, I went and bought some big jeans last week since it will be months before I can come close to my old size and they are of course too long and I have been walking on them and they are sure to get ruin soon. Time to get out the old sewing machine and give hemming a try. First I will practice on some ugly jeans I scored at Goodwill.

Kristen - I was reading back to Friday and you sobbing over your body and I can really relate to where you are right now. I have shed many a tear in the last two months over my new shape and the extreme weakness I feel when attempting to work out like I used to. My strength is at about 25% if that of what it was pre-pregnancy. It is all I can do each time to just finish the simplest of exercises and my body is unrecognizable. BUT, we are strong and persistent woman and we CAN do this!!! A year from now we may even be in better shape that we were before and our bodies may be changed but that doesn't mean that they can't be new kind of great!

Michelle and Huffers - I am a late night eater too and have found if I have to have a snack that something sour usually does the trick. Right now I am hooked on Grapefruit.


Happy Valentines Girls!

-Cris

hi ladies! i'm not quite ready to join you guys yet (i'm almost 39 weeks preggo) but hopefully i will be joining you sooN! :-)

anyways, i understand the body issues. after i had my daughter i realized that the bodacious body i once had would never be again. well i ended up losing all the weight plus a few extra and actually liked my body! it wasn't the same body i once had but had some very redeeming qualities. i now had a more cinched waist due to my hips being bigger from child birth AND i had much bigger boobs! :-)

so even though i've gained a few too many pounds this pregnancy, i have no doubt in my mind that we can all reach our goal weights. just do it one week at a time. :-) and tankini's rocK! my husband promised me a tummy tuck after i reach my goal weight so i may be lucky enough to be in a bikini! one can hope.

happy valentine's day everyone!

Sorry for all the post, there has been so my entries since the last time I checked in. Glad to see everyone is doing great and getting closer to their goals. I've been a mess this past week, I've been suffering from a headache for 7 days now. At first I thought maybe I wasn't consuming enought calories so I up'd my intake to 200 calories it hasn't made a difference. I've been taking all sorts of medications but nothing. Yestarday at work my eyes couldn't focus on my computer as I was trying to give am meds to my patient. Which scared me I spoke with one of the Neuro PAs and she thought it could be a tension HA since I've been excersing so much lately. Will call the Md tomorrow if it doesn't go away. I use to suffer from migraines, but hadn't had one in 6 years, since I gave birth to our first child.

It's horrible only worked out 3 times this week, not my usual 5 which had my a little discouraged but am down 3 lbs. I've been all over thh place with my calorie intake. One day totally over the other too under. I need to get focused and get back on the ball. Having our Girls Nite Out and would like to be 20 lbs lighter since I've seen my girlfriends.
Mina- Great job with the 10% mark!! Keep it up!

Michelle- Welcome, glad to see you've joined our group! It's been inspiring for me. I hope it is for you too.

Kristin- You are kicking but girlfriend. For Kaence diaper rash, I recommend vaseline with every diaper change, that's what we've uses for Izabella and JJ and they have never had a diaper rash. EVER! Our pediatrician recommends it. We love him! Hope she's feeling better and sleeping for you!

Biggieshorty- There's nothing better than putting on the piece of clothing and it fitting again! I'm so happy for you. That's the best, better than the numbers on the scale. I can't wait to fit into the clothes in my closet. That is one of the big reasons I decide to start this life changing experience.

Jdavis193- Welcome!

Kim- There's this video 8 minute abs, one of the girls at work told me about. I asked cause her belly is flat as a wash board. "Hate her" LOL!! But I did it a few times and felt it for days.It's an old video but you can get it right off of youtube.com. Check it out.

Michelle- Lehigh....... I use to party there when I was in H.S. I had some great times up on the hill. It sure is a small world. Hope Ms. Amelia is sleeping better for you. I'm blessed JJ has been sleeping through the night since he was about 13 weeks. AMEN.

Melissa- Welcome....and this site will absolutely help, it's been encouraing for me so happy to see you have joined us.

Jess- You should do #6, I believe in even numbers, You gotta have another baby, if not someone will always be left out. Really what's one more after 5 your a pro, go for it. Sorry you and the baby aren't feeling well. It's all the dang shoveling. Jess, that's too funny about the GS cookies, I wouldn't dare order any from my friends daughter, cause I knew I would totally eat the entire box of caramel delights and not share either. So I figured can't eat them if I dont have them..RIGHT? Well I broke down and call her the other day and order four boxes but I promise I'm gonna pace myself. I'll let you know how that works out. You sew that's awesome, I would love to have that talent, I'm happy I can put a button back on a shirt.

cat1110- I had that same issue with the drinnking. I'm a martini kind of girl. I hadn't drank a few months before pregnancy you know preparing myself, and then was prego for 37 weeks, then breast fed for 6 1/2 months. So when I finally started to drink again, I wanted to make up for lost time. LOL! But each of my drinks are like 240 calories. Since I've started my dieting and working out what 8 weeks ago I probably have only had 3 drinks. But it's worth it seeing the pounds come off. We went out for Valentine's Day and I had 3 martinis on Friday they were like 860 calories, I was totally over my calorie allowance. But it is what it is, I won't be doing that again for awhile. It was my treat.

Elle23- Welcome.

Cris- it's ok to have a cheat day here and there. I did big time on Friday, went to Carrabbas and had the bread, 3 martinis and enjoyed dessert. I was way over my calorie allowance. Oh well.......LOL!!

Thuffers- Welcome.

Hello to everyone else. Slowly trying to add everyone to my friends list. There's some many people now love it! Good luck, hope everyone has a successful week!!

Liza

Good morning girlies!

On day number six of all the kids off school and I am ready for tomorrow, LOL. They have downgraded the snow advisory here to only 1-3 inches, which shouldn't close the school for another day, but will probably result in a 2 hour delay. Is it spring yet?

Mmmm Michelle, chicken marsala and pasta sounds good! I don't normally count my cleaning in my journal, but I am always thinking it in the back of my mind that it counts! I just figure it's a bonus because I don't think the calorie counters could be accurate for that. It just varies so much!

Liza, sorry to hear about your headache! That is miserable. Do you ever get shots for your headaches? I can't think of the med name right at the moment. Knocks you out, but works! I was having a brief period with bad migraines right before Christmas time. I was walking through the mall, and thought I had some rain water on my glasses. Cleaned my glasses off, and the spot was still there. It kept getting bigger and bigger FAST. In the amount of time it took me to walk to my car I could hardly see at all. And then BAM, just like that, horrible migraine. I think I figured out what was triggering them though. A particular flavor of coffee creamer that I had been drinking. The common thread seemed to be that I was drinking that creamer on all of the days I had them, and then not at all on the days I didn't. I got rid of the creamer, and haven't had another migraine since. Have you been eating anything different? Maybe switched to artificial sweeteners? My husband used to get cluster migraines as well, and that was one of his triggers. So he cannot eat anything with AS as an ingredient. How are you feeling today?

Wow, a critical care nurse! That would be such a hard line of work I think! Thank goodness for people like you who do it! Best of luck on the interview on the 22nd! I hope you knock it out of the park!

Femme- you are brave for thinking of a tummy tuck! I would love to have one, but I would never be able to do it! I am just way too scared!

I will look for 8 minute abs, though I think I really need 8 hour abs! Not just because my stomach is out of shape, but so weak too!

I am excited to hear that there are other sewers here too! Is that the right word? LOL it says SEWERs. I have all of the components of the bag made, I just need to do the final assembly. That is unless I redo the flap. I just am not happy with the appearance! The rest I am very happy with though. I am not a terrific seamstress. I have a great eye for how to put things together. I figure all of that type of thing out easily, and a good eye for ideas. Or is that good brain? LOL. My actual construction definitely needs some improvement. I think I do alright, but you wouldn't mistake my work for that of a professional!

I am definitely a huge crafty person. I went to art school and have my Bachelor's in graphic design. I love to paint (acrylics and watercolors) and draw. I did tattooing for a while (thus the dumb name here-which is just an extension of that) and I do glassblowing - have a studio in my basement. Mostly I make jewelry with that. I do scrapbooking, though I am so far behind in that it's ridiculous. And more recently I have gotten into the fiber arts. I've been doing a lot of knitting and am learning crocheting. My mom is an amazingly talented knitter, and has been teaching me. She's getting into spinning and dyeing of yarns, which is pretty cool too. My problem seems to be that I have so many interests and so little time. The biggest problem I have though, is everything is always put away. So if I want to work on something, I have to get it all out, set it up before I can work. Then the big pain of putting it all away again. That just zaps my motivation and then I don't work on things! I literally bought the fabric to do this diaper bag 5 months ago!

Liza, lol on the #6. I always say once you have three, you don't even notice more of them. It's not like it could be louder or they could be any messier!

Alright, this one handed typing stinks! I am going to go forage for breakfast!

Good Morning Girls!!!

So I have decided to set a mini goal for myself this week to get back on track. The goal is as follows:

drink 10 glasses of water a day
do Iron Yoga 3 times
go to gym for 60 minutes 4 times

I hope I stick to it!! I have just been so tired and lazy and really need a fresh start.

Sounds like Valentines Day did a number on all of us! Glad that one is over! The good news is there are no more food holidays for a very long time! Wheew!!!

Liza - I hope you get to the bottom of these headaches so you can feel better! Try not to be down on yourself about your inconsistency; it is hard to stay on track when you feel so horribly lousy! I think you are doing great and it shows in that 3 lb loss!!

Jess - Had no idea we had such an artist in our midst! I wish I had an oz of your artisism (is that a word?! lol) OR I wish you were my neighbor so I could learn from you! Haha! And to have 5 kids and still make time is even more amazing!

Kristen - how are you today hon?

Michelle & Huffers - Hi!!

We have really been enjoying the Olympics; any of you watching them? I watch too much TV these days with baby Amelia on my lap! I need to get back to reading books and find something crafty I am good it so I do not feel like such a potato!

Hugs!

-C

I also had a crummy food weekend - and my husband bought me chocolates for Valentine's, oh well, what are you gonna do? At least I only ate 4 of them (so far) I think it was the McDonald's hamburger for dinner last night and some chocolate cupcakes from the grocery store. we did get to see a movie on Friday - our 1st movie since before I had Mason. We saw the Wolfman.

Welcome BabyFatCat - you're in the right place!

Cris (I think?!) Wolfman was pretty good- I didn't go into it with "High Expectations," since horror is my husband's favorite genre, not mine, but I can do monster movies better than ghost movies.. There were some good "jump in your seat" parts, but you can totally tell when they're coming, so the anticipation gets ya - I hate that?! lol and of course there's always a little of the "cheese" factor in a horror movie - so some of it special effects-wise wasn't the greatest, but it was definitely entertaining. I think they left a few things that if I ever rent the DVD would be better explained by some deleted scenes or something, but overall, we enjoyed it, was a fun escape.
Has anyone seen When in Rome, or Dear John? trying to decide what to see tomorrow, and I think the consensus is When in Rome..

I can't figure out the whole ticker thing..... I think i'm using the wrong code.