Losing Baby Weight

good luck on the induction!!! hope all goes well and congrats!!! that is very excited. a week or 2, you are going coming on quick, but i understand and welcome!! i wish i would have started more seriously much quicker than when they were 15 months old!!! hopefully we will get some better weather here in atlanta, it has been brutally cold for us and windy. the kids need to get out and so does mommy!!!

have a great weekend everyone,
michelle

Good Saturday morning all

I must say, I am so glad that we have so many new members! Lots of conversation to keep things interesting! Welcome Badtz and firegirl! (and femmerides!!) Oh it is so exciting to be on the verge of having the baby, isn't it? The anticipation is so wonderful and awful at the same time! LOL. Best of luck to you with the induction!!! Is this your first?

Jamie- thank you for your positive words of encouragement! I live in PA near Harrisburg, Lancaster, and Hershey. I hope I am not being too personal, but why aren't you getting it? Is everything ok? I always got mine within a month. If that's too personal, please don't feel like you have to answer.

I forgot what else I read so I will have to go back then.

So, I am reading this Dr Oz book - You on a Diet. There is a ton of great info in it, though I hate the way it's written. A whole lot of silly analogies and what not. I am all for silly, but it gets old when it's like 100 different versions of the same joke.

Do you guys ever think that the more you learn the more impossible it makes things to follow the "rules" of being healthy? It's like so much info contradicts each other. As soon as you think you are doing something right, someone comes along and tells you it's not ok. I got into the habit of buying low sodium lunch meats, eating tuna fish, cooking salmon and making salmon salad, and making a big salad for lunch with a reduced fat dressing. These are my staples for my lunches. Well as I am reading, now I hear that you should avoid lunch meat altogether because of the nitrates, canned tuna is bad, there's too much mercury in seafood so you should only eat it once a week, and low fat dressings are bad because of the additives in them, your body can't recognize, so it doesn't metabolize them like it should. Oh, and half the people out there say artificial sweeteners are bad-and my low fat yogurts are crucial to my calcium. Like, what the heck are you supposed to eat then? I mean, I cook every night for dinner. I have no problems cooking, but I don't want to have to do it every day for lunch too. And who wants a boring old chicken breast and steamed veggies every day for lunch anyway? I don't really care much for oil and vinegar on my salads. *sigh* I swear you can't win!

Just a quick hello. I am in a rut this week. Lots of bad eating and such. Went and burned 800 calries at the gym in cardio alone yesterday but blew it on beer and pizza for dinner. Back in the gym today. Monday is a new week. I have lots of homework today. Anyways- I hope your all doing good today!

Hello Ladies,
I have not been on here in a long time. I think that I need to make this a mini goal for myself. When I was last on here I had lost 16.5 pounds and now I am down 22.5 pounds in total. I have recently discovered this new class at the gym (World Health). It is called force and it is 60 minutes of weight lifting with a barbell, dumbbells and a lot of squats and lunges. It is so hard but I know that I will see results if I keep going.
Do you ladies weigh in a certain day? Is there a day that you check in on here or should it be daily?

Thanks,
Stacey

I can officially join you guys! Jackson Devin was born at 252am this morning. I was induced at 430pm and at 2am finally dialated to 4cms. He was born so fast. I went 4 - 10 in less then 30minutes. I am already 11lbs lighter. At 229.4lbs only 13 hours later. I will update more tomorrow.

CONGRATS femm!!!!!! Ya!! I am so happy for you and cannot wait to see pics!

Good morning everyone!

Just popping on to do a quick hello! If I get to chatting I will lose my motivation to get to the grocery store this morning! Well, I'm not motivated to do it, but I am going to force myself! That is one chore I cannot STAND. I will scrub 1000 toilets before I would voluntarily go to the store.

Congrats femme! And welcome Nadya! And FANTASTIC job Cat!!

Catch you all a bit later!!

Welcome Brenda, caterpillardreams, and everyone else!
Brenda, I look forward to hearing how you like Insanity. I've looked into it a little bit, and hear people talking about it on the Beach Body Message boards. Good luck! It looks hard core!

Good Morning everyone,

Jamie- I had my son on 09/02/08 I got a period about 8 weeks after I had him, but then I got a IUD and instead of my period being every 28 days like normal its now every 32 days.

Catterpillar and all other newbies- Welcome to our board!!! I'm so excited to keep the conversation going. You guys are very motivated so soon after child birth. Good for you!!!

Since I sit in front of a computer all day at work I don't use it at all on the weekends. Just wanted to let you guys know I'll never be able to post on a weekend. Anyway, since I only weigh myself once a month, I weighed in on Saturday and......I LOST 4.5 LBS this month!!!! YAY!!!! I'm so glad. I lost that 4 lbs I ranted about on here about 2 weeks ago plus 4.5 more. YAY!!!! I really needed that to motivate me. I hope I make my goal.

Anyway have a great day ladies.

Jamie - I'm laughing WITH you at your fire story. I think we lose a ton of brain cells when we have a baby. I have done some tremendously stupid things after having a baby....but the following tops the list.
When I was on maternity leave, I got to a point where I wanted to get out of the house....I would go to Target, etc...with Carter. One day I decided to go to the outlet mall by our house. I went to the gas station to fill up with gas, which of course I've done a million times.... I started pumping gas, and clicked that little thing that makes the pump run even when you're not holding it. For some reason, I decided not to fill my whole tank....and just yanked the nozzle right from my car while it was still pumping gas!!!! I got gas ALL OVER ME! Lucky for a few things a) no one saw me b) I didn't catch myself and Carter on fire c) I was very close to home.

This tops the dumbest thing I've done thus far....hopefully I don't do anything worse!

Jackson Devin Kniesch
7lbs, 7.6oz, 20inches :-)

just had to say hi. Had a rough morning, but think I ended the day ok. Mason wouldn't eat this morning when I was trying to feed him, so my husband traded me - "I'll feed Mason if you scrape the windows" so, off I went in my PJs and my coat, and tried to scrape those windows.... then got to work, and found out my desk was being "migrated," and they had already started the migration (I hate that!) and it just went from there. Tonight, hubby has a concert he's going to - Megadeath- I'm not a metal band person, so I'll be relaxing at home, and tomorrow I have the day off, so I probably will try and catch up on some housework, there's an office that's calling my name at home- it's been the catch-all in the house, so it desperately needs to be cleaned. I have all this scrapbook stuff too that needs to be organized in there. ah well.... it'll probably take me a few weeks to get it the way I want it, and I keep procrastinating.....

BTW, we're almost at 500 posts, so the subject will get locked soon- so watch for that - the last post will have a link you click to find us. FYI.

Good morning everyone! I will do my post and then come back for chatting.

Tattoodfreek...My name is Jessica. I am 33 and my youngest was born August 24, 2009. I (currently, LOL) have 5 children. 2 boys, ages 11 and 10, and 3 girls, ages 9, 7, and 6 months. I am once again a stay home mom. My husband works in the rentals department of a local hardware store. We also have 4 long haired cats and a 3.5 month old puppy. My vacuum cleaner is very busy. I have 25 pounds of pregnancy weight left to lose, and another 20 pounds that I gained over the course of the year at what was a new job.

Kristin, I am so happy to see you back here and getting remotivated! Don't feel bad! This is a long journey and we all have our down times! You can do this!!

I am so glad Kadence is feeling better! LOL on the jumper. I had forgotten all about those! I am going to have to get one for fat baby. She's not crawling yet. I fear that getting this puppy is slowing down her progress. She can't be on the floor with him around. So, unless he's crated (which I only do at night or if we're away), she can't get down to practice. She is soooo heavy, it's going to take her longer. She can push her chest up, but does not coincide it with leg movement. If she sees something ahead of her on the floor that she wants, she kicks her legs furiously but of course doesn't move anywhere. She does manage to turn herself around over the course of time to face a different direction. I have a video that I made of her where she does a very slow full circle. LOL. Funny thing is she really doesn't even roll over much.

She had a big moment yesterday. I have one of those fisher price things in her crib, that plays music and the monkeys and animals go back and forth (I cannot remember the name of it for the life of me but it is worth it's weight in gold!). Well, there's a button on the bottom you push to make it go. Josie's never pushed it herself. So yesterday, I took her hand and pushed the button with it. Her little face lit up and I swear I saw a mental lightbulb turn on. As I was tucking her into bed yesterday later in the day, she reached over and pushed the button herself, and made it start playing. OMG, the joy on her face. She started laughing out loud, and kept looking from it to me grinning and laughing, like she was saying,"Look at me mommy, I did it!!" It was so awesome. I live for those moments.

Josie can sit up on her own, but not steadily. After a minute or so she will kind of slump forward onto her own legs. Last week I got her a high chair in a restaurant for the first time, but I had to wedge her blanket in around her to make sure she was steady. Sitting will come for her before crawling. My son Vance was really heavy like her, and didn't crawl till 9 months. Didn't walk till 14 months. Conversely my daughter Kira, who was also a big baby, but not a FAAAT baby, was crawling BY 5 months, and walking BY 10 months. So we'll see. Either way I'm not stressing or rushing it. It's easier when they CAN'T move! LOL

Curiously Kristin, how are you with your infant seat? Josie needs to move into the next kind, as she's hit her weight limit for the infant seat. But I hate to move her into the bigger one, because she's not sitting well unsupported yet, so it's not like you can set them down for a second or pop them into a shopping cart. It complicates everything! But toting that unbalanced carseat around with her in it weighs probably 45 or more pounds, and is really putting a strain on my back.