Stay-At-Home Moms 11/24-11/30

Hiya there! I'm 28 years old and a stay at home mom/full time student. My son is 4 so the "this baby weight is so stubborn" excuse isn't working any longer. I'm lazy and I'm in love with food! I can admit it now why can't I loose the weight? LOL. I'm pretty short for my age and young looking (or so I've been told) I'm 4'11 without shoes and 5' with my sneakers on. Pre-baby weight was 95-100lbs and now I weigh a crazy (last time I checked the scale) 142-145lbs. So here I am! Nice to meet you all :flowerforyou:

On Thanksgiving I went over by less than 100 calories. Yesterday I did well until I got stressed out in the evening and ate a 450 calorie piece of Hershey pie which put me over. But today I did horribly. It was Harley's baptism. (I'll try to get pics up) And we had food at our place afterwards. My MIL makes wonderful garlic bread that I swear she uses a whole stick of butter on each slice. I had 2 slices. I also had a huge piece of Harley's cake.

Then, we went to supper with my family for my brother's birthday at a hibachi (sp?) place. It was really cool watching the guy flip everything around on the grill. (Harley loved all the lights and fire and movement. She just stared!) But there was so much food. Plus we had cake again for his birthday. So I went over by 1430 calories today.

Oh, well. I guess that makes up for me eating too healthy on Turkey Day. :laugh: I'm not stressing over it though. I enjoyed it and I'll just get back on track tomorrow.

Everthing went well for her baptism today though. There were 12 babies getting baptized but it was done in an hour. Harley didn't want a bottle at home before we left so she got fussy during the baptism. Luckily we were able to give her a bottle while the priest was reading and we were sitting there. She downed 6 ounces. (She usually only eats 4.) After that she was good to go. She didn't even fuss when she got the water on her. (Father said he has a secret - warm the water.) :laugh:

Sorry to babble on but I feel like I haven't been on here in forever...It's been about 12 hours. But that's like a lifetime in MFP time! :laugh:

Wow I've missed so much!! Good to know that everyone is doing well. Holidays can be tough on healthy lifestyles especially if you are surrounded by people that aren't crazy about it like we are I ate and ate and ate and ate. Wednesday I did well. We went out to dinner to a pizza buffet place (oh yes I said the b word). I started with a HUGE salad and then had a little fettuccino alfredo (lucky for me it was terrible, I only had a few bites) and then I had a couple pieces of pizza (that I only took a few bites of and then hand to my DH to finish). Thursday was wonderful. I didn't bother counting calories, it would have just been too much work. I did make sure that I drank lots of water though. Friday was a good day. I didn't count cals that day either and I'm pretty sure I went over but I'm not worrying about it. Saturday we traveled and I didn't eat great. I'm standing at the counter in Wendys going "salad, burger, salad, burger, salad, burger...." of course I went with the burger and regretted it, not only cuz I knew it was bad for me but because it tasted bad. It's so weird how your body adjusts to craving and enjoying healthy food and disliking bad food. Today I got my exercise in and feel good even though I had pizza for lunch and I've been eating cookie dough

Tomorrow I will get back to it and be strong. Luckily for me there are no leftovers in the house and I don't have to worry about pies tempting me or anything like that. I need to lose 6 lbs before Christmas to hit my mini goal and I've got less than 30 days to do it.