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Yeh, sizing is a crap shoot. Both letter and number sizing is so random it might as well have pictures of household appliances and "your size is the microwave oven" would be just as informative as the letters and numbers we actually use. This happens even in baby clothing, where vanity sizing shouldn't be a thing. My…

@Pupowl I agree with Frank, your photos are amazing and really draw the viewer in! Keep them coming, I would love to see more from your adventures! @CasandraW I’m with you on the squish! I don’t know you or your squishtory (ha!), but I recently gave birth after having a huge baby bump. I made it to 8th month with zero…

@frankwbrown if you’re interested, Adriene just started another 30 day yoga journey called MOVE! I started doing that, although I don’t even attempt doing all 30 days consecutively. Day 1 was nice and didn’t seem too difficult, except for my postpartum abs. If you’re interested in switching to that 30 day challenge instead…

Fitness action of the day: 45-minute walk with my baby in the stroller. This was the same route as the 50-minute walk a couple of days ago, but a faster pace and more resistance with the stroller as it’s been snowing and turning to mush. Home improvement action of the day: wiped clean the windowsills. Plan for tomorrow:…

Those Zumba videos look like something I'm definitely going to try! Reporting in for day 2 of my own January challenge: Fitness action of the day: completed day 1 of Yoga with Adriene's 30 day Move challenge! "Complete" is used broadly here as there were some things I couldn't do, but I just sat on my mat if I couldn't…

It’s a new month, and I’m back, yay! Looking forward to getting to know everyone a little, so here’s my introduction. I’m 30 and live in Finland with my husband and our two-month-old daughter. I’m rejoining the weight loss squad this month after having a rough couple of years with burnout and a difficult pregnancy. I feel…

@jessicakrall8 as I said, I’d like to rejoin the weight loss squad for January! You can put me down as a Saturday weigher, with a starting weight of 237.4 lbs. I’m not sure what my all-time high was postpartum, but 250lbs would be close enough if you’re still recording all time highs. It’s a gorgeous sunny day today, and…

Day 6 of quarantine: feeling symptom free, but exhausted for other reasons. We took on a little quarantine project of finally trying to teach our daughter to fall asleep in her own crib and to set her sleep schedule for something more sensible. Until now one of us has stayed up in the living room with her until she falls…

Covid update: a slightly stuffy nose, but otherwise symptom free already. Husband is still sleeping (and I’m going back to bed after pumping), hopefully he’s better too. We’re still in quarantine until next Tuesday, but healthy is better than sick. Today’s plans include cleaning, prepping our next grocery delivery order,…

Unfortunately, I have to agree. At this point I don’t give a squat about unvaccinated-by-choice. Instead I do care about vaccinated people with bad covid luck, people with other health issues that need hospital care, and those who are unvaccinated against their own will (allergies and other medical reasons). Here in…

The power of NO is amazing. In this case, the power of being told you can’t do something. I had no other plans for this week than to go for walks, the gym, grocery store and maybe some sale shopping. I’m in a 10-day quarantine, so no meeting other people. Shopping I can do online, grocery store I hate and moved it online,…

I'm on maternity leave until September so luckily nobody is needing me to go back to business anytime soon, and husband works from home. There was a Q&A news article today with the local officials saying that it's still 10 days, even though the US and some other countries have shortened it to 5. If my symptoms clear (at…

MONDAY, Dec 27th 3. What would you change about 2021 if you could? Not get covid - got a positive at-home test today. Other than that, I'd love to say eat healthier and exercise more, but I had a very rough pregnancy and really wasn't able to. 4. How will question #2 affect your planning for 2022? How much this covid…

Hi folks. I've been out for months, busy having a baby. I'm glad I got double vaccinated during pregnancy, because I just got a positive at-home antigen test today but symptoms are very, very mild. By 2019 standards I would have gone to the office normally and maybe skipped the gym or switched to a lighter workout, but…

Yippee. A friend dropped off some at-home covid tests, and mine was positive. Thankfully my symptoms are very mild and already subsiding, just hoping there are no setbacks. My husband and all the family members we saw yesterday got negative home tests. Nobody has any fever, but as a safety measure we agreed that my husband…

I had planned for this week to be the start of at-home workouts, healthier meals and getting stuff done around the house now that my husband is on vacation, but the world says NO. I have flu symptoms. It’s not that bad, in pre-covid world I would have probably gone to work normally and only skipped workouts. It still feels…

This is a good one! Te biggest change, and without doubt my biggest source of pride, is the fact that after December 2020 I have successfully grown from egg, carried, birthed and started raising our daughter who is now 2 months old. I turned 30 just a couple of weeks after her birth and this year I’ve grown from a…

Happy holidays, everyone! I’ve been enjoying Christmas and not bothering with weighing in. Our food traditions are otherwise relatively healthy, but ridiculously high in salt. Our ”main day” is Christmas Eve, we always spend it at my mom’s house and mostly just eat different kinds of salted fish with some bread and…

@Pupowl I can’t see how an evening pizza could possibly ruin your morning walk! The walk was a walk, you clearly enjoyed yourself, saw beautiful nature and probably increased your cardiovascular fitness a little bit. Calories and whatnot in the pizza have nothing to do with that walk, even if you ate back all the calories…

This was a good day! My physical therapy appointment went well. My pelvic floor and abs are well healed from pregnancy and delivery, and I’m cleared for all gym workouts. She recommended I start with machines instead of free weights, which is fine by me. She also said it’s safe for me to plan on starting running in the…

Steps 15.12. 9311 16.12. 7064 17.12. 7948 18.12. 4709 19.12. 3481 20.12. 5844 21.12. 7147 The sacroiliac joint issue shows here, unfortunately. I’m hoping it clears off soon so I can get more exercise and fresh air in. Today I have that second postpartum checkup with a physical therapist. It’s a 90-minute appointment with…

@LaurieWrobo how did it go with the counselor? Sending good vibes for you and your family to find some peace and calm, if possible <3

Ugh. The scales are still up, the sacroiliac joint is still acting up, there’s still leftover cake in my fridge, and local hospitals are calling for a full lockdown, including gyms and group activities. I was really looking forward to starting my gym workouts again and that baby pilates group class. Also it’s so cold that…

I’m really annoyed by several things this morning… I have a date with another mom today to go on a walk with our babies and strollers, but might have to cancel. I tried osteopathy for the first time last week and the therapist worked on my sacroiliac joint, which has been really sore on and off throughout pregnancy. Now…

Our daughter was christened today, so now she officially has a name! Two of her godparents stayed over for dinner after the party, and it was really nice. We also have a ton of cake left, and some of my husband’s friends are coming over tomorrow to play Magic the Gathering and eat some of it. The cake was supposedly for 10…

Great losses, everyone! I thought about my weigh-in timing issue some more, and figured a pre-breakfast, and thus pre-pumping, weigh-in is probably most consistent. My pump amounts are quite consistent but how much water I drink with breakfast isn’t, and I definitely don’t want to subconsciously limit my hydration because…

Opinions wanted: what would be the best time of day to get weighed in my situation? Normally I would weigh in in the morning, naked, after bathroom and before breakfast so I’m as ”empty” as possible, as usually recommended. Currently that’s a problem as I wake up in the middle of the night to pump milk and possibly feed…

@justanotherloser007 sorry hear about your husband’s diabetes and your brother-in-law’s cancer. Glad to hear your husband is doing well with his diabetes care, though. Steps: 12.12. 4529 13.12. 4758 14.12. 9045 On Sunday I never left the house, and on Monday I had a lunch date with a colleague who insisted on picking me up…

I’m cleared for exercise! Well, kind of. I had my postpartum checkup this morning, and unfortunately it was pretty much a waste of time, except knowing nothing is wrong down there. The doc practically threw me out of the room before I could present any of my questions. I’m glad I booked a private 90-minute appointment for…

@justanotherloser007 I get it with the sugars. Could diet soda and artificial sweeteners in general be an option for them? I openly admit I don’t know much about diabetes care, but here’s an uncomfortable question: if they love sugar, is it worth it to just let them eat it knowing it might shorten their lives a little bit?…