So here I sit 31+ weeks pregnant so anxious to get back on the weight loss wagon. I know that it is going to be a very slow go at first because I will be breast feeding but I am ready for it. I just want to get back on the Weight Watchers Program. I hate watching the scale creep up and up. I look and I was 176 lbs last year and now I am over 200 lbs again and I hate it!! I was on meds for 5 months and had 2 miscarriages within 4 of the 5 months (before I got pregnant) that contributed to about 15 lbs weight gain before I got pregnant this time around.
I wish I could workout in the gym but I cannot. I have horrible sciatica and I have been having Braxton Hick and real contractions on and off from the time I was about 18 weeks pregnant so my OB had highly advised against it.
I am counting the days down to the EDD of this baby (61 days to EDD) I know that I am going to have to wait 3-4 weeks, at the minimum, before I can start back to Weight Watchers and 4-6 weeks before I can get back into a real workout schedule. My goodness, I just can't wait for that.
I would love to be able to be just about at my goal weight by 12/31 of this year. Now I know that I will lose about 15 lbs by the time I leave the hospital so I am hoping to lose about 50 lbs from mid May to 12/31. I know that with dedication, determination and self-control, I can do it! I want to be at my ultimate goal weight before we start to ttc for 1 last time. So that means to be between 130-140 by mid 2010/ Wish me luck!!!
I do have a reason for my absence since May. In April I had a miscarriage at 6 weeks and then in June I had another miscarriage at 5.5 weeks. In July I went to my Reproductive specialist about possibly starting a low tech regimen in Aug or Sept and he said that I was ready to me monitored (I have a blood clotting disorder that was effecting the pregnancies from conception). So I started monitoring and on Aug 14th I received the news that I was pregnant again. I am happy to announce that I am now 22 weeks pregnant!!
I went from 176 to 186 during the time of the miscarriages. I then went up to 197 during monitoring and meds with my fertility doctor. I dropped down to 191 and I am now at 201. I am not happy to be back in 2-ville but it is for a good reason. Monday, at my OB visit I was ay 202.5 so I have lost 1.5 lbs this week. The same thing happened to me when I was pg with my DD. I had this HUGE 8 lbs gain, in 1 month and then I started to lose it and only gained a total of 17lbs through the entire pg with her. I am hoping for the same thing to happen this time.
I was hoping to keep up with exercising but my OB basically put a stop to it when I started to have cramping, contraction and my cervix started to shorten. I can do water aerobics and swimming. I would do it but it is so freaking cold outside, in NY that I do not want to go to the gym and leave all wet and get pneumonia.
I promise to update again so. I also want to get a new belly bump pic to show off sometime this weekend.
Well, that looks like the address of my new weight home. LOL! I just cant seem to break the 177-176.5 mark and it is getting me a little mad lately. I guess it is better then the 256 that I was at!
I have to be honest, life has been hectic again and I have not been able to exercise that way that I have. I am jsut happy that I hav eless then 1 month before I start my new gym and I can go whenever I want! It is SOOO worth the extra money to have child care available!
I am hoping to be able to get to the gym for the next three days and be able to work off a couple of lbs. With having TOM the scale is stating tha tI am up 2 lbs, but I know that is bloating. So by Friday the 2lbs should drfinitely be off and I am hoping to get an extrta lb or two of actual weight off.
Well, I am off to get the girls down for their naps, make a couple of phone calls for a friend and then make myself some lunch. (With my IBS flare up, I am not too sure what I can eat though.)
So I am doing a Biggest Loser Challenge and our weigh ins are on Tuesday but my official WW weigh ins are on Friday. I have to be totally honest and say that I have not been to WW in at least 2 weeks (bad me). I have had no motivation and I had a little medical problem. I have since been okayed by my doctor to start my diet and exercise program again. I know that I was pretty much maintaining (with about 1 lb gain) but I wanted to get ou tof my rut.
I spoke with a nutritionist friend who has helped me out. I am on a 3 day booster and then back to WW plan with a constant fluxuation of daily calories. See, I was eating, pretty much, the same things over & over and my body got used to it, again. I will do exactly what she has told me and we will see what happens over the next few weeks.
Well, I stepped on the scale for my BLC weigh in this morning and I am down 2.1lbs!!! I think I have finally broken through this horrible plateau!! I hope I can maintain the 2.1 (possibly a littel more) loss for my Friday, official weigh in at Weight Watchers! I will keep you posted!
Sometimes life grabs you by the horns and takes you on a journey that you were not expecting. Well thta has been me over the past month. With illness, family commitments, work and a couple of personal things, I have not really been working on my weight loss. I am happy to say that I have totally maintained my weight over the past month. I have only had a cnakge of 0.4 of a lb over a months time, so I know that when I hit my ultimate goal, I will be able to sustain that weight.
I had a little personal issue that is now, pretty much better. I have the go ahead to start my walking workout tomorrow or Thursday and full workouts by the end of the weekend. I am hoping to make my ultimate goal weight by years end. I know that I can actually make it before summers end if I push myself but only time will tell. For now, I am ready to get past this plateau and continue my trek back down the weight loss mountain.
I hope that everyone is doing well! best of luck to you all!
So I am still here and I am still working down my weight. As of this morning I am 178.4 lbs. I have lost 77.6 lbs to date. I feel GREAT! I noticed yesterday that my size 14s are getting loose on me now! Check me out!!! I have to update my pictures soon.
There are people in the family who have been trying to get me down and keep me down but all that they are doing is fueling my fire and keeping me going. People can sit at their computers and spew lie after lie but me and the rest of the family know the truth and that is all that matters.
I guess these persons think that if they talk smack and spew lies, it will hurt me,emotionally, and I will start to eat get depressed and stop all that I have done and get fat again. Well, that is not going to happen. The only time I will put weight back on is when I get pregnant again! I love that fact that these persons are trying to say crazy things about me and my family and that others are sating things too. Do they not think that we will not go to those who you have claimed said stuff? Well, of course we do and we found out the entire truth.
Well, on to better things. I think that I am going to start planning a trip to go see my in laws very soon. If all goes as I am planning Addison and I will head down to FL for a week and then Mike will head down the next week for vacation. I honestly think that Addison needs at least 2 weeks with her abuelos. I am not 100% sure if it will be before her birthday of after though. The rest of Feb and all of March is out because I have a few family parties to attend over the next three weeks and then I am a friend's Lamaze coach and she is due in March, so I can't leave. In the beginning of April I do have a consultation with a doctor so, depending on how that goes, will depict when we head down to sunny FL.
Well, my sweet little girl has woken up from her nap, so let me go get her.
Well, it has been a very long time since I have blogged here. I have to admit that I came across another site that I really liked. I did think that I should update my progress here though, so everyone knows that I did not give up. The last time I blogged was in August of 07 and I was about 209 lbs. Now I am 182.5. I have kept up with Weight Watchers and the gym. I have also started doing exercises (cardio, light weight and core exercises) in my home too.
I am hoping to hit the 160's by April of this year. There is a really great reward waiting for me if I hit that mark on time! (Hell, I might get the reward if I don't hit the mark, but it will make it a lot more special!) I will update my photos with a picture of me at 256 and one of me now. I have to say that my DH, family and friends are so proud of my progress (as I am myself!) I can see my ultimate goal of 140 (or less) in the distance. I can't believe that back in Nov of '06, I NEVER thought that I would see "One"derland, never mind, being closer to my goal weight then my starting weight.
I can tell you this, come Hell or high water, I will NEVER be over 200 lbs again! I was miserable with myself at that weight. I was always tired, depressed and I hated to even look at myself in the mirror, never mind taking a picture. I was always hiding behind someone or something so I could camouflage myself a bit. Now I really do not mind pictures. Yes, I am still heavy but not like I was. I have come to love myself again. I love all the energy that I have for my DD, DH and myself!
was a complete failure. LOL! I have come tot he realization that I am too busy of a person to be able to journal every little think, either on paper or on the internet. I am still tracking my points. Every point I eat is marked off on my tracker. I honestly tried my hardest to track online,. but I just can't. I guess that two kids 14 months and 3 months old are a hinder in that department a lot of the time. I will try to track again. I am going to post in a few minutes.
On to my weigh in today. Well, it was not too good. I am up 0.6 of a pound. It is not the end of the world. I honestly thought that I would have been up a heck of a lot more. Last week was a very hard week for me.
3 years ago August 9th I was 14 weeks pg and went for an ultrasound. I found out that my DD had a 100% fatal birth defect called Anencephaly. On August 10, 2004 I gave birth to a tiny little baby. It was the saddest day of my life. That baby was wanted so much. DH and I had tried naturally for 3 years to get pg and it never happened. That baby was the result of many different procedures, medications and medical intervention. We were so happy when we finally found out that it worked and I was pregnant. To lose little Lily Rose was devastating. Every year I get very depressed and start emotional eating, so 0.6 is not a lot to gain for me.
I am hoping to revamp my eating and exercise regimen and try to get off 2 lbs this week and 2 lbs next week becase the week after that I will be getting my monthly :(.
Let me go off and try to track what I have eaten so far today, before the baby gets cranky.
