For several years now I've struggled with my weight. Not so much the number, I try not to fixate on that, but how I feel and how my clothes fit. It's been a big adjustment because growing up I never had to worry about it. But gradually I was having to buy bigger sizes and I liked pictures of myself less and less. But it's hard to stay motivated and work out when I'm not used to having to. After the failed IVF attempt I got into a good groove and felt really good. I never weighed myself, but I was fitting comfortably into all my clothes and getting compliments, so that's all that matters! Then I got pregnant and had no energy. I was lucky, I only gained 29 pounds the whole pregnancy and all but two of them were gone by my 6 week post baby checkup. I felt really good for awhile after that. But then I settled back into old bad habits and it got colder and we couldn't walk outside as much. I never weighed myself, but I started feeling frumpy and uncomfortable in my clothes and in pictures.
A couple of days ago a friend at church suggested we do a holiday weight loss challenge - we all pitch in $20 and set a 6 week timeline to lose weight. I'm not sure how many people signed up, and it's not usually my kind of thing, but I did. It got really "official" when one of the women from church offered to do all of our weigh ins at her nutrition club. So today I went and got weighed and measured. I didn't know what to expect from my weight, but I was still at my pre-baby weight. I'm not sure realistically what I should aim to lose, so I'm just going to enjoy working out and hopefully feel better in my clothes and in pictures.
I've been pinning workout ideas on pinterest for awhile, so now I get to actually use them! Since the most I've done in 8 months is push a stroller around the neighborhood, I'm going to start off slow and gradually add things. So I'm starting with a slightly modified version of this:
Lauren has now been out of my belly longer than she was in it! Because of the IVF, she was conceived and in a petrie dish for almost a week before she was implanted in me and she was born eight months to the day after she was conceived. She seems to be enjoying life and is getting the hang of lots of things! Except for sleeping on her own, we're still having lots of problems with that. She's been in her own crib for quite awhile and I've tried many different tactics to help her sleep, with nothing working so far. I try hard not to, but a lot of times I give in in the morning and bring in her bed with us, just so I can get a good hour or two of sleep. I'm not sure what the problem is or how to help her, I keep reading different books and getting different opinions, but I've tried pretty much everything at this point. I have a very spoiled and stubborn girl, who just wants to sleep with Mommy.
Other than her sleeping issues, this month she:
-has her two bottom teeth (and is pretty good about not biting me while I'm nursing her, most of the time)
-wears all 6 month clothes and 6/9 month sleepers
-has added oatmeal, yogurt , peaches and mixed veggies to her diet
-sits by herself
-has started trying to pull herself up and can sometimes get on her knees
-army crawls
-fed herself a Puff for the first time and liked it
-says "mama", but only when she's mad and calling me to come get her
-waves bye bye
-tries to clap when we do
-went to her first birthday party (and accidentally got into some icing!)
I don't know how much she weighs because when I took her to get weighed last Thursday she was way too squirmy on the scale and we couldn't get a good reading.
