Early Week 3 Goal Check In & Week 4 Goals

Checking in a day early because I know I'll be disappointed if I gain due to NYE goodies and I want to have some tonight.

Week 3 Loss: -1.2lbs. Pretty exciting since this was christmas week and I definitely ate lots of extra things that I normally don't.

Week 3 Goals:

• goal weight - 145lbs
• 2lbs a month: December done.
• chase Carlo around the mall 2 times this week: This week was weird. We got to the mall but I always had someone else with me because they're on vacation too
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L): I think I got this MOST days, but not all. I have a water tracker now so it will be easier to keep track.
• pop ONLY christmas day: Definitely didn't make this this week. But I didn't have pop randomly, just while with family at least :)
• pick three sweets from my stocking and give the rest away: I kept more than three but haven't eaten too many yet.
• no sneaky peeks on the scale: done
• salad at least two times: done

Week 4 Goals:

• goal weight - 145lbs
• 2lbs a month (new month)
• 15 very active minutes on my fitbit 5x this week
• drink 3L of water
• pop ONLY NYE and NYD (dinner only)
• no more than one stocking sweet per day
• no sneaky peeks on the scale
• salad at least two times

Week 2 Goal Check In & Week 3 Goals

Week 2 Loss: -2.8lbs! This was insane when I saw it! I thought it was 0.8lbs this week but then I realized I did my math wrong and I was so thrilled! Total is 6.4lbs.

Week 2 Goals:

• goal weight - 145lbs
• 2lbs a month (done for December)
• chase Carlo around the mall 2 times this week: nope. This week was crazy with family and I injured my back badly on saturday. It's still not 100% but much better than keeling over in pain while I walked all day sunday/monday.
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L): Stopped paying attention. Need to count and keep track more!
• no pop: failed this one. I bought and drank pop without even a second thought :/ oops
• no extra sweets in preparation for stocking sweets: failed this one as well. so many tempting goodies around. I'm glad that I still managed to lose this week.
• pick three sweets from my stocking and give the rest away: will do this later today. I told "santa" that I didn't want lots of sweets in my stocking
• no sneaky peeks on the scale: I succeeded at this one
• track everything: failed...
• salad at least two times: failed... as bad as that sounds :/ lol

Week 3 Goals:

• goal weight - 145lbs
• 2lbs a month (new month!)
• chase Carlo around the mall 2 times this week
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L)
• pop ONLY christmas day
• pick three sweets from my stocking and give the rest away
• no sneaky peeks on the scale
• salad at least two times

Week 1 Goal Check In & Week 2 Goals

Week 1 Loss: -3.6lbs! Yay!

Week 1 Goals:

• get some exercise during nap time 5/7 days: failed. trying to figure out what I can do that is exercise but not too hard on my ankle
• do 30 day shred 5/7 days: too hard on my ankle... :(
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L): kinda did this. some days I did and some days I didn't keep track
• no pop: had one pop

Week 2 Goals:

• goal weight - 145lbs
• 2lbs a month (done for December)
• chase Carlo around the mall 2 times this week
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L)
• no pop
• no extra sweets in preparation for stocking sweets
• pick three sweets from my stocking and give the rest away
• no sneaky peeks on the scale
• track everything
• salad at least two times

A total fail

Well, with my previously injured ankle (sprain from 2 months ago), 30 day shred won't work out for me. There is too much jumping that it's too hard on my ankle even with a brace on.

Any recommendations of workout videos to start with that will be easier on my ankle? Even ones with activities that I can change up. Or recommendations on what to do when they're doing jumping activities?

Long time no post!

What have I been up to? Well, I made it 10 weeks last time but got discouraged that I couldn't give it my all for fear of losing my milk supply for my son. The slow weight loss was discouraging for me but I'm determined to not let that get me down this time. That little 2-3 month old is now this big toddler. He turned 2 in october.

And beyond that? When you have one kid... 

...they tend to multiply ;) Carlo's little sister Sierra was born August 12, 2014, and she turns 4 months old tomorrow.

Then when Miss Sierra was almost 2 months old, I fell down some stairs and sprained my ankle. It sucked and it's still not 100%. I still wear a brace when I leave the house or else I'm in pain after walking a bit. Of course, it's rainy season and my brace doesn't fit in my rain boots. So we've been sticking around the house more than I'd like lately... Being soaked and having cold feet is no fun at all.

I'm determined to stick with it through rough weeks and gains and slow losses. I don't have all of my attention to devote to this anymore and that's just life. I have to do it within the rest of my life and make time for it.

My game plan:

• eat healthy
• use nap time to get some activity points in
• try make it through a month of the 30 day shred

I just can't figure out how many extra nursing points I should get. Of course, from Sierra, I get the amount for an exclusively breastfed baby, but Carlo still nurses as well, so I have no clue how many to add for him. It will probably be a few weeks of monitoring my supply and my hunger level.

Week 1 Goals:

• get some exercise during nap time 5/7 days
• do 30 day shred 5/7 days
• drink 3 water bottles full per day (one bottle is just shy of 1L)
• no pop