So I gained a lot of weight while pregnant with Miles, A LOT. It came to about 40 lbs total, which was right in between what I gained with Jake and Brenden. But let's face facts, gaining that much weight at 34 is a little different than when I was 26 and 28. Back then all I had to do to lose weight was think about it and now......not so much.
At my 6 week postpartum check up I was at 152lbs, about 24 lbs more than my pre-pregnancy weight. So I decided that I would aim to lose 24 lbs in 24 weeks, a reasonable goal in my opinion. A pound a week for about 5 months, a slow steady weight loss so it will hopefully stay off. Now I am terrible at dieting so I'll be trying to do this by simply working out and just being a little more conscience of what I am eating. I also have the added incentive of trying to lose this weight for a trip to Jamaica in June for Chris's cousin's wedding.
So February 15th was my first workout. I've been working out 3-4 days per week and trying not to take more than 2 days off in a row. I've been doing running and walking on the treadmill, the elliptical, push ups, and teaching swim lessons. The swim lessons might not be that much of a workout, but somedays I'm in the water for an hour and a half and pretty tired by the end so I add it on. Anyway, I have to sign Miles up a head of time for the daycare at the gym so that has helped to keep me from making excuses not to workout and I have been writing down every workout to also hold myself accountable. I'm also hoping by putting it all out there on this blog that that will keep me going as well.
I did my first weight check on February 20th and plan to use Wednesday mornings before my workout as my weekly weigh in at the gym (the gym has a digital scale that should make it easy). So here it is:
2/20 - 151.4
2/27 - 149.8
Total loss for the week - 1.6lbs
Total weight loss to date - 1.6lbs
Not too bad! Now to keep it going, wish me luck!
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