I’ll admit that I’m not a skinny person. I was never a skinny person, although I know a skinny person lives inside me. I was slender, and dare I say it - HOT, back in the day.
At the moment, I’m what I’d like to call “fat,” which is a shorter way of saying “I have thirty pounds of baby fat still to lose following my 12lb 8.5oz* child born a year ago.”
At least according to friends who also have a life, it’s normal to take years before all the weight comes off. I also have skinny friends, but they just lucked into the weight loss - plus they are better at eating small portions. But I think that’s because they are smaller people - they have smaller stomachs, too.
*(I find stating his weight makes people forget that I’m overweight - it’s proportional)
But now that Brian is about a year old and Jake is three (although not potty trained thanks to six months of moving hell), it might be time to tackle this fat once and for all - or at least get started on the three year process.
My Plan?
The skinny person diet.
I don’t have time for counting anything and have no desire to leave my kids to go to meetings. Can’t go in the evenings anyway - I’m working.
So I shall simply pretend I’m skinny and eat like the skinny people do. And I don’t mean the people like my husband (who isn’t skinny, just slender) who have mega-fast metabolisms. I mean the skinny people who DO have the time to count things. I figure if I watch them and eat the way they do, I’ll be benefiting from their hard work.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
You may have noticed I also have time for a renewed interest in my blog. Here’s to my future non-fat self and my renewed blogging!
June 29th, 2008
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Until you have two children, it’s almost impossible to understand how hard it is to balance the two kids, your husband, your job(s), and your household. Of course you’re in the mix somewhere, but everyone is always able to tell the mother of small children - maybe it’s the split ends and sweats.
Finding Balance
I’ve been working for years at too many things. I was finishing a Masters, I was teaching, I was writing at night and on weekends,and I was pregnant and trying to raise my son. Oh, and I was married, too. My husband will tell you just how often I forget that…
October 18th, 2007
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I can prove to you that you must exercise to lose weight effectively, especially Baby Fat. Maybe breastfeeding helps. I wouldn’t’ know because it didn’t work for either of my boys despite my best efforts. So I don’t get those free calories burned off.
I’ve been wavering between the last fifteen and twenty pounds of baby fat for about two months now and this stuff is sticky. It won’t budge without some serious cardio. At least I hope so, because that’s the one thing I haven’t been doing, so it’s my last hope.
October 11th, 2007
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I told you I’d keep everyone posted on my weight loss, so here is an update.
I haven’t lost a ton of weight just yet, but I am getting there sloooooowly.
September 10th, 2007
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It’s an odd thing, but if I can muster up the energy to climb on the treadmill at the end of the day, I’ll have extra energy the next day – even if I have to stay up later to do it. Like I said, it’s odd.
Exercise gives me (and presumably you) an endorphin kick and it also helps energize me the following day. Thirty or forty-five minutes on the treadmill should be burning off some calories, which I serious need, but it also is building up muscles and repairing the damage lack of exercise has done.
I’ll admit it, I didn’t exercise properly for the last two years. Coincidently my son is now two.
Exercising with a Baby
It should have been easy. There are tons of ways to exercise with a baby, and for a long time, we were doing just fine.
August 31st, 2007
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Type II diabetes runs in my family, and its very likely I’ll land the disease by around age forty-five. Occasionally I’ll quit eating sugar and sweets just to make sure I still can and to help shed a few pounds. The last time I did it with any real vindication, I was in college. I dropped two sizes in about thirty days and felt great. I haven’t been serious about taking on a diabetic diet again since then – until now.
My childbearing is over, at least for a few years. My teaching career is on hold for a year. I’ve finally got a bit of time to exercise and focus on myself, so its time that I do.
I’m going cold turkey. I’m quitting sugar.
August 25th, 2007
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I’m officially six weeks postpartum, and should be given permission to exercise at my appointment today. It’s a good darn thing – I’ve been hauling huge toddlers and infants around at the same time for weeks now.
I’ll admit it – I haven’t been waiting for permission.
I’ve griped before about how I’m going to figure out this weight loss thing, but with a full fifty (yes, 50) pounds already lost, I’m inspired. Plus I got new running shoes today which are always inspiring. This is the best they will ever smell.
August 14th, 2007
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So, I’ve got some weight to lose, and I need a plan.
I’m working with some severe handicaps.
Ugh. It’s that time again!
I gained 60 pounds with my first and lost all but about 5 of it in four months. I gained 70 pounds this time, and it’s time to get serious about losing the baby fat – again.
Unfortunately I started about 25 pounds over what I like to weigh, so I’ll have that to lose, too. But first things first!
I delivered Brian four weeks ago and have lost 47 pounds so far.
July 30th, 2007
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