My one month goal!

newmommy1

newmommy1

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Well, Here I go, in one month I would like to get down to my happy weight. I'm not sure what it will be but I don't want to go under 117. I've lost 25 lbs since finding this website but now that I'm down to those last lbs I'm finding myself slipping and these past 2 days I've been horrible. So starting tomorrow I'm going to find out my weight, readjust my ticker and start moving towards my goal again. I'm going to write what I eat, but not count calories, document what I've done for exercise and tell how I'm feeling. I'm going to weigh in on Wednesday and hopefully by May 5th I will have lost these last lbs and work on maintenance. I'm not going to start trying really hard until next Monday, but I am going to try and do better for the rest of this week.

So for those of you who don't know me: my name is Erica, I'm 20 years old, I am the proud stay-at-home-mommy to my beautiful 8.5 month old baby girl, Abby. I have a wonderful husband, Matt, who I've been married to for 20 months (I'm the mother of an infant, I count everything in months, lol). I was at my highest weight of 182.5 right before I got pregnant with my daughter. Through a very difficult pregnancy I lost weight and have continued to lose weight since the birth of my daughter. I feel more alive then I have ever felt but I just need to lose a little more before swimsuit season! I'm excited to start this last portion of my weight-loss journey so I can start to work on maintaing my weight (until I get pregnant again!). Thanks to everyone who reads this and any comment are welcomed.
 
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Well, I weighed in this morning at 124, a couple lbs lighter than I thought I would be, so that's good! I got off to a really good start this morning and I'm feeling good about the rest of the day. usually it works best if I already have planned what I'm going to eat for the day before I eat it because then if I want something else I can just say "no, it's not on the menu" So today I already had a Special K bar for breakfast and shared a banana with Abby for a snack. For lunch I'm going to have a salad- lettuce, cucumber, artificial crab meat and croutons with red wine salad spritzer dressing and a sugar-free pudding cup. I always need two snacks between lunch and dinner so I'll have strawberries for one snack and a 100 calorie pack (wither oreo crisps or cheez-its, whatever I'm on the mood for) For dinner, I'll have another salad (I really like salad, lol) This time lettuce, grilled chicken breast, cucumber, croutons, boiled egg and (minimal amount of) honey french dressing. And for my evening snack half a bag of smart-pop popcorn. To drink: fitness water Today I exercised on the bike for 20 minutes, I wanted to do 30 like I used to but I felt sick after 20 so I guess I'm going to have to work my way up. Well, I'm feeling good, confident that I'm going to shed these last 4-7 lbs fast!
 
*sigh* well, today didn't go exactly as planned but it didn't go horribly off track either. I was just so hungry today that I had to have a THIRD snack between lunch and dinner and even then after dinner I was still hungry so I ate a half a bagel. So I've decided, to kind of make up for the extra eating I did earlier, I'm not going to have that half a bag of popcorn tonight for a snack. That will help a little at least, then I will have only gone approximately 115 calories over what I wanted to eat today. Ugh, what has happened to me, I used to be so good, I could go weeks without screwing up at all and now I can't seem to stop stuffing my face. Well, hopefully I cant try to restrain myself over the weekend but I know it's going to be hard. I guess I just have to keep trying!
 
I'm back! Today's been going good so far although I haven't exercised yet, I'll probably do my video tonight when Matt's home to watch Abby. So far I've eaten a Special K bar for breakfast and a 100 calorie bag of cheez-its. For lunch I plan on having a sald with lettuce, artificial crab meat, croutons, cucumber, and red wine salad spritzers and a 100 calorie bag of oreo crisps. I'm not aure what for the rest of the day. It's getting to be slim pickings around here because today is grocery day!
Well, the weekend went so-so. I didn't completely make a pig of myself but I ate too much anyhow. I weighed myself today, I know I wasn't supposed to 'till tomorrw but I wanted to see what damage I'd done over the weekend, I weighed in at 125, I guess 1 lb isn't bad for Easter weekend. Matt and I got so much candy from our parents (who still do Easter Baskets for us by the way) We weighed our candy and we had 11 lbs 6 oz. of candy!! I packed ALL of it up and sent it with Matt too work to put out so anybody can eat it. Hopefully he doens't keep it in his desk and eat it all or something.
I'm thinking that getting rid of these last lbs in a month is a little far-fetched but it gives me something to strive, I can't wait till their gone! We are moving to a new sity in a couple of months but as soon as we get settled in there I want Matt and I to both get memberships to a Gym with a daycare center so that we can work out together.
Well, I should get going, I have to make lunch for Matt and myself. I'll be on later so bye for now!
 
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