The Beginning

Today is my beginning...well at least with the blogging part of my journey.

I am a new mother and have been working to lose the dreaded baby weight. The problem is, is that I need to lose more weight on top of that. I originally really started trying to lose the weight over the holidays. This was actually way easier than it sounds. By starting at this time of year, I was able to really concentrate on watching my portion control and cut back on sweets by making healthier choices such as fruit, yogurt and homemade smoothies to fulfill my sweet cravings.

So, I will start at the beginning...

I have always been a larger girl...not fat, but chubby as I was growing up. I am definitely a big-boned person and I have always had to deal with trying to make that work for me. After graduating high school, I was able to lose some of the weight that I wanted to but that was it.

I have yo-yoed many times over the years and was really getting a handle on my weight loss when I found out that I was pregnant. This was a very hard thing for me to deal with. While I was very excited about becoming a mother, I found it difficult to feel that gaining some weight was alright. I have never had to gain weight before and found that I was very uncomfortable in my pregnant body until I was officially "showing" my pregnancy. After that, it became freeing. While I was still an overweight person, I knew that it was okay to have a protruding belly because it was no longer me but my ever growing baby. After giving birth, I was determined to lose the weight as quick as possible but knew that I would have to wait until I was given the okay by my midwives. Once I was given the okay, I started light exercise but found that my weight did not budge. I was stuck and was told that it could be because of the hormones still present in my system from my pregnant days. I finally had a breakthrough with starting to lose weight when my son turned 4 months old. The weight is starting to come off more regularly now and I feel like I am having success.

I am tracking my foods and cooking my meals so that I can know what is going into my body at all times. I weigh myself every week to make sure that I am keeping on track with where I want to be. I exercise as often as I can and have started following a challenge blog to help with my weight loss and accountability. Now that my son is getting bigger, I also use him with some of my exercise as a weight. This is great because I can squat with him or raise him in the air and I will be working my body and he thinks of it as a game, laughing the whole time.

I still slip up and try not to belittle myself or feel guilty because of it. I keep telling myself that EVERY DAY IS A NEW DAY and that I will just get right back on track. This is the first time that I see myself succeeding all the way instead of part way so that will help me pursue my weightloss.