Mommy's Weight Loss Journey

I am going to take a partial departure from my typical postings about the family happenings and the boys' adventures...

With Brady's 3rd birthday quickly approaching (9 months on, 9 months off - I wish), I decided that I need to get serious about my "baby weight" because I don't want to be talking about it when he is 5, 10, 15 years old (and the obvious reason of wanting to feel better about myself)!

Last year, I had signed up for the Biggest Loser at work in Jan and was successful in dropping the first 14 lbs by April but then gained 5 of it back which stuck around the remainder of the year. In August,I started attending Hot Yoga again on a regular basis. Once a week (I wish I could fit it in more), I get a cardio and stretch workout in a 101 degree room where I am burning 600+ calories. While doing that for 5 months, I started noticing a difference in how the clothes were fitting but the scale was still not changing.

Last week, I cut out all soft drinks (even though it was diet, I think it was taking away from my water intake) and I reduced my calories. Most of my calorie reduction was related to eating at my desk for lunch instead of going out (JH is a bad influence here..but I held my ground). I am back down to where I was last April and I think I have the motivation to keep going now that I saw the results in 1 week!

Just so you know, the soda replacement also included cutting out all my caffeine and I was consuming about 48 ounces of Diet Mt. Dew daily. Oh no - how can you get through the days you ask? Not sure, but somehow it is working and even though my buddy CA believes that caffeine increases the metablism, I can't risk reverting back to sodas until I reach my goal.

My goal is to lose about 10 more lbs and I will be back to my pre-pregnancy weight with Connor (that I haven't seen since June 2004). I know I can do it because I did it before in early 2003 when I decided to expel all the "marital weight". Keep me in your thoughts and send good vibes my way!

My motivation picture...May 2004 before I found out I was pregnant with Connor!