That being said, these next few months will be when the real hard work begins. I can’t wait to finally get toned and back to my goal weight of 142# – it’s been a decade since I’ve weighed that and felt truly happy with how I looked, but I know I can do this!
1. Reiterate my goal and where I stand in reference to this goal:
Starting Weight: 166#
Last Week’s Weight: 163#
Current Weight: 161# –> 2# loss, and back to my BFP weight!
Goal Weight: 142# (“normal” is 122#-164#)
Starting BMI: 25.2
Last Week’s BMI: 24.8
Current BMI: 24.5
Goal BMI: 21.6 (“normal” is 18.5-24.9)
2. Discuss what I am going to do to achieve my goals:
Progress on last week’s activities:
I did great – drank a lot of water, walked to the post office twice (1mile round trip), and ate pretty healthily. I tracked calories using MyFitnessPal (username _josey_ if you want to be friends on there!), and it definitely helped me a lot to be more conscious about what I was eating. For my height and activity level, they want me consuming 1890/day to maintain. I know that breastfeeding requires an extra 200-500/day, so I decided to just shoot for the maintenance level for a bit here and assume that would actually result in a net loss for me. For the six days I tracked last week, I averaged 1833, and that felt good. I wasn’t hungry, but I wasn’t stuffed. We’ll see how that adjusts over the next few weeks. I don’t want to be losing more than 1#/week on average since I’m breastfeeding. We are 19 weeks from June 1st, and I’m 19# from my goal. I would love to be fit and healthy to start my first summer in my 30s!
Activities for this coming week:
If I get the go ahead from my midwife tomorrow, I want to use the elliptical 3x this week and start some sort of ab exercises. I’m going to do some research on how best to get the lower abs back post partum. Any exercises out there that you love or swear by?
On-going Life Style Goals:
Drink 8oz every time I sit down to nurse Stella (drinking roughly 100oz water/day).
Walk the 1 mile to the post office with Stella in her stroller at least 2x.
Count calories using MyFitnessPal.
3. Post a (reasonably healthy) recipe that I’ve tried, a cooking tip, a new idea for working out for people to try, a photo update of my weight loss, or anything else I feel like sharing.
