Snap Back: Post Pregnancy Weight Loss!

So last week I began to workout and eat healthy again.  Last week when I began Weight Loss Journey 2.0 I needed to lose 40 pounds to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight.  As of today, I need to lose 35.3 pounds, 4.7 pounds in one week…not bad! I’ve set a goal of one year to lose the weight, which I feel is realistic.

I’ve started by doing Jillian Michaels Ripped in 30, this is the first exercise DVD that I bought, and it did a great job…I think I lost about 15 pounds doing it, and I hope to achieve the same amount this go around.  After Ripped in 30, I’m going to do Jillian Michaels Body Revolution.  I was doing this program when I found out that I was pregnant, I never completed it because it is VERY intense.  While doing the program, I became fit enough to do military style push-ups.

I was looking at pictures of myself from last summer and DAMN did I look good! It’s amazing because when I was there I was still obsessing about the 30 pounds I needed to lose to get to my ultimate goal weight, I couldn’t see how far I had come! Now I’m using those pics as inspiration….screw Beyonce, for now…lol.

I’ve read on a few sites that it is more difficult to lose pregnancy weight, none of the sites explain WHY though. Is it hormones? I mean the only thing I can imagine is not having time. I also understand the new trouble spots some women may have….my mother’s apron is gonna be a problem…it needs to be called Big Mama’s Apron…smh.

For those of you on My Fitness Pal, please add me: Diandra81.  For those of you who aren’t on MFP, you should try it out.  It’s a great site, also on app on smart phones, to count your calories and track your diet.  The phone app allows you to scan your food’s barcodes and logs the calories that way.  You can also log in your weight, water intake, exercise….it’s really helpful!

 

 

 

Samira Talking with Grandma!

Samira talking with Grandma on 5/20/13, 8 weeks and 6 days old!

You think you know, but you have no idea!

Fire fighter, oil rig worker, bomb squad, police officer, Steve Buscemi’s dentist…think those jobs are hard? Well guess again folks! The HARDEST job in the world is being a MOTHER!

Last year I made a post with a quote from my father.  He told me to cherish the sleep I was getting because I would never be able to sleep the same again, and boy was he right!  The first couple of weeks were ROUGH…I was recovering from a c-section, swollen with over 20 pounds of water weight, mentally a wreck because of my situation with baby girl’s father….like I said ROUGH.  I think in the 8 weeks and 6 days she has been alive I’ve nearly had 8 breakdowns.

What I have learned is to accept help.  I felt that as a mother I was supposed to be able to do everything.  I felt that if I couldn’t do something it made me less of a mom, and that’s why I was so sad after breastfeeding didn’t work out for me.  My parents were trying to help me, but I didn’t want to accept it for the reason above as well as the fact that I felt they were overbearing and my mother can be a know-it-all.  Unfortunately, as a first time mother you are going to have to deal with that from your parents, especially your mother.  I’ve now set boundaries.  I explained to her that everyone has to learn through experience…this is my first time as a mother, I’m learning as I go! Of course I’m going to make mistakes…and let me! I appreciate her advice, but don’t push things on because that’s how you did it in the past.  She now fully respects that.

I’ve also realized that I do not have the control I used to have.  Now that Samira is a bit older I thought that things would get “easier”…ha! I figured she’d have a pattern I could work around…wrong! While her feeding schedule is fairly regular, other things are not…such as her SLEEP SCHEDULE and I have to just learn to work with it and accept it, even though it’s TOUGH!

So all in all I’ve learned that no amount of reading on a subject you do is really going to prepare you fully, it’s helpful…but motherhood is PRACTICAL. Also, you’re going to worry but as said…please use google with caution, because it will have you diagnosing your child with ebola! Oh yeah, accept any and all help!

I hope to create a long list of things I’ve learned when baby girl turns one!