LaTina

hmmm….

Same jeans I wore just the night before, I tossed on to take my son to school… about SIX INCHES from button-able.  Scales say I way exactly the same as the last few days.

DYING OF THIRST all night… wake up SIX POUNDS heavier… but my jeans fit fine

Weigh in day… heavier than the day the jeans DIDN’T fit, but 5 pounds down from the day they did.

 Grand total from all this confusion is a 1 pound loss for the week… and a newfound confusion! 

I had forgotten about the little colored stars you get at BS as you move along.  It was a nice surprise after my weigh-in today to rediscover that!

Tomorrow I will find out how this week went, weight wise.  I worked out once, did some little changes, drank a glass or 2 (16 oz each) extra water everyday, and parked 2 spaces away from the cart corral on the far side, and I’ve been trying to “wiggle” or “fidget” when ever I’m sitting “still”, even just tap my left foot to the beat when I’m driving.  Of course, here in PA, there’s  been shoveling…  Eating was good 4 1/2 days and poor 2 1/2 days.  Certainly not “perfect” but “better” than it has been since this summer.  Lots of little things that I want to change, I know I can’t stick to any major changes, I never have done well with that, but I’m imagining the end and trying to pick some of the things that I imagine I will be doing then, and making a few tweaks.  This week I discovered something healthy, delish, filling, and low cal!  Fat free Greek yogurt (100 cal) with a jar of apple/blueberry baby food (45 cal) stirred in!!  An AWESOME start to the day… out to buy more tomorrow!

More to come…

If you click on “my dashboard” from a page, or “my blog” from your home page, check over on the right to see if any comments are in moderation… all that I have left are not showing :(  No support from Tina tonight!!

Buddyslim, and in particular, The Longest Loser, helped me shed 51 pounds in 9 months :)  Then Feb. 8, ‘09 I found out that I was pregnant.  I went through major depression, and major weight gain… as much as my 3 previous pregnancies combined, in fact.  15 months after having the baby, I was still maintaining 22 pounds of my original 51.  I made a couple fleeting visits to BS through the months, but I have never been able to incorporate it into my life the way I had before the baby.  I still doubt that I will manage to do all the things on here that I used to, but I’ve managed to weigh in 2 consecutive Saturdays, so I’m definitely feeling a little better about my ability to at least check in

I’ve reset my counter to my weight at the start of the year, it’s nice to see less than 100 pounds between start and goal :)  As I did last time, I’m setting my mini-goals at 5% of my then current weight, so the amount that I have to lose to reach my next goal lessens as I go.  That worked well last time, as it seems it’s easier to lose bigger when you have more weight… carrying me around is my own mini work-out! 

My start (ing over) weight and mini goals:

218

207

197

187

178

169

161

153

145

138

131

124

No babies this time :-O

Well, Ariani is now 7 weeks old, I finally had time to update my profile and put up a post baby pic.  I STILL need to learn how to post a photo in my blog so all my buddies can see my precious little bundle!  I’m so NOT ready to make any major changes right now.  I eat pretty healthy (after all, everything I eat goes into Ariani, so I have a huge incentive to keep my foods as pure and natural as possible) but I eat too much and probably too often… alternating with not often enough.  I have taken her for 1 walk since my 6 week post C-section clearance to resume normal activities.  I had (obviously) walked with her before, but this was a REAL walk… brisk pace, increase heart rate… all that good stuff.  I’m still afraid to try a plank, and I’m sure it will be no where near the over 2 minute ones I had worked up to before, but it will be a start.  Like before… I had to start, then I had to improve, get stronger, go longer.  I think my eating will fall back into place better once Ariani is settled into a more predictable schedule, although I haven’t GAINED anything since having her, I’ve maintained 5 out of the 7 weigh ins since she’s been born.  Right now I’m happy with that, but I know that I will have to move onward to reach my goals. I’m just not feeling it right now, the DRIVE that I once had, I’m sure as I continue to recover from the 9 months worth of changes my body endured, I will start feeling like my old self more and more, and once again I will begin at the beginning, get back on track.  I know I’m rambling, and probably repeating myself…. so I’ll just try to get some sleep before feeding time rolls around ;)  Nighty-night!

Ariani Querida Alejandra Marie Sanchez

7 pounds 0.6 ounces

19.5 inches long

 September 28th, 2009 @8:07 a.m.

pronunciation….  Ariani = “R” “E” on “E Querida = Care “E” duh 

 and so much for my 15 lb. crash diet ;)  I had a 7 pound baby and lost…. drumroll please…. 3 pounds.  My toes look like sausages, my feet look like balloons and I can’t fit my legs into the jeans I wore TO the hospital to have her (I was planning on wearing them home too, but….)

 We’re home safe and sound, I have pics, but no ambition right now (it’s 3am).  She’s the sweetest little thing I can’t wait for you all to see her.  Idk when I’ll get back on here…. hopefully things will be easier when I can go home (stairs… so I’m at my mom’s upstairs in her spare room until at least my checkup Tuesday, then maybe I can go home)  My C-sect went great, no drama like the other ones, it’s up and down, so no stomach muscles… I wish I had thought to do more squats and tricep dips, cuz I have to use my arms and legs to TRY not to use my abs (is there ANYTHING you can do w/o using your core muscles?!?   UGH)

 all for now… I think she’s really asleep this time (she fakes me out a lot… dozes for 15 min, then when I lay down…. AWAKE!!) so, I’m going to follow suit and sleep too.

thanks for all the well wishes on my last blog

I’m going on a crash diet, I’m going to lose 15+ pounds in less than 24 hours!!!

lol, anyway, I’ll be gone untill Thurs, maybe a bit later.  Next update will be about my baby, and maybe the birth if there was anything exciting to share.  Nancy has given me some instruction on posting pics in a blog… HOPEFULLY I’ll be able to do it.  Or maybe one of my kids can… if not, I’ll put one as my profile pic and ask for more help!

 Same as I asked my team, if any one posts something that they think I’d really want/need to know, plz mail me, cuz I will never be able to catch up on a week’s blogs while recovering from my C-sect.

Just wanted to dig this old blog out and repost it where I can get to it easily in the next few weeks.  I’m waiting to see what I weigh after the baby is born to decide whether to keep these same exact mini-goals or make new ones.  I’ll probably keep these, since I can basically start anywhere and just head for the next mini-goal… I was 189 when I found out that I was pregnant… 197 when I actually got pregnant, so I’ve put on a bit, but it’s hard to tell how much will stick with me.  With my other kids I’ve lost between 15 and 35 pounds, so I don’t even have a guess to go on with that.  I’ll know soon enough.  My first weigh in on my old team will be Fri/Sat, Oct 2/3 depending on how things are going here, that will be my “kinda” starting weight.  I can’t wait to start my chart going back down instead of steadily up!!  I’m hoping the weather holds, cuz after my C-sect I will probably only be able to do walking as my main exercise and I’ll want to take the baby in his/her stroller and not worry (too much) about it being too cold.  I’m hoping to work up to being able to walk clear to my daughter’s middle school in a timely fashion, I’d like us all 3 to walk to school in the mornings… my poor babygirl put on 15 pounds my first trimester!  So, I’m hoping a nice morning walk will help us all get some exercise, plus it will give her and I time to talk and (hopefully the baby will be a stroller-sleeper) have “alone time”.

Starting at 240lbs and subtracting 5% for each mini-goal (not counting the first one which I arbitrarily set at 225):

Start: 240  April 28, 2008…. I stumbled upon BuddlySlim on a google search and started my journey.

Goal #1 228 (225)  I hit 225 on June 27, 2008

Goal #2 217  I hit 217 on August 9, then again on my birthday August 25, but on the way up, then on September 5, I passed it on the way back down, hitting 216.

Goal #3 206  I hit my 3rd goal October 24.

Goal #4 196  Friday, December 12, my first mini-goal below 200.  No gains between reaching mini-goals 3 & 4! 

Goal #5 186

Goal #6 177

Goal #7 168

Goal #8 160

Goal #9 152

Goal #10 144

Goal #11 137

Goal #12 130

Goal #13 124

As you can see from my new profile pic, I’ve gained a few inches around the middle… to say the least!  The thing that amazes me, and I wanted to get down in black and white before I lost it, is PERSPECTIVE.  I can SEE and FEEL how much bigger I am than I was in January…. but a couple days back, I dug out my “starting jeans” the ones that I decided were “it” NO BIGGER… then they ripped out in the legs one day when I squatted down…

So, I dug out these jeans… they seem about my size, as I was losing weight, I never felt that I was getting any smaller, so I assume that these would fit fine over my legs and such… but what I wasn’t expecting is that they are LOOSE on the waist.  How can I be THIS MUCH BIGGER… without having gotten that same amount smaller ?!?

So what I can’t see is myself being smaller, doesn’t seem to sink in…  I’m keeping these jeans, I hope that when I put them on they will make me internalize my weight loss, I can see the numbers on the scale change, but I don’t FEEL smaller….  so my hope, with this blog, is that when I’m feeling like I’m not changing, or worse “never” going to change, that I will re read this and realize how far I’ve come already, that I AM making progress, that I HAVE gotten smaller, that I DO look and feel better (albeit not at this very second, but in general!) that CHANGES have occured… and it will motivate me to keep going, keep doing, keep reaching.