4/6/10

It's Tuesday, my day off. Actually got some solid sleep last night, so even though Logan and I were up at 8:30am, I'm feeling pretty good.
I started my REAL diet/exercise plan yesterday. Keeping it light on the exercise to start because of my breathing issues (pretty bad asthma). Just started out with some situps yesterday, since that's the area I'm really wanting to work on anyway. Did decent on the diet and drinking water. Took a brisk walk with Logan in the evening.
My other task is now that I work at 6am on the days I work, waking up is hard. I've NEVER been a morning person. I also never liked regular coffee. I would get Frappes, or Frappuccinos, or French Vanilla Cappuccinos and stuff. And all those pack on the calories. So I get the wake up effect of the coffee, but also the pounds packed on. So I'm trying some regular coffee today. Trying to get used to it. A little bit of sugar, and I bought french vanilla creamer that doesn't have too many calories. Not too bad. A LOT less calories than the other drinks that can have 400 or more calories depending on size. Yeah. That's 400 wasteful calories. So maybe I will only get those once a month or something as a reward. I don't know. Just not several times a week now.
I've got a goal of losing 30 lbs in 3 months.
I would like to look nice at Logan's birthday party so I'm more comfortable with myself for pictures.
His party is July 17th, so that's 3 months+.
It sounds like a high goal, and it is I guess, but I've done it before. I lost 30 lbs in about 3 months during my pre-wedding time. It wasn't even that hard. I do expect it will be tougher now since a lot of people have trouble losing the baby weight, it's distributed very differently!! (my huge sagging tummy pouch).
I contacted someone about purchasing a stationary bike from Craigslist. And I'm going to put that in my room, so in any down time while watching tv, I can be doing that in stead of sitting doing nothing. I'd get a treadmill or other equipment, but we just don't have the room right now. So walking, biking, and situps should be good to get started. As long as I can keep with the diet. I know you're not supposed to expect results right away. But if I can lose a few pounds in the first week or two, I know like last time that that will be enough to keep me going. Once I see a few pounds come off, it always keeps me really motivated to continue on. If I try this for a few weeks and don't see ANY results, well, I'm probably not exercising or dieting very well, and I will basically probably get discouraged and quit. I think it should be easy to lose the first few though, because I was definitely eating wayyyyy above the Daily Average calorie intake amount recently. We've had so much going on, and things have been crazy and whatever. And I'm an emotional eater. So combine that with not having time to cook, and basically I was probably scarfing down twice the amount of calories I should have. I could make a sandwich at home for probably less than 300 calories, or get one out somewhere for probably 600 or more. So just stopping those dumb choices will likely cut my calories almost in half right off the bat. I'm also not eating late at night. I had a late dinner last night, but I didn't eat ANYTHING after 6:30 :-)
I considered eating a cherry italian ice at around 8, but after i saw that it had 130 calories in it, I just grabbed a glass of water and chugged that to make myself feel fuller, lol.
So let's hope this all works!!!
In other news, Logan is almost 9 months, ALREADY!!
He's got 4 teeth, and 2 more are making their way through!! Crazy.
He's still only crawling backwards, and spinning in circles, but honestly, I'm not pushing him. I don't care if your kid crawled when they were 6 months, and walked when they were 7 months.
And I hate parents that flaunt that stuff. Your kid will probably just be slower in other areas. lol.
I know a girl whose child was walking at 9 months. That's great, but he's OVER 3 years old and not potty trained. Sooooo, that walking milestone doesn't mean that much that he was "advanced" as she put it, now that your kid is still PEEING ALL OVER THE DAMN PLACE.
That sounded mean. Sorry.
Brag about your kids milestones, but don't be a bitch about it!!
(And no, none of you who will ever read this know the girl, so don't worry, it's not directed at any of you!)
Soooo no, my kid isn't fully crawling and he isn't walking yet. But I don't care :-)
He's still adorable and intelligent nevertheless.
He still loves EVERYTHING he's been given to eat. Which cracks me up. Never has he ever spit anything out. He's eating baby food a lot of the time, because I want to make sure he's getting all the nutrition he needs and a dinner, a fruit, and a vegetable and all. But as for big people food, he loves loves loves potatoes. We've given him ours when we have baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, or even some other seasoned kinds. He liked scrambled eggs, and hard boiled eggs. LOVES spaghetti. My brother nick gave him some rosemary carrots and green beans the one night which he ate. I know we've given him other things, I just can't remember right now.But he's a good eater. I love him.

Okay, I'm out for now.
I gotta check this site out a little more and figure out how to throw some pictures on here.