Week 1, Day 6

I'll start off today by stating that I'm a horrifically bad mood.  I would say it's mostly because Lilah had me up all night again, but mostly it highlights the necessity for Lilah to sleep through the night in order for me to be a more functional human being, 'good enough' mother and decent wife.  Also, while I've always known how bad weekends mess everything up for me, since I'm really tracking my progress I can see without a doubt how I seem to lose all interest in my goals over the weekends. If I really want to achieve my goals, then I need to stay steadfast with my plans even on the weekend.

1) Lose 10 pounds - My diet yesterday was an embarrassment.  I used approximately 46 POINTS!!! As expected, what killed me was the challah. From now on, when I make my 4 challahs, I'm going to freeze 2 of them.

2) Diastasis class - I think I did them all?  I've been writing down every time I do the exercises, but I think I must have missed writing one down b/c there's a big gap between 11:30am and 7:30pm.... I must have done one rep between and just forgotten to write it down.  What I do know is that I measured my waist today w/o the splint and according to my unofficial measurements, I've already lost 2 1/2 inches off my waist! 

3) Exercise - Again, a failure.  Since It's currently Sunday and I'm writing about Saturday, I can also tell you I failed to exercises 2 days in a row.... but Monday I'm TOTALLY going to work out a bit..... really.....

4) Get Ari in bed and asleep by 9pm - Lawrence and Ari went to a Timbers game yesterday and didn't get home until 11:30.  Ari went to sleep as soon as they got in, but I know it was too late.  I'm not going to beat myself up about it though.  I think it's ok to have an exception to the bedtime rule every now and again, but 9pm is lightsout when he's home.

5) Get Lilah to FINALLY sleep through the night - The night started good (as usual), but Lilah woke up when the boys came home at 11:30, then proceeded to keep me up all night again - just like Thursday night.  I think it's a combo of constipation and teething which is causing her to stay awake b/c she's now crying loudly, but seems to be a cry of discomfort.  Well, I was basically up with her until 3:30 this morning when she finally went back to sleep for good.  Ari went through a bought of constipation at this age so I already went out and bought some prunes which will hopefully help her tummy and let her sleep!

6) Wean Lilah - Because Lilah was up all night again, she was nursing all night again.  I through I finally got to a reasonable amount of nursings, then last night blew it out of the water again :(  At least most of the nursings weren't during the nighttime hours: 7am, 11:30am, 3:30pm, 7:30pm, 10pm (dreamfeed), 11:30 (when the boys got home), 3:30 (when I finally give in from hearing her crying for nearly two hours).

I have to admit that it's been only 6 days and I'm already getting really frustrated and wanting to give up.  After six days I feel like I've made absolutely no progress except with the Diastasis.  I need to refocus and work harder.  I'M GOING TO REFOCUS AND WORK HARDER!!!!!!