Week 3, Day 6

I feel a bit introspective today, so these may be a little longer than usual :)

1) Lose 10 pounds - I'm getting a little confused about when to post what day of weight.... Do I post yesterday's weight today or today's weight on the blog re: yesterday's activities?  I think I'm going to go for the latter.  Yesterday I lost my promised land and went back up to 161 (grrrrr......), but this morning under the 160's (barely) at 159.8.  Although after I drank 2 cups of coffee and had a BM I was down to 159.2!  I know that's probably TMI and it doesn't count anyway, but it gives me hope :) Another think which makes me feel good is my exercise of self control yesterday.  We went to Chucky Cheese yesterday and I was very proud of myself for getting the salad bar instead of the pizaa.  I did eat 1 1/2 slices, but got 2 big plates of salad with FF dressing :)  Small victories - right?

I spent some time on the internet reading up on the connection between those last 10 baby pounds and breastfeeding.  Apparently 1 in 5 woman's bodies hold onto those last 10 pounds until baby is weaned; so it is very possible I may not be able to lose those 10 pounds just yet.  I want to be very clear, that I LOVE all that my body created: life, food, and it provides a soft pillow for babies to cuddle, however, my BMI is the 'overweight' category which I find unacceptable and I want to get into 'normal.' I've always been curvy and have no intention of giving up those curves, but I'm not going to complain if I could lose some of the curves around my thighs, upper arms or belly.

2) Diastasis class - I did 4 out of 5 of my exercises.  I've been so good up to now that I'm kind of upset at myself for slacking.  I feel like it's been nearly 3 full weeks and it's getting old, but I need to stick with this because I want don't want to look pregnant.  Also, I've been bending down, getting up and down wrong and playing with the kids a little too rough. I hope I haven't done too much damage :(  I have my next meeting with Kelly Dean of The Tummy Team tomorrow which should be interesting. In my first block I noted my inability to follow through on things like this, so I need to get back on the horse and follow through!  This week, I will get back on track!!!!

3) Exercise - I excercised! It wasn't offical or anything, but I spent a good 45 minutes on the floor with Ari and Lilah yesterday being rough and tumbly.  I was running around, throwing them into the couch, flipping them upside down and all around.  The only downside is that I may have done some damage to my diastasis, but it was fun :)  I'm going to ask Kelly Dean at my Tummy Team appointment tomorrow about which excercises are safe to do while I'm healing.

4) Get Ari in bed and asleep by 9pm - We had an unexpected visitor last night and Ari was in the yard playing nicely with the neighbor girl (who I think he has a crush on) rather than taking a bath.  However, were upstairs by bookreading time and lights were off by 9:10.  Once again he did a great job by staying in bed even though he wasn't tired.  I checked in on him at around 9:40 and he was still rolling around in bed, but he was IN bed :)

5) Get Lilah to FINALLY sleep through the night - Last night Lilah did something she's never done before... put herself back to sleep without a smidgen of my help!  She woke up around midnight and fell back to sleep on her own!  SCORE!!!!  She woke up again at 2am and before I could think about it I nursed her.... probably should have refused because I knew she would wake around 5ish and want to nurse again - which is exactly what happened.  So I nursed her twice last night.... alas, I'll do better tonight.

6) Wean Lilah - Nursed her four times yesterday: 2:20pm, 7:40pm, 2am & 5:15am.  Still better than last week, but I would like to see that number go down to 3 for this coming week.  She is continuing to do better and better with the sippy cups and take in more food.  I'm very proud of her :)