Weigh in

Yesterday I had my first official Weight Watchers weigh in.

I lost 6.2 lbs!!! :D

And the greatest part is I did it the right way. No crash diets. No sacrificing and being hungry. Just eating healthier and drinking plenty of water.

Well I'm on my way! (and yesterday I wore my "skinny" jeans!!)

Big Boy

My baby is 9 months old today!? EEK!

I was thinking about this last night. Pregnancy - approximately 9 months - seemed to take FOREVER to me. And actually, I only knew I was pregnant for 8 months to the day. :)

(And I only know this because when I was in the hospital being induced and my friend Mike came up to bring Nick dinner, he asked me if I wanted to hear something cool. I said of course. He showed me two text messages I had sent him. The first was on May 22, 2008 and it said, "It's official!!! I'm PREGNANT!!!!" and the second one was on January 22, 2009 and it said, "They are inducing me as we speak. More later!". I agreed with him, I thought that was pretty cool!)

Anyway, so pregnancy lasted forever. I didn't think it was ever going to end. Those 8 months, were the longest 8 months ever. These last 9 months?? Over in the blink of an eye. I can't believe it's been 9 months since we were in the hospital! It's crazy.

And beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Happy 9 month birthday Dommie! ♥

A whole new world

I'm so excited. A whole new world has been opened up before me. I logged onto weight watchers eTools today and discovered they have an online community! It's basically facebook for weight watchers. You have a wall, you have "friends", you have groups, challenges, pictures, etc. I'm in heaven.

I love being a part of a group so determined to lose weight. I love it. I love checking in and sharing recipes and getting extra motivation.

I calculated my Body Mass Index today and I'm considered "pre-obese". That's scary. Terrifying even. That is so motivational to stick with this and do good.

It's not the official weigh in, so I'm not holding my breath for it, but I weighed myself on Saturday at home and I weighed myself this morning on my scale and it shows a weight loss of almost 5 lbs! And the best part, I'm doing it the healthy way! I drink at least 8 glasses of water now, I eat my 6-8 servings of fruits and veggies, 3 servings of dairy, a multi-vitamin, lean protein, all of it! I'm just really watching what I eat and I'm continuing to work out. And I can already see a subtle difference in my face. Yay! :)

I can't wait for the official weigh in Saturday morning, even if it's just 1 lb, I'll be thrilled!

Jillian Michaels

kicked my butt! I started the 30 day shred DVD last night and man, was it tough! And I was only on Level 1! There are 3 levels! What the heck is gonna happen to me on the 3rd level??

But all that aside, I really like the DVD. She does 3 'circuits' of 6 minutes each and they do the 3-2-1 system. 3 minutes of strength training right into 2 minutes of cardio right into 1 minute of abs. No stopping. And when you finish the 1st circuit, you go straight into the 2nd circuit and start the 3-2-1 over again. It kind of helps knowing that you will only be doing 3 minutes or less of a certain exercise. Because they are tough circuits!

For one of the cardio workouts you jump rope without a jump rope. I thought that was silly at first but then 10 seconds later and that was the hardest thing I felt like I had ever done!

I think I'm going to try and do the 30 day shred 4 days a week. I think I'm going to do Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays if I can. Wednesdays is basketball and then Saturdays are kickball. Sundays are lay on the couch and watch football days!

Day 1 of my 30 day shred down. Whew. Hopefully it shows at my weigh in on Saturday. Stay posted...

30 Day Shred

I got the DVD in the mail! Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred.

Now when am I going to do it? Tonight we have dinner at a friends house...tomorrow night we either have a work dinner, or I'm going to basketball if we can find a babysitter...Thursday night is Nick's graduation dinner....maybe Friday night??

I've heard it's really really tough. I'll let you know!

It's time...

I have decided to re-join weight watchers.

Now that I'm done with the half marathon and it's getting really cold outside, I'm slowing down on my exercising...but not my eating. So something has to be done. I think that weight watchers is a good choice for me. I did it once before, right before my wedding and I lost about 20 lbs. doing WW. Hopefully I can do that good, and better!

I have set a high goal for myself. I'd like to lose just over 45 lbs. I know that's a lot, but I need to and I think I can do it. This is going to be a hard time to start WW. The holidays always are, but I am confident.

The cool thing about Weight Watchers right now is they have eTools. You can go on their website and track your "points" there along with looking up the point values of any food, looking up recipes, joining buddy groups, all kinds of good stuff. I looked up a bunch of recipes yesterday and made two of them last night for dinner.

I made a grilled shrimp salad and some mini Philly Cheesesteak sandwiches. They were pretty good for "diet food". :)

I'm actually really excited about doing this and sticking with it. My mom joined with me even though she doesn't have to lose weight, and it's great to have someone else there with you. It makes it easier to talk to someone about the recipes and how hungry you are at first.

We had our first meeting last Saturday...I'm hoping for at least a 1 lb. weight loss this week! (I'm not looking at getting more since I went to a wedding and Nick told me I can't start a diet on a 'football' day and ordered us Dominios for lunch on Sunday!).

1 pound! And then just 45.6 more after that! ;-)

As promised -

pictures of Dominick feeding himself. He is a messy guy!

It's amazing how much he loves feeding himself when he actually eats so little because it all ends up on the floor, or on his face, or in his hair, or in his lap.

But he's growing and learning and it's so fun to watch.






Such a cutie!