Weight loss Update

Hi Friends! Happy Monday 🙂

My family and I made it back from Hawaii very early this morning after a 6 hour plane ride, and dealing with a dead car battery at the long term parking lot at the airport. NOT something we wanted to come home to at 11:30 pm. But, we got things up and running and had kids in their beds by 12:30. Yawn.

So, regarding this post….I probably should have written it before I ate all.the.things in Hawaii. But, before we went to Hawaii, I was doing stellar with the weight loss thing. So, I’m going to focus on that and then the crazy week to come {we’re finally moving this week…like officially!}

Eating

Gordon and I have been really good about having our protein shakes for breakfast, fruits and veggies throughout the day and trying to eat less carbs with dinner. Some days, I felt like I was mentally exhausted in trying to think of new ideas as to what to make for dinner and some days, I didn’t even care. But generally, we were really good about maintaining this overall eating strategy.

Oh, and drinking lots of water. Gordon is waaaaay better about this than I am, but I’m working on it….slowly.

I struggle with afternoon snacks. I just want to eat crackers and cheese and bread and butter. You know how delicious carbs are, right? It’s hard for me to want to reach for vegetables. Or even an apple with peanut butter. But more times than not, I will make the smarter choice. So, there’s that.

Exercise

Because I’ve been so busy with packing our house for our move and planning our trip to Hawaii, my workouts have been more few and far between than I would have liked. I’ll go occasionally to the actual gym {2x a week or so} and then find 1-2 workouts on Youtube. Things like pilates or P90X if I’m feeling overzealous. I don’t think in the last few weeks that I’ve worked out more than 4 times a week and that’s perfectly fine by me because I know I’m working hard throughout the day just lifting and packing boxes or walking everywhere while on vacation.

Weight Loss

Since doing the above since the last time I did a post like this mid-April, I’ve lost 5 more pounds. So, that means since having Eddie, I’ve lost 40 pounds total and am now 9 pounds away from my goal weight. Yay! One step closer 🙂

I am 1 pound under what I weighed in high school and 9 pounds away from what I weighed when I got pregnant with Ed in the first place. Once we’re settled in Idaho, I should be able to start getting back into a new routine.

So, that’s where I’m at. I’ll be weighing myself once we get to Idaho since our scale is packed, but hopefully it isn’t too far off from these last numbers. I’ll keep you posted 😉

Anyways, if you have any tips or tricks that you used to get back into shape after baby, let me know! I’d love to hear.