Battle of the Bloat

Well, I'm up from last week, but I'm pretty sure that it's bloating. My numbers have been all.over.the.place this week, but I ended up being up just over a pound from last Wednesday. However, I'm still down some from my peak, so it's not as bad as it could be. And I'm pretty sure that my hormones have been doing things this week. Not that I could tell you what: still no cycles after the baby, probably because we still nurse a lot. Plus, getting enough water is a constant battle.

Turns out that Kris, of Eclipsed, is following a meme from a blog called Confessions of a Snowflake. So I'll be linking up there. This week, they're supporting each other with posting recipes. The recipe  made most recently was cupcakes with pudding in the middle... think I'll blog about that on the other blog, rather than here. Seems sort of out of place... but I will be browsing their recipes to see if any of them would please my family.

Sidebar Update

I've been updating our sidebar. This evening I re-did the blog links, including all the family blogs, plus Eclipsed, which hosts the weigh-in I'll be participating in. If anyone else has a blog they'd like to see on there, particularly a fitness or weight-loss blog, I'm happy to put it in. Can't remember what kind of permissions we did when we set this up. Anyway, I also re-did my "goal" thingy on the sidebar. Thought I'd mention it so that if you girls want to update your stuff you can.

Working Together

I am trying to lose weight also. I peaked about a month ago. I am down 5 now. Very slow. But constant and in the right direction. I am doing the same thing - trying to eat better - doing fruit for snacks and drinking more water. Writing down everything I eat to keep me focused. I also added walking - this last weeks heat sabotaged the walking a bit. I will get back to it on Monday.

Maybe we can work together on this and help each other out. :)

Setting Some Goals

I'm going to set some goals, and I found a new weigh-in meme that I'm going to use. She weighs-in on Wednesday,  and that works fine for me. My weight peaked again last week - this whole house thing has been rough on my husband and I in the weight department. And I've decided to do something about it. My body doesn't like to be this big, and when I eat halfway decent it drops down from where I'm currently at with very little further effort. But I've been so good at sabotaging myself that I still haven't gone anywhere.

This week, I decided that I'd had enough. I bought fruit, and that's what I ate when I had the munchies. I drank my water like I know I ought to. Well, not as much as I'd like, but more than I had been. And it made a great difference. I'm down 2.5 pounds for the week, and as long as I keep from over-doing it on the bread, I'm confident that I can keep it up for a while.

My goal? I want to be down 15 pounds from my peak by September 22. That's 2 months from now, and should be pretty do-able. 15 pounds isn't tons, but it's enough to make a very nice difference in how my clothes fit me. Not enough to make me need new clothes. But the next goal after that will  probably allow me to get out the things I have packed away right now because they're too small. And this time I'm going to get rid of the big stuff when it doesn't fit anymore. I'm not going to make it easy to come back to this place. I want to loose enough that even when I get pregnant next I don't come all the way back to where I am right now. The long-term goal is to loose 60-70 pounds. It's ambitious. I'll almost certainly find that I have body-image issues that I have to work through in the process. If I can keep the progress steady at 1-2 pounds a week, it can be done in a year, but I suspect that it'll take a little longer than that. And I'm OK with that. I'm just setting a small goal for right now. I'll be back for more after I get there.