Wow been almost 2 months!

It's been almost two months since I posted. I was never very good at keeping a diary when I was younger. Anyway, now I am back, but I am not going to promise that I won't disappear again!

Updates on Jacoby! He is started crawling on August 24th and then pulling himself to stand on August 27th! He has two teeth that sprouted up, and he is now eating baby meats. He said mama for the first time (though he doesn't know what it means yet), and he is starting to cruise the furniture.

Ever since he started crawling he hasn't stopped. He wears himself out everyday. Here is a picture of him two days ago, jumping himself to sleep:

And it is pure frustration trying to baby proof a house. I have the living room and the bedroom (connected to the living room), sectioned off with his playpen so that he has a safe place to wonder around, but he still manages to find things he is not supposed to have.

As for the weight loss journey, I have pretty much given up for now. I want another baby, and I think there's no point to working my butt off to lose extra weight (I'm already at my pre-preg weight), when I know I'm just going to gain it back with the second baby. So I'm just trying to make healthy choices for now.

I still haven't started my period. I'm usually right on time, and today is the day I'm supposed to start, so we shall see. I really hope I don't get my period, even though we will probably catch hell from everybody for getting pregnant so early after Jacoby. I've tried to shake the desire to have another, but the more I try not to think about it, the more I think about it.

Updates on other things: Shaun finished his Bachelors in Business Management, and already has his Associates in Accounting. I convinced him to let me be a stay at home mom since he hates to clean, and Jacoby seems to really benefit from it. As long as I can babysit part time, he is okay with it. I met a really great family recently, and I start babysitting for them next week, so I think I finally met my match.

Jacoby blowing rasberries!

I am posting the video at the end of this post, so cute. He just started doing it today.

I have done perfect on my calories today. Did about a half hour of DDR and then I just walked around the whole neighborhood for about 20 mins. Hopefully I'll see my efforts on the scale tomorrow morning.

I love staying home with my munchkin all day. I don't miss a thing, we have a routine (which is hard to keep up when working). I have the energy to clean and cook for my hunny and I just love it. I keep trying to convince him that me staying at home would be what's best as soon as he finds a higher paying job when he gets his degree in less than two months. He is a little skeptical, but he is also enjoying the delicious dinners I am now home to cook. I usually work long evenings and nights when I do work to minimize on having to find a babysitter.

Here is the video link!

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=10150262814661951

Day 2

Well I did well yesterday on my meals and exercised but I still am 194 today :( Oh well gotta try again today. Not that I expect to lose 5 pounds but it would be nice to see even a tiny change.

So far day 1=success

Today i have done well. I walked about 3 miles in the morning then played dance dance revolution in the even plus some kinect. My meals were as follows:

Breakfast- Small bowl of life cereal

Lunch- Turkey bologna sandwich with 35 cal bread and grapes.

Dinner- Low fat cheesy steamed veggies, banana, and a serving of pretzel crisps.

Snacks and drinks: glass of milk, bottled water, banana, string cheese, small handful of peanuts, and a plain frozen yogurt cup.

This makes for a total of 1099 calories which is too low, so I will be eating a 200 calorie snack before bedtime.

Not working at Wendy's make this sooo much easier. Before I would have nuggets, fries, pop, and ice cream all within reach at all times. Now to get the stuff, I have to load up Jacoby, make sure I have money, and drive to the fast food place. I'm too lazy for that lol


Just woke up from napping

Rededication Day 1

I'm getting ready to go on a 3 mile walk in the park and then another 3 miles when my friend gets out of her zumba class. Then when I get home I'm going to do at least 30 mins of Dance Dance Revolution. I won't be doing this much working out every day, but I'm just trying to get myself back into the groove.

Weighed at 194 this morning.

Goal is 150.

This is what I was like my senior year and it is what I want to look like again.

Weight Loss Time

I am so ashamed of myself. When I had Jacoby, I was 220 lb when I left the hospital. 3 weeks after I was 205 (from breastfeeding). On April 15th, I decided to start dieting and working out. I did great for a while, from then until now, I got all the way down to 189. Now I've been eating like crap for the past 2-3 weeks and I'm done with it. I'm ready to lose weight again. I have a weight loss group on Facebook called Weight Loss Buddies. Right now we have about 100 members, mostly moms. Here's the link for those who could use some support:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/209127215772279/?notif_t=group_activity

We have weigh ins every Friday, but I'm going to record my daily weight on a separate post to help keep me motivated.

I'll be eating 1200-1300 calories a day, and doing some type of cardio. Right now my favorite thing to do is Dance Dance Revolution because it is fun. I also like to take walks with my little one in his stroller. Wish me luck!

Mmmmm Feet!

Jacoby finally figured out how to eat his feet! Lol, my silly baby.

Today he had squash, at first he screwed his face up at it, but as we continued, he begin to like it better.

Money saving update! A lady I am purchasing 100 jars of baby food meats from for 20 dollars just offered me the rest of the food for 30 more dollars. She has several hundred jars of baby food and just wants to get rid of them. I wish I had the 30 extra dollars right now but I don't. I might tomorrow so I told her I would let her know. Shaun doesn't think it is necessary but I just can't pass up that great of deal. And plus whatever we have leftover after Jacoby grows out of it, we can sell, or even better, donate. But men only think in the now, not the future. Well my man anyway. Even if I don't get to buy the other jars, 100 jars for 20 bucks is still one hell of a deal. Plus I got the 120 jars + 4 boxes of baby cereal the other day for 25 bucks. I think that is 55 dollars well spent if I do say so myself. I also found some free formula on freecycle! I'm just going crazy right now with saving money. I think I can call myself a pro.