I Blog When I Feel Fat

It's official. It's time to lose this baby fat in earnest. So here goes. I blogged when I lost the baby weight after I had baby #1, so I decided to start a new blog for the weight for baby #2. Keeping a public journal of the weight loss experience makes me feel accountable to someone. Even if no one really reads it, the fact that someone COULD read it, is often enough motivation for me to get moving and eat healthier, so I can blog about it later. So here are some starting stats -

Height/Build : 5'9", large frame, I build muscle easily, but lose fat very slooooooowly, so it's hard to get that nice, toned look.
Weight : 199 lbs. (I was 178 pre-baby)
Dress Size: 16 (ugh! I was down to a 12 pre-baby. These numbers mean nothing to most boys, but you ladies out there know how annoying 2 pesky dress sizes can be. Yes boys, in the women's fashion world: size 16 - size 12 = 2 dress sizes... I know, crazy math!)

Some of my excuses for not working out regularly:

• "Not enough time." (but I have plenty of time to catch up on Facebook. Am I allowed to mention FB on here? Does that go against the terms of agreement?)
• "I'm too tired." (This be legit, yo. Baby isn't sleeping through the night and still likes to eat every 3-4 hours. I just need to remember that exercising GIVES me more energy. Let's repeat: EXERCISE GIVES ME MORE ENERGY. It also gives me more restful sleep when I do get some)
• I convince myself that "I just need to check one more thing on the computer, really quickly." I'm totally addicted to the internet. I admit it. I better checkity-check myself before I wreck myself!

Those are a few... I'm sure I'll come up with some more later. So my goal of this blog is to keep track of the regularity of my workouts, and the healthiness of my eating. I DO NOT do restrictive diets. Not for me. I enjoy food of all kinds. I will not cut out whole food groups. I WILL, however, strive to watch my portion sizes and try to see where I can cut some easy calories. Like cutting down on - not eliminating - sodas and juice... That's pretty easy right there. Only certain foods REQUIRE soda to be served with them in my book... these are Hamburgers (yes, I still plan on eating burgers), and Pizza. It just makes me plain ol' sad when i have to eat those things without a soda in hand. Not gonna do it! So there. That's all I have for today.