Progress

I know I promised... so here they are:

Progress Pictures.

4 weeks post partum and 4 months post partum. Enjoy.

Forgot to mention:

sometimes the whole weight loss thing can be frustrating at best. Having only lost a total of 2.5 lbs this last month really pissed me off... I mean, I wasn't drinking... I followed thru on my workout-goal (3x/week lifting) and I walked and played tennis a lot too... and I don't like being pissed off, so this morning I've been trying to gain some perspective.

On May 1st of this year I weighed about 237lbs.

Today I weigh 181 lbs. So in 4 months, I have lost... 56lbs. Now I can atribute the first 40 of that to babies (6lbs 7oz and 7lbs 1oz) amniotic fluid (lets say7.5lbs) placentas (5lbs) and reduction in blood volume (we'll give that the remaining 14lbs). Which means that in 4 months I've lost at least 16lbs of non-baby weight. Now, considering it took me 2 YEARS to lose 45 lbs the first go-around... 4lbs/mo for 4mo is really not all that bad... and yes it comes in spurts. It always has... that's why doing this exercise for perspective is so important for me. True, i want to step up the action over the next 4 months so I can see 160 again by Dec 31... but that's only 20 lbs away... 5lbs a month... TOTALLY doable.

in fact...

watch me.

;)

Posted by Lexy at September 2, 2006 01:59 PM