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lost 1.2 pounds this week, which i was pleased with. i came down with a bad cold and didn't got to work tuesday or wednesday. the only day i worked out was monday morning, and i didn't track what i ate all week. that brings the 7 week total to 15.4 pounds and leave me exactly 10 pounds from my pre-pregnancy weight. after the next 5 pounds, i ( Read more... )

last week i lost 0.8 pounds, which i was a little disappointed about. this week i lost 4.2 pounds, which i am obviously very happy about. that brings my total to 14.2 pounds lost in the past 6 weeks. my milk supply has gone down quite a bit recently and i think it may be due to the sudden drop in calories. i might actually try to increase my ( Read more... )

all those trite sayings about how kids grow up so fast and change every day are totally true. stephen will be 8 months old next week. he's been crawling for several weeks and man can he move fast! he also crawled up two flights of stairs the other night all by himself. i just followed behind him and made sure he didn't fall down. he pulled ( Read more... )

i didn't get to weight in on the 19th because of the blizzard. i went on the 26th and was down three pounds. i was a little disappointed that it wasn't more, since that was two weeks worth of weight loss, but of course i was happy with a loss. i was terrified to go on january 2 because i had eaten SO much junk the week before, but by some ( Read more... )

right after thanksgiving, my mom asked me when i wanted to make homemade christmas candy, and pointed out that there were only three weekends left before christmas. i hadn't done a damn thing at that point, and sort of went into panic mode, as i am prone to do. of course, we managed to get everything done. we cut down a christmas tree and ( Read more... )

i've considered trying weight watchers many times over the past five years or so. i know several people who've tried it and all of them gave it a positive review. also, my company has something called benefits plus. each employee gets $100 per year for every year of service, up to $500, which you can use for self improvement, basically - smoking ( Read more... )

i got off work at 3 on thanksgiving eve, which was quite nice. unfortunately, evan and i didn't do much packing, so we had to do it all in a rush thanksgiving morning. we arrived at my parents around 9:30 am with both the dogs and stephen in tow and spent most of the day relaxing, visiting, and watching football. brad and his mom arrived around ( Read more... )

i gained quite a bit of weight during my pregnancy. i don't feel comfortable saying exactly how much at the moment, but it was a lot. i have to admit that for as long as i can remember, whenever i thought about being pregnant, i got excited at the prospect of eating with wild abandon for nine whole months. ah yes, i love to eat... and i'd say ( Read more... )

the last few months of krystle's pregnancy, i got increasingly excited about meeting my little nephew. it was almost as bad as waiting to meet my own son! she called me after her regular doctor's appointment on monday october 19th to let me know she hadn't made any progress and her doctor was talking about inducing her the following week. she ( Read more... )