Back to Pre-Pregnancy Weight!
This week the scale dipped to 173! Then I began to think about the last time I weighed 173–it was before I got pregnant. I remember the scale was between 174-175 and I was thinking ‘if I gain 25 lbs with this pregnancy (which I did) I will weight 200 lbs (which I did)!’ I was very careful about what I ate and knew that the additional 300 or so calories that you need to take in should come from nutrient dense foods. I never believed that my pregnancy was a time to eat whatever I wanted in mass quantities. I didn’t want to gain unneccessary weight and I wanted to have a healthy pregnancy. My craving were very specifiy-Taco Bell bean burritios with extra red sauce and hot links from Top Dog. I labored for 15 hours and had a 10 minute delivery. My baby literally just shot out of there! Anyway, when I realized that I weighed a bit less than I did before my daughter I was thrilled. After her birth I sat around 180 for the longest time. And by the time I found this site I was at 185 and was distraught that I was so close to 200, again, for no reason other than I was being undisciplined. That was my breaking point. the When I was leaving the gym a couple of days ago and walking to my car, a guy yelled out of his window, "Keep up the good work!" That was really nice! I was working shoulders and back that day and was putting alot of effort into it.
I didn’t workout last night, after two days of conference I was beat. I’ll be going everyday this week. Tonight is a leg and ab day. I’m going to do lots of lunges and squats. I am really looking forward to it, too. I’ll post my WO this evening.
WO: walking lunges (10# plate doing oblique crunches) 2×15; donkey kicks 2×20; step (0#, plyometrics, 3×10 sec.)–>really tiring, but great!; leg extension (105#, 12, 12, 12) very tired at this point (30×8,8,); hamstring curl (30#, 12,12,12); laying hamstring curl (60# 12); calf raises (225#20,20,20); abduction (60#, 20, 70#20,20); hanging knee raise 1×20; crunches (20 minutes)
June 28, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Wow sounds like you’re doing awesome. any weight lose is a milestone as far as I’m concerned. Keep up the fantastic job and you’ll make your goals before you know it.