Day 9

A little summary of my week:

The first 5 days I followed the diet and workout and lost 6 pounds.  but honestly I wasn't feeling too hot considering the cardio is jumping for 30 minutes and then I have to chase two kids around the house all day.  Brent and I (and the boys) also got sick so Friday's workout was extra hard.  All in all though, I felt good about the workout and even most of the diet but like you guys we were in need of some tweeking. 

Lets not even talk about our weekend...no, actually it wasn't too bad but I could have made better eating decisions.  It was just hard because we left Saturday morning still undecided about how we were going to proceed with the diet portion.  I also didn't workout Sat, Mon, or Tuesday!  eeek!  will.not.happen.again.

soooo as for the diet we are eating very clean, low carb, no dairy (at least me) and low fat foods.  We are roughly following this 6 week diet plan.  but I may include some meals from meta and if I am feeling low on energy then I will add a little extra.  I am also recording everything in an app called myfitnesspal.  Its nice because it has a data base of how many calories different foods are and allowed me to enter my weight, and my goal weight to find out the number of calories I should be consuming.  I guess its kinda of like weight watchers without paying all the money to simply count calories...

I've since gained 2 pounds so I've more consistently lost a total of 4 pounds thus far.  I guess we will measure ourselves tomorrow? or the next day, I'm not sure.  I don't think I'll see any results but I do feel tighter and toner.

Day 4

Well I am no longer able to stomach apple sauce, sweet potato pudding, gazpacho, or power juice. SO, the diet is quickly evolving at our house. We are still eating good healthy stuff and not very much of it. How are things going at Brent and Markelle's house?

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Today didn't go as I would have liked day 1 to go.  I was pretty discouraged at one point.  I have never felt so out of shape in my life.  I realized this during the cardio portion of my workout.  I am pretty pissed off at myself for getting so out of shape while I was pregnant, but whats done is done and I have to let it go.  Also, the food.....oh the food.  Basically I just have to be realistic.  I can't eat mush.  I wish I could be tough and power through it, but its not going to happen.  Not for me anyway.  I'm impressed and proud of you 3 for doing it though.  I decided tonight that I need to not worry so much about what everyone else is doing and figure out what will work for me.  If that means eating carbs to preserve my sanity, I'm going to do it!  I AM very excited about the workouts.  I'm excited to start feeling stronger and hopefully lose some more post-baby flab!  Tomorrow is a new day.  Hopefully I'm happier with it than I was with today.

Day 1

So far...

power juice: I can't even talk about that stuff
apple sauce:  surprisingly not that awesome.  however, I was actually able to eat it.
sweet potato pudding:  fine.
gazpacho:  hard to eat without chips or noodles or just anything to chew.

I still have the soup and carrots to look forward to.  Also, I finished the workout and of course I loved it.  but that never was the part that worried me.

I'm not gonna lie, I've been scouring the Meta community forums to see what the majority of people are eating and if they're really following this diet.  I've found them to be rather helpful...soooo I'm thinking we need a meeting; over dessert perhaps?  I'm thinking chocolate pudding.

Is anybody else making pacts with themselves that if they stopped this diet then they would promise promise to eat really healthy?  no guys, I mean really healthy.   I just want to chew food again, my mandible bone is bored.  I know I'm being dramatic, its been less than twelve hours.  Pathetic.

I either need a hurrah from you all or encouragement.  because Jack telling me he doesn't want baby food every time I open the fridge for my next meal  isn't helping any.  He wants "kid food"  I do too Jack.  I do too.