Ok so now that the baby is somewhat settled in his Exersaucer, I just wanted to write a bit about me.
I'm 26, almost 27, as my mom so kindly reminded me this morning. I have a GORGEOUS, SMART, AMAZING, INCREDIBLE baby boy who will be 6 months old tomorrow. He is the greatest gift I have ever been given in my life. However, my pregnancy SUCKED to put it mildly. I'm not even going to get into half the shit I went through, because I could make a whole seperate blog just complaining about that.
My pregnancy is a chapter in my life I want to put behind me forever.While I gained an extraordinary son out of it, I also gained 100 pounds and a plethora of stretch marks in places I didnt know stretch marks could go.
I've since lost 94 of those 100 pounds, but since I was already around 25 to 30 pounds above my ideal weight to begin with when I got pregnant, I have about 30 pounds left to go.
It was not easy to lose that much weight in 6 months and I am very strict about my diet. I'm not as strict about my exercise, although I do some form of exercise every day. I will post more details about what I do in terms of diet and exercise in later posts.
In general, I eat very clean. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the concept of "clean eating", the concept is pretty simple. It's basically just eating food that is as unprocessed, unrefined, and "whole" as possible. The main staples of my diet are oatmeal, fruit, veggies, chicken, unsalted nuts, yogurt, natural peanut butter and whole grains. Is it boring? Sure. Do I eat anything besides those things? Barely. Sometimes, I do have a few pieces of a Kashi frozen pizza, a Diet Coke, or a Dunkin Donuts coffee with skim milk and no sugar (a far cry from my old extra cream, extra sugar). I really dont eat anything besides that. Ok, ok, for Valentine's Day I got a box of chocolate covered cherries and I've been eating one a day, because they're my favorite. But that's it.
As for exercise, I dont have access to a gym. I love the gym. When I was working, I used to go to the gym all the time. Now I don't have a car. Or a job. So I do one of 2 things. An exercise video/exercise tv from ONDEMAND. Or go for a walk with the baby. Usually its better to go for a walk with the baby because he doesnt like to sit still for long enough for me to do an hour long workout in front of the TV, plus it gets us both out of the house. It just sucks because its winter and freezing.
these next three were taken in September 2009. 
October 2009
