Here in our Boyds’ nest, _W_ doesn’t just stand for Wednesday. It means “Weigh Day,” too.
We like to use Wednesdays to start our Weight Watchers week, with a weigh-in and resetting the week’s “flexpoints.” This gives us a little buffer after the weekend, when parties and dates can be worth splurging on.
I’d sort of taken a break from counting my Weight Watchers points for awhile. It seemed like the pounds were coming off anyway, as long as I ate moderately. But things have plateaued for the past few weeks, and I have newfound determination to see these last 12 pounds or so go by Christmastime. Not that I’m complaining about having lost 38 of them so far!
p{color:gray}. Photo: With plenty of everyday-life workouts like this “horsey ride” for Lucy, weight loss shouldn’t be hard!
It is so easy to slip into self-soothing eating habits. I started a habit where, after a rough night with Lucy, she and I would go for a walk to our local bakery and get a latte and a donut. I deserved a treat! But now I save the donut for Jon, because it just isn’t worth it. I know I’ll feel much better about fitting into my pre-pregnancy pants than I will from eating any donut. (Sometimes he gives me a bite anyway.)
Now that we are past the crisis-new-baby-freak-out days, I’ve been noticing more than ever that I’m trying to figure out what kind of mom I am. An organic mom? A shopping mom? A talking-on-the-phone mom? But I’m pretty certain that, no matter what, I would like to be the kind of mom who is satisfied with her body shape, so I’m taking some steps to get there.
Pardon me, but now I must go chop some vegetables for snacks. :)
Way to go Ann! I’m still really enjoying SparkPeople, and it has helped me get within 5 pounds of pre-Mo pregnancy. I don’t think I’ll ever be back to pre-Kaia weight, but I’d like to be close.
Stay warm today! I can’t believe the weather you all are having. Maybe introducing Lucy to snowflakes will be good exercise for you two tonight! Also if you are looking for great baby coats, I highly recommend Hanna Andersson. I was given 2 as gifts for Kaia, and I leant them to the pastor’s wife, and I have them back for use with Mo. They are still in excellent shape and so warm. Plus she makes awesome caps that tie under the chin and covers the ears. Just don’t buy new, or your wallet will be hurting. Ebay is a great source of them.
Cute foot photo! I always ask Mo how his foot tastes, and am so grossed out when I remove wet socks.
Hey Ann,
It was great inspiration for me when you first shared that you had gone back to Weight Watchers! I too have rejoined. I have lost 17 pounds since July! Slow and steady for me. You look great by the way.
I think that I am still trying to find out what kind of mom I am! And I have 4 children! It all seems to go in seasons. I think for me i need to focus on what kind of woman I am and let that flow into my mothering, and marriage. That way i dont get too caught up in mothering…which is easy to do…and then I wonder where is Nicole?
This is a great picture….that game is a favorite in our home!
Congratulations, Ann, for your Weight Watchers success! That program is the best way to lose weight and keep it off. Studies show this consistently when they compare it to other commercially advertised programs. If you stay on the maintenance program, you won’t gain your weight back once you have lost it all.
Of course, that is a big IF for some of us. I have, sadly, gained all of the weight back that I lost when I became a lifetime member after my first child’s birth, and about 50 more pounds. I keep hiding from my little sliding card for counting points! Or hiding it in a drawer somewhere…
So thanks for the inspiring post, and MANY congratulations for your success. Keep posting about it. It will help me to get back on track with my little card!!!
I like Nicole’s post about figuring out what kind of woman you are–that seems to be the big emotional task of a woman’s thirties. Since we usually spend our thirties raising young ones, we usually figure it out around the mothering role, but in the long run, whatever truth we discover will show itself in any role we take on.
I remember being pretty conflicted about whether I would be a La Leche League-type mom like my mom was with her last child, or a Dr. Dobson _Dare to Discipline_ mom. That was a hard conflict to resolve WHILE parenting, and probably led to some of my inconsistency with sleep and feeding patterns that I wrote about elsewhere on your blog.
I had this hippie friend when my oldest child was in a co-op preschool. We hung out together a LOT, and I was fascinated by her laid-back lifestyle. She nursed on-demand, they had a family bed, she never spanked her kids, etc. She was from the Netherlands, and had a master’s degree in recorder performance. How cool is that, right? But I knew, somewhere down in my core, that I could never live that way. We eventually parted ways, not because of our differences, but because of other unhealthy dynamics in our friendship.
As usual, I digress… My point is that I wasn’t sure of myself, and I eventually figured out who I was through, among other things, figuring out how to be a mom the best way I could. Now that I have teenagers, it is very helpful to have this knowledge!! The thirty-year-old Deb would have had a hard time not crying if her teenaged son told her, in front of a bunch of his friends, “Stop trying to be cool, Mom!” The forty-one year old Deb responds to the same comment by trying not to show how funny she thinks it is…
thanks Deb, that’s encouraging. Even though I’m 39, it gives me hope that maybe someday I will figure out who I am apart from my children’s image of me… even if it takes me longer than it did you. ;o)
I do know, largely, what kind of mom I am… (messy crafts yes, clean house no; organic when it’s convenient; shopping no, start a million projects yes…) but am not always at peace with who I am and don’t know that my ego could sustain a teenage son telling me to stop trying to be cool! Well, I guess I have exactly five years to figure that one out. :o) But it is good to know that there’s hope!
Now I’ll have to stop by your blog, I didn’t know you kept one!
Hey, Kelly–you will always be cool to me, even if your son stops thinking so for part of his teenaged years! Certainly stop by my blog, every once in a while I actually remember to post something in it.