Time to Lose the Baby Weight

Disclaimer: This post is more for me to motivate myself to lose the baby weight. You really do not need to read it because it's probably going to be lame and boring for everyone but me. Hokay!

When I was born, I was blessed with an amazing metabolism and above average height. I have always been tall and skinny. In high school, I did some modeling, but when they told me I needed to lose even more weight, I quit. I wasn't super healthy, but because of my lovely metabolism, I was still skinny. I never worked out, and I even put off taking a P.E. credit until my senior year (and even then I did an online class so I wouldn't really have to work out).

Senior year

Sophomore year

When I first went to college I gained 20 pounds (hello, 24 hour mozzarella sticks in the cafeteria). I started jogging, but not for long. After I dropped out of Boston University, I lost the weight again and was returned to my skinny form. But I wasn't working out again because I still hated it and didn't really need to.

Before Dan and I got married, I did crunches every night, but about a month after we were married I stopped again. I would occasionally go to the workout place at our first apartment, and then to the BYU workout place when we lived in Provo, but nothing really regular. Again, still skinny thanks to my lovely metabolism.

A year after we were married

Then I got pregnant and everything changed. I started working out every day and I felt healthy. I managed to gain 50 pounds (I think my body was excited), and let me tell you that was definitely not all from Jameson.

This isn't even at the end of my pregnancy and you can tell I had "filled out" other than my belly.

It will be 10 weeks since Jameson was born on Wednesday, and I have lost 30 pounds. I have sort of plateaued and have been at that 30 pound-mark with 20 left to go for about a month. So I decided that it was time to get back in shape. Yes, I have been working out since I was cleared at my post-partum appointment four weeks ago, but I haven't been doing it every day and I haven't been doing it very hard (like, at all).

This leads me to the whole point of this post. My friend told me about Blogilates. If you don't know what it is, go to her website (blogilates.com) and have your mind blown. I decided that I was going to continue eating healthy like I have been doing, but also start doing the monthly calendar. Today was my first day and it took a little over an hour to do the five workout videos because Jameson woke up in the middle of them. It was so crazy! I drank a liter of water and sweat more than I have ever sweat from working out before. I am going to keep doing them until I lose the rest of the weight, or until I at least feel satisfied and proud and happy about my body again.

So of course, I had to take some before pictures. And of course, like all good before pictures, I couldn't have makeup on or look cute or anything (that's before and after picture 101). Here they are. Plus here's a cute picture of baby Jameson to finish the whole post out. Time to lose the baby weight!!

EEW

Perfect!

Two Months Old!

Time flies so fast when you have a little baby, and he's now two months old! Jameson is still the perfect baby, and I've never loved anything like I love him. He is such a smiley, happy little boy. Here are some fun things about him:

• He likes watching TV. He won't do it for very long, but he likes to sit and stare at it for a while. He has watched a few NBA playoff games.
• He is in his 0-3 month clothes and size 1 diapers! It took him a while to get big enough, but he now fits it almost all of his 0-3 month clothes, and I have already put away most of his newborn things because they won't fit anymore.
• He is SUPER vocal. He squeals, squeaks, and coos like he did a month ago, but he also makes little "ah-gee" and "aye" noises. If you play with him he'll just sit there and talk a bunch. Especially when he's really happy.
• He only wakes up 1 or 2 times to eat every night, which is wonderful. He's a good sleeper and will go back to sleep after I feed and change him pretty fast. He usually goes to bed between 8:30pm and 9pm, and he wakes up between 7:30am and 8:30am.
• I know he knows who we are now. I don't really know how to explain it well, but I know that he knows Dan and I because he is happier with us than anyone else, and he smiles at us a lot.
• He knows when we are trying to take pictures and videos of him. He will still take good pictures, but it's tricky. Videos, however, are a bit harder to do because he pretty much stops what he's doing if he knows there's a video being taken.
• He is not a fussy baby. The only time he ever really gets fussy is if he's tired and hasn't had a good nap in several hours.
• We went outside and sat in the grass for the first time. Well, a blanket on the grass. But he was good and enjoyed being outside!
• He's the best baby ever. Duh.

I took him to his two month appointment on Tuesday, and he did not like that. We found out he is now 11 lbs. and 5 oz., which is 3 lbs more than his appointment at two weeks, and he is also 23 3/4 inches long, which is 4 1/4 inches long than when he was born. He is in the 25% for weight and 80% for height. Tall and skinnny! Anyway, he had three shots on Tuesday. I had to hold his little arms down when she did them, which was so sad! He was fine when she first put the first needle in him, but once he felt the pain he started screaming. She did two in one leg and one in the other, and he was crying so hard! As soon as I picked him up, he stopped crying and just buried into my chest. He was fine and napped when we got home, then he played and was happy for a few hours, and then I think the soreness set in because he got super upset in the afternoon and I had to give him some medicine. It helped and he was fine the rest of the day and night. It was really hard seeing him hurt though. I actually teared up when he was screaming at the doctor and then before I gave him the medicine because I felt so bad! Poor little guy did not like that. Luckily he doesn't have another appointment until he is 4 months old.

He has grown so much, and I didn't really realize it until I put his two month picture next to his one month picture. It blew my mind. Here are some fun pictures of the last month with baby Jameson: