Monday, November 4, 2013

Baby Hungry

I'm baby hungry. Like I don't have a baby...right? I have a lot of friends having or announcing babies right now. Several with twins even! I think it's more like I'm pregnancy hungry. No worries, it's not happening. (I can hear several of you already smirking and saying to yourselves, "riiiiight"... or ,"you never know...".) No really. It's not happening. We aren't having another baby until Emerson is AT LEAST 18 months old. My body needs time to heal. I need time to get into a shape smaller and better than the shape my body is currently in. I need to be healthier. I also really need to know what the next two years will bring... you know... grad school and all. If I get into my program, we'll have to plan it just so. If I don't, well, we have more wiggle room. An April baby sounds nice...

On the weight loss front, I'm down 24 lbs since coming home with Emerson. Yay! I still have about 35 to go to get back to my ideal. It's do-able. I've already passed my first goal, so double yay. 8 more until the next. It's been a rough couple weeks with sick kids, Halloween, and of course the day I decide to go back to the gym, a power transformer goes down and blacks out the majority of northern Seattle. No gym. But I finally got back today and it felt great! I ran 2.5 miles and lifted weights (an old new favorite -- your burn 15% more calories lifting weights). Thank goodness for the YMCA catering to poor people and their income-based fees. I told Cory today that I need to start going to the gym every day. Luckily they have childcare there free for members. Olivia loves having "play dates" with all their toys and the other kids, plus, I'm right there, so I don't feel terrible about leaving my kids with strangers. They have giant windows so parents can see everything that's going on. And yes, I'm that parent that checks up on my kids every 10 minutes or so. Since the kids have been sick, we haven't taken them and have had to alternate trips to the gym. It has made it a little tougher to coordinate. It might be tricky for me to go everyday too, but I really, really need it. I need to get this weight off, and fast (without going to extremes here, people). I just want to be healthier. We started by not eating out anymore. We do only when absolutely necessary (like when the power went out and we couldn't grocery shop after we ate all our food... or on the road). We cook healthy food and eat proper portions. And now, we exercise. It's going to be a good, healthy winter.