Weigh in #2-It's hard

Tonight is the season finale of the Biggest Loser.  I was so glad that the two sisters made it to the final two together.  They looked awesome!  Unfortunately I haven't made it to the finale just yet.

The past two weeks have been a challenge.  Food is the hardest thing to resist and cut back on-especially when it's so easy to eat that leftover Sugarbakers cake!  YUM!  It's going to be even harder since from now on every weekend there is a graduation party going on in my family which was kicked off by Lilly's Christening celebration.  My family doesn't come up short when it comes to food you know.  UGH-but I love it!  Well, hopefully kicking it in full gear with working out will pay off.  Maybe I will need to do a little extra the next few weeks!

To continue to get myself motivated this week I am revisiting my goals I made 4 weeks ago.  Here they are:

• Loose 5-10 lbs by May 22nd (Lillian's Baptism)
• Loose 10-15 by June 20th
• Be up to running 3 miles by Memorial Day or more!
• Sign up for a 10 K in the Fall
• Goal weight: 135-by end of summer

I will start with the third goal.  Well it's one week before Memorial Day and I have yet to start running.  I am thinking this may have to be pushed back.  It's been harder than I thought-between giving Lilly all she needs to Tommy's crazy work schedule-my free time is usually spent with Lilly or with my family since Tommy isn't always off on the weekends.  My plan is to start try to make time to run this week.  I need to do it when Tommy is home though and it's hard to wake up early and do it before he goes to work because I am the one who gets up with Lilly and sleep is precious to me right now.  But I promise to at least run a few miles this week to start working on that goal!  10K in the Fall I can do-it may even turn into a half marathon depending on how diligent I can be with running.  I still want to be at that goal weight by the end of the summer!

Now, let's tackle the first two since they really pertain to each other.  So I originally weighed in at 185 and lost 15 post postpartum.  2 weeks ago I weighed in loosing 1 lb making my total weight loss 16 lbs putting me at 169.  Today my weight is.........168 with a total weight loss of 17 lbs.  UGH so my first goal wasn't met-was it unrealistic or did I just not work that hard at it?  Probably a combination of both.  It's harder than I thought.  I've never had this much to loose before.  I guess it really is as hard as they say it is on the BL.  I am now on level 2 of the 30 day shred.  I still think I can get down 10 lbs before June 20th.  I am going to work even harder at it now that I see that the pounds aren't coming off as quickly as I thought.  Someone told me you store more fat when breast feeding so it's harder to loose but isn't it suppose to burn more calories?  Maybe that's why it was so easy to loose that first 15?  Well whatever the reason-it's on. 

Check in again in two more weeks!