It’s been a while

It’s been a reaaaallllyyy long time actually. I've been busy, very busy! First Stephen and I took some vacations. We took a week off as family vacations and then he had to go away for a week on a business trip, so I went along and had 5 days of vacation to myself!!! It was great but boy did I miss the kids. That means that both kids are not weaned, and to celebrate the fact that my boobs have been producing milk non-stop for 3 years and are finally retiring, I pierced them! They look awesome. I’m glad I decided to stick with breastfeeding and I’m proud that I breastfed both kids at once for many months but I’m pretty happy that I have my breasts back (to myself anyways).

So that’s that, it was nice, I enjoyed it a lot, we went to the zoo, to towers, to beaches, pools… The kids were exhausted by the end of every single day. Then, when I was alone I took long walks by the beach, read books (almost finished Under The Dome), went shopping, ate at amazing restaurants and drank lots of exotic coffees. It was nice really… Emma also had another eye doctor appointment, she’s doing great. Now she’s being patched one hour a day and her glasses prescription has gone down. That’s great news… Noah is just…talking. He loves trucks, cars… Since I’m learning how to drive, he wants to drive too, he knows his pedals, and he can reach them, sadly he cannot see past the steering wheel, so, we don’t let him drive ha.

Now totally off topic, but I've been working on losing weight for the past 9 months (almost). I reached -65lbs lost… That means I’m under the 200’s lbs and I’m far enough from them that I know I’m not going back up there. I just want to take a few lines to encourage other moms out there trying to lose weight and get back into shape. First, diet is 90% of it. I actually mean those 90% (I’m not making it up) look it up “how much does a diet affect weight loss?” So if you exercise like crazy but don’t eat well… I got bad news for you… You will lose, maybe but nearly as much as you could. So start by your diet, figure out what you want to do as a diet, and take one that you actually enjoy. If you want to have a bit of everything, go with calories and proportion counting. If you would rather give up junk food (and stick to basics), check out paleo, if you want would rather eat a lot but be restricted in what, check out Atkins or Keto… Listen, whatever you want, there is a diet for you, just Google it…

Then, once you’re good with your diet (2-3 weeks to really get established) start working out. It can be going to the gym, cardio, running, swimming… Whatever the hell you’d like. I personally took up running 6 weeks ago.  I am doing the C25K and I’m at week 5 (had to repeat a week.) It really makes you feel great… I’m really proud of myself. That being said, the first 15 days of working out are easy… You’re still super motivated, then your motivation drops… It’s hard to explain but it just does. I’m sure it’s not true for everyone but I know it happened to me and reading about it online confirms it’s more common than we’d like… It’s that phase where you’re working hard but not seeing results… So you feel like giving up. Well don’t… It takes about 12 weeks for you to fully see results, so don’t you give up right away.

So anyways, that’s all for now. I’ll keep on being happy, on raising happy kids, on having a happy husband and on reaching a healthy weight goal. Good luck on all of your mommies out there to reach your goals, whatever they may be!