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@Peasinapod: music? Snack cup? Favorite lovie or new toy? Hope she starts to like it!

I made it to the gym this afternoon--LO has had lots of check ups this week!--so I finally got to do my weights routine. I also walked 2.5 miles this am with the dog and LO in the stroller. Our park has plenty of hills so it's a decent workout! Salad and grilled chicken for lunch and trying out veggies on our grill tonight with a new grill basket. I haven't been weighing myself regularly otherwise I get obsessed with numbers but LO's EI coordinator commented today that she can tell I have lost weight which made me so excited! We only see her once a month so I'm glad there's some noticeable change!

@Mrs. Pen: good idea! I'll look at creating a new profile on IG too - let's see if I can figure out how to use multiple profiles. If you send me your username I'll follow you!

@sandy: you just have to log out of your current account, and sign up with a new one It's super easy! so now I have the personal account for pics of J and stuff - and the fitness one!

So excited! I have lost 6.5 lbs in the last 5 weeks!

@jhd: amazing! Good job!!!

@Mrs. Pen: @sandy: I am been thinking of starting a gym IG but can't pull the trigger! Lol. Send me your username/follow me on IG!

@Mrs. Pen: woo hoo!!

@ScarletBegonia: That's awesome progress!

I am still chugging along, but my progress has slowed to about a pound a week. Still, down 27 total since January and feel awesome about that!

I am getting a fitness assessment (gulp) today and will be setting up a few trainer sessions so I can break out of my cardio-only rut. I still enjoy those classes, but I'm looking forward to adding something new and hopefully preventing a bad plateau.

@Smurfette: it seems you and I both have the same carb/sugar problem. I'm wondering if this is a thing. Do you drink diet soda? I drink way too much of it and I'm wondering if there is a connection.

@Mrs. Yoyo: that is amazing! Slow and steady!

@Mrs. Pen: hurray!

@ScarletBegonia: I might look into this. I am a rule follower and like the structure. I have never done a 12 week plan before. It sounds intense!

@Smurfette: @Mrs. Lion: I cut out most sweets except the occasional treat and have been more carb-conscious, but I am definitely still drinking 1-2x diet sodas every day. I know a lot of research says the sweetness makes you crave other sweet stuff and causes insulin spikes … but damn it will be hard to quit one of my true remaining vices.

@Mrs. Yoyo: @Smurfette: I totally keep diet soda as my one big vice. But I am drinking a lot more than that...I definitely need to cut back. I tried cutting it out completely and I was STARVING all the time and wanted all.the.sugar. I started drinking it again and stopped needing to snack, and totally eliminates my desire to eat sweets. I am wondering if maybe that's a bad thing and I actually need the calories? According to MFP I am eating 1900-2000 per day and burning 2800 on a day I exercise (and that doesn't account for nursing, which is supposedly another 400-600). So by the numbers I should be dropping weight really quickly. But I'm not. Hmm.

I have probably totally destroyed my metabolism or something ridiculous. But I had this exact same problem when I was breastfeeding before. I had a personal trainer tell me to increase my calories up to 2600 and then slowly decrease it. I did, and I didn't gain any weight, but I didn't lose any when I decreased it either, and I was eating ALL DAY. Im pretty sure we doubled our grocery bill. Then I saw a nutritionist that said that was probably too high and to stick to the 2300-2400 range, but that didn't help either.

I stopped breastfeeding and immediately started losing 1-2 lbs per week, and lost 30 total before I got pregnant again and gained it all back. Sigh.

This shouldn't be so hard. Sorry for the novel haha.

@Smurfette: I just found this article about carbs. Very intersting. I listen to this guy's podcast, and while I am not a believer that a person has to be paleo for health, he seems pretty credible and well researched. He makes a good point about how if your body needs more carbs, but you eat the wrong ones you gain weight. But if you eat the right ones you feel better and don't gain weight. It may be worth experimenting with. .

Anyway, I just saw on his chart that he lumps people who are pregnant or breastfeeding into the high carbohydrate category. Maybe that's my problem....that when I am breastfeeding I need a lot more carbs? Looks like I have lots of potatoes coming my way haha.

http://chriskresser.com/are-you-lower-carb-than-you-think/

I read somewhere that if you get really bloated from eating carbs it's because your glycogen is depleted and when glycogen gets stored it brings water with it. So when you do finally eat some carbs it restores your glycogen, but also adds lots of water

Does anyone have tips for what you are doing to lose the extra belly flab? Is it really just cardio that will help? I was chasing my daughter yesterday and felt like I seriously needed a sports bra for my extra belly flab, it felt so gross and made me so sad because I really feel like I will never lose that extra skin/flab!

I started working out at lunch last week, because going to the gym before work was way too easy to skip if I was running late.

@HappyBaker: I gained around 60lbs with my first and lost the weight and the flab was gone as long as I was super skinny. If I gained any extra weight the flab would return

I gained around 40 with my second and losing the weight has been much slower so I haven't lost enough to see if the flab will go away. But I totally get what you mean - jumping up and down is almost painful bc of that extra skin. I have found that wearing yoga pants when working out helps so much bc the stretchy material is so much more supportive than regular pants/shorts

So I lost enough to fit into the dress I wanted to wear to my friend's wedding - it was tight but it fit and I was super proud of myself. I indulged over the long weekend during the wedding festivities and it was worth it BUT time to get back to eating healthy and working out again.

@sandy: you look gorgeous! congrats on fitting into your dress!!

I am down 21.7 but I am stuck again. I just finished day 1 of week 5 of couch to 5k. I do not like running at all but I am sticking with it.

Non scale victories I felt great when I tried on bridesmaid dresses this weekend. I ordered the size that fit now but I told DH I hope to have to pay to get in taken in. And two people told me yesterday how I am slimming down. So that made me feel good!

@Mrs. Yoyo: that's awesome! I as well have a love/hate relationship with lunges- they burn but yield results quicker than any other leg workout (at least for me!). I still can't get through lunge track in body pump lol!

Going good over here. I started another whole 30 yesterday and it's going well so far. I was only down half a pound last week but I'm trying not to think about it. One of my school friends and I got together and we haven't seen each other in a few weeks and she commented that I looked like I was slimming down- it always feels good!

I haven't been to the gym as much as I would like lately because of life getting in the way. It is time to kick it into high gear though since I have a bathing suit that I bought that I need to be able to wear (it is not far away and I could wear the top with a different bottom should I need to!). I am seeing a big difference from last summer though. Everything is too big and the other day I wore a dress I bought in high school and hung onto for 12 years because I loved it and was determined that it would fit me enough to wear it again someday. It looks better on me now than it did in high school (it must have been a sack then!!). I have three more weeks of school until I am off work for the summer. I travel through most of July, but I intend on keeping my activity level up and really really pushing myself in August. I turn 30 at the end of August and I am completely determined to look the best that I ever have by my birthday.