Ok so I'm slow at posting. I have 3 kids now, one is a newborn, and I'm working every day this month. Deal with it.
I started my epic weight-loss journey this past Monday. I have now lost all the initial baby/water weight I'm going to (22 lbs, for anyone interested) and now have a LOT of work to get back to where I want to be. I probably could have done better this pregnancy, but I just felt so crappy at the end that I gave up caring about eating rabbit food and ate whatever I wanted to, which was usually ice cream.
That being said, here's the initial breakdown.
I have 38 lbs to lose. I'm not bothering to count inches or anything; I'm just going to go off pant sizes.
My end goal is to fit into the tiniest skirt I own, and to break open the box I packed up in September labeled "Jill's Smallest Clothes". I also have a tiny dress I'd like to fit into, and I still have that pair of "incentive" jeans I bought at Savers just after Reuben was born. The tag is still on. They have never fit. I'm beginning to doubt they ever will.
I'm not making an end weight goal. I've decided that it's more important to me to continue to get stronger and healthier than it is to get down to 120. That's always been my goal weight, and I've gotten ridiculously close (121), but after my last running season, when I was at my strongest and healthiest at 128, I'm going to be happier reaching fitness goals than size goals.
All my clothing goals are based on what I was wearing before I got pregnant this time around, so I know it's doable and it's not going to drive me crazy to get there.
I was thinking of doing a week-by-week breakdown of what I'm doing to lose weight and get healthy and strong and all that, but I think that would end up being boring. So I'm just making this post as a "Before" analysis, and I'll do the "After" in like 8 months when the weight is gone and I can fit into that skirt :)
So here are some pics. I'm much happier today than I have been for the past month, because today I am wearing jeans and they are comfortably buttoned properly without the rubber-band cheat. I'm happy with how my body looks, and I'm happy with how sore my muscles are after the past few days of workouts. But most of all I'm happy to be starting this journey, so that I can meet my real goal, which is to be ready for (and hopefully find) a half marathon before Christmas. I can't say enough how excited I am to start running in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!!
And now the pics. Sorry the quality is so bad, I don't own a camera aside from my phone.
This is my small skirt. I think it's a size 4. It's lying on top of a skirt that fits me now, which is probably a size 10.
I started my epic weight-loss journey this past Monday. I have now lost all the initial baby/water weight I'm going to (22 lbs, for anyone interested) and now have a LOT of work to get back to where I want to be. I probably could have done better this pregnancy, but I just felt so crappy at the end that I gave up caring about eating rabbit food and ate whatever I wanted to, which was usually ice cream.
That being said, here's the initial breakdown.
I have 38 lbs to lose. I'm not bothering to count inches or anything; I'm just going to go off pant sizes.
My end goal is to fit into the tiniest skirt I own, and to break open the box I packed up in September labeled "Jill's Smallest Clothes". I also have a tiny dress I'd like to fit into, and I still have that pair of "incentive" jeans I bought at Savers just after Reuben was born. The tag is still on. They have never fit. I'm beginning to doubt they ever will.
I'm not making an end weight goal. I've decided that it's more important to me to continue to get stronger and healthier than it is to get down to 120. That's always been my goal weight, and I've gotten ridiculously close (121), but after my last running season, when I was at my strongest and healthiest at 128, I'm going to be happier reaching fitness goals than size goals.
All my clothing goals are based on what I was wearing before I got pregnant this time around, so I know it's doable and it's not going to drive me crazy to get there.
I was thinking of doing a week-by-week breakdown of what I'm doing to lose weight and get healthy and strong and all that, but I think that would end up being boring. So I'm just making this post as a "Before" analysis, and I'll do the "After" in like 8 months when the weight is gone and I can fit into that skirt :)
So here are some pics. I'm much happier today than I have been for the past month, because today I am wearing jeans and they are comfortably buttoned properly without the rubber-band cheat. I'm happy with how my body looks, and I'm happy with how sore my muscles are after the past few days of workouts. But most of all I'm happy to be starting this journey, so that I can meet my real goal, which is to be ready for (and hopefully find) a half marathon before Christmas. I can't say enough how excited I am to start running in LESS THAN TWO WEEKS!!!
And now the pics. Sorry the quality is so bad, I don't own a camera aside from my phone.
This is my small skirt. I think it's a size 4. It's lying on top of a skirt that fits me now, which is probably a size 10.
