Can we do a health check-in?

[Katiedid]

How's everyone doing with their healthy habits? Any improvements or struggles?

I finally kicked my Coke habit and I've lost a little bit of weight since stopping. I'm tired though. I feel that I need at least 9 hours of sleep to feel rested.

I need to hit up the gym but we've all been passing around sickness. The kids are starting to feel better but now I feel like crap. H is the only one who hasn't been hit with it yet.

[momin2013]

I'm glad you capitalized Coke 

Me? I know I could do better, but I'm sure I could also do worse. I don't exercise per se (I never really have), but I'm basically moving arond all day playing with DS, cleaning the house, etc., so I feel like my activity level is o.k.

A few months ago I started adding 2 tsp. of sugar to my coffee instead of 3. Not sure if that's made a real difference at all, but I don't mind it, so I'm keeping it up. I try to keep pop drinking down to a few a week, which I guess isn't too bad. I have a major and chocolate/candy weakness, but try to limit it to a few small nibbles a day instead of sitting and eating a giant chocolate bar all at once.

Weight-wise, I would feel better if I could get down 5-10 pounds, but the reality is, I don't want to change my lifestyle much (exercise/food-wise) from how it is now, so I don't expect that to just magically happen.

[Katiedid]

Ha, yeah I always refer to pop as Coke since that's all I would drink .

[dizzycooks]

I'm pretty happy with my weight, but I need to tone up. I completely gave up any sort of weight lifting during the tail end of my pregnancy and I can see it. I'm giving myself another month and then it's on. I will get things shaped up. In the mean time, I could be doing much better with my food choices....

[Deleted]

I have been maintaining my goal weight but to have a healthy bmi I would still need to lose 5-7ish pounds and I just can't imagine how to do that. I don't have time to work out and I have already really changed my diet. I keep telling myself to just be happy with what I have and maybe my boobs are throwing off my bmi lol.

[gastro]

I quickly and easily lost the weight I gained with DS2. Now six months later I've let the scale creep back up a few pounds by indulging a lot. I've been using the nursing as a crutch to always have a treat - usually ice cream, dried fruit or chocolate.
I need to nip this in the bud before I get to the point of no return.

[megster20185]

I lost 27 pounds from September 2014 to June. I have kept it off since then. Most of it was simply from giving up my midnight snack which was a really bad habit but about 10 pounds of it was complements of my having surgery and not being able to keep down anything but applesauce then later having the flu and again not being able to keep anything down. All of that weight was from being pregnant and I'm now back to my high school weight.

[mamaalysson]

My goal has been to get back to the gym three times a week. I wrote down the classes I want to get to in my calendar and assigned them their own color...

And then everyone got sick and now it's two weeks later, and we are finally coming out of it. It'll happen next week, right?

[Deleted]

I'm trying to convince h to do body pump on Saturdays with me. It's 1 hour once a week and they have a fun kids club that ds likes and now that he's potty trained, no paging us for dirty diapers lol. H is reluctant but I'm going to try to convince him. I don't have time for cardio but I really enjoy the strength training and music in that class.

[junebugmom01]

I have been doing terrible. I want to blame it on stress, although that's not really fair. Anyway, the next couple days left of Jan, I have no desire to try. Feb 1 is my Jan 1. Joining a gym and planning on trying to mentally get with it. Hoping the gym will help me mentally with all that's going on right now as well.

[melew]

Jan 27, 2016 23:43:46 GMT -5 gastro said:

I quickly and easily lost the weight I gained with DS2. Now six months later I've let the scale creep back up a few pounds by indulging a lot. I've been using the nursing as a crutch to always have a treat - usually ice cream, dried fruit or chocolate.
I need to nip this in the bud before I get to the point of no return.

This was my experience with DD2.  I lost the weight and then some while nursing and then as soon as I stopped BAM.  I was really frustrated with myself that I let it happen, but it was a good wake up call for me.  I went dairy free for a while, so when I started introducing it back into my diet, I think I went a touch overboard.  You can do it!