At the end of my last diet bet, I got very confused: though I'd been diligently sticking my plan, the weight was not only not budging, it was yo-yoing up and down for days!! I couldn't figure it out...
And then I peed on one of those little sticks that indicate one or two pink lines in response to your hormones and lo and behold- that was the very beginning of baby grace! Haha. Lose a few pounds and get knocked up: voila:)
Happily, DietBet refunded my money (stellar company- no fuss), and I promised to be back postpartum- so here I am!! New Year's Day, almost 4 weeks exactly from delivering grace Virginia, I weighed in and got totally bummed out- although I'd lost 15lbs since birth, I was still 50lbs above my last DietBet weight... And that looks like a lot of weight to lose!
On the other hand, weight is weight, and weight loss is weight loss, and a woman ain't ready to make a change until she is ready to make a change!! Seeing that number made me ready to start to make some changes and make a plan. Then Again, Motherhood is already a pretty big cHange in itself. I'm sleep deprived, and only have so much time and energy, and grace takes as much of that as seems humanly possible - and then a little more At times- which is what makes a mom a mom, I guess.
So, I signed up for a transformer: 6 months to lose 10% and then I'll probably sign up for a few more in there, as my weight increased by 25%. Nine mos up. 9 mos down! My new mantra is to trust the big picture and take baby steps towards achieving my goals every day.
For example, I'm committed to doing blogilates 30 day ab challenge this month for exercise which is anywhere from 15-100 sit ups per day: I can doooo that (though my poor little post partum abs look pretty silly doing some of them and I just laugh, remembering: this body- those abs ? We just had a baby last month using all that!!! Not to mention being a habitat for a baby to grow for mine months before that... Soooo amazing.)
You just never know what God has in store... But you'll never find out, if you don't show up to play the game. It's good to be back, diet betters- let's TRANSFORM!!