Happy Week Two of Mama Notes’ Body After Baby Challenge!

My goals for the first week were to drink at least 60 ounces of water a day and try to cut out junk food and soft drinks. I don’t feel I did very well in this regard.

I have a 32 ounce water bottle and most days, I didn’t get through a full bottle of water. The past two days were the first days I met my goal, but today I’m not sure I’ve had any water at all yet!

We had more take-out this week than we should have. I also had some candy and cookies. I’m not proud.

Mark and I have been watching The Biggest Loser to try to get inspired to lose weight. We’ve gone on more walks this week than we normally do. It’s been really nice to get out as a family and walk around our apartment complex’ beautiful grounds. I don’t really count this as exercise, but movement and fresh air is beneficial for everyone.

This week, my goals are going to be more specific since I’ve shown I do things half-assed when I say I’m going to “try” them:

• Drink 2 full water bottles (32 ounces each) per day.
• Develop a weekly meal plan to execute starting week 3. I will publish this meal plan next week. I want to give us time to put it together, shop for it and implement it.
• Walk 10 full flights of stairs daily. To me, a full flight is walking up and down a set of stairs. I live in an apartment on the 2nd floor and work on the 8th floor of a building, so it shouldn’t be too difficult for me to add stair walking to my daily routine.
• Walk at least 15 minutes/day This is week 2’s mini challenge. I rarely get 15 minutes all to myself during daylight hours so I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to fit this in yet, but I will find a way. Maybe I can take Teyla on walks in the morning. I know she’d appreciate that.
• Get contact lenses and start wearing makeup daily. I have an eye appointment this afternoon and I hope I’ll be getting at least a test pair of contacts until my order comes in. I wear disposables and ran out of new contacts long before Noah was born. I’ve been wearing solely my glasses since his birth and it’s annoying. I used to wear makeup to work daily and now I very rarely do. Wearing makeup to work is something I started doing the first time I lost weight to build my confidence and I think it’s something I need to start again.

I’ve decided that I want to lose 2 pounds a week total during this 8 week challenge, so my goal weight on the final day of the challenge is 210.6 lbs.

Last week, my weight was 226.6 lbs. This week, despite my very poor efforts to diet, my weight is 224.2 lbs. While I’m excited at the lower number, I’m disappointed in myself and hope week 2 can really motivate me to make better choices every day.

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