February 18th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

Making it through one day at a time.  Here is the Day 4 plan from Month 2 of the Rock Hard Challenge, pick up a copy to get the whole training plan as well.

February 12th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

Tuesday was a hectic day for me, running from dance class to dance class and then power yoga class.  I got home and just wanted to sleep. Glad I chose not to go with the second month meal plan at this time, it’s hard enough to keep up with month one and get 1,600 calories [...]

February 11th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

I’m not quite ready to hit the month two plan since I am still breastfeeding and most books recommend multiplying your current weight by 13 (low activity and difficulty losing weight) 15 (moderate) or 17 (active with no weight loss difficulty)  and adding 500 to get your total calorie amount.  Which puts me at 2,749 [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

If I have not already mentioned, I absolutely adore the iPhone app "lose it" – records all of your food and exercise for each day, stores meals for easy addition into new days, etc.
Saturday and Sunday were another set of tough days – Saturday because I had eaten so little several days in the row [...]

February 9th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

So the lack of sleep, the potential of an ill baby with a metabolic disorder (looking very unlikely now), and work added up to some terrible days of eating – not overeating, under eating and erratic. I’ve been so wasted feeling, completely tired, groggy and mild headache, but in good news I made it to [...]

February 7th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments

Well, finally reset from sleep – got about 4 hours, but boy were they good – it was of course a haze of nursing.  Poor Chris didn’t sleep though.
Meal Plan:

February 5th, 2009 | Tags: Meal Plan, Post-partum, weight loss | Category: Daily Post, Fitness, Food | View Comments