Today's workout: Treadmill- 1.75 miles @ 3% incline in 37:24 minutes. Top speed 3.2mph (which I was able to keep pace longer). Calories burned- 201. Burned off 68.32 fat calories as well.
I feel kinda dumb that I just now noticed the higher incline and higher pace burn off calories faster. Well, duh. It kinda got me excited when I realized it, then I felt like a total boob.
Its official. Once I hit 180, I can purchase my registration at the Disney Half Marathon. I personally feel more comfortable with this and it will be a great demonstration to my husband that I am really motivated. We spent yesterday afternoon (in between packing him up for his Japan trip)checking out costs realizing this Marathon could cost us roughly $1500, considering we have to buy tickets for our whole family to get into the park and pay for a place to stay the night from January 7-the 9th. So, no I don't feel bad at all that I have to put time and energy into getting somewhere first and receiving it as a reward. And this was all my idea. Hubby had nothing to do with it.
Getting my eating back under control. Hubby's plane just left the airport. I no longer can blame him for bad eating habits.
Nurse from hospital called today but I was asleep and she said she'd call back tomorrow.
The dietitian also called and left a message. I called her back and she said she'd mail me my new breastfeeding guidelines. I'm supposed to eat 2800 calories now that I'm breastfeeding. It was 2600 while pregnant. I'm struggling to get to just 2000 with all the baby demands!
Today I actually made it to 2280 calories AND close to my guidelines. I'm supposed to do 43% carbs, I got 49%. I'm supposed to do 33% fat, I got 24%. I'm supposed to do 23% protein, I got 25%.
(For those who are curious, I finally quit using the ancient DietWatch Classic freeware from the mid 90's and moved on to FitDayPC. I'd used Fitday Online intermittently but I'm always better with software rather than webware applications.)
I haven't been checking my blood sugar yet but I have to get back to that too.
Hopefully things will smooth out in the coming weeks and I can pay more attention to my diet. I don't know what I'd do if Mom wasn't helping us with our food shopping/cooking. If I had to be cooking on top of everything else i'm not sure I'd make it. I'd be eating cereal for every meal just because that's easy to fix! At least with Mom helping, even though it's not enough calorie wise I'm eating reasonably balanced meals.
I'm 2.5 lbs from prepregnancy weight now. I was overweight to start with and it's not all that strange to wind up lighter than pre-preg in those circumstances but if this rate of loss doesn't start to slow down to something more reasonable soon I'm going to start to worry about my milk supply and my nutrition.
Booyah! All 15 staples are out! My OB said I was healing very well and probably did not even need the tape she put on but just to be on the safe side she put it on anyway. The tape should fall off on its own in a week. I don't care about the tape. It doesn't poke me. I'm just excited that I can bend better and lay on my side! I still don't want Julia kicking my in the incision area but at least now she's not driving pokey things deeper into me when she gets me accidentally.
Swelling continues to disappear. I've lost 27 lbs. since the birth and I'm 10 lbs from pre-pregnancy weight. Woo! :)
What: First trip out with baby on Sat. -- walking at SuperTarget
Duration: 2 hours
What: Second trip out with baby on Sun.-- walking at Babies 'R Us and Ross
Duration: 2 hours
Guess who gets these damn staples taken out tomorrow afternoon!? Wheee! They've been driving me crazy!
No formal walking but this weekend has been good for getting around somewhere OTHER than in the house. Granted I took a pain pill when we left the house and then later when we made it home both days. We went out to spend gift cards and do exchanges and to air Mommy out. She's been cooped up in hospital or at home for too many days in a row.
Julia was a dream baby -- she slept the whole time we were out with nary a peep. Noises didn't bother her and being shifted from car seat to stroller didn't bother her. So long as we didn't try to put a too-tight hat on her head she was a happy, sleeping baby. The yellow and white stripe duck hat (Bon Bebe) fits her the best. The yellow, the stars, and the blue hat she's not wild about (Gerber). I'm trying to find things around the house to put the hats on so they'll stretch a bit more. Maybe peanut cans... Hrm...
Anyway, Paul was pretty smug pushing the stroller around with her in it while I pushed our shopping buggy. It was fun watching him beam with pride as strangers admired Julia. He's so shy around people it was really amusing me to watch him brag about his daughter when people would ask him how old she was and told him how adorable she looked sleeping.
Target on Saturday took a long time because I walk very slowly. It was the longest I stood on my feet since I got home from hospital too. I really felt it when I got home. I also had to trade Paul when the shopping buggy got too full because it was heavy to push. So then I pushed the baby while he got the buggy.
Today was our Babies 'R Us trip to spend the gift card on more changing mats, wipes, toys, and some other little odds and ends. We just wanted to use up the card before I lost it and give me another chance to take a walk. Did much better today. My posture is still not great because of the staples but I felt more energetic and covered more ground more quickly. I'm still not going to win speed contests but I feel more like a normal person instead of a hobbling little old lady.
Paul told me he's amazed at how fast I'm bouncing back from the C-sect. Today I can bend over without pain. I still can't lift heavy things, but my mobility is definitely improved. I'm getting in and out of the car more easily. Same with getting in and out of bed. While he was shuffling the baby into the car seat when we were ready to leave the store I got the stroller folded up and our shopping in the trunk. I couldn't lift the stroller into the trunk of the car, but I could at least help him do that much.
I'm wondering how things will feel once the staples are out.
1. Eating: didn't count points, but ate more vegetables and less junkfood, which is a victory.
2. Exercise: one unstructured walk of about a mile (from the far shuttle stop home, unmeasured), plus one mile exactly (20:05) Thursday night and 1.47 miles (30:00) this evening.
And I registered for the Redhook 5k in May (my FIFTH in a row, awesome) as well as Disney.
Reporting in that I just finished 2.25 miles on the treadmill. The last quarter mile was done at 2.5mph as a cool down. The rest of the walk was done at 2.7-3mph. The back of my calves feel hot. Its an interesting feeling. I am all sweaty, which means a delightful dip in my tub in a moment before finishing my household chores and logging in to Planetside to blow things up.
I was thinking about Cat during the walk and her new baby Julia. I had a moment when I was thinking that I bet Cat really can't wait to be able to do this tyoe of workout again. I'm probably right. I have been able to do it the entire time she was pregnant and I didn't. Monumental waste of time!
Right now the focus is to get to a weight where my husband feels comfortable enough to start training me to run. He says we can try in the 170s, but he doesn't think I would be ready until I hit the 160s. I am so psyched to prove him wrong. I figure I could look for great knee strengthening exercises- that's the body part that worries him. Right now, at 196, if I run, I get numb at the knees and the ache a bit. Not as bad as wen I was 210, but still enough that he worries about shin splints and the like. I understand.
As soon as I get closer to a running weight, I will register. I hope its soon. I just can't convince him Im serious yet, although I bring it up almost everyday. And this, too, I understand.
