Tuesday, December 21, 2010
My Food Diary
Today I joined myfooddiary.com. It's a website that helps you track your food intake, water intake, exercise, and weight. I have been a member of Sparkpeople.com for years, which is basically the same thing, and free. Myfooddiary.com is $9/month after a free 7 day trial. One thing MFD has that SP doesn't, however, is a small thing included in the daily report, after you log your food and exercise for the day...it tells you exactly what day you will reach your goal weight if you continue eating how you did that day. That was the clincher for me. Sparkpeople gives an almost identical daily report, but it does not say "Madelyn, if you eat every day like you did today, you will reach your goal weight by May 7th, 2011." That's right, I willingly pay the internet to tell me what I'm going to weigh in the future. What did we ever do without technology like this?!?
Monday, December 20, 2010
Ten Pound Challenge
Today starts my Ten Pound Challenge. I need to try to lose ten pounds in the next 4 weeks. I know you might all think I'm nuts for doing this over the holiday season, but honestly? I don't eat any more over Christmas and New Year's than I do the rest of the year, so I think I'll be fine.
This morning I weighed in at 208.2. My size is a 14. Four weeks from today, I'd like to be 198 and maybe a size 12. I'll weigh in once a week.
I plan to keep track of what I eat (and eat less, obviously) and maybe even do a little exercising.
I'll let you know how it goes!
This morning I weighed in at 208.2. My size is a 14. Four weeks from today, I'd like to be 198 and maybe a size 12. I'll weigh in once a week.
I plan to keep track of what I eat (and eat less, obviously) and maybe even do a little exercising.
I'll let you know how it goes!
Monday, December 6, 2010
TANGA
I want to recommend tanga.com
Today I got a 3 year subscription to Parents magazine for $4.99, and a 1 year subscription to Shape magazine for $1.99.
Today I got a 3 year subscription to Parents magazine for $4.99, and a 1 year subscription to Shape magazine for $1.99.
One Year!!
In about 12hours, my baby boy will be one year old. Amazing.
I have learned so much this past year, about myself, about babies, and about sleep deprivation. The first few months were among the hardest of my life. Motherhood didn't come as naturally as I expected it would. It took time and practice and patience. There was frustration and tears and feelings of guilt and failure (and there still are sometimes) but the positive outweighs all that by a million times.
In the past year, Declan has been to South Carolina, Madeline Island (seven times), International Falls, MN, and in three weeks he'll be going to Chicago. He's a pretty decent road-tripper and a great plane-tripper (although he's been lucky enough to have only flown via private jet so far….) He's been swimming in a pool and in Lake Superior. He's been to the zoo and tomorrow will mark his first aquarium visit. He recently met his first celebrity. (Mr. Santa Claus)
We've been through a month long bout with constipation (I think I slept 7 total hours that month) and a three week bout with pneumonia. Multiple vaccinations and a chest x-ray. Despite those things, he's been an incredibly cheerful baby. There are still people that see him regularly that have never heard him cry.
Despite being born a dead ringer for his father, I can now look at him and think "My God, that's me! I can see me!" He has long eyelashes like his mama, big eyes like his mama, and he's got his mom's smile. When he's very tired, he rotates his left foot in a circle, just like his mom. He sleeps curled up on his side, with his right arm above his head, just like his mom does.
He says "ball" and he says it a lot…nothing round is ignored. A pea is "BALL!", a Christmas ornament is "BALL!", the roundish kitchen overhead light fixture is "BALL!", the stuffed cookie monster's eyeballs are "BALLS!!" He's got a hell of an arm, he can throw said balls across the room.
When he's in a room full of people, he's a little charmer….chatting and laughing with everyone. After about a half hour, though, he comes crawling to find me and crawls up my leg to be held for a little while.
Other than the pneumonia era, he's been sleeping through the night since he was 3 months old. These days he sleeps with his glo-worm, and if he wakes up in the night he just pushes it to turn the light and music on, and he keeps pushing it until he is soothed back to sleep. At first it was kind of creepy to wake up to lullabies coming through the monitor at 3 in the morning, but now it makes me smile because I know he's in there smiling at the glo-worm and trying to go back to sleep.
He picks up toy cars and trucks and pushes them along the floor, saying "Vroom vroom!" In fact, the other day he grabbed the Baby Jesus out of his manger and "vroom vroomed" him across the coffee table.
Every morning I come in his room and I say "Good morning, sunshine!" and he smiles at me…the genuine smile where is whole face gets scrunched up…
This month our morning starts with opening the window on the Advent Calendar, which thrills him, and then we go about our day. He takes two 2 hour naps each day and he goes to bed at 8pm. At night we rock and sing and he plays with my hair or my fingernails as I sing. I lay him in his crib and cover him up with his afghan which he promply shoves all his fingers through. I give him his pacifier and he smiles at me before he closes his eyes.
I'm sad because my little baby isn't a baby anymore, but I am happy because I can't wait for all the adventures we're going to have in the next year! I love you, D! Happy Birthday!
I have learned so much this past year, about myself, about babies, and about sleep deprivation. The first few months were among the hardest of my life. Motherhood didn't come as naturally as I expected it would. It took time and practice and patience. There was frustration and tears and feelings of guilt and failure (and there still are sometimes) but the positive outweighs all that by a million times.
In the past year, Declan has been to South Carolina, Madeline Island (seven times), International Falls, MN, and in three weeks he'll be going to Chicago. He's a pretty decent road-tripper and a great plane-tripper (although he's been lucky enough to have only flown via private jet so far….) He's been swimming in a pool and in Lake Superior. He's been to the zoo and tomorrow will mark his first aquarium visit. He recently met his first celebrity. (Mr. Santa Claus)
We've been through a month long bout with constipation (I think I slept 7 total hours that month) and a three week bout with pneumonia. Multiple vaccinations and a chest x-ray. Despite those things, he's been an incredibly cheerful baby. There are still people that see him regularly that have never heard him cry.
Despite being born a dead ringer for his father, I can now look at him and think "My God, that's me! I can see me!" He has long eyelashes like his mama, big eyes like his mama, and he's got his mom's smile. When he's very tired, he rotates his left foot in a circle, just like his mom. He sleeps curled up on his side, with his right arm above his head, just like his mom does.
He says "ball" and he says it a lot…nothing round is ignored. A pea is "BALL!", a Christmas ornament is "BALL!", the roundish kitchen overhead light fixture is "BALL!", the stuffed cookie monster's eyeballs are "BALLS!!" He's got a hell of an arm, he can throw said balls across the room.
When he's in a room full of people, he's a little charmer….chatting and laughing with everyone. After about a half hour, though, he comes crawling to find me and crawls up my leg to be held for a little while.
Other than the pneumonia era, he's been sleeping through the night since he was 3 months old. These days he sleeps with his glo-worm, and if he wakes up in the night he just pushes it to turn the light and music on, and he keeps pushing it until he is soothed back to sleep. At first it was kind of creepy to wake up to lullabies coming through the monitor at 3 in the morning, but now it makes me smile because I know he's in there smiling at the glo-worm and trying to go back to sleep.
He picks up toy cars and trucks and pushes them along the floor, saying "Vroom vroom!" In fact, the other day he grabbed the Baby Jesus out of his manger and "vroom vroomed" him across the coffee table.
Every morning I come in his room and I say "Good morning, sunshine!" and he smiles at me…the genuine smile where is whole face gets scrunched up…
This month our morning starts with opening the window on the Advent Calendar, which thrills him, and then we go about our day. He takes two 2 hour naps each day and he goes to bed at 8pm. At night we rock and sing and he plays with my hair or my fingernails as I sing. I lay him in his crib and cover him up with his afghan which he promply shoves all his fingers through. I give him his pacifier and he smiles at me before he closes his eyes.
I'm sad because my little baby isn't a baby anymore, but I am happy because I can't wait for all the adventures we're going to have in the next year! I love you, D! Happy Birthday!
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