Phew!!!

I'm down 3.5lbs this week!


Slight amount of sabotaging today - I figured I could celebrate on WI day, and spend the rest of the week getting mein arse back in gear!

Well, I'm officially a sucker, a chump, a desperate, pathetic woman....I have an online shopping addiction, and have succumbed to the evil that is The Shopping Channel and it's promotion of Tony Little products.

I have just purchased Tony Little's Rock 'n Roll stepper AND the Ab Lounger Xtreme.

They LOOK pretty cool. The online reviews say they're magic machines.

Now I wonder how magical they really are .... you can bet I'll be submitting my own product reviews here, and tracking my progress, if any!

Time to tend to the babe now!

3.5lbs lost, in one week.... such a great loss, such a long road ahead....

Yikes...

It's Monday night, and tomorrow - in fact, ALL Tuesdays - are, and forever will be, bittersweet.

It's Maddy's weekly birth-anniversary (she'll be 6wks old tomorrow!), and it's also my WI day.

Why I chose TUESDAYS of all days to be my WI, who knows?

Oh, maybe it has something to do with the fact that that was the day, 6 wks ago, that I lost a ton of weight in a short amount of time! (kinda like my 35lb cyst surgery!)

It's been a crummy week of attempts to collect APs, but I've tried to manage my eating, so we'll see what happens...... yikes.....!

New Year, New Baby, New Me!!!

HELLOOOO!!!

To anyone out there who may still be on board with this here ol' blog of mine, WOW, you deserve a medal! And you're officially on my Christmas card list!

It's no wonder why I haven't posted in ages - I've been a tad pre-occupied, and will continue to be for the rest of my life, it seems - but I did it!

I went and had a baby!

And a BEAUTIFUL baby at that!

Her name is Madelyn Reese, and I'm not biased or anything, she really is the world's cutest baby! And loudest, I might add! (The nurses at the hospital told us that we had the loudest baby in the nursery. NO KIDDING!)

Born on January 8th (Elvis' birthday, I've been told!), our little angel weighed in at 8lbs 7oz, despite my hopes of having a 100lb baby to justify my atrocious weight gain through my pregnancy!

At any rate, our little girl is perfect, life has definitely changed, and I'm ready to reclaim my old body. Not for me, but for my new family. I need the stamina and energy to keep up with my daughter! MY DAUGHTER! Still sounds so surreal to say!

So here I am, having rejoined WW online, it's been 6 weeks since my c-section and I've already begun getting back into the routine of healthy eating and points-counting.

The exercise part, well, that's a bit hard. I mean, how many APs can I claim for doing 82 laps around the house trying to shush a fussy baby?!!! Although Maddy lets us sleep for a stretch of 5-6hrs most nights, I'm still pretty exhausted by the end of the day with her. Man, all she does is eat, sleep and poop, and I'm still so wiped!!!

I will try to hit up my treadmill and elliptical again, and my Turbo Jam video, but we're still trying to find our groove, get into some semblance of a routine.

(Right now she's napping, so I'm taking advantage of this time to update my blog and re-commit myself to my weight loss journey.)

Wow, she doesn't usually nap this long...I'm gonna go poke her to make sure she's still breathing!

(new mom paranoia.....!)

PHEW! We're good!

Ok, well now that I've officially re-committed myself online here to any and all who cross my blog path, I have to stick to it and hold myself accountable.

Here I go!!!

Ok, one more pic....!

Thanks for tuning in, everyone! I totally appreciate your support!!!

Holy crap, I need to tattoo my password on my forehead!

HAHAHA!

Look what happens when I get caught up in other things, have baby brain, and forget my password for this blog!

JEEEEEBUS!

Well, I've figured it out, and here I am!

It's been, what, 2 MONTHS since my last post? Crappers, well, lots obviously has happened.

First off, as of today, I'm 30 WEEKS pregnant, and loving every minute of it! I've started a baby blog with my hubby, so that, combined with getting our house ready, has taken up a lot of time.

I was never a big craver of junk food since getting knocked up, but I think that my body may have been really underweight when I got pregnant b/c I've put on a LOT of weight.

60 pounds.

So far.

!!!!!!!!!! Good lord, to actually type that out scares me!

I know half of that is boobs!, and with all the healthy eating and walking I do, there isn't much that's in my control when it comes to this weight gain. I just take comfort in people like Shrunkie, who for one has been a huge inspiration to me. Beautiful children and an amazing weight loss story! I know WW worked for me before, so I'm not too concerned with my tremendous gain, b/c I know I'll be getting right back into it as soon as baby's born.

It just sucks now, that's all! Having put all my sz 4 pants and XS shirts in bins, perhaps never to be seen again!, to make room for all my faternity clothes - a TAD depressing. My fingers have become sausages, I can't wear my wedding rings anymore. When I take my socks off at the end of the day, I have such incredible indentations in my calves from where the socks were.

Water retention's a bitch!

Well, at 30 weeks, despite me feeling like a house, I LOVE being pregnant! Hubby and I can watch my belly moving from side to side for hours! It's SOOO COOL watching the kicks and punches! Baby's already over 3lbs and 17'ish inches long! Not long now til I pop!

I really should get hubby to take some pics of my belly, as much as I hate being photographed, I really want to document this amazing journey!

We don't know if it's a boy or a girl, and we're loving the surprise aspect of it! I have no clue, no matter how much I think it's a boy, I can't help but think I'm always wrong, so I should prep for a girl!

Time will tell.

Off to bed for me! Sorry for the HUGE hiatus I took here, but I'll try to be more regular with this - I know once I jump back on the WW wagon, I'll be doing this more frequently, assuming baby'll let me!

Hope everyone is well!

Updates 'n stuff!

I spent all day yesterday making perogies, even got up early this morning to do s'more! I still have about 40 doz left to make! Yikes! My hands are just hurting, my back is sore, but I love every minute of it! I know my Baba's proud of me!

On to other news! I wanted to blog about this a couple of days ago, right after the wicked storm Winnipeg and other parts of Manitoba was hit with. It was the night of the ultrasound (which was AMAZING, by the way! More to come on that!). Hubby and I were both completely wiped.

After I finished work at 8:30pm, hubby and I met up with some friends for wings at Smitty's (wing night - what can I say, the baby was craving it!), and by the time we got home, we couldn't wait to get to bed.

11:30pm, we're in bed.

Midnight - I hear someone walking up and down our back lane, pushing the noisiest shopping cart over bumps and cracks! So I'm awake for a bit.

1:15am - the hail starts pelting our windows. Dono and I are up, going around the house and closing windows, watching from the safety of our kitchen the lightning show outside.

2am - back to bed.

3:30am - I have to pee. !!!

5am - someone throws something in the neighbour's mailbox, and slams the GD thing shut. Right outside my window, too! I jolt up.

7am - neighbour starts having a loud conversation below my window with god knows who!

7:15am - a horn from a train in the distance goes off.....and continues to honk one continuous long honk for at LEAST 7 minutes straight.

I'm up for good!

What a crazy night that was! Why do things always happen during the night when we have a chance to sleep in the next day?!! Crappers!

(btw, we didn't get any hail damage - I was afraid for my flowers and veggies, but all is well!)

I have to go hit the shower and get ready for work now, but I will definitely be posting on our ultrasound experience! What a trip!

Have a great day everyone!

Craziness ensues!

Hello friends!

Man, one thing after another around here, I swear I'm gonna go crazy!

We've just been real busy with reno's and work and everything in between. My hrs at work are long - 10.5hr days, I'm home by 9pm and I usually just have enough energy to eat and go to bed!

Today is day 4 of 4 for me, but it's a shorter one - Dono and I are heading down to the hospital this morning for our first ultrasound! SOOOO exciting!

Then I'm at work right after. Oh well!

I'm off Fri and Sat, was supposed to be off Sun, but to cover the 4hrs I'm missing today, I picked up a bitty shift then. Ahhh, shift work...! This weekend, I'm also going on a perogy-blitz, so far I have orders to fill that total 48 dozen! It's gonna be a long weekend, that's for sure!

Anyhoot, I have to go jump in the shower and get my day going here - I just wanted to pop in to let y'all know I'm still around! Thanks for sticking around and reading my lil' blog, even if I don't do anything to it for a few days!

Hope you guys have a great day!

Mmmmm! Garden fresh veggies!

The radishes are all gone, the onions are just about finished - and the next veggie in line to be devoured is my cucumbers!

MMMMMMMM! I LOVE garden fresh cukes!!! Especially when they're from MY garden!

Tonite for supper, I'm making a deeeeeelicious bruschetta chicken bake with my mom's cucumber salad on the side! I picked them last night with tonite's salad in mind, so as I was chopping and slicing them up, I snuck a taste (who wouldn't?!) and WOW, they're amazing!!!

And I have so many, I could totally open up a roadside cucumber stand!

But I won't - they're just THAT good, that I'm going to eat 'em all myself!

Click on this link to get my mom's cucumber salad recipe! I know there are a few out there, but this one, IMHO, kicks ass!