Time flies

I know it's been a while since I posted but I've been kinda busy, my weeks are full of visits and errands, which is nice and what little time I do have is usually spent on Facebook. So usually every Monday we meet with the Mom group and now swimming has started so that is every Tues and Thurs. Lately I have started meeting up with one of my girlfriends on Wed to walk the mall (since it is too cold outside) and lately the weekends our friends have been coming over.

I mentioned last week about the Moms Biggest Loser contest, well I paid my $40 and got weighed in my initial weigh in (according to another Moms scale) was 219lbs !! I weighed in on my scale and it only said 214 so I am using that number for my weekly weigh in's to see how much I lost and the final weigh in will be done on other Moms scale. So for week 1 I an down -4.2lbs which is 1.96% weight loss, not bad better then some Moms but not as good as the others. I am back on NS but not quite as strict as I was the first time I was on (last year). For example we had a birthday party at our house on Sat and we deep fried a turkey, I made chili and there were other snack type foods. Well I partake in all of that plus had a piece of ice cream cake. Before I would have never let myself get off track and would have stuck to my NS diet, but I was still able to loose over 4lbs so I'm happy with that! As for exercise, I'm really not doing much except swimming and walking the mall, not yet anyway.

Jacob is doing great - he had an odd day last Sat with absolutely NO naps ALL day (which was weird) but he wasn't even really cranky and he went to bed super late. He isn't drinking much milk at all now and is much more interested in what I am eating. I am now giving him finger type foods like toast strips and rice cookies. Soon I think I will give him steamed veggies and see if he likes them, I am trying to introduce the sippy cup but he really doesn't understand how to get the liquid out, I'm sure it will happen soon? He likes to drink out of a cup without the sippy part but I have to hold the cup for him and he sometimes wears more then he drank.

O - I hear him waking, which is good - we have to leave for swimming in 30 min! Better go get his bag packed and maybe give him a snack!?

7 months old!

Well Jacob is 7 months old today and it feels like he is a completely different kid from the day he was born. He is so entertaining already and usually makes me chuckle at least once a day. He now has both his bottom teeth (although you can see the one way more then the other, it is still coming through). He is rolling over very well from tummy to back but he still hasn't mastered from back to tummy (although he can twist to the point where he should roll but just doesn't give that extra push). I got him weighed and measured today and he is 22lbs and 27" long, his weight gain has slowed quite a bit - before he was gaining about 2lbs every month but this month he gained less then one pound (15oz). His naps are still not the greatest and for a while there he started waking in the middle of the night but for the most part he sleeps very well at night time and usually has 3 naps a day (half hour each time). Speaking of which .... he has just woke from his afternoon nap. So I should go, the only other thing I wanted to post about was that I got my NS order yesterday so starting Monday I am weighing in and getting serious. The New Mom group wants to do a "Biggest Mom Loser" type competition, basically everyone puts in $20 and in 3 months the one that lost the most body % will win the pot. I'll try to talk more about it next time ... gotta go - the birthday boy is calling!! he he ;)

a quick post

Just a quick post today, not that I have much to say but I am going to do it in point form.

**Below are a few pics of the bumps/ rash Jacob had that I went to the ER about, the ones on his tummy were taken a few days after I noticed them so it is a little hard to see them but they were as red as the one on his foot. I probably wouldn't have thought much of it but they were so sporadic and it wasn't like a rash but more like little bug bites. Anyway I guess they are harmless and I haven't seen anymore show up so I guess it's no big deal? And now that I look at the pictures they don't seem so bad, maybe I over reacted?

**Jacob has one tooth that has poked through (happened over Christmas) and I can honestly say that I did not enjoy the experience and I am not really looking forward to the other 19 that still need to come out! It was horrible - the runs, more spit up/ throw up, cranky, more emotional then normal and cheeks as red as a sunburn (both cheeks, face and bum - hehe)

**Jacob is now rolling over very well from tummy to back and is very close to going the other way too. It's cute, after he rolls over he gets all excited and kicks his legs. I will have to post the video clip I recorded next time I blog.

**I ordered my first NS shipment today! It's official, my diet has begone! Hopefully it won't take me too long to shed the weight and hopefully I can still stomach NS!? I really want to get healthy and my "fat" jeans are really uncomfortable which makes me realize that I need to do something now! I'm just not happy with myself, I'm hoping that when I get my shipment it will give me the motivation to get thin!

**I got a new stove for Christmas, kind of a gift from my hubby - I love it and now all my appliances are stainless steel! I also love my new camera, the pictures are so much clearer now and I can do more fun things to the pictures. I can't wait to get my first set of pics developed so I can see how much clearer they really are.

**Jacob has been waking up in the middle of the night again and I'm not too sure why!? Usually around 3am and he won't go back to sleep until we feed him so I'm thinking that he isn't eating enough during the day now that we are partially on real food now? I am trying to give him a breakfast and supper (slowly introducing new foods) and I find that the supper meal is the hardest one for me to give him. We just seem so rushed at night time with having to cook supper for hubby and giving Jacob a bath the time just flys by!?

New Years Resolutions

Well I officially weighed in yesterday morning and it was pretty bad ... 211.6lbs!! I almost wish I never would have got my gallbladder out cause at least with it in I was too scared to eat the fatty foods that I seem to crave now! I have a tough decision, I really want to loose weight and I know that NS helped me last time so I'm really considering going back on NS just for a few months to get me on track and give me that push I need. And I was so close to actually placing my order that I entered my VISA number and even pressed "submit" but then the website came up with an error saying that since I am Canadian I need to place my order through their Canadian site (this is new). So I clicked onto the Canadian link and filled out another order but when I went to press "submit" I noticed that there was no place for me to put my discount code and the choices I had for meals were limited!! Then today one of our new friends asked if I was interested in joining the gym with her cause she was looking for motivation and also wants to loose the baby weight (her son is 2 1/2). Lots of the Moms from my mom group joined SpaLady which I know has a pretty good deal on right now that is only $21 a month but you have to sign a contract for 3 years (I have done this before and did use my SpaLady membership and enjoyed it but I didn't use it as much as I should have and never did see results).

So I'm stuck ...do I join SpaLady or the YMCA with our "new friend" that is only $21 a month and it would get me out, she is a pretty nice lady (young but nice). Or do I sign up for NS that I know will probably work for me in less time then a gym membership but cost more over a shorter period of time and seems to have limited items on the menu!? I wouldn't mind getting to know this new friend better but I have a feeling that I won't see the results I want from a gym pass?! But I kinda already told her I was interested in loosing weight!? Do I do both? I wish I was just naturally skinny!! I sure hope that Jacob has his fathers metabolism!! Not that it matters much with guys, it's OK for them to be a little chubby!

That's about all that is new here - today is my MIL's birthday but she is sick so we cancelled the plans we had with her and will hopefully see her on the weekend?! Swimming starts in 2 weeks - I'm pretty excited, I think Jacob might actually be able to do some of the activities this time. Speaking of Jacob, he is just getting over a cold, I got him a new doctor - a pediatrician!! I'm very excited to meet the new doctor and ask a few questions I wanted second opinions on but we don't get to meet her until March (Jacob's 9 month appointment)!