Starting things off right

Now that baby j is fast approaching 5 months I've decided to start getting more serious about being active and watching what I eat to get back to where I left off when I became pregnant, weight loss.

This past week I started using a free Android app called MyFitnessPal. It has a bar code reader that will automatically pull up the food item you scan along with its nutrition information, calories per serving, and you can enter the number of servings, even fractions (.5). Another two big pluses for the app are, its free and I can add breastfeeding at varying levels of application and it adds the negative calories for the day.

I also joined a mom's weight loss group where we encourage each other to stick with the different challenges and we have weekly weigh-ins posted in a group doc for all of us to see. The group fulfills some major points that I needed to shove myself in the right direction, motivation and accountability from people going through the exact same things.

So far, as of this morning, I've lost 2 lb since Tuesday. There is a lot more where that came from! Especially since it was mostly just eating fewer calories. There wasn't much on the activity front but that should be changing Monday as I will have a regular routine again! I would really like to shed a whopping 4-5 dress sizes. That will be my main measure of success, size and not weight. However in the beginning, weight loss is extremely encouraging until I can see visible change. Here is to getting rid of the baby belly and beyond!! :)