A New Year, A New Me

One of my new years resolutions was to get back into healthy eating and lose weight again.

While I was pregnant with Elise I lost 16kg, I believe it was because of the Gestational Diabete's that I had combined with Hyperremesis Gravidarum (severe all day sickness) and the cravings that I had for veggies, salads, chicken, goat, rabbit and fish. In the 6.5 months post birth, prior to becoming pregnant with Em, I lost another 16kg, and was 10kg off my goal weight 72kg.

Since Em was born however I have put on at least 15kg, and I feel it too. I have gone up a dress size (I was a 14 in tops and 16 in pants prior to becoming pregnant with Em, now I'm an 18 in both!), and I feel yuck, fat and just plain blegh all the time.

Today is day 3 of my healthy eating project, consisting of Porridge with honey and fresh blueberries for breakfast, either a shake or celery with peanut butter for lunch and either a healthy shake or meat and veggies/stirfry etc for dinner (I only have one healthy shake a day), with an apple, a banana, blueberries and a fruit, nut and seed mix as snacks.

So far it's going well, I'm mixing the snacks up each day (thankfully I really like them all anyway) so I don't get bored, portioning what I eat and eating slowly so I fill up quicker and don't overeat.

My goal is to get back down to 80kg, and then my next goal is to get down to my original goal of 72kg. I'm not sure how much I weigh currently but I'm guessing it's around 98-99kg, which is not where I want to be.
Now don't get me wrong, but some of  my weight is muscle, and I do pride myself on having strong leg muscles, they are larger than I'd like too, but they aren't toned so that will be another thing to work on once we get the Wii set up again and start using Wii Fit like we used to after Elise was born.
I am going to try and get Matt back into losing weight as well, as he has put back on all the weight he lost before we got married and is now very very overweight. He will be having surgery next week to have his gallbladder removed as well, so once he is recovered he will need to do something about his weight.

I think that is it for now, I will update when I get around to weighing myself (we don't have scales at home, so it will have to be whenever I can get myself into our local Tony Ferguson Weightloss Center, I haven't been there since early December so it will be interesting to see if my healthy eating has helped when I do eventually go back.

Bye for now.
Jen.

Em has been in hospital...

I haven't updated for a while, there just hasn't been anything to write about until now.

As the title says Miss Em is in hospital, she was admitted on wednesdat night with suspected gastro, a fever and dehydration with a lot of tummy pain. its friday now and she isn't feeding much either.

Yesterday she lost 50 grams in weight in just under 12 hours, and last night he paediatrician said that if she wasn"t picking uptoday and gaining weight again they would be inserting a nasogastric tube to feed her.

I am also having to express allfeeds for her to have bottles now instead of breastfeeding so that they can see how much she is taking in, and its scaring me because normally in rhe morning she would have at least 300ml (I can express approx 150ml from each breast first thing in the morning) and today all she has had so far is 175ml.

At least the fever has gone down now so that is a good thing, and she hasn't had any diarrhea yet today either.

And now we are going home with instructions to treat her for oral thrush (which came up yesterday morning) and that if she gets worse again or starts to have bad diarrhea again we are to bring her back in.

Well thats it for now, have to get ready to go home.

Jen.