Today’s weight: 120.3 kg/265.2 lbs. Fantastic, a gain! Marvelous feeling, that. Now I am right back where I started. So the question is, where did I go wrong? It’s relatively simple, I think:

1. I baked twice in the past week, Muffins one time and Chocolate Fudge Cake the other. Both things were intended for other people, but I ended up eating too much of them myself. I wouldn’t say I binged, I just had more than the tiny sliver of cake and half Muffin that I suppose I should have had. My body is never, ever forgiving when it comes to sweets.

2. Other than my daily walk with the Munchkin, I am not getting any exercise. I would like to start strength training at home, but I really need to get myself sorted out in other areas first. I’ve been trying to integrate all these new things and habits into my life over the course of the last few weeks and at times felt a bit overwhelmed by it all, between mommyhood, work, uni and money issues.

3. Lactation consultants in the weight loss section of my forum told me that certain hormones are making my body cling on to the least bit of fat for all dear life. My body ‘knows’ it has to provide for our Munchkin and in order to do that, it takes whatever it can get and stores it. So essentially I should be happy to be losing weight at all, if I do lose any, at least while I am still nursing. Bugger.

4. Because I am forever the procrastinator, I have failed to look up portion sizes, again. No excuses there, I suck.

All that being said, I seem to be getting into the swing of at least some things healthy. I am drinking my water (although I think I should potentially up my intake to 2 liters per day. I keep reading conflicting things on that one), I am eating fruit and veg, I am cooking from scratch and I am having a healthy breakfast every day. I have bought and mixed Quinoa pops (unsweetened), oats and mixed seeds. A bit of this mixture I am adding to a small tub (150 grams) of low fat yogurt every day. This week I’ll need to start adding fruit to that as well. My snacks are usually plain rice cakes or fruit.

My goals for the next week are to be less obsessive about numbers for the moment, advice brought forward by my lactation consultant. I will continue to focus on an overall healthy lifestyle and will finally read up on those portion sizes, dammit.

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