Two years prior to getting pregnant I went from 205lbs to 137lbs. A little skinny fat but I felt pretty very good about what I had achieved. 2 months of basking in the glow of my accomplishment before I fell pregnant. Back up to 190 prior to giving birth and then over the next 8 months back down again to 140. The pandemic and the nature of how I care for the kid hasn't been kind to my mental or physical health. Massive shoulder strain and fatigue. I've mostly stopped breastfeeding, so that outflow of calories is gone. I'm walking way less since walking baby for naps was ditched long ago. I'm sitting at 151. Thirteen pounds. It doesn't seem like much but I just don't feel good about it. I have had many of the small annoyances (dry skin, acne and more) I had when I was bigger return. If I don't get this under control I fear I'll only get heavier. Before I had my daughter it was so much easier to lose weight. Not to say that losing weight is easy, but you have more time to focus and find what works for you. I hit my stride because the environment I worked in made it easy to support that kind of change. I worked in a naturopathic office for crying out loud! What I did not anticipate was that my ability to care for myself and eat right would very based upon the developmental stage of my baby. I had a groove when I was working but being a stay at home parent I haven't been able to develop one because of reasons. There's too many to list. With kid being a year and a half old there's now a schedule that is more or less consistent now and my body isn't as ~trashed~ fatigued.
So here I am, day one again, four years after I started the first time. I downloaded the unfortunately-named Fat Secret calorie tracking app and started logging. I plan to meal prep some grain bowl lunches this week after we get our grocery order delivered. I'm stretching almost every night but haven't been able to consistently run. It's now after dinner and I haven't gone over my calorie budget! Little steps. I can do this, I just need to work out the kinks and find my groove again. Wish me luck!
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