I’m about to post more information than
any sane woman would in a public place, but I’m excited, so
here goes…

I’m so happy with Weight
Watchers. They are supportive, smart (no funky, quirky,
skeptical “diet” miracles) and I’ve lost 22 lbs!!! I have
plenty more to go unfortunately, but that’s a huge start!! Eve
weighs 23lbs!

I won’t say the whole
thing has been easy, but it hasn’t really been that hard
either. I’m rarely hungry and can eat almost anything, in
moderation, of course. I was doing really well on the Core plan
for the first 9 weeks, then hit a plateau. I really missed
bread (yummy carbs!), which you can have on the Core plan, but
in very limited quantities. I also was having technical issues
and was unable to use their nifty e-tracking tools for
monitoring what I was eating. And we had company and blah,
blah, blah. After three weeks of little to no change, the WW
lady suggested I try the Flex plan. I was a bit intimidated at
having to write down everything I eat (who has time for
that?!?!) but I gave it a shot and lost 5lbs in the past two
weeks!!! They say when you plateau the best thing to try is
switching plans. The Flex plan is very easy and allows me to
eat more things (bread!) and tracking isn’t hard. I can even
have bad days (or entire weekends!) and still do ok overall. I
think I’ll be sticking with this plan until I plateau again,
then back to Core. Go me!

I only have
9lbs left until I’m back to my pre-pregnancy weight (3.5 years
later), which was my original goal when joining. Then, we’ll
see ;)

Thanks for reading :) I’m happy
today. We spent an hour and a half at the playground today. I
was hoping to wear the kids out before the WW meeting. I think
they were plenty wore out, but that didn’t do much towards
keeping them quiet. That’s not true actually, Lex did great at
the meeting, just Eve was a wild monkey. She’s quite a card
these days.

I had a brief moment of maternal guilt today
(see, all about me!). We were having fun at the playground, Lex
was chatting it up with the few kids there, then a crew of
preschoolers came to play. Lex was thrilled! He ran around with
them, talking to everyone. I’ve been very confident in our
decision not to put him in preschool, even though all of the
3yr olds we know are starting school this week, but seeing him
play with all the kids made me start doubting myself. Briefly.
I know we made the right decision, but I think he would love
preschool too. Next year! (In the picture he’s playing
hide-and-seek with this little girl who is very confused as to
why he’s counting at the same time she is. Some day he might
actuallly figure out the right way to play hide-and-seek :)
)