Sugar, Sugar

Hello, my name is Amber and I'm a sugar addict.

It's a real thing! I watched 60 Minutes special where Dr. Gupta talks about how sugar is a toxin and has a similar effect on the brain as cocaine does. If it was on tv, it has to be real, right?

I'm 4 days in on the no sugar or artificial sweetener train and I feel like I need to go to rehab to detox. I break down around 2 p.m. and go pay too much for a diet Pepsi out of the vending machine at work.

I don't even like diet Pepsi, I'm more of a Coke Zero or Diet Coke gal.

I've given up my morning 2 3 cups of coffee. I've been accused of trying to make a latte out of it, meaning I put a shit ton of creamer (powdered non-dairy these days) and splenda in it. It is so delicious, I consider it a snack if when I make one in the afternoons. So I've gone cold turkey on that too and want to put my face in vat of it so bad. Stay strong. Stay strong.

What's your food vice?

Weigh In Wednesday

I have to do a Weigh-in Wednesday, duh. I might get kicked out of the mommy blogger club if I didn't.

As a matter of fact, I've decided I am only weighing myself on Wednesdays. I have an all too unhealthy relationship with the scale, I weigh EVERY SINGLE MORNING. So I'm stopping that. No more. Done.

I'm only 2 days in on the healthy low-carb diet and drum roll please....

2.8 pounds down!!!

Looks like I need to clean the window on the scale, dust much? Gross. But my toes look good, holler. Thank goodness I got that pedicure this weekend. First one in 6 months.

And I did not run yesterday, mother nature sabotaged it. Here's a pic of the terrential downpour I drove home in yesterday.

In other news, baby boy slept through the night without waking up to eat for the first time EVER. It was amazing. 12 blissful hours of sleep. 

Happy Wednesday!

Time to face the mirror

Here are my dreaded before photos -  ugh.

Well if this isn't motivation, I don't know what is!

I weighed myself this morning, I know, it has only been one day but I felt like I had to. And, turns out the low carb gig is working, at least some water weight has come off. I'm down to 173.4. I'll take it. 

I did not workout yesterday. I was super motivated and was going to do day 1 of C25K, but when I got home baby boy and the hubs had a rough day so I honeslty used it as an excuse to not run, dang it! I suck at this. 

But today will be better and I will go run. I will!

Hellooooo

Well hello there blogger world. I'm another mommy blogger trying to loose weight and blogging about it to hold myself accountable.

So who the heck am I?
I'm a 31 year old working mom to a 6.5 month old boy. I've had weight struggles my entire life. I was 20 lbs at 4 months and weighed 185 lbs in 5th grade, but have built a lot of character as being the fat kid before fat kids were so mainstream (so sad!).

I lost a good 40 lbs my freshman year of high school in a not so healthy way and managed to keep it off for the better part of my teen and early 20s. However, I am a habitual yo-yo fad dieter and often go up 10-15 lbs and then take it back off with some form of low-carb diet.

So a few years ago the hubs and I decided we were ready to grow our family and I ran into fertility issues. I gained 20 lbs during a two year struggle to get pregnant. Between the fertility drugs and the stress, I basically gained the baby weight but had no baby. After quitting all the drugs and going to an acupuncturist, we conceived and now have an adorable son.

I gained 40ish lbs with prganncy so 140 + 20 (trying to make a baby pounds) + 40 (pregnancy pounds) = 200 lbs!!!

And to be honest, I was probably closer to 205 at delivery. After I had baby boy the weight dropped off like noone's business. I was back down to 170 -175 after a few weeks after all the swelling came off. However, nothing has really come off since. Sure, I've lost a few pounds here and there, got down to 168 for a hot minute, but it was short lived.

I'm a breastfeeding momma and it has not worked wonders for me in the weight loss game. In fact, I think it makes it harder. I have to be careful with my calorie intake to make sure I get enough so I make milk. Which is someting else I had/have a hard time doing, a story for a different day.

But as I type this now, I'm at 176 and miserable. Absolutely miserable. So after a weekend of indulgence and eating too much of my MIL's homemade strawberry shortcake, I've gone back to what I know how to do, and it's a low-carb Monday. But this time, instead of only doing it until I get 3-5 lbs off and feel less miserable, I'm sticking to it.

And don't freak out on me, I'm doing a healthy low-carb. Lean meats, vegetables and fruits.  Basically I'm just cutting out all the sugar, breads and processed food.

Oh and little man has a dairy intolerance, so I'm not eating dairy now either. But man, I sure could go for some cheese right now.

Goals & Timeline 
I'm taking it 5 lbs at a time, but my ultimate goal is a 135 - 140 lean/muscular self. We have a big family vacation planned for the first week of June to Mexico. I'd LOVE to reach my goal by then, I think it's doable. I'm really wanting to be MILF status by then and rock a bikini by the pool as I sip on my adult beverage.

The Plan to become a MILF
What exactly is a MILF you ask? Seriously? I'll let Wikipedia tell you. So I'm gonna work my ass off, literally. 

Eating- Healthy/Clan eating. No sugar, no breads and no processed food. Oh and NO sugar substitutes. This is going to be hard for me. I have a serious love affair with splenda. It's bad.

Moving - My goal is to get in (ha, every time I hear or say 'get in' it reminds me of Jersey Shore where gettin' it in = having sex. PS- I also have a love affair with smut reality TV) at least 4 workouts a week.

I am going to start the C25K running plan today (2/25/13) and on my off running days I'm going to do Jillian Michael's 30-day Shred.  I just have to track down the damn DVD that is lost in the Hub's 125,436,752,867 DVD collection. Seriously, why? I'm not impressed with your DVD collection and neither is anyone else.

So there it is folks. I'll take some 'before' photos tonight in true mommy-blogger style... bathroom mirror with the iphone. Get excited.