Fitness Progress 4

Progress on goals:
1. Keep working on pull-ups and push-ups. Progress!!
---still working on this. I haven't focused as much on these specifically, but I'm up to 4 and 25.
2. Meal prep! Weekly.
----I make overnight oats for breakfast, salads, black bean burgers with rice and veggies, and I make Jeff some chicken, rice and veggies. I bought these bento containers to meal prep with. They are so great and easy to clean.


3. Go to the gym to lift heavy 2x per week.
--- I was going 4x per week. Now I am going 6x per week.
4. Drink more water!
--- drinking lots of water. And lemonade from Trader Joe's. ;) the low-calorie, sweetened with stevia kind.
5. Go hiking & mountain biking.
--- we hiked to Donut Falls and to Cecret Lake. No mountain biking. It's hard to give up time with Mason on the weekends.

My milk supply is still good. Definitely did level out. I stopped pumping at night so I could get sleep, because between that, waking up early to workout and working night shifts, I felt like a zombie. I was scared to stop pumping at night, but my supply is just fine!

I have really liked the daycare at the gym. They do a great job with Mason. But I still don't waste any time working out. I just can't wait to pick him up!

My current weight is 112. I'm feeling really good.  When the scale goes down while I am working out so much, I can almost be sure it is fat loss and not muscle loss. Yay! I will measure inches by the next update, and I'm hoping to see positive changes there!

I joined a 6-week challenge through bodybuilding.com. It's just a contest to see who can make the greatest strides toward personal goals in 6 weeks. Contestants submit before pictures, and in 6 weeks we submit after pictures. A male and female will both win $15,000. Some good incentive, but I'm just playing along for fun with my friend Shanna. My 6 week goal is to increase muscle in inches on arms and legs and lose inches in my waist. Overall, just reshape my body.

I also started following a program. Sometimes it's nice to just show up to the gym and not have to have planned anything. Just follow the routine and be done. It's called Jamie Eason's From Flat to All That. Kind of a corny name, but it's all about building muscle which is what my goal is. Jamie Eason is actually still creating the program. It'll be 12 weeks long once she's done. She's on week 6 or 7 now. I'm one week 3. I really love it so far. It's my kind of lifting.

I'm fitting into my smaller jeans. The ones that don't fit me on my pre-pregnancy Cafe Rio days. Hahaha! This is some exciting progress for me, because that means my hips and bones are shifting back into place, which seems to be out of my control.

Here are my progress photos immediately postpartum:

 

 Here is me at 4 months postpartum:



New Goals:
1. Increase push-ups and pull-ups.
2. Follow JEFFTAT program every week.
3. Continue meal prep and exhibit portion control with treats.
4. Continue 6x per week lifting.
5. Mountain bike with Jeff.

Mason is 4 Months Old!

 

Our Mason boy is 4 months old. He is so much fun and such a little ray of sunshine. He's just the sweetest little guy.

Eating:
Every 3-4 hours. Still mostly breastfeeding. Just getting his bedtime bottle of breast milk from Daddy when Mommy goes to work twice a week. He is so fast now. One day he just started eating in half the time he used to. From 20 minutes to 10 minutes! It was hard to tell if he was done or just distracted (which is a frequent occurrence these days!). But he will not try to nurse if he's not hungry.

Sleeping:
Napping pretty great most days! Naps range from 1-2 hours. Usually one long nap and 3 shorter naps throughout the day. He is still sleeping through the night. He goes to sleep around 8:30 PM and wakes up around 8 AM. He is now sleeping unswaddled. We took one arm out at 3 months and took the other arm out about 2 weeks later when he seemed ready. He no longer sleeps with a pacifier either! (He just spits it out. He found his thumb and prefers that!) He can sleep anywhere. He does best with his white noise playing.

Growing:
Size 2 diapers. Out of most of the 0-3 month & 3 month clothes. He is long! At least it appears that way. We get comments about how tall/long he looks all the time. (His 4 month checkup isn't until the 24th, so 3 weeks after he turns 4 months, but we will have measurements then!)

Likes:
Gym time, tummy time, hiking, daddy's raspberry noise, grabbing hands & burp cloths, splashing in the bath, sitting & standing (with assistance), riding face out in the carrier, nursing and rolling.

Mason can now roll to either side from his back. He is SO close to his tummy. Any day now. He is babbling so much more and imitating sounds. Who knew having a baby would be so much fun!?

 

His pout is to-die-for! He has been this good since birth. It'll melt and break your heart all at once.

He went to Donut Falls and Cecret Lake and was such a trooper for both.  He LOVES being outside.

We love this little boy more and more each day!