My BABY is ONE!!!

Here's my beautiful baby. How did she grow so fast. SIGH!!!!

Horrible Horrible blogger.

Yeah I know I've done a BAD job blogging but it seems as if I'm kinda busy. 5 kids, how can you not. So I'm just doing a small update here. Miriam is almost walking. She takes up to 7 steps at a time. The 3 older kids are starting school in 2 weeks. I may have more time to blog while they are in school. I'm running a 5 k in less than 2 weeks. I haven't been training all that much. I know I can run that far. Maybe not necessarily run but you know what I mean. I finally got my Metformin (med for my insulin resistance) up to the proper dosage. It makes me sick at first but after a few days I feel really good. It's going to help me take some of this weight off of me for good. I'm really excited to get healthy. I'm 7 weeks into my journey to becoming skinny fit. I've lost 28.2 lbs and I feel so much better. I had lost 40 lbs from Nov 2009 to Feb 2010, but I was losing my milk and had to stop dieting and working out because both of those things made my milk supply diminish. It's weird that working out was doing it too but it is what it is. So...... I gained it ALL back. It really stunk. I'm getting back to where I was and past that. Jonathan and I discussed what is a good healthy goal weight. I have a point where I KNOW I can get too. I've done it before, but not the right way. I just dieted and didn't work out. I LOOKED skinny, but I really wasn't. I still had too much fat on my body. I was skinny fat. I could have lost another 20 lbs and been just skinny with no muscle tone. So this time around I want to be at a weight that is maintainable but that I have a healthy body fat %. I have to get out of my head that being healthy and skinny isn't about a number on the scale. It's about what the package (body) looks like. So that means I have to workout along the way. I really dislike working out. It's something I struggle with. I can diet with no problems, but working out..... ugh. I guess these runs that I've signed up for will help with that.