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Buttoned Up

Something unimaginable happened this past week, I though it would never happen but it did. It was one of my biggest fears of pregnancy.... After gaining 51 POUNDS (go big or go home :) ) during my pregnancy I can now fit into SOME of my pre-pregnancy jeans. And I have to say that I am getting used to pants that don't have an expandable tummy waist. I forgot how low real jeans are. I still have 9 pounds to lose, but I account for some of the pounds with my baby feeding boobs.
I have to say that I thought it would be alot easier to lose weight that it has been. For some reason I thought it was special baby weight that was just sucked out with your breast milk. But no, I have actually had to lose weight, REAL weight. My stomach is almost back without much work. But my butt, it had it's own weather system.
So I have been cutting out sugar, except on holidays. Last week, Martin Luther King Jr day counted as a holiday. WHAT? Banks were closed, it counts. I starting running again trying to go for my perpetual goal of running a marathon or half-marathon.
And I have something else to thank for the shrinking of my post baby butt.... a little Christmas present called Physique 57. It's one of the hardest workouts I have ever done. Its kind of like a ballet class, Pilate's, and weight lifting combined. And it fit everything that I was looking for: 1.I can do it in my pajamas.
2. I can do it at home with no equipment while Nathan sleeps.
3. It's challenging. The instructor says this is on purpose so that you can use the DVDs for along time.
4. Kelly Ripa uses it.

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  1. Congrats on buttoning up! Seriously - and Nathan is only 3 months old. I kept telling myself what I kept reading, that it takes 9 months to put on and 9 months to take off. Thankfully it didn't take me 9 months either, and yes, I think extra weight must be due to the baby-feeding boobs... :) And just wait, if you keep breastfeeding Nathan, I wouldn't be surprised if around 9 months you drop below weight.

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