Why I want to lose weight...

...in point form:

- my post-pregnancy flub on my belly has solidified into a rather impressive gut

- I'm starting to gain weight after dropping all my pregnancy weight. Remember how with Elijah I dropped down to 158 lb's and then gained weight until I was 175 lb's? Yeah, that sucks. Now imagine this time. I lost weight down to 173 lb's and am now 177. Do I really want to gain beyond 177 at all?

- my wedding rings don't fit. I am NOT going to resize them to a bigger size when I really just need to lose weight.

- I haven't bought non-maternity clothes in 2 1/2 years. I WON'T buy clothes until I lose weight, so if I don't lose weight then I'm just walking around wearing maternity clothes and frumpy non-maternity clothes, feeling pretty yucky and, well...frumpy.

- I do NOT want to get pregnant at this weight again if I can help it. There were parts of my pregnancy that were hard simply because I was overweight, like the indigestion and sulphur burps.

-and probably the most selfish reason of all? I want to look good. Not at the expense of other people, but I want to be the person people wish they looked like. When I was pregnant both times, I would look at people who were physically fit, including those were were skinny pregnant, and wish I had a body like them. So one of my goals? I want to make pregnant people feel fat, just like I did. Hahaha...I know it sounds cruel, I don't actually want someone to feel fat, I just want to be the thin person I envied and knew I COULD be. Now that I am able to work out and get thin, I want to do just that.

So there are measures I am taking to lose weight and feel better about myself. First, we are not allowed to buy junk food. Second, I'm going to be eating a healthy breakfast and lunch (eg - strawberry/banana smoothie and a couple pieces of toast for breakfast, cheese sandwich and veggies for lunch.) Third, I'm going to start my Zumba dvd's today.

We'll see how it goes! We've set the goal for me to lose 22 lb's in 3 months. I would be happy with that - getting to 155 lb's - but really I'd like to get down to between 140 and 145.

Anyway, that's all for now.