Healthy Happy Life

Good Morning, Everyone :)
It's time for the weekly healthy living update. I'm aware that I missed last weeks one, because it was my Birthday weekend and my friend was over from London. So this will be a two week update...I guess.
I must admit that I haven't been that healthy. It's not the food I eat when I do eat that's unhealthy though. The problem is the food I'm not eating. I haven't done it on purpose, but most of the days I kind of miss breakfast and lunch. I use to have porridge for breakfast on most days, and now it's a banana :S and sometimes a yogurt as well. I feel like I'm living on coffee. I still only have 1-2 normal coffees a day and then the rest of the 6 are decaffe :D But they do fill me up, especially when I have my coffee with milk and hazelnut syrup (damn you Starbucks )
On a good note though I've skipped so many calories I'm pretty much down to my pre-pregnancy weight now. And even If I will start eating more at lunch and mornings I don't think I will gain any weight because I'm breastfeeding more now. Which is why I really need to stop the coffees and start the healthy meals.
D has told me to prepare some lunches for the week, so It would be easy for me to just grab and eat them when I get a spare minute, but it's just the matter of doing it rather than just thinking about doing it :D
SO the update from the past 2 weeks is, that I've done good at the weight loss front, but not so good at the health department.
Another thing is that I'm back on the pill. My idea was to get the implant again and then take the pill as well to regulate the bleeding, but since I'm breastfeeding I can't do that just yet. I haven't taken pills with this hormone before though, so I'm not sure how they will affect me. I guess time will tell...hopefully I won't get bad skin and intolerable hunger :D

Here is what I look like at 7 weeks postpartum :)

(pictures coming as soon as possible...I promise :))

I have been doing a few exercises with Oscar..I use him as weight :D he likes it :D And they have really helped to get my stomach back into normal tensity, there is still a long way to go, but every little helps and I'm sure it will only get better as the days pass by :)

Healthy Happy Life

Happy Weekend, Everyone :)
You can finally sleep in and make pancakes for breakfast, have a shower and start thinking of what to wear out in the evening....oh wait...you had a child a month ago :D
SO you wake up at 4am and then again at 7 am and just for good measure at 8am :D You probably won't have a shower until tonight just before you change into your pj's and pancakes are substituted by toaster waffles :) It's all worth it though. Our Tassimo coffee machine is a godsend and Starbucks hazelnut syrup makes it all fancy and s*** :D
It has been a week since I decided I'll get back to the healthy/clean eating waggon and it's actually going great,
I'm not saying I've stopped eating chocolate all together. I think it's important to keep it in balance and have that treat every now and then...or in my case, every day :)
I don't believe in depriving myself from something to the point where all I can think about is stuff I can't have. It's all about balance though. If I have an ice cream or that piece of cake then it's not about thinking ''oh well, I've started now, so let's make it worth it'' You fall of the waggon, you get right back on it instead of continuing to ''treat'' yourself.

Back to my week though. It's been a bit of a roller coaster, because I have been getting up a lot earlier. D usually does the morning shifts, but now that I'm breastfeeding more often there is no point. So I wake up and have my warm water with lemon and then my coffee. That all happens around 6-7 am. I won't eat anything until about 12 though, because I don't feel hungry that early in the morning.
Around 3pm we usually go for a walk with Oscar and then I'll have lunch when I get back. It's been either a sandwich or some smoked mackerel and cottage cheese. I try to sit down to eat it but sometimes with O fussing it takes me about an hour to eat :D All about making compromises.
And then about 6/7 we have dinner. We're actually going to make a weekly dinner plan, just to make it easier to plan our meals, but we are leaving Saturday for trying out new recipes and things we haven't cooked before :) ''Anything can happen Saturday'' :D And of course there will be meals out and a few take aways :D
My snacks have been fruit and an occasional yogurt :)

All in all though, I have done pretty good. I've also started doing some crunches to help my stomach go back to it's former shape and size and I get my cardio from pushing the pushchair around for at least an hour every day :)
And so far I have lost half a kg which is great and considered a healthy weight loss for a week, so I'm on track. If I keep this pace up I should be back to my pre-pregnancy weight in a matter of weeks. And I've got a reason to be extra good this week, because it's my birthday on Friday.
D's sister will babysit for a few hours, so we will get a good few hours of baby free time to enjoy some drinks and grown up company :D

Have a great Weekend and Stay tuned :)
xo

4 Weeks Postpartum Update

Here we are 4 weeks after giving birth. I have not lost any more weight now for two weeks. Thankfully, because of the breastfeeding, my hideous ways of eating have not made me gain any weight either. Still, I think, with some changes to my diet, I can easily lose those last few pounds :)
Like I mentioned in my previous post, that I'm getting back on the healthy and clean eating waggon. And I will do weekly updates on how it's going along with my postpartum updates. And then I will do separate monthly posts on Oscar and how he is getting on :)

Firstly I'll go through all things post birth.
The main thing that has happened during this week, that I think I have finally stopped bleeding. It happened once before at the 2 week mark though and then started again, so I can't be sure that this time it will be for real. We shall see.

Another thing is that I have kind of established a night time routine now and it seems to work for now. This means I am less tired during the day and less cranky at nights because I know what to expect for. I didn't think it will happen this soon after giving birth and especially because it's our first child and everything is so new. BUT I'm so glad we are finally figuring things out :)

A latest buy I've done just because I did give birth, is a shaping top. I got one from h&m and I should have known not to expect anything special from it since it is from the high street, but I thought it can't make things any worse. I know I don't really need it, but it does actually contain a bit of the muffin top situation I have still :D On the other hand it is really tight at the boob area as well as the waist, which is annoying because I don't think anyone will buy a shaping top to shape their boobs :D

I have been getting some daily exercise in the form of walking. Me and O take our little stroll pretty much every day and they have been getting longer and longer now that I'm feeling pretty good in myself. And since he really enjoys the walks as well, this is our quiet time, because he just falls asleep pretty much as soon as I start walking :)

And I think that is about it for the postpartum update :)

This is how I look at 4 weeks 

 Just a shot of my new tennis shoes :D

I didn't do belly shots, because I was wearing the shaping top anyway, so it wouldn't have given an accurate look. I will try to do one during the week though, but if not, then next week :)

For the new start at healthy living part of the post I'll just go through of what I ate today and how good I did...

So I started the day pretty early. Usually D takes Oscar to the living room at around 7 am and then works from there and I get to sleep until 10-11am, but today he had to go to the office, which meant I got the early morning shift all to myself :D
Since it was so early I completely forgot to have my warm water with lemon and went straight for the coffee. O was being a bit fussy all morning though and needed a lot of attention so I didn't get to have any breakfast until 11 and it was porridge with a spoonful on jam and a banana.
At 1pm, we went for an hour long walk, which is the exercise part of my day. Once I got back I had lunch. I had some cottage cheese and mackerel and then I felt like having something sweet ( I think this is when the withdrawal symptoms from not having any chocolate started to kick in :D) so I had an activia pear yogurt...and a piece of bloody stupid chocolate...I need to hide the chocolate :D
For dinner we had salmon and roasted peppers with some new potatoes and leek and mushroom sauce. I was actually quite proud of myself of how good everything turned out :)
And then I treated myself to a magnum ice cream...it's the first day and I've already failed at this whole no chocolate thing :D
On a good note though, I have been very good with snacking. I had slice of toast before my breakfast because there was a whole 5 hours between waking up and actually managing to have something substantial to eat, and then I had a nectarine and some grapes during the day :)
And I have had loads of water. I also bought some sweetener for my coffees, because even though I only have one regular coffee a day I do like the taste of coffee so I have a few decaf coffees as well during the day.

And that is about it I think :) Let's see what the week brings
Stay tuned
xo

Healthy Happy Life

If you've been following my blog from the start you might know that I used to be quite healthy and my job also kept me quite active. A few weeks before giving birth though I kind of lost track of all things that are good to me.

I blame not gaining too much weight, because when I had 3 weeks left and I still had 2.5 kg to go to reach that minimum healthy weight gain...I decided it's time to start treating myself....with LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of chocolate. I figured that once I give birth I will just loose the appetite for chocolate. I am so stupid :D 

So now 4 weeks later I have decided it's about time to get back on track with healthy clean eating, especially because I'm breastfeeding ( I have been breastfeeding a lot more these days and in return we have a much more contented baby :) I don't know if it's actually because of breastfeeding, or because he doesn't have that much gas any more :D

I started today at my 4 week postpartum mark. The thing is that I don't actually have to change all of my eating. Our dinners are still pretty healthy and mostly home cooked. Dinners are also the only meals me and D have together because we wake up at different times, and D actually only has a protein shake for breakfast usually anyway. My breakfast is also quite healthy. It's usually porridge or I will have a yogurt and a banana or something. The problem is what happens between breakfast and dinner and sometimes after dinner as well :D

I do tend to snack a lot more these days, and not on healthy things like fruit and carrots. SO the snacking will stop...not completely, I will still try to have at least 3 healthy snacks during the day, but it won't be a chocolate bar or a croissant or a doughnut or SUGAR at all unless it's fruit.

To make it harder for me to quit and just eat the cupboards empty of chocolate I will keep track of my progress. I will add the updates to my postpartum posts and then do a little separate update on Oscars progresses and news :) or at least that is the grand plan. I might do his on Fridays though, because it's more of his day than mine :D and then do my postpartum and healthy life update post on Saturday. Or I might go on to doing his every month now, rather than every week...I'll think about it. 

So stay tuned and check out the start stats on the 4 week update post. I will upload just my update today and do Oscars on Monday, because he will actually be 1 month old then :O which is absolutely crazy. How have I survived with no sleep for a whole month :D hahaha :D
Anyway here's to apples and carrots :D 
xo

My vegrack is ready for it :D