Baby Number Two

I have recently found out after having a mth on the south beach diet and losing 15pds that we are expecting our second child. I am very excited about this - and hope that we are prepared for another one. A lot has to be done to the house and several new things have to be purchased but above all - we are going to be fine and just have to take it one day at a time. I think that some people are shocked because Connor is only 1 1/2 years old but he will be 2 1/2 when the baby is born and that is an okay amount of time inbetween children. They will be able to grow up together and enjoy life and that is how i am looking at all this. I will be very content because then my family will be complete and i will be able to then fully concentrate on raising my children the proper way and enjoying our life together. I have been extremely nautious everyday and gotten sick several times already. This is the part of pregnancy I havent missed. I am starting to get tired mid-day and just go down hill from there. I am also starting to look @ Connor a little differently because he will now be a big brother. It is a special feeling and a scary one all at the same time because you know you are giving them a sibling but at the same time, you are worried about how the first child will react. Will they feel neglected or replaced, will they go back thru the stages of trying to be a baby again for attention. All of those things are heavy on my mind right now -as i am mentally preparing for a new baby and what that will mean for our routine and family life now. Should be interesting.

3 weeks with South Beach

I am now three weeks into the diet and I cant stand the site of meat or cheese. I have had so many salads that if I never saw lettuce again - i would be absolutely fine with it. I am down 12 pds. Which is amazing for someone with thyroid problems and polycistic ovaries. I only have one week to go and I have already cheated for one full day - not over eating but having a cookie and a piece of bread with lunch. I feel that if you deprive yourself of too much then you will go absolutely crazy. I am so excited though to being switching to phase two in 5 days. I never made it to that stage last time due to finding out I was pregnant with Connor after the first phase. I really need to purchase the supercharged book and info. because I feel there maybe updated information about each phase. My husband is very supportive and tries to help me out with meals. Its hard when you are buying your family regular food and you are dieting to stay on track and disciplined. I will make it through - just gotta keep on going and remembering to eat breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner so that my body keeps burning the food for me. keep you updated

2 weeks down on S.B - Two more to go!

I have been on the South beach diet for 2 weeks now and have successfully lost 10 pounds. I am feeling great and dreading the next two weeks as the food is starting to get tasteless and boring. I am going to do phase one for 2 more weeks which is what I did last time and lost 25 pds. I take a bite of something yummy every now and then just so I don't drive myself crazy. I want to have lost at least 40 pounds by christmas - and I think I can do it, if I just stay motivated and strict on myself with this diet. Phase two is much more easier to maintain and you stay on that phase until you reach your goal weight - I have a heart murmur and cant take over the counter diet pills because they make my heart race. I also have poly-systic ovaries and thyroid issues which makes losing weight almost impossible. I wont give up, and I will keep trying to loose for my sake and for my family's. I am glad that I can depend on a diet that limits all bad carbs and teaches me the proper way to eat rather than depending on a surgery, or weight loss pills. Thanks for all who have supported me so far

3 days in on South Beach

3 days in on the south beach diet and i am hungry for carbs. Steven has donuts, cakes, starches, pizza for the next two weeks and I have only protein and vegetables. I know in the long run it will work out for me and I will feel better about it but it is so hard living around all that yummy food. I feel that my goal should be done in steps - i had a goal to lose 50 pds by christmas and I could still do it. I am going to pick up my walking again in the evenings and start doing a little weight lifting for my flabby arms. I really need to purchase the South beach Supercharged book and the South beach cookbook to stay on top of the diet and fix foods that arent the same old thing. I am already feeling better about having control over what I eat. I just wish I had someone to do this diet with me and split the bill. Eating healthy is so expensive, seems silly, it should be the other way around heavy yummy starches should be more expensive.

South beach diet here I come!!!

I lost around 15 pds when I was on South Beach. I was very proud of myself at that time because it was right before I had little Connor. I was only on it for a mth and lost that much. It is limiting all pop, sugar, carbs in general and fruits at first. Mainly it is protein, vegetables, and a lot of patience. The first phase is only suppose to last 2 weeks but I pushed it to the entire mth. I was going to stay on it after getting pregnant but all the vegetables made me a little sick. I have no choice, because strickly exercise and eating 5 small meals for me is just not cutting it for some reason - like it would for most people. After I had Connor, I immediately had to have my gall bladder removed. I have always wondered since South beach makes your liver work harder maybe it was too much for my gall bladder and thats why I had such complications. Now with it gone, I hope to not have any other issues. I will have to get a South Beach diet cook book so that the food doesnt start to bore me. Wish me Luck. The best part is there is a gal here at work who is willing to limit her carbs to so we can keep each other accountable. let you know how it goes in a few days

Not Following thru

I have been so busy with this and that -and havent had any time to exercise or eat properly at all. and isnt that the point, that you get so busy and just forget to pencil in time for you and you alone. You know it is important and yet you still find ways of getting out of it because other thing come up. It's sad but i am still the same weight which fluctuates up and down over the same number about 5 pds - either up 5 or down 5 and sometimes right on that number. HAH - you thought i was goign to reveal all my secrets. I know to be healthier and stronger at my age I could be carrying around (one less person) which is the current weight I want to drop in order to reach my goal, so why then do i procrastinate. It use to be because I hated exercise all together, aching muscles, perspiring, embarasement around other people etc.... but now that I exercise in the evenings alot of that is eliminated. I wish at times I had a health consious, healthy eating/excercising mate that would help me along with this. It seems at times an endless battle to go to the store and buy whole wheat bread, salads, fruits, more vegetables but then in the same motion reach for the doritos, cookies, cakes etc... for my husband. I want to be better and I want to be better now. Anyone reading this, please just encourage me to stay on track. Thanks everyone

Sorority Excitement

For the last two days, I have done nothing but run around for the sorority. We have a new girl running the show and she is good - and we are trying desparately to get everything together. I have had to go to skit practices, meetings with the recruitment team, preference practice - it has been non-stop and this is just the beginning - the prep work. Recruitment is Sept 5-9th and I will be a nut-case the entire weekend. I didnt excercise Mon-tues-Wed-or thurs due to all of this and I am paying for it- put back on 2 pds and have been doing well on the eating part. Gotta get back into the groove of things and looking into purchasing Leptopril for the store to aid in the weightloss. Connor has been an amazing baby all week. He is laughing more and really getting into some of the Disney/Pixar movies: incredibles, bugs life, Toy story. We bought him some maracas and want to get him some more instruments and we have also been working with him on coloring and holding the crayon the right way. All he seems to want to do is hit us with the maracas and eat the crayons-but thats another story. He has a deep cough right now which makes me realize that fall will be here soon and so will the cold symptoms. Yuk!!!