I am joining the Body After Baby challenge I learned about on another Mama's (Samantha) blog here. I felt inspired and thought it would be a good goal for the new year and new decade!
Here are my goals:
Diet:
When Caleb was 5 weeks old he was diagnosed with food sensitivities within my breastmilk. I then made the choice to begin an elimination diet in order to continue breastfeeding Caleb. I followed a food allergy chart and eliminated all but the least allergenic foods from my diet. Since then, I have slowly been adding foods back in, finding that Caleb is sensitive to many foods. In addition to eating the least allergenic foods, I absolutely have not had any soy, dairy or gluten as well. I plan to go forward with this diet and my goal is to continue breastfeeding Caleb until he is atleast one year of age. I feel that this diet has contributed, as well as breastfeeding, to my overall health and wellbeing since giving birth. I have lost all of my "baby weight" and then some, and I feel great!However, I have big goals for my diet:
- Continue to add more foods back in with priority being finding more fresh veggies...even if I don't like them (for example sweet potato...gross)! (As of now I am eating cooked carrots...everyday. Everyday.) Caleb has shown signs of allergies to all green veggies (including romaine lettuce and even green beans)
- Find a better supplement because I don't think mine are cutting it. (I'm looking for a great prenatal/breastfeeding supplement that is soy/dairy/gluten free...if you know of one I'm looking for suggestions! Most supplements have soy in them)
- Eat more variety, even though it is easy and safe to eat the same thing everyday. My goal for the next months is to try more of a rotation diet.
- Eat in this order of importance...Vegetables, Protein, Fruit, Grain
- Drink WAY more water
- Eat organic when possible (right now I eat about 95% organic...but this is because of the elimination diet, I would eat less organic if I could...because it is SO expensive!)
Exercise:
At 16 weeks pregnant I was put on bedrest for 5 days due to a complication. After those 5 days I was on a weight restriction and activity restriction for the remainder of my pregnancy. Needless to say, I haven't worked out other than walking on a treadmill for almost a year. Sad. While I have lost all of my baby weight and then some, when I actually took the time to look in the mirror the other day (after reading about this very challenge...actually)I noticed a few things were, um...missing. Like... my booty.
Here are my goals:
- Exercise. Actually do it, think about it, then do it. This will take effort, but I need to make it a priority. Whether it be 9am while Cole is holding Caleb or 12am while Caleb sleeps, I need to exercise. My first goal is to exercise 3 times a week by doing Yoga Booty Ballet (it's a DVD video...it's all I can do now because I live in the midwest and it's freezing...and I do well with instructional help and someone saying "good job" :) ) I would love to say I'll run a mile, lift weights, do sit-ups, and all...but I'm being realistic. This is all I have time for, right now. But hey, something is better than nothing right?
- I'm going to stop at goal 1 for now : ) Not because of lack of motivation, but I don't want to overwhelm myself :) I will add more later...actually that is goal # 2...to add more goals after I achieve goal # 1. :)
