~ShArOnA’s JoUrNeY tO wEiGhT LoSS~

Hi guys! I just wanted to check in and tell you all that have been checking up on me that I appreciate it. Thank you all so much for caring. It has come the time in my pregnancy were I am always tired and never seem to have enough time for ANYTHING. So I wanted to let you all know that this will be my last update until after the baby comes. My due date isn’t until Christmas but we all know that the baby can technically come at any time. I am thinking she will probably come maybe around the second week in December or so. My first child was born 15 days early and they say the children after the first always just come faster. So who knows. We will see. But anyway, even though I won’t be on for probably at least 6 to 10 weeks…I wanted to let you know that I will be back in the grove of things within 2 weeks after birth unless I have to have an emergency C-section for any reason. I sure hope not but if that did happen then of course I couldn’t get fully into the swing of things for probably about 6 weeks after birth. So again, good luck to you all and have a wonderful Thanksgiving and Christmas and I will be back for sure come the new year

Good Morning my buddies

 How are you all doing these days? How is the weight loss coming along? I know you are all trying your best so keep up the great work.

So I finally uploaded 6 of my 3D ultrasound photos…when you have a chance go ahead and check them out on my profile pics I went for my check up yesterday and I haven’t gained any weight these last 3 weeks since my last visit. The doctor has no worries because the tummy is still growing. So far I have gained a total of 15 lbs this pregnancy and I have 2 months left to go. The doctor is always please to hear a very strong heartbeat whenever I come in. Bianca continues to be extremely active despite her limited space from growing, lol. As of now she is close to 4lbs and 16 inches long! I still can’t believe how time flys…she will be here in no time!

Well anyway, for now that is it…I am going to go and read some of my buddies blogs and leave you some love. I will keep in touch. Next appointment is November 2nd…the day after my baby shower

Hiiiiiiiiiiiii everyone! Well I am totally ecstatic because Bianca cooperated on Wednesday and Tom was able to get a definite view and she is a SHE! I am so excited. Now I can go out and get all those much needed baby items all in pinks and purples and girly flowers or whatever my heart desires, lol

 Anyway, we got sooooo many cute pics. She is such a little poser, lol. She was nibbling on her pinky finger in one and yawning in another and then get this…she did the home alone pose, lol!!! Ya know, when he puts his two hand slightly under his chin but on his cheeks and shreeks…well she did the hand thing and I got the pic, lol. Waaayyy cool!

 Ummm…let’s see here…in my last blog some of my buddies were asking me if I plan on breastfeeding because it does burn more calories. In one word-No. Now let me explain…I am fully aware of all the benefits for BOTH mother and child. I am going to be honest here and just say it isn’t for me. I don’t feel that bond that other mothers do when they breastfeed. It actually just makes me feel weird and gross and I feel like me and my child are doing something that shouldn’t be done. I know that it is fine to breast feed and it isn’t inappropriate but unfortunately that is how it makes me feel. So I will be bottle feeding like I did with my first son. So no, I won’t have that added benefit of those extra calories being burned. BUT, I will have the added benefit of taking care of not just the newborn but my 4 year old, extremely active son, lol!

 Well I go back to the doctor on the 19th of this month…now that I am further along he will see me every 2 weeks instead of every four. So I will let you know how that goes. I am hoping for no dramatic weight gains which so far according to my scale I haven’t gained anything since my last visit and actually I have lost 1.5lbs…but we all know how weight will go up and down all the time. I am watching myself very closely these last 2 months because this is when the baby is packing on the fat and I don’t want to pack it all on with her, lol! Which as of right now she is about 3.5lbs. I can tell you this…she is storing some in her chubby little cheeks, hahahaha. We saw that on the ultrasound and both me and my son have chubby cheeks even when I weighed under 140lbs. It’s just in the genes.

 Ok, well as usual I think I have done enough gibber gabber. I guess I will just keep you all posted when the next visit comes. Take care my buddies and make healthy choices for your Halloween treats this year

Hello hello everyone!!! How are you all doing? I hope your weight loss is going well for you all.

Well in my last blog I told you all that I was going on September 18th for that ultrasound to double check the gender of my baby. Well guess what…she was breech and not cooperative. She had her foot in between her crotch the hole time except for like a split second right in the beginning and Tom believed he saw she was a girl but again couldn’t be 100%. Soooooooooo….anyway, he rescheduled me for another ultrasound on October 7th…which just so happens to be tomorrow. I can’t wait!!!! And little Miss Bianca…if she is a she for sure…better cooperate or I will be sooo upset

Ummm, let’s see what else…I have gained about 15 lbs total so far. I guess that isn’t so bad for someone who is going to be 29 weeks pregnant on Friday (7 months and 1 week). I am trying my best not to gain tooooooo much weight. Especially since I was overweight to begin with. The doctor says I am doing just fine Always good to hear!!

My brother-in-law’s girlfriend just had their daughter almost a month ago and within two weeks she had dropped almost all the weight she had gained from the pregnancy. She had gained 32 lbs during her pregnancy and reached a high of 192. Within two weeks she had already dropped down to 166. Funny thing is that she doesn’t do any form of exercise. So that gives me very high hopes for myself since I have only gained 15 so far and I do exercise. So maybe I will be able to lose my weight pretty fast Guess we will just see. No matter what I am sticking to it though. I have goals to reach and I will succeed!!

 Well for now that is it. I have to get back to work. Yup, that is right…full-time manager, full-time mother, full-time pregnant lady, full-time wife, full-time housekeeper, man the list goes on and on and on, lol! Talk to you all soon!!

Hey everyone! How are you all doing on your weight loss journey? I miss you all so very much and the BS website in general. I really think so that I don’t lose touch with my buddies and what I still want to accomplish, I need to start login in on here at least once a week and reading blogs and sending comments and posting updates. So that is going to be my goal for during pregnancy! I am going to continue to be active on BuddySlim although I cannot technically be setting weight loss goals at this time.

Anyway, as of today I am 22 weeks pregnant, going to be 23 weeks pregnant on Friday. I am still only about 10lbs heavier. I set up a 3D ultrasound appointment that I am going to pay for and it is on September 18th at 10:00am. I just had to set one up because they guarantee your gender of your child and since my ultrasound woman said she wasn’t a 100% sure I don’t want to go and buy pink and purple and stuff and have another boy. So I want to be prepared. Besides that…the package is just phenomenal!!! I get a 40 minute ultrasound session, a DVD of the whole entire session, a CD of all the still images that he takes during the session, 6 color printed photos, 6 Black and White printed photos, a photo collage mat, and my son gets balloons for attending. So I think it is exciting and well worth the $150.

Also, we have decided on a name…at first my husband wanted to name her Corrine Marie…now don’t get me wrong that is a lovely name and he wanted to stick with C’s since our son’s name is Cameron…BUT!!!…my dream since I was about 10 years old was to name my daughter Bianca Lynn. So I win, lol. Shawn named Cameron even though I will not lie and I loved the name too but now it is my turn to name this baby. He likes the name so that is good…he just liked Corrine more. At least we can agree on the name though and it is not an arguement.

But anyway, I guess I am going to go for now…I want to try to check in on you buddies and see how things are going and what I have been missing out on these last 5 months I have been pregnant. Good Luck all!

Hi everyone. I know that I have been MIA for quite some time…but I just feel a little out of place right now since I am pregnant and not trying to lose weight. I still love you all and can’t wait to get back to things once I have this baby in December. I hope you will all welcome me back when that time comes. Until then, I will just try to keep you posted every so often of how things are going.

So anyway, I am 5 months pregnant now…have gained about 10lbs…not toooooo bad. I went for a gender ultrasound last week and they told me that they are not 100% sure but they would say that I am having a girl. I am so excited. I already have a boy and I was hoping for a girl this time. I mean I would be happy either way though…so don’t get me wrong…but this is just a huge excitement! I go for my monthly check up tomorrow and he will tell me how everything went with the blood work and ultrasound that I had last week and if everything is still going smooth and if my due date is still on track for Christmas. So I guess we will just see.

Well for now that really is about it. I miss you guys and can’t wait to get back in the swing of things once the baby is born. I already have my plan set. Once the baby is born in December I am jumping on the band wagon immediately…so there is no time to hesitate. I will probably start out working out 3 times a week and work my way back up to 5/6 like I was at within a month or two and I plan on trying to lose 40-50lbs within the first 6 months and then whatever the rest will be which I am guessing around 25-30 lbs in the second 6 months. I am getting the plan in my head now because I am not going to be like I was after I had Cameron and just sit around and say tomorrow is another day, day after day after day.

Well buddies, I hope you are all doing well with your weight loss goals. I wish you all the best of luck. I apologize for not being on every day like I used to and encouraging you and sending you cute little comments…but please know that I think about you everyday. I have just been so tired with the pregnancy and busy between working full time, being a full time mommy, wife and housekeeper, lol. I will be back soon and I am sure you will all be transformed before my eyes, lol. Best wishes.

Well my title says it all. I am on here to give you a 12 week update and also to find out if any of the fellow pregnant ladies on BS have started a Pregnancy Forum to help maintain a healthy weight.

 So first order of business. I am going to be 12 weeks pregnant come tomorrow. Things are well…the baby is fine! I went for a check up a few days ago and got really upset because they told me that they couldn’t find the heartbeat with the heart machine. They said they were not worried though because for heavier people who do not have a full bladder sometimes you won’t be able to hear it with the machine until around 15 weeks. So I went home and kept thinking about it and getting stressed out. So the next day I called my RN at my OBGYN and told her I would like to come back in with a full bladder and see if she could find the heartbeat…AND SHE DID!!! Thank god. She could only find it for like a total of 5 seconds between 2 tries because the baby kept moving but we still heard it…YAY! So my next check up is July 7th. Can’t wait!! I think I should get to find out if I am having a Girl or a Boy in August but if not than definitly in September. I am hoping August though…I am quite impatient and would like to start shopping, lol!

 Anyway, yesterday my husband went out and bought our son the most expensive swing set in stock at Walmart…$600. He said that since we don’t live in a larger town with a park and stuff that Cameron and our new baby on the way need some fun stuff in the yard to keep them happy and occupied and healthy. So he got that. It will probably take like 2 or 3 days to put together but him and my cousin will have that under control. Can’t wait until it is up.

I went shopping yesterday too for some maternity clothes…yup I am starting to show already. So I bought 4 outfits…I will have to take some pictures of me in them and post them later on here for you all to see.

Well I was hoping someone may have started a pregnancy forum to help each other maintain a healthy weight during pregnancy and gain a healthy amount. I can see already that I may start struggling. I have gained almost 10 pounds in my first 3 months of pregnancy  and I don’t want to gain another 20 throughout the rest of this pregnancy which is the rate I am going at. I would like to gain no more than another 5 to 10 pounds. My doctor said that I can gain up to another 20 or even 30 and he would not be worried but he said that he also would not be worried if at my weight I chose to try to keep it to a minimum. So with me gaining already almost 10 pounds another 5 or 10 is where I would like to try to keep it. If there is a forum can you please send me a link and if there is not a forum…would any pregnant women on BS be interested in participating in one if I started a forum?

Well for now that is about it buddies. I am off now to get a bottle of water…I am quite thirsty, lol. Talk to you all soon!

HELLO ALL! BOY HOW I MISS YOU ALL. I HOPE YOU ARE ALL DOING FABULOUS. KEEP UP ALL THE HARD WORK…I KNOW YOU CAN ALL DO THIS!

 JUST WANTED TO POP ON AND GIVE YOU ALL AN UPDATE SO FAR…THINGS ARE WELL. SO FAR THE BABY IS ON TRACK AND SO AM I. I AM ALMOST 8 WEEKS PREGNANT AND I HAVE GAINED 2 POUNDS SO FAR. NOT TOO BAD I BELIEVE. I AM STILL EATING AS HEALTHY AS I CAN (WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SOME CRAVINGS HERE AND THERE, LOL) BUT OF COURSE I AM NOT COUNTING CALORIES OR DOING ANY STRENUOUS EXERCISE…STILL WALKING THOUGH…GREAT EXERCISE!

SO ANYWAY, FOR NOW THAT IS ABOUT IT. I GO BACK FOR ANOTHER CHECK UP ON JUNE 9TH. I WILL BE OUT OF MY FIRST TRIMESTER BY THEN AND I GET TO HEAR THE HEART BEAT…CAN’T WAIT…SO EXCITED! I WILL BE IN TOUCH AGAIN SOON…UNTIL THEN…

Hey everyone…I just found out Friday that I was pregnant and then got a blood test at the ER on Sunday to confirm. I can’t believe it. I am pregnant!!! I have PCOS and insulin resistance and haven’t seen TOM in almost 11 months and yet from losing weight my body has began to adjust and before I got my period I obviously ovulated and got pregnant. I promise to be back after I have the baby. I love your support and help and you are all such great buddies. I will be on from time to time to update you all on my pregnancy progress and of course stay in touch with those that I have become close friends with…but for now…I will not be trying to lose any weight. Well got to go for now…more to come at a later time.

Well I really don’t want to get into every last detail of what has been going on in my life over the past month but to make a long story short…my husband and I had seperated…planned on getting a divorce/ I had met a new guy…left the new guy/made up with my husband… we are currently better than we EVER have been…my brother ran away…he called me and said I could pick him up after Easter…still haven’t heard back from him. Well that sums up the main important points without going on and on and on!

Anyway, I had reached 191 at one point in the 4 weeks or so that I really hadn’t been on here. But this morning I weighed myself and was 198. I have been eating out WAY too much and eating fast food and NOT exercising at all. I guess it is time to get back on track huh?! YUP! So as of right now…I start again~!~

Plan for today~Eat no more than 1400 calories. Walk 3 miles, ride stationary bike for 15 minutes and do 100 crunches.

Best wishes to you all…wish me luck.