Yesterday

Yesterday was a really fun day. We went to the Mitchell Park Domes with a friend of ours, Caroline, and her 7 year old daughter, Angelles. Leilani loved running around the paths and touching all of the plants and trees. And she especially loved looking at the small waterfall in the "Tropical" dome. And even though Angelles is seven and much older than Leilani, I still think Leilani likes playing with her. Even if it's not really on her level.

Afterwards, everyone wanted to have lunch at McDonald's. Not exactly the best choice for starting a diet. But I went with the flow and just ate light.

I kept track of the calories I consumed yesterday and tallied about 1250. Not too bad! I just have to keep it going and when the weather warms up a bit (like back up into the 20's) I may start jogging in the morning. In the few months after Leilani was born, Mike and I would make a point to go out and be active... walking and biking. And within 7 weeks of giving birth, I had lost all of the baby weight and then some. (It probably helped that I was nursing during those first weeks too.) But we stopped going for walks and bike rides in the Winter when the weather got cold and in the Spring we never picked it up again. I now wish we would have. Maybe I would have been able to maintain that weight. So now it's like I'm starting from scratch.

I'm weighing myself everyday now, too. When I weighed myself the other day and found out I was 190, I did so at night and with jeans on. So the weight on the scale was a little skewed. I'm now weighing myself in the morning and, ahem, I do it almost "nakey." And I've already lost 3.5 pounds!!! He he.