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Harper is 8 weeks old today.

My baby is almost two months old. Uhhh.

I had to have 3 biopsies done last week but everything is A-OK. (Praise Jesus)

I really need to start working out and not just eating better.

Haven’t totally figured out how I’m going to do that during the week since Matt works late.

I’m going on a girls weekend in March and I.CAN’T.WAIT.

It’s a crafting girls weekend. We’re going to sit around and craft…all weekend!

I love crafting.

I hate cleaning.

I really need to get some cleaning done.

And by ‘some’ cleaning…I mean they might call hoarders on me if I don’t get it together.

The Super Bowl is in Indy this year and I’m sick of hearing about it already.

iPhones are great

I needed a way to track my daily caloric intake ( fancy way of keeping a food diary). I thought about a notebook. I figured I’d probably lose it. I wanted to find an app. Not just any app because there are 100 of apps for everything. Literally everything out there, but I needed one that actually worked. I had specific ideas on what I wanted on the app. I needed to be able to put in my own meals, but still have a meal plan option. (Always nice for new meals) I needed to have an option for exercise input, water tracker (how many glasses a day), and a weight tracker. I actually found an app with all of those things. I feel pretty lucky. I can never find a perfect app when I looking for something specific.

The app is actually part of a pretty popular weight-loss website, Sparkpeople . You can find people on the actual website who are trying to lose weight and connect with them. I’m actually not really interested in that part. Just the tracking part.

I’ve only been using the app one day, but so far I love it! I hope I can keep it up!

I’m not giving it up.

Mt. Dew is delicious. I love it anyway I can get it. I know how incredibly bad for you it is. And I just don’t care. I could live without eating cookies and cakes and all that, easy. Mt. Dew is another thing. I actually went almost an entire year without drinking it. 10 months of that was when I was pregnant and another month of breast feeding prevented me from drinking it. And I gladly gave it up for my baby girl.

I will not, however be giving it up in my attempts to get healthy. I know, I know. But I’ll just work that much harder. Seriously…I’ll be working out so I can have Mt. Dew.

Don’t get me wrong though. My water intake will be greater than my Dew intake. Everybody has to have that one thing they let themselves back slide on or you can just come crashing down.

Monday this chick will be starting to keep a food journal. Yikes!

2012

I seriously love food. I come from a family who snacks and married into, what could only be described as, ‘the eating-est family I have ever met’. I love cooking and trying new recipes and butter. Butter makes everything taste better. Everything.

In high school I wasn’t fat and I guess I wasn’t skinny either. I ate french fries with cheese and vending machine food just about every day. But when you’re in high school and you have a crazy good metabolism and you’re in marching band (band geeks holla!), you can pretty much eat anything. The only problem is that when I graduated and wasn’t as active, I still ate like crap.

Fast forward 5 years. I lost a bunch of weight about a year ago. I wasn’t ‘high school skinny’ but I was close. And then I got pregnant with our little girl. I didn’t gain as much weight as I expected (being pregnant gives you an excuse to eat whatever you want right? Wrong.). Now at 5 weeks post baby, I am a few pounds shy of what I weighed before becoming pregnant. I haven’t done anything to get that way so I feel pretty lucky, but I would seriously like to lose more. Not just lose weight, but get healthier. Healthier in the way I eat and live my life all around. I need to for my husband and my daughter, but most of all for me. I still have about two weeks before I will get released by my doctor to do any form of exercise but I will eat better until then. It’s not going to be easy, I am a classic over eater. But I won’t give up. Let’s get this party (can salads and exercise be considered a party?) started.