Mckenzie's surgery

Weve decided to push her surgery out until August 13th. Initially we were told it'd be ale a week recovery. I found out about a week ago it's more like 2. Between days 7-10 potato there is a risk for bleeding so it'll be best to have her at home then.

We were just in Portland for a good friends wedding last week. I went to Phoenix for work this week to train on a new computer system, so it would have put me out of the office for 3 weeks straight, which would have been awful timing. I talked to her doctor and she said it was fine to push it out 2 weeks. After talking with my mom she said she would come stay with us the second week and watch Mckenzie, so it's going to work out much better.

Mckenzie and I are flying back to Portland this weekend ad I need to be in my office when we go live with our new system. Its looking like it'll make my job easier and more efficient to do, which I'm definitely looking forward to, of course after I get the hang of things!

Working on my fitness!

 I'm proud to say that I was able to breastfeed Mckenzie until she was about 18 months old.  I made it to a year and with all the illnesses she had her peditrician strongly suggested I try to breastfeed through the Winter to get those extra antibodies for her to help fight off the sicknesses.  So I was hoping to make it through March, around Februrary ish I stopped pumping regularly and she wasn't a big fan of having whole milk mixed with breast milk.  I ended up quitting cold turkey, because she would come up to me and say "Nurse." The weaning went very well and actually wasn't even painful as I had anticipated.

With breastfeeding I really didn't have to work too much at all to loose the baby weight after having Mckenzie. I really didn't work out and was back into my regular clothes pretty quickly, which I think was from breastfeeding.

However, once I stopped breastfeeding I've noticed over the last 6 ish weeks my pants are getting tight on me. I decided I was not going to buy bigger pants and needed to get back into the gym! I had been contemplating which gym would be best to sign up at.  I checked out the local YMCA and Anytime Fitness. YMCA was great but just far enough that it would be hard to get a decent amount of time to actually work out.

Before moving to Idaho, I had been working out regularly during my lunch hour which worked great.  Work has been extremely stressful for a while now, which could be a contributing factor to not fitting in my clothes too well.  I haven't really been taking much of a lunch break lately just trying to keep up.  I need to be taking a lunch break, so I decided today that I will give my job 110% but need to start taking a lunch break and am going to start working out during lunch time again! I need to! It'll probably be a great stress reliever as well.

I'm going to make small goals and be realistic....

My small goal is to lose 8 pounds (About 2 pounds per week) within 1 month (August 9, 2012).  My membership is with anytime fitness and there is one that barely a mile from the house!

I'd like to lose about 18 pounds right now.  One I hit that then I can re-evaluate and decide what my next goal is!

I'm looking forward to getting back into the gym for me :)

Wish me luck! :)