obviously I've dropped the ball...

So.... post of shame :( BUT!!!!! I am posting because I am on day two of my Jillian Michael's ripped in 30 program. It's a good workout and the best part is that the workouts are only 20 minutes. That is perfect cause my little 5 months old doesn't seem to want me to loose the lbs I gained having her... I haven't lost any pounds according to the scale I'm still 165 but my body fat % is down 2 percent. I have been walking daily with my little girl and dog for a while now :) I will be keeping it up! Look for no more posts of shame!!

355 days to go.

Well I am to days into in and 0 lbs lost. BUT!! I do consider that some what an accomplishment if you take into consideration what I ate over the 4th of July weekend and my family reunion. It did include daily trips to the local Richfield Ideal Dairy to get my favorite "Ideal Slush". Which is slushy topped with soft serve ice cream... Yeah.... it's amazing. So now I am back to reality and back to my goal. In preparation for this goal I bought a work out DVD that would fit in my time schedule that people have also given rave reviews over, Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred. We shall see! Again I only need to lose 2 lbs a month so I'm not too concerned about loosing the weight through just working out. It's more about making a whole life style change to eat better and work out consistently.

So it begins...

Currently I am 5'8 and 170.2 lbs my scale says that my body fat is 39%. That make me want to throw up. But... this is what this is all about. Right? The way I have it figured if I average a weight loss of 2 lbs a month then I will hit my weight goal in 1 years time. I want to do this right. That is why I am only expecting to loose 2 lbs a month. No fad diets, no crazy workouts. Those things wont last me and I'll be right back to where I started. I want to change my life style so that I can actually stay at the weight I want. True I will have to do some intense working out but nothing that I can't keep up.

Introduction

Ok... so last year there were a bazillion weddings to go to. It was fun and also slightly depressing. I am not saying I am fat, but I wasn't at my ideal weight and the pictures showed it. With the idea of a possible trip to Mexico looming, I got back into the gym and started to loose some of the weight. It was feeling good! Then my husband and I of 6 years found out we were having a baby! Which meant.... I was pregnant (obviously :) So my body was about to go through some changes. I actually didn't gain too much weight with the pregnancy at only 2 months after her birth I am 5 lbs from being pre pregnancy weight. The problem is that most of that weight before was muscle and now it is fat. The second problem is that my pre pregnancy weight is still 20 pounds over what I would like to be at which is 145 lbs. or more importantly a size 4 jeans. I will be happy with 150 and size 6 jeans but I figure if I am going to go at it why not go for what I really really want.

I am giving myself a year. June 30th 2012 is my husband's beautiful sister's wedding and I am a bridesmaid. I love her and am so excited for her!!! I also want to be happy when we flip through the photo album. I'm going to be honest and let it all out in this blog. I really don't know if anyone will even see the blog but really I don't care. I need it for myself. A journal of sorts that due to it's ability to be read by anyone will hold me accountable. So here it goes!

ps. The name is weight loss is Italian. I figured that sounded nicer than weight loss :) Plus when my husband and I were first married we went to Rome Italy and I was at my ideal weight at that time and I would like to get back to feeling good about myself like I did then.