A Few Things...and a diet bet!

Since I have been posting so much about baby I decided to change things up and finally post about health and fitness.

 

1. Diet Bet....What what?!?!

I am joining in on Skinny Meg's diet bet! YOU should too! It's a 25.00 buy in and theres like 10,000 PLUS in the pot already. ALL you have to do to win a chunk of that dough is lose 4% of your body weight in 4 weeks!

2. Couch to 5k!

Last August I started C25K which seriously helped me lose weight big time. I am happy to say I started again this week! It feels SO good.

3. Jamie Eason's Turkey Muffins

This recipe is so good! It makes 12 turkey meatloaf muffins. I made them last week and they turned out great. You can freeze them in two's and then nuke them for a healthy lunch! Making them again this week.

4. Meal Prep Sunday

I am starting meal prep this Sunday. I'm making the turkey muffins (above), cutting up my veggies, cooking chicken for wraps and salads and making some brown rice. I am going to lose at least 4% during this diet bet.

5. I am also going to start weighing in weekly again and posting about it yay!

6. At the end of the diet bet I will post before/after pictures. yee haawww!

7. My workouts for September will consist of Couch25k and Shaun T's new T25 workout from beachbody!

8. Oh...I am kind of pissed that it's September and Summer is almost over! :(

Anyone else doing the diet bet? Who has done one before...how did it go?

 

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One Month Old!

I cannot believe my baby boy turned one month on Tuesday. I feel like we were heading to the hospital to have him like 4 days ago. Time flies when you don't get sleep right?? Nah its not bad at all in fact I'm truly enjoying every minute of his newborn stage. You never know what life is going to bring and if this is my last baby I am savoring every sleep deprived moment.

 

Jack has brought us so much joy this past month. He is fitting right into our family. The funniest thing about him are how wide/big his eyes are when he is awake. He looks startled all the time haha! It's so cute!

He has given us a few half smiles while awake and those cute gas grins while he sleeps. I am so excited to see his first official smile which should be in the next few weeks! He still sleeps quite a bit. His awake periods are probably for about 45 min to an hour which includes his eating time. He is still breastfeeding great. However, I am pumping more and giving bottles every other feeding because if not he is attached to my boob all day, and I need to be able to give Hunter attention too ;) At night he wakes up 2 times still i'm hoping he drops the second feeding soon! His personality is much more calm then his brothers which I am very glad about! I'm sure he will get more feisty as time goes on though...it's in his blood! ;)

Jack is a whopping 9 lbs 9 oz, that is 1 oz more than his brother weighed at birth! He is wearing newborn sized clothes and a few 0 to 3 month outfits but they are still pretty loose. He is in size one diapers. We're really not sure what his eye color is going to be sometimes they look dark brownish other times slate blue. So we will see!

We love our little Jack with all our heart! Even big brother is happy keeping him around!

 

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Model Material...

So when my little guy was 9 days old we had newborn pictures done. I just got the CD back last week and they are A-FREAKIN-DORABLE but yeah I'm a little biased. Here are some of my favorites..

 

 

 

 

 

He did so good! Hunter came with us at the beginning to get a few shots and then him and Dad had a fun afternoon together. Jack and I had a blast (not...) I got peed on right at the beginning and my clothes were soaked. Plus she keeps it warm for newborn shoots (it was like 85 degrees in the house) so I was dripping with sweat and urine...fun times. But it was all worth it. She is an amazing photographer...the photos speak for themselves!

I'm starting to get used to less sleep than usual. He is still waking up twice at night. Goes to bed at 8:30 wakes up around 2:30 wakes up again around 5:00 am and then sleeps another few hours. I can't wait until he drops that 5 am wake up! I started pumping and giving him bottles for his night feedings. It takes me about 20 minutes to feed him vs the one and a half hours it was taking me before! Score!

I'm going to be posting about my favorite newborn and new mom items later this week! SO exciting I know!

Hope everyone has a fantastic week!

 

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