You know that bag of mini Halloween candy bars I bought last Friday? The one I nonchalantly tossed into my Target cart when I was actually there for undershirts for DanO and a belt for me? The 52 piece one?
Yea, we ate it all.
Do you know what 52 divided by 7 divided by 2 is?
3.714. I had 3.714 bite-size candy bars a day last week. But hey! So did DanO! ::points finger::
And I think I’ve had at least 2 pumpkin spice or caramel apple coffee drinks a week for a month. O My Autumn they have been calling my name.
“Hi AllisonO! Look at us! We are caffeinated, warm, and come with cardboard sleeves that are 25% post-consumer product! DRINK US.” And I obey because they leave off the “And we have 1/5th of your daily suggested caloric intake” part.
O, and also due to the season, I should probably tell you that my jogging habits fell with the temperature in the last three weeks. Which makes the snow forecast for tomorrow morning during the 5k all but hilarious.
And yet. And yet I have had to go jeans shopping three times postpartum. The first time was five weeks out and I was over maternity pants, so I went to Old Navy with a college roommate. I was feeling pretty good, only having gone up one size from my pre-pregnant self so I bought two pair. But then, three weeks after that (we’re eight weeks postpartum if you’re counting), the two pair of jeans I bought were just too loose. Like, pull them down straight over my hips without unbuttoning them, loose. So back I went, this time to Gap thinking, hoorah! I am back in my old size thanks to running and eating well (this was before the candy bars) and I can invest in one new good pair!
Side note: LOVE their ‘sexy bootcut’. No one paid me to say that.
Ok so I’m wearing my new pair from Gap last week (11 weeks postpartum), making dinner, when DanO comes home from work and i kid you not the first words out of his mouth are: “Are those jeans too big for you?”
I didn’t want to say it, but I had thought they kind of were. I hadn’t been running or eating well (enter: candy bars) for almost a month so I wrote it off. Until I washed them and they were still too big.
Cut to me in Old Navy on Wednesday buying one pair the size down from what I was pre-pregnancy.
Was it the tall no-whip non-fat pumpkin spice latte I had ordered last week? Couldn’t be. Was it that time I thought about running but decided it was too cold? No.
The only consistent theme here is: BREAST FEEDING.
Amen and amen.
Photo courtesy of my camera’s self-timer
LOVE the new jeans!! And the pedi I see on your right toe. And the fact that you’re not running either, cuz I sure haven’t been.
Who’s excited to FREEZE OUR BUTTS OFF tomorrow???
Yay for breastfeeding! Wait til he gets a bit older, if you keep nursing. I was ravenous when J was 6-8 months…and dropping the pounds. They say it doesn’t work as a weight loss tool for everyone, but it sure worked for me!
Haha… pedicure… you mean the one that’s left over from September 20th?
Yes. Let the butt freezing commence.
Isn’t it great!? Gotta love BEST-feeding (i just made that up- I’m feeling kinda saucy today)
Breastfeeding ROCKS! On so many levels :)
I had the same AWESOME bf’ing weight loss…be careful when you stop though, it comes back just as fast if you don’t cut back calories. ugh! maybe don’t stop during halloween candy/fall latte’ season next year. :)
So…are you supposed to comment when the post makes you a tad jealous? ha ha. You go girl. Eat a mini candy bar for me sister! Love your jeans and you look great! Don’t rub it in mmmmkay? =)
AHHHH!! You go girl! Woo hoo! Now how good do you feel? ps- thanks God and micah. :)
that breastfeeding trick stops working when you have a baby at 38. hey, and i think those jeans look a bit too big. they sure aren’t one bit snug. eat a few more candy bars.
Breastfeeding was the best weight loss solution for me too! I could eat whatever I wanted and just kept losing weight! It rocks! I was thinner 3 months postpartum then I’d been since high school…I’m now prego with number two and can’t wait to start the ultimate weight loss again with the next babe! Bad news for me was that I gained 5 pounds within a month of weaning my first at about 14 months. :(
So what you’re saying is, Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes helped you lose weight?
Awesome. I’ve got to try that. (As soon as I can enter a coffee shop again without wanting to hurl.)
Yay for you! Must be nice to lose weight by eating candy and drinking starbucks:) But hey, your body is working overtime with the breastfeeding so I guess it equals out:) But seriously, that must feel great to be a size down!
Good for you! The jeans look great, although a bit too big in my opinion! Breastfeeding twins lost me 43 lbs in 3 weeks! Hurrah! Unfortunately, too many Dairy Queens this summer brought back 10 of it… oh well!
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