Week 2 - Ebbs and Flows

So first of all I'm really grateful that a lot of you wrote last week about not getting frustrated with the scale, etc.  I needed it this morning.  Everyone says weight loss is easy math calories/calories out.  According to my "math" this week I should have lost 4 lbs.  I definitely did not.  However, I was happy with my inches lost.  It's hard though not to be discouraged.

I noticed lots of ebbs and flows this week.  On Tuesday when I went to Zumba I wore a fitted shirt, and low and behold I could see that I had a waist again!  Yay!  I had so much fun in that class, I felt like my body was moving the way it should, before these pregnancy pounds!  The director of the place happened to be there that night and after class she told me how good I was looking, and how much better I was moving in just 3 weeks since I had attended the first class.  I was so happy to tell her I had lost 7 lbs. and how great I was feeling.  I left that night feeling so motivated, feeling like of course I could reach my goals, and just so good.

The next night working out I felt like my feet weighed at least 100 lbs.  I had no energy, I felt bloated and yucky.  I felt like a failure.

And so it goes...I'm trying to do what Elise said and have positive thoughts this morning and this upcoming week.

Maybe this song will be my mantra for this week!  (These are my crazy boys by the way)...

I'll just keep telling myself, "Baby, you are a firework!"