Sizing up

First things first: My knees have completely recovered! I checked my FitBit. Apparently we did 32 flights of stairs yesterday. That would explain the knee pain. Surprisingly, my quads were just fine. Nevertheless, today was a chill day. 

The nugget has been getting up at 7:00 a.m. and today was no different. Not thrilled with her wake-up time, to be honest. She had some boob milk and I thought she was going to go back to sleep, but right as I got comfortable, she rolled over and crawled over to me and started giggling. Cute, kiddo, but too early for your mind games. Eventually, Nasur came up and saved me from the nugget. I followed them downstairs and then had some breakfast. While relaxing and watching the morning news, we bought Reyah a Halloween costume online. 

Source: carters.com

Now that baby is a cute dragon, but you just wait, Reyah will be an even cuter dragon. Shortly after buying the costume, I closed my computer and got a text from one of my residency pals texted me and told me our board scores were up. As I opened my computer, my wifi decided to crash and I was in a pure panic. I needed to see my scores ASAP. So I looked it up online and I passed! Woo hoo! That being said, like 87% of people pass (or so I'm told) so I had the odds in my favor, but still. Woooooooooo! 

Then I headed upstairs to get ready for my photography session. I had to get my headshots and full body shots for the website and marketing campaign to introduce me as a new doctor who's accepting patients. The photography session was mostly painless and they gave me a fancy schmancy water bottle with the hospital logo at the end.

Then I headed to the hospital to get fitted for my white coat (which I rarely ever wore during residency). The woman helping me offered me two choices: the unisex coat with more pockets or the woman's coat with a band in the back. I tried on the unisex coat first and its length was great, but the sleeves were large. Then she asked me for my normal shirt size to fit the white coat. I said 18 or 20. She was like, "Well, let's try the 16." Um, listen lady, it's hard enough for me to say my size out loud, but it's even harder when I have to ask for the larger size. I tried it on and had to ask for the bigger size. Then I tried the 18 and had to ask for the bigger size. Embarrassing.

Then she handed me a blanket with the hospital logo on it. And then she told me I also got a free jacket with the hospital logo on it. She reached for the women's XL/XXL bin. She asked which size I wanted to try first. Lady, I know you can see how big I am. Obviously the XXL. And let me tell you, it was snug. And she knew it was snug. She was like, "Um, let me see if we have a bigger size." I was like, "Um, I'm losing my pregnancy weight. It'll fit nicely soon enough." Like c'mon lady, we both know you don't have a bin with women's XXXL. And there's no need to embarrass me further. 

Then I went and did my occupational health stuff where they make sure I haven't done a lot of drugs and am up to date on all of my vaccinations and then I was set free. 

After all that, I went grocery shopping. First, I stopped at Trader Joe's, then Sprouts, and lastly, WalMart. Got lots of goodies and then went home. Nasur made dinner and then we went for a bike ride. Tomorrow we head to Denver to meet up with a friend from Michigan! Cheers!

Breakfast!

Lunch

Dinner

Nugget and Nasur

Calorie Tracking is a Bitch

So today I decided to track my calories. I had the most success with weight loss when I did that before, so I'm not going to reinvent the wheel. As I stated earlier, I'm not planning on cutting out any food groups in particular; I'm just going to try to eat smarter. I'm also working on moving a bit more. This is harder to do with a kiddo around, but I'm going to work on that too. 

This morning, my husband went to Colorado State University to figure out how to enroll in school now that we're here so I was left with the nugget. She has recently decided that 7:00 a.m. is a great time to wake up. Not a fan. She had some boob milk and we made our way downstairs at 8:00. She played while I got myself some breakfast going. 

Avocado English muffin + scrambled eggs (1 egg + 2 egg whites)

Probiotic juice to keep me regular ;-)

Trader Joe's pizza and a serving size of Caesar salad

Nuts

Cantaloupe

Chicken salad + crackers

HelloFresh baja barramundi + leftover Caesar salad

Then the nugget had some puréed peaches and we got her all dressed. She crashed for nap #1 around 10:15 and I showered and did some stuff I wanted to do (steam some green beans for her, buy a new nursing bra since I only have two and one's underwire made a break for freedom, etc). 

Reyah got up at 11:30ish, had lunch with Nasur - she's a fan of green beans like her mama! I had a bit unhealthier lunch than her, but it was noms. I also had to snack between breakfast and lunch because, duh. I'm always hungry.

After lunch, Nasur had to do some car stuff so the nugget and I hung out. She went down for another nap around 3:45 and so I got to make some lemon bars I've been wanting to make for some time now. I also fiddled around with my FitBit to finally get it to work. Nasur gave it to me for my birthday and it has been really finicky but now it's finally working!

Nasur made dinner while I kept the nugget entertained, but I snacked again between meals because I'm always hungry. I'm not sure if breastfeeding makes it worse, but I need food like every 1-3 hours.


Then we got to eat dinner. I'm pretty luck that the husband cooks because it's not for me. Baking requires less patience [if you use a box mix].

Then we opted to take the nugget out on her first bike trailer ride. Our timing probably wasn't excellent as she gets pretty fussy after dinner, but she tolerated it as best she could.

Before going out

During her ride

After, lol

We got home and she was a major fusspants so she had some boob milk and I put her down. She was mad about having to go to sleep, but settled in eventually. Then Nasur and I enjoyed our lemon bars.

It was a box mix - I'm only good at following directions

Only 100 calories!

So, now that the day is done, I can say that I did track every single thing that I ate and wow, I ate a lot.

My calorie range is 1700-2050 per day to allow for a 1.5 pound loss per week. This calculator doesn't include an option to indicate that you're breastfeeding. From what I have read, breastfeeding allows an extra 500 calories a day. So that's more of what I'm shooting for. We'll see how things go. 

Logging calories is a bitch, by the way. It'll get easier once I'm into it more, especially once I'm back to work and have a bit more structure to my day. Also, I did a weigh-in today. I'm thinking I'll try to do this once a week. We'll see.

Thanks for reading!