Well, I’m still hanging in there. And the fat is too. Holding steady at 180lbs. Not one pound lost. Good thing I’m not totally doing this for weight loss, or would have quit weeks ago. And THAT is why I am doing the triathlon.
I feel pretty good in my work out routine -4 days a week. We usually just crawl out of bed and make our way to the gym. I am up to 97 minutes on the bike, 48 minutes swimming freestyle without stopping and running, well, that is the hardest one for me. I’ve only got about 30 minutes in me right now. I’m slow. I’ve surprised myself, when the first day swimming I couldn’t even go one length of the pool and now I am doing almost an hour. Feels great.
There are a few women that take great care of my girls a the gym childcare and a few that, well, don’t make me happy. When I went to pick up the girls last week after a 90 minute workout, the woman said, “Oh good, Ruby has been crying for an hour.” I got a little upset and asked why they didn’t come get me. She retracted what she said…”Oh she was just fussy”. Ugh. Later, Lindy told me that Ruby was crying so loud, she couldn’t hear the tv. wow. That is LOUD. Ruby only cries when she is hungry, tired, or needs a diaper change…she’s pretty easy to take care of (Now). Another day, I picked her up and she smelled like the woman had POURED her perfume all over Ruby. I had to change her outfit AND give her a bath. It was bad. I mentioned to the manager that the workers really shouldn’t be wearing perfume when working with infants. I could find MANY excuses to NOT go to the gym but I gotta push through.
I’ve had a conflicting time in my head as what to do with Ruby as I REALLY REALLY want to get her on a schedule and she just won’t have it. As someone who believes the babywise system is right for our family, it has been ROUGH trying to get Ruby on board and going to the gym throws a wrench into it but as of THIS week though, we’ve made some progress. I’ve been working really really hard at it. We are finally eating meals at very specific times of the day, everyday, I can get her to nap for 2 hours from 12 noon to 2, and going to bed at 7 is not a cry fest anymore. The babywise system is all about feeding, playing and sleeping schedules. Get the feeding stuff figured out and the sleeping will follow.
Of course, I write this and I think tomorrow, she’ll probably decide to switch things up. That is OKAY. We are going to keep working on it. Next thing…get rid of the pacifier. She is VERY dependent on it. VERY. I’m not sure how I feel about that, but I don’t like having to rely on it.
It’s hard to retrain your brain from one child to another. Seriously. I know my girls are different but I gotta figure out how to balance what I think should happen for our family’s sanity and what my child truly wants to meet her needs.
I continue to work on eating healthy. I have my good meals and bad meals. Trying to eat so much more vegetables and whole grains.
I was getting dressed today at the gym and a younger girl asked if I was diabetic. Kind of hard to hide it when I am plugging my pump in. She is type 1. We talked for 15 minutes and I wanted to talk even more but had to go get the girls. We had a lot to talk about. CGM and pumps and babies. I even told her we should go to lunch and if I run into her again -we will!


















