Goals and Results

So week ago on Sunday I did some counting. I counted that then I had one day less than 16 weeks time before our wedding party. I also counted a little goal for my self, I would have to loose 0,5kg weight every week and I would have to loose 1cm from my waist if I would want to be in the same measurements I use to be. Well I was thinking that 1cm from my waist each week could be to much to even wish for, but hey you have to have somekinda clear measurements and goals so you know where you are.
Well yesterday in a morning I stepped on our scale and I was really surprised, I have lost 0,9kg since last Sunday. Then I went to stand next to a mirror and was the time to measure my waist and I have also been taking measurements from the level of my lovehandels, that measurement should be getting smaller also. And I've measured my hips ( from the level where my ass is ) that is a measurement I would love to stay the same or get bigger cause I want to grow my bum muscles. Well the results in past week is.. Lost centimeters from my waist: 1 and from my lovehandels: 1. And my hips and ass is still the same. I can see my ass getting tighter though, so I am loosing all fat from there but the muscle is growing and that is good, really good. So now the results are looking great and I am sure I can get to my goal. If I stay in my goals each week it will happen. Feels so great!

Ok, so now the big picture. I started training 10 weeks ago. Struggling, slowly, and trying couple different diets. Result in 10 weeks is that I have lost 6,5kg, my waist is now 9 centimeters smaller and my lovehandels are now 7 centimeters smaller. I did loose some centimeters from my hips in a begining, actually 4cm, but thats fine, now the past 6 weeks it has stayed the same. So all together it would be 6,5kg and 20cm. Well I still have some kilos and centimeters to go. But most important thing that has changed during this 10 weeks is my confidence, I finally got my confidence back. I feel so great and so beatiful again, I feel like I really can do this and I can get fit again. The thing is, I really think this saying is true " Best thing a woman can wear is CONFIDENCE". Cause hey, if you dont feel and think you are beautiful, why would anyone else see your beauty?

Well I am finishing now cause I have to go and look after my little stinky boy, I will write more in couple days and maybe I will add some pics from before I started training. Im still thinking if I will add them now or closer to the summer when there is bigger difference. Well, lets see. HAVE A NICE WEEK YOU ALL!

Shrinking and Growing

Time goes past so quick. When I started writing this blog I was thinking that I will write atleast every week, but would try to write 2-3 times each week. And now it is already almost two weeks from my last text. I started writing a text a week ago but I thought I will publish it after I get pictures from my phone to the computer. Well then I forgot to do it and here I am, week later. Deleted the text I wrote a week ago and I'm starting to write a new one.

Sun and snowy field close by. Such an amazing weather.

 So in these two weeks we have been doing long walks and enjoying the sunshine, walking and pushing Leo in a pram is amazingly hard and good exercise. We have also been going to this ice ring close by to do some ice skating. I love it, it is good exercise and nice change for walking or doing inside cycling at the gym. We found ice skates for Sam also so he tried it to, and he is natural talent. And now he would like to go skating each day.

Me and Sam at the ice ring.

Little Leo after our walk, he just woke up.

So after my last text I noticed that I wasnt loosing weight at all that week. So we did couple changes and now I'm doing even more cardio. Seems like the last kilos are really trying to stick in my body. Well thats not gonna happen. It is just really hard to try to loose weight and gain some muscle at the same time but thats what I have to do.
 I am checking my weight and measurements every sunday morning before the breakfast, then I know that it is the real weight and food or anything I have been drinking right before stepping on the scale wont affect into my weight. Past week I have been getting good results, 1 kilo and couple centimeters from here and there. I will give some exact numbers in a week, then its been ten weeks of training and dieting. I started slowly after the 6 weeks after labour doctor check when she told me everything is healing well and I can go back to my old rutines step by step.
Gym is going great. I've actually started to see my muscles from my arms again, slowly I am getting there. And I can get one of my old really tight jeans all the way up again. Cant do the button yet but before the summer thats gonna happen also.

This morning I started my day with wholemeal multigrain porridge topped with some blueberries, raspberries and cinnamon, I heard cinnamon helps to burn fat. I also had big glass of water with vitamin C tablet in it and all my tablets including magnesium, calcium, vitamin B, Multivitamin, Iron, Zink, etc etc. So many tablets its not even funny, but well they all have their own jobs so what can I do.

Leo having some tummy time.

Sam finally got his visa so now he is allowed to stay in Finland with me and Leo and he is also allowed to have a job. Its going to be so weird when he goes to work, he has been home with me since we came to Finland and now I will´have to stay home by my self and take care of Leo without Sam here helping me when I need him. Bit scary, but I know I will survive.
Leo is growing up so quick and he is developing so quick and soon he is going to be crawling around and I'm running after him. Just in past couple weeks he has started to holding on to things, if you let him to sit on your lap next to the table he will start pulling things down. He can also hold his bottle and drink from it without help for a moment. He is almost flipping from his back to his belly and to the other way and his legs are getting so strong that I'm scared he will just start walking without crawling first. :D Week and couple days and Leo has his 4 months check, lets see how huge he is then.

Leo grabbing his evening snack. Multigrain bread and milk.
Little man knows how to eat healthy. :)

Well I'm finnishing up now, I need some lunch and then I could go for a walk cause it is such a beautiful day again. Have a nice sunday evening you all and remember to train hard, eat clean and dream big! :)

3 months, 17 kilos.

So now its bit more than 3 months from labour. I started training about 7 weeks ago, slowly ofcourse. I tried to start hard but my husband told me not to. I was stubborn and we even got into afight cause I just wanted to start training like I used to. Now I know he was right and I would have been broken in 5 minutes at that gym without him telling me to take it easy.

Little Leo loves car rides

Now I'm starting to reach the same powers I use to have. I have been training six days a week and I have a great diet. It was a bit of struggling in a begining to find the right amounts of food and the right kind of diet for me. I even tried on Atkins for couple weeks, I was really strict with it to but it only dropped couple of kilos. Now I'm back eating clean and healthy and I feel so much better. Lots of fish, chicken and meat, vegetables and a bit of multigrain bread or porridge at mornings.
Couple more weeks and I will put up a picture before I started training and a current picture. But well I can tell you that now there is about 17 kilos behind me and about 8 kilos to go. I am not so strict about the kilos though, centimetres and how do I look is more important. Fact is that I am trying to get more muscle than I use to have so who knows what the scale will say when I am happy how I look.

Happy little boy in his daddys arms

On the other part of my life, with my beautiful family everything is going well. Leo is growing, and making teeth already. He loves biting everything and is trying to be so brave and not to cry when his gums are hurting. He talks so much that I cant talk at all sometimes, without him giving this look "mummy can you shut up I'm trying to tell something". He is trying to sit up by him self to, not long and he will do it to. And today just a minute ago I heard this amazing laugh when Sam was tickling his neck.

Oh on sunday we went to do snow sledding!! It is so much fun. And it has been a year since we have done it..Have to go again!

Well I am getting of from this computer now, I will go and have a little snack and go to bed. Good Night you all and have an awesome day tomorrow, dream big and train hard!