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January 1st, the D day for many starting a diet. I was no different this year. I had my 4th and last baby (knock on wood) October 1st, 2012 and had gained 80 lbs over the course of those 9 months (10 months to be exact). On top of 20 lbs I had put on over the holidays before getting pregnant. The holidays are always rough for me. I LOVE FOOD! That is why I waited till January 1^st 2013 to start.

I stepped on the scale January 1^st and it read 212 lbs. Kind of weird, 212 lbs is what I weighed when I started my weight loss journey after my last baby. I've done this, diet thing many times before. I always gain lots of weight while I'm pregnant. I have big babies, is the excuse I make. My smallest baby, Layla, was 8 lbs 15 oz and my biggest baby,my latest baby, Oliver was my biggest. He weighed in at a whopping 10 lbs 11 oz. Even though I lose a lot of weight after giving birth I still usually have plenty more to lose.

January has been a hard month so far. At the beginning of January it was the left over holiday food and candy. Middle of January the inversion started to get to me. I am defenatly an emotional eater. If I feel depressed, bored, happy, sad I want to eat something. The inversion is making me feel depressed. The cold temperatures make me want to just stay home. When I'm home I find myself in the kitchen often, trying to find something to snack on. I've learned to only keep low calorie snacks in my home when I'm on a diet. However, then my husband gets mad that there's only diet food to eat. It's a never ending battle.

I managed to lose 2 lbs the first week. The 2^nd week I stayed the same weight. The 3^rd week I finally manged to find some time to exercise. I used the elliptical and lifted weights one day and went to water aerobics twice. Exercise is very hard now that I have 2 kids. I try doing things at home but the kids hang on me and always need something. Going to the gym I need to find a babysitter or have planned so I can make sure they have room in the nursery for the baby. The last week I managed to work out once. I still managed to some how lose 2 lbs.

For my diet I will be following my own version of Weight Watchers. After my first baby I tried Weight Watchers. I lost 20 lbs over 6 months I believe. Being that he was my first baby and I was only 20 that was really all I needed to lose. Ever since then I've done some version of Weight Watchers after my babies. I only paid for the system the first time. After that I got so used to how it worked that I started doing it on my own and tweaking somethings in the plan. I will be using that same sort of “diet” this time around. Plus exercising when I can. You can follow my weekly progress on this blog and check the SPLASH newsletter at Kearns Oqurith Park Fitness Center for my monthly updates. I will be writing about my ups and downs during my journey. I want to help inspire you to keep up with your weight loss goals. I hope to also share any tips or recipes I come across. I am also competing in a weight loss contest till the end of March so I will up date you how I do in the competition as well.