Lost: One Bowling Ball

In the past 6 weeks (since Kennedy turned 6 wks old), I have lost 12 pounds. No, I'm not nursing (I think just about everybody asks me that). I have lost 12 lbs through eating less and moving more. Did you know that actually works?

I also try to apply Miss Piggy's wise advice whenever possible: "Never eat more than you can lift." Words to live by, if you ask me.

I have it down to a fine science. In order to lose 1 lb, you must lose 3500 calories. So... I write down all the calories that I eat and do not exceed 1,000/day (in order to lose 500 calories/day off my basal metabolic rate which is 1500 calories/day). If I exercise on a given day, I can eat more.

What I've learned is that:

1) I was eating way more calories than I truly needed and now that I'm eating less I'm not hungry like I thought I would be

2) I was turning to food for comfort and stress relief waaaayyy too much and I've eliminated that

3) Food is for fuel and gluttony is a sin

I started thinking about what 12lbs looks like and it makes me more proud of how much I've lost so far.

I've lost the equivilent of any of these:

-A bowling ball

-A baby

-A cat

-2 1/2 bags of flour or sugar

-42,000 calories lost (that's 78 Big Macs)

-A Thanksgiving turkey

-2 bricks

-A gallon and a half of water

Wow. Now, I have about 30 lbs more to go to meet my ultimate goal!!!!!!!!!! Then I'll have to post some before/after pictures. Look out, Biggest Loser! You've met your match!! :)