http://mybodymyblog.com As I grow, I (hopefully) shrink... Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:43:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been pretty much completely offline for a couple of weeks -- visiting family in TX with the two boys -- and I'm SO glad to be back. Loved catching up on the antics of my favorite diet/exercise bloggers tonight, and look forward to more updates of my own as ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/08/14/missing-you/ Here I am... showered, vitamins taken, teeth brushed and face moisturized. I'm even wearing clean clothes. Finally, I found some "me" time to do the very basics. Next steps: find more "me" time every day to improve my fitness and eat healthfully. That's what it's all about, after all. It's ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/07/24/me-me-me-me-me/ Hello!!! I've missed this blog, and anything else other than nursing and mothering, over the past couple of weeks. It's good to be back! A couple of snippets of news. I'd reached around 250 lbs with the pregnancy, but lost around 20 just with the delivery. Approx 7 lbs of ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/06/20/back-here/ Well, I've been a while in getting to post the news here, but, indeed, there is news. Last Thursday, at 10:15 p.m. NYC time, our little baby R. came to be with us. I ended up being induced, rather than going into labor myself. So, I'm still not quite sure ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/06/10/the-news/ and still pregnant, 40 weeks and 1 day into the pregnancy. *Sigh* I go to the doctor on Thursday, if nothing has happened by then, and I guess we would talk induction at that point. Here's hoping my body kicks into gear between now and then. I'd love to believe ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/06/03/still-here/ A book I read last night described birth as one of the most important and transformative experiences in a woman's life. No wonder, as I stand at the brink, that I'm feeling so emotional and confused and worried and even guilty. It all goes hand in hand with how I'm ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/05/16/laboring/ Still pregnant, and nearly 250 lbs, according to the doctor's office scale. 1 cm dilated, which doesn't mean much. Everything seems to be going well. It's like eerily well, compared to my last 2 pregnancies. Instead of thinking this means that something's bound to go wrong, I'm instead coasting along ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/05/12/37-weeks/ As my earlier-chronicled body woes have mounted, I've been giving serious thought to asking to work from home every day. It would save me from getting dressed in nicer-looking but fairly-constricting clothing. It would save me from tramping up and down stairs and sweating in crowded subways. And it would ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/04/24/to-commute-or-not-to-commute/ * Don't even want to weigh myself anymore, because I'm well over where I'd hoped I'd be. Definitely 240+ * Can hardly bend over to tie my shoes. Thank goodness for slip-ons. * Am struggling up stairs and then having to catch my breath at the top. * I'm up 3-4X ... http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/04/22/my-body-at-34-weeks-of-pregnancy/ My dad has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. Lots of thoughts running through my mind. Seems like it can be a slow-growing cancer, but the treatment option have lots of risks, too. Meanwhile, the new life inside me is... hiccupping. Sometimes life is just surreal. http://mybodymyblog.com/2008/04/18/just-found-out/