Strawberry Shortcake Diet

I need to lose weight.  21 lbs to be exact.  So, I decided to do Weight Watcher's Online.  Logging down everything I eat has been so disconcerting.  After having Joss, I honestly didn't think I ate all that much or all that unhealthy.  Sure my mom would make quips about me eating strawberry shortcakes all day, but I kinda dismissed her sarcastic joke because it's not like I really did eat them all day, just once a day.  Ok, so I guess that doesn't sound all that much better.  Nursing & pumping has gotten me this far down in weight.  Now, it's up to me to take me to my goal.  I need to change how I eat and how I live.  I can't keep using my kids as a reason for being too tired to work out or eat better.  What kind of example am I setting for them??  I have to admit though, I do love my sleep.  It's the one craving I never seem to satisfy.  

My ultimate goal is to lose 21 lbs and to look HOT at 34 yrs.  I believe when you put the effort to look good on the outside, you end up feeling great on the inside.  Just because I'm running on 4 hours of sleep a day, doesn't mean I have to look like I am.  I'm feeling better already just saying this out loud.

Mr. Potato Head

Ryland can be so funny especially when he doesn't even know he's being funny.  The other day he was walking around the house with this big smile and I had to take a picture of it.  Yes, that's Mr. Potato Head's smile.

Outie

I took Joss in to see her pediatrician and sure enough her extreme outie is an umbilical hernia.  What's an umbilical hernia you ask?  Well, it's when the abdominal muscles behind the naval are either weak or don't come fully together after birth.  So that protrusion you see is actually part of her intestine protruding through this hole/weak spot underneath her belly button.  Some umbilical hernias will close on it's own by the age of 2, but in some instances the hole may be too big to close on its own, so surgery would be required.  So that he can determine how big the hole underneath her naval is, her pediatrician pushed her protruding belly button in with his finger.  It looked like that would hurt, but Joss was totally fine.  You can even hear her intestines gurgling a little when he did it.  Weird, huh?  Anyway, it turns out the hole is about 3/4 of an inch in diameter, small enough to wait and see if it will close on its own by the time she turns 2.  If it doesn't close by then, we'll need to talk with a pediatric surgeon about fixing it.  This type of surgery is considered "cosmetic" and in most cases can be done as an out-patient.  I know I don't need to think about this now, but it's good to know the possible outcomes and it's good to know her "outie," though strange looking, isn't as bad as it looks.