Dieting
I've been doing rather good on the diet lately. I've lost almost 20 pounds now. The road has been a little bumpy though. I went to the Doctors office for my six week check up and I had to weigh in, of course. Well my weight was about where I thought is was. Then I went into WIC and I had to weigh in there too. I found I had gained a pound or so since the doctors visit. This did not make me too happy. I had been starving myself for weeks. How could this be? That sent me into a bit of a relapse. I told myself, "Stupid diet! I'm so done with you. I'm just going to eat whatever I want because I'm not loosing weight anyway."
Shortly after that I got myself back on track. And after the Kidney infection passed the weight started to come off really well. Then my birthday hit. You know how when you start a diet its really really hard to eat less then you're used to, but after a couple of weeks your body adjusts and it becomes less hard? Well I feel like I'm at the beginning of my diet again. It has just been so hard to resist my delicious birthday cake that is sitting on the table staring at me. And I keep drinking diet soda after diet soda trying to resist my sweet cravings. I've kind of blown it this week. I tell myself, "I'm just taking a break for a week," or "I'm celebrating that the stress of the baby blessing is over and the fact that the baby is doing better." But when I get on the scale and see that I have gained three pounds I don't feel much like celebrating. I really need to try hard to get back on track.
Diapers
Well with the new baby cloth diapering has been a bit more of a challenge. I do still enjoy it for the most part. What I don't enjoy however? Cloth diapering a baby. I just can not get it to work. We stuff and we stuff and they still leak all over. And the poor baby's bottom starts to resemble that of an insect. It just does not look cute in any form. I can handle the twins diapers because for the most part they don't look any funnier then a regular diaper- in some ways I think they look cuter. But the baby's cloth diapered bum just does not look cute. Maybe it's a little petty, but with the stress a baby brings I like to enjoy the things I can, and one of the things I enjoy is looking at how cute they are in their clothes. He does not look cute in his clothes, however, when he has on a cloth diaper. I feel guilty that I don't try harder to make them work, and I feel bad spending money on diapers for him, but I think I'll wait until he's just a little older to start the cloth diapering game.
If there are any tips out there for cloth diapering a baby, as opposed to a toddler, please let me know.
P.S. I tried sham wow's in the diapers, but I have say I wasn't impresses. I'd put them in with a regular Gerber Diapers, and I was never overly amazed with their absorbency. Plus it seemed that they were giving the boys bad bum rashes- though I haven't had much luck in that area recently either and we stopped using sham wow's a while ago.
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