I can't believe how much Baby Nick has grown! In the last four months, Nick has averaged a growth of 1. 5" each month. Dr. Bateman said that he is very lean and long. Imagine, me having a 'lean' child! (Ha ha) These are Baby Nick's measurements from his six month check-up:
Weight: 17lbs 6oz (50th percentile) Height: 29" (Wow, greater than 97th percentile) and his Head Circumference: 45cm (80th percentile) He has gained 2 pounds and 3 inches in two months.
Joey's measurements at six months were: Weight: 21lbs 9oz Height: 26.5", and I don't have a record of his head circumference (but I do know that at 9mos his head was 48.5cm, so it was less than that at six months!)
So Joey is our short, chubby cherub, and Nick is our lean, lanky love. Joey's weight gain slowed down remarkably after he turned four months old, he still isn't 30 pounds yet...so in 29 months, he has gained less than 10 pounds. So don't think that I, for one minute, think my son is or has ever been, fat. He's a healthy weight, and I don't want him growing up with a complex thinking he is too fat.
Now I on the other hand, are much too fat. I just got some workout DVDs by Denise Austin. She is cheerful and encouraging without being annoying...and she doesn't make you feel like you are know good just because you are fat. (Like Tony Little, always calling you a wimp if you can't keep going.) I am horrified to say, that I can hardly do the 15-minute Easy walk without great strain. However, I did find it a tiny little bit easier the second time, than I did the first. The first time, it felt like 15 minutes lasted an hour. But as I carefully watched the timer on the DVD player the second time, I found that the fifteen minutes came sooner than I expected. I look forward to the day that the Easy walk becomes too easy and I can try out the Fat Blasting Interval walk, and eventually the Power Walk and Tone. I also got the Personal Training System DVD by Denise Austin that has several segments to target different areas, but this too, has low, medium, and high intensity workouts, so those of us who are so out of shape we can't even walk for fifteen minutes, can work our way up. I haven't tried this video yet, I thought after seeing how difficult it was for me to walk for a few minutes, I would wait a few more days before trying it. My goal, is that next week, I will walk everyday (instead of every other day like I'm doing this week) and then by the week after next, I will alternate one day of walking with one day of the other work-out. Even as I write this, I wonder if I am insane to share it, because it is hard enough to be around all the skinny-minnies in our families knowing that I am so fat. I can only imagine what people must think of me. Oh well. Maybe there will be a day far, far, far in the future that I am not so fat.
Anyway....have a very Happy Valentine's Day.
3 comments:
I just started working out myself. I have had to do the same thing with starting out a bit lighter and trying to up my workout a little at a time. Baby steps - that's how I have to do it.
I appreciate you sharing your information - as painful as it is for you to do - but I really do hope you know you're loved regardless of what size you are.
Give those growing munchkins big hugs from Nanny.
Love,
Mom
Even though I'm one of those "skinny minnies" you referred to, I still work out for better health. If you stick with it, I know you will be amazed at how much better you feel, how much more energy you have, how much more you will be able to get down and play with your kids, etc. I want that for you rather than caring what you look like. You are beautiful! Aubs
Who cares what anyone else thinks?!?! All that matters is what I think! :) and I think you're beautiful.
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