Small Victory!

Pretty much from the day I got out of the hospital I have been trying to get my body back to the way it used to be.  Which is funny because I wasn't all that happy with it before I was pregnant.  We women are never happy when it comes to bodies and weight!
Of course while I was breastfeeding I ate healthy and didn't limit myself by any means.  I had also had a C-section so I couldn't do much for the first 6 weeks anyways.  Once they were over though, that's when I started getting serious about things.  I finally had weighed myself and it was great but it wasn't terrible either.  While pregnant I had gained 32 lbs and the scale was telling me I had 13 more to go.  Sounds doable right?  Things are never that easy with a baby around.  This is my first time being at home with a baby.  I have worked since I was 16 so its the first time in a long time I've been home all day for an extended period time.  So boredom does sometime take over and that is my down fall to weight loss.  When I'm bored, I eat!  Even worse, when I'm bored I bake!  Guess who eats the baking afterwards..
Anyways, I've been steering clear of the baking, and if I'm bored and thinking of food I will grab a piece of gum first to see if that will suffice.  I also downloaded an app call my fitness pal that lets your put in everything you eat so you can track your calories.  Its easy to use, you start with putting in your current weight and the weight you would like to be.  It figures out your daily caloric intake and you try to stick to it or slightly below.  You can either search for your food of choice or it also has a bar code scanner.  Or if you're into baking like I am you can manually enter in recipes and it will figure out the calories per serving.  It also has an area that you enter in any exercise you have done.  It's really amazing how quickly the calories add up! 
So I have been actively trying to lose weight for a little over a month now and I am down 5 lbs.  Which may not sound a lot to some but I prefer the slow and steady method.  I feel like I have more of a chance of keeping it off that way.  I've never been into the gimmick weight loss options.  I have especially never been into the diets that require denying you the things you like to eat.  So, every day I enter in everything I eat; bad stuff included.  If I go over because of the bad stuff then I know I have to make up for it in exercise.  It seems like the closest thing to happy medium you can get in the dieting world.  At this rate I should be able to fit into my summer capris just in time for summer to be over! lol..oh well!