Shedding the Baby Pounds

Many of you may not know but I breast fed for 1 year. My initial reason for doing so was that I was told I would lose the baby weight faster. This was not the case. Pretty much the day I came home from the hospital was the weight I was at for the entire year. Pretty depressing! I tried to exercise rigorously but had nothing to show for it but bigger bags under my eyes since that made me even more tired. Since I couldn't diet I forfeited even trying to lose the weight. I put it off to see what would happen when I weaned Evie off. So its been two months since I weaned Evalie. At first I didn't really hit the whole lose weight thing very hard, but I have noticed I don't eat as much and recently I have been walking and doing more Pilates. I am happy to announce that today I weigh less than my pre-pregnancy weight. Heading for the pre-wedding weight. I am not going to stress myself out or have such high expectations that I am just going to let myself down, but I am going to work on life style changes that make me feel better about myself. We are going on a cruise in May -hopefully!- and so my goal is to lose that last 10 lbs by then. 8 months till then, I have faith in myself.