The MOMMY Diet

The mommy diet may sound funny, but many of us are very guilty of this very thing. Eating the extra pieces of our young children's lunches so we do not waste food. This is part of what got me to an embarrassing weight.
It all started almost 12 years ago when I got pregnant with my first child Jacob. I let myself go, I ate what I wanted when I wanted and figured it was just extra baby weight, no big deal. But when Jacob started eating table foods there was always quite a bit of left over. I didn't want the food to go to waste, so I began eating that one or two extra chicken nuggets. Then two years later I had Dylan, now with two little boys who never seemed to finish any meal, I was eating my breakfast, lunch and dinner, PLUS their left overs. But the story doesn't end there, Two years after having Dylan, Jenavieve my daughter was born.  And now I had three children who never could seem to finish a meal, but mommy always seemed to help with that.
I was the happy chubby mom of three beautiful children and justified in my mind that I didn't have time to workout. I didn't think that I should be away from my kids.  I was getting fat and flabby fast.
Once Jacob started Kindergarten I started helping at his school and became quick friends with another mom who was as devoted to her daughter as I was my three kids. We spent time hanging out and taking our children to lunch so that we could visit while they played in the playgrounds. I look back and almost choke when I think of how many calories I was ingesting. We were famous for eating at Carl's Jr, a taco salad and large Coke for me...940 for the salad & 490 for the Coke a grand total of 1,430 calories. More then my full day of calories in one meal.  Once I became PTA president in 2010-11 for my kids school I had hit calorie rock bottom...  I was eating this Carl's Jr meal and drinking a full 2 liter bottle of Coke also at 800 calories. That didn't include my breakfast or dinner, or any snacks or dessert. And at the time I made a lot of cookies. The facts of my story are this by the time I was done being PTA president in the spring/summer of 2011 I weighted a grand total of 180 pounds. I was going to have to buy new clothes because I had put on enough weight that my size 16 clothes no longer fit, I was a size 18. My clothes were so uncomfortable that I couldn't wait to go to bed so that I could wear anything and not care how I looked. This was a turning point for me, I decided that when the kids went back to school fall of 2011 I would have a lot of extra time on my hands now, all three kids were in school full time. We, my husband and I decided that we could afford for me to continue to be a stay at home mom, so now what?


This is where the mommy diet ends, and my life began again...