asda cafe

Walked to asda today, after getting around the supermarket with relative ease, Lincoln woke up ready for a feed. So I headed into the 'cafe' as it's marked. Was nice to see that it was empty, turns out there was a reason for this.

After calling over the counter to the backroom for some service, I placed my order of a cappuccino and a hot chocolate for me and my mother. This is all so I could sit in their 'cafe' and feed my baby in some modicum of comfort and privacy. I was handed two empty mugs and at first assumed the cashier was barmy. Turns out the 'cafe' asda offers its customers is a do-it-yourself line up. I was directed to a coffee machine and I actually exclaimed in the cashiers face
"I've got to make my own drinks! Are you joking?"
She was taken a back by my frankness, but not as taken a back as I was by the price. £4.00 to use a naff coffee machine my sodding self!
I could have bought a box of teabags from the aisle ten steps away and used the hot tap for less!
Never the less I pressed the buttons which I am not being paid to press, while the woman who was being paid for this service returned to the back where she no doubt was enjoying a better hot beverage than what I ended up with. The most disgusting hot chocolate I'd ever been served, oh no sorry, I wasn't served this was I, the most disgusting hot chocolate I'd ever been FORCED to make myself!

Undrinkable!

So I feed my baby, who promptly spits it all back up over the sofa and my skirt! and I say to him "I've just forked out £4.00 so you could have that feed!" He's not bothered, looks like he's not happy with his drink either.

I manage to change him afterwards but obviously I didn't think to pack myself a change of clothes! so walked home with a massive patch of regurgitated milk down my leg - Oh the joys! and poor Lincoln cried for most of the journey home, I tried to soothe him while he was in his pram but he was having none of it, and the half hour walk back didn't allow for a bench to sit and hold him. Why aren't there more benches around!?
We need more outdoor seating in this city!

So that was one of our daily outings, lesson of the day: Don't go in the asda café, sit in the baby changing room instead. The discomfort of a hard wooden stool is better than an overpriced mug of drainwater.

Weight gain

For the last three weeks the only weight I have been concerned with is that of my son, weekly weigh-ins with the midwife has shown his 9.3lbs at birth is now 10.2lbs and gaining. I am so pleased that my breast milk is doing a good job of satisfying his hunger needs.

So now I've decided to take the plunge and look at my own weight, I need a rough idea of how much work is a head of me to get my body back in shape. I wanted to wait a few weeks until the swelling of water went down and finally my legs, feet and fingers all look proportionally back to normal.

Here it is then:

3 weeks, 2 days Post Birth, I currently weigh in at 13.2 stone.
Equivalent to 184 lbs.

My height is 5,9

So for a woman of that height, aged 25 a healthy weight on the BMI is 152 lbs.
I need to lose 2.5 stone to regain a healthy balanced shape and improve my fitness level.

I've already agreed with myself that I wont worry about serious dieting/workouts until my six weeks recovery period is over, but I am ready to cut back on the junk I've steadily been eating the last two months. An hours walk with the pram is currently exhausting me, and makes my down below stitches ache like a bitch, so in fairness I know my body is not ready for anything more intense yet. I'm starting with a few simple enough changes.

1. Cutting back on my man versus food portions
2. snacking on fruit instead of junk
3. and making sure I eat breakfast. 

Alongside a walk every day (hopefully weather permitting) and keeping the changing table stationed upstairs so I'm up and down the stairs at least seven additional times a day.

Water: while pregnant I was easily drinking seven pints of squash/water a day. Since Lincolns birth I've been too preoccupied to keep an eye on my intake of fluids. I'll definitely have to be more mindful now those seven pints have reduced to about 2.5 - not nearly enough. 

So that's the beginning of the weight loss plan. Nothing major, nothing overly ambitious, just a start.