the day after

[velvetpage]

Elizabeth is acting tired and cuddly today, after her ordeal of last night. Mommy, of course, is also tired and cuddly, so it's working out well. We've watched forty-five minutes of T.V. this morning, compared to a usual total of about fifteen minutes before lunch.

I'm wondering how to handle nap time. Do we do the cry-it-out thing in the middle of the day as well as at night? Or do I take the easy way out, put her in her stroller and let her fall asleep on our walk?

Option two sounds much nicer at the moment, but I don't want to sabotage after getting off to a good but painful start last night.

In other news, I cheated seriously on my diet last night but did not gain weight. I didn't lose, either, but cravers shouldn't quibble about that. So I'm back on track today, and I'm not falling off the bandwagon again until I've lost three more pounds. That will make ten pounds in two weeks. At that point, I'll be ready for a break.

Well, it's off to the park, to tire her out properly before her nap. Wish us luck!

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[lousy-timing.livejournal.com]

I think we just took the nap thing as it came. I don't recall letting our daughter cry it out then. I do know that if she didn't nap by three, we tried to keep her up so that it was easier to get her to go to sleep at night, but that's all I remember about naps in particular.

Go forth and play! :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Lately, we've been going places in the morning and coming home after lunch, just around naptime. She's been falling asleep in her stroller, which is fine by me. Today, though, it's reversed - Aunty Krista is coming to take her for their weekly outing after her nap today. So I have to do stuff with her around here to make sure she takes a nap in good time.

We went for a walk around the block, Maman, Elizabeth, and Bébé in her toy stroller. The wind kept blowing the stroller ahead of us, and Elizabeth kept running after it shouting, "Bébébébébé!" I'm pretty sure I heard her tell the stroller to "viens", too. It was really cute.

I'm aiming for 12:30 for nap time, so I'd better get her doing something. The scarves I dug up for her seem to be a hit.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Dang, but that's cute. :)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

True. She just now went down, at 12:00 on the nose, without any effort on my part. By the time she finished lunch, she was two-thirds gone. I just held her for a minute to finish the job. Krista's coming by about 2, so if she's not awake by then we'll get her up. All in all, it should be an earlier night tonight.

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

This sounds all very very familiar. Even the cheating-on-diet part. (Just not the 'ten pounds in two weeks' thing. I should try that...)

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I'm at seven pounds so far, in nine days. The goal is ten, at which point I'll stop for a week or two, until I gain back three of them. Then the process starts again, until I get down to a comfortable weight. That's a long way away, mind you, but at least this way I'm not trying to deprive myself of chocolate for two years to get there.

This way, I'm not dieting all year long for mediocre results; I'm dieting hard, for short periods of time, then letting my metabolism catch up to the new me before doing it again. The trick is never to let yourself gain more weight than you know you can lose in one of those quick bursts, ideally two to three days long.