Mother's Day, and the WOMAN Challenge begins.

Here are a few pictures of my Mother's Day walk yesterday, whick kicks off the WOMAN Challenge.  These make the area where I live look more rural than it really is, but I really like this route.  I love old barns.  Anyone know if those are deer or moose antlers?

It was an hour's walk, and my pedometer said I took over 5,700 steps.  This was heartening because I did a test run the other day to see how many steps I take on an average day with no exercise, and let's just say it was significantly less than the 10,000 target.

This capped off a morning with bagels, coffee, and time to read the Sunday paper.  And my son accidentally said, I'm not kidding, "Happy Motherwear's Day!" to me.   Am I blogging too much?

The Breastfeeding Babes team now has 64 members!  Check out the photo gallery to the left to see some of our participants.  I'm also asking team members to send in pictures of their walks or runs.  Looks like it's not too late to sign up, if you haven't already!

Hope you all had a great day!  Tell me what your day was like in the comments section.

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Comments

[Tanya Lieberman]

Sent by email:

Beautiful pictures Tanya! I'd love to find out where you walked...

My family & I also went for a walk yesterday. It was a group walk in honor of a new local support group for parents who have lost children. It might sound sad, but it was actually a wonderful walk and very therapeutic for me. I was happy to see that there were lots of breastfeeding babies along for the walk!! We walked for about 35-45 minutes, although not continuous with frequent baby/toddler pit stops!). I'll have to go back later this week & do it again to figure out how far I walked
(didn't get my pedometer until this morning...oops!) And I went for a 2.5 mile walk today. I'm pround of the effort I'm making so far & hope that it continues! Thanks Breastfeeding Babes for the encouragement!

I love the photo album. I'll be sending my pictures soon.

-Beth

[Tanya Lieberman]

Sent by email:

I've been dieting and exercising since January and I have lost 30 pounds and have gone from a size 20 to a 12. The biggest part of my routine is walking 2 miles a day on the treadmill. I do diet somewhat but not a lot. I've cut out all fast food and just try to eat nutricious things that are porportioned right. My goal is to lose 20 more pounds and I know I can do it!!! I'm glad I entered this challenge because it will help me keep focused. No fast food or junk food for 4 months gets hard sometimes so I needed this. I'm proof that you CAN lose weight and still have a good milk supply for your child!!! My daughter is 11 months and still nursing as usual with no plans of stopping anytime soon.
Just thought I'd write to tell you I am glad to be in the group!
Rachel

[Tanya Lieberman]

Rachel,

Hooray! Keep up the great work - and send me some motivation, too.

Tanya

[Stacy]

Being from Minnesota, I can say for sure those aren't moose antlers, and they're awfully big for a deer, though not impossible. My guess is elk. = )