So, in the interest of full disclosure I'm going to put a little weight background out here in the blog world so that if anyone is going to read this you can at least see where I started and where I'd like to be. Before getting pregnant with my son in January 2007, I weighed in at *gulp* 180 lbs. Yikes. 5 days before delivering him, I weighed 213 lbs. That's right. Let it sink in. Surprising that I had horrible back pain, huh? So when he was about 6 months old, I had pretty much stopped losing weight and was at 182. Not too bad, only 2 lbs above my pre-preggo weight. A few months after that I decided that I wanted to get healthy, fit and get to a healthy weight. I am 5'9". I started walking 6-7 days a week, for 45 minutes to an hour, doing some strength training about 3 days a week. I gradually started going to the gym and eventually started running as well. My weight loss stalled at about 155. I was more than pleased and felt great. I stayed that weight for over a year. Then we started trying for another baby. Well, things didn't go as we had planned and I stopped working out as consistently, also had 2 miscarriages so that put a cramp in my workouts as well. At my first official weigh-in at my OB office I was at 165. Well, I gained almost 40 lbs this time. I vowed not to break 200 and of course I did. My little girl weighed over 9 lbs but at almost 5 weeks postpartum I've still only lost 20 lbs. So my current weight is 183.
I usually work out and run/walk at the gym. I can put my son in their childcare service and have an hour to myself to exercise. They don't take children until they are 6 weeks old and honestly I don't feel comfortable leaving my baby that early anyway. I would prefer to wait until 8-12 weeks. I've been exercising 2-3 times a week for the last 2 weeks. Mostly walking around my neighborhood. The problem is I can't do that very well because my baby hates her carseat and therefore my jogging stroller. Plus, I have to wait until my husband gets home from work because otherwise I have to somehow take my almost 3 year old as well. SO...until I can get to the gym, I'm using videos and trying to eat as healthy as I can (I'm nursing this time as well).
So, now you know my beginning weight, my goal is to get to 155 again, even though my alltimewillIevergettheregoal is 145. I have no real reason for this number being my goal, other than I want to at least weigh as much as my husband and not vastly more. But that's what I get for marrying someone with smaller bones than me, and a little shorter.
Saturday I purchased Jillian Michaels 30 day Shred and today I did the workout for the first time. I found it kept my heart rate up and I feel vaguely sore at this point. Tomorrow might be another story. I'm hoping to do this and then get some walking in on the weekends when I can go in the mornings on my own because my husband can stay with the kids.
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