OUCH

Well, we have been consistent with the diet and the gym, and let me tell you, my arms are SCREAMING from the wake-up call!  Just walking and letting them hang down by my side hurts.  It's a good hurt though because I know that I worked for it, and that I'm doing something positive for my health and my self esteem.  I'm looking forward to the day when the gym once again becomes an addiction for me instead of the part of my day that I dread.

I am not getting overly excited yet about weighing myself, so I still don't know how much I have lost.  Brian gets on the scale almost every day and says "1 or 2 more pounds today."  I just don't want to get on the scale and see that it's going slower for me and get discouraged.  I'm going to wait and weight at the end of the week and see if any of the work has paid off.   When I'm on the treadmill, bike or elliptical, I just try to remind myself how GOOD it's going to feel to get back into a pair of my old jeans! 

It's really funny when you think about it....we smile and laugh when Noah grows out of more and more clothes, and I pray and pray that I can shrink and fit back into my old ones.  One of us is getting bigger and the other is praying to get smaller!

Little OUch

Well, we finally got around to hitting the gym on Tuesday.  MAN OH MAN did I underestimate how out of shape I am.  It kicked my butt HARD when I got on the elliptical, and so did the bike (which use to be so easy for me).  I've been going very slowly with the weights so that I don't get so sore that I can't pick Noah up, or get out of the bed for that matter.  I do have a little bit of soreness, but it's nothing serious.  I have learned that I hate those dang mirrors in the gym!!!  I remember when I use to go work out and be proud to see myself in the mirror....well, lets just say that this was not the case this go around!  Please understand that I'm saying all this with a sense of humor, all of this is not meant to sound down and depressing.  I know where I am as far as fitness level and body type at THIS point, and I can giggle about it and just know that I'm working toward getting back on track.
Now, back to the mirrors in the gym, I glanced over at myself a few times, and was BLOWN away by the size of my butt!!  I mean, I KNEW it was big, but there's nothing quite like getting a view of it like you do in the gym (the bright lights, the huge mirrors!  My butt is so big right now that it is making my pants shorter!!! haha!  I'm totally not kidding.  So, yes, I have junk in the trunk.
Brian and I have also been doing the Atkins diet for about a week and a half now, and that diet does NOTHING for your energy level.  However, it's been tested by both of us before and has worked well for the both of us.  It's not something that I want to continue on long term, however, I think that it will work well as a jump start to get us on track.

I just can't WAIT to fit back into my pre-preggo jeans....to go out somewhere and FEEL like I look nice.  I don't have to look like a fitness model, but I don't want to look like Roseanne Barr either.
Anyway, I'm working on it, and that's a START!  :)