My Legs and I Thank You For Your Support
I am twelve weeks post partum and I've barely lost any weight. I am still wearing my maternity shorts and jeans. By five weeks post partum with my son, I was already wearing a size that I hadn't worn since college. Please don't roll your eyes at me, I roll my eyes at myself enough as it is.
I naively assumed that the weight would melt away like last time. Unfortunately, the cottage cheese on my behind appears to have been applied with super glue. I've been reading about Swistle's idea to do the Couch to 5K program and I would absolutely like to participate. It's just that I am better at coming up with reasons why I can't do this better than why I should and can do this...
Reasons why I can't...
1. It's 80 million degrees in Lower Alabama, making any outdoor activity really unpleasant.
2. Running in and of itself is really unpleasant.
3. I'm a slug.
4. My fat would jiggle and that would be embarrassing for me and my neighbors.
5. I don't know how I would make time for exercising. It would cut into my precious alone time with my laptop.
6. We have mosquitoes the size of elephants here and they all target me.
7. Exercise makes me soooore and reeeeaaaaalllly whiiiiiiiiny.
8. Did I mention the unpleasantness of the temperature outside?
Reasons why I can...
1. I have legs.
Reasons why I should...
1. My legs are fat, especially the region closest to my ass.
Although the list is short, those are rather compelling reasons as to why I can and should participate in some sort of exercise program. So, I'm going to be joining in the unpleasantness known as running with Swistle. It'll most likely be a modified version. Slugs like me need modifications. And I'm blogging about it as a way to have some sort of accountability.
Beginning today, tomorrow at the latest (well maybe next week at the latest), I'm going to get started on this Couch to 5K program. Wish me and my fat legs luck.
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I'm right there with you! I mean, not the 5K thing....that's kinda ambitious and all. But the losing weight thing. My doc basically told me I'm a walking time bomb last week and if I didn't get my bloodwork looking better it was not good. "oh, not for the next 10 years, probably but soon after that" he said.
So I've decided to try to exercise EVERY DAY for 30 minutes between now and my follow up appointment. (unless I'm out of town. or tired. or sick. or dead.)
(sorry, had to delete my last post b/c of a grammar error. I'm like that!)
If you go to the Real Age website they can give you a really light, moderate and advanced work out you can do in your home. You don't need a lot of exercise...just consistent and in proper form (The Drs say that it is better to do less with proper form than a lot with sloppy form).
I have been reading their books and found a lot of useful info in them...I have to say that though I haven't jumped in feet first I have been making small changes to my activity level...and I can tell a difference!
ps. My "baby fat" is still on my ass 2.5 years later...I know where you are coming from.
i have done couch to 5k, and you'll be surprised. honestly, i haven't actually had the chance to complete it because for whatever time constraints, i've stopped about half-way. but i have no doubt i could have gone all the way. i'm like you:
1. i hate running
2. weather in ga is not much better than in al
3. i am partial to correct lung functioning
4. i hate running.
but actually, they put you verrrry slow (almost insulting, though i haven't had a baby, so it may be PERFECT).
after about 3 weeks, my hubby complimented my body b/c of it. (RARE. compliments????) unfortunately, though, after that was when my timing was off and i had to stop.
i say GOOD LUCK. stick with it. and even though i hate running, it sorta grows on you, and i can imagine having children, this will be a perfect alone time.
get an mp3 player and let your mind ignore said lung malfunction and horrible running. (:
You can do it!! We live where it is nasty outside also. The only time that I can handle (even then you sweat like a pig) is in the evening...after sundown.
Good luck!
Go girl. I know you can do it.
I know I never could.
Good Luck!
Hubs broke out the ab lounger and yes I've been using it. It's probably not as good as running, but me and running don't get along.
I'm doing the couch to 5k too, and like you I share your list of excuses. Well except that I live in Massachusetts, where you'd think the weather wouldn't be all that bad but today at 10 am it is close to 90 outside. Gawdamn!
It's miserably hot here in Arkansas too. The mere mention of running makes me want to sprawl on the couch under a ceiling fan.
Let me know how that running stuff goes. First, could you pass some lemonade? Lots of ice, please. I'm simply too hot, lazy and sluglike to move.
(good luck! if you survive the heat, i might venture out)
Can I borrow your reasons why I can't? They are absolutely perfect, other than changing the location to Florida.
Once my knee is better, I'm going to start the program, too. Unhappily.
Good luck. You are brave. I can't STAND running but damn, it does seem to work.
Yay! Please ignore the anonymous commenter who said the Couch to 5K program puts you through it insultingly slowly. If you listen to that kind of crap (that's right! I said "crap"! I = confrontational today!), you will hear it pounding in your head with every miserable step, and you will think you might as well give up. I think it goes PLENTY FAST, and so did a few other runners who said it sounded to them like that was too much running for a beginner.
I still have most of my partum weight, too, even though I dropped it without thinking about it last time. WTH? I'm wondering if this means I am now also old.
Luck!
I think you are beautiful!
I'll be giving you my support by bringing rice cakes and fat free cream cheese only to future playgroup therapy sessions.
The heat and humidity here this time of year are indeed bad. Good luck with your program though.
On a separate note, I got that "error" with IE today. I haven't been getting it on your page before now.
You're a hoot! I giggled so hard at this post, because I could've written it, it hits that close to home. Bleh!
GOOD LUCK & good for you!
My fat ass will remain glued to my couch b/c I'm too lazy to do otherwise. I might get in the pool to swim on rare occasion - but not so much as to actually burn calories.
I always go back inside before the mosquitos have time to carry me off to their secret blood-sucking lair.
Don't you just hate the jiggle.
I hate that more than anything.
Maybe we can duct tape our jiggly parts securely and then do the program together.
Hold a sec, let me just arrange a flight ;)
Ya, I've begun warning my friends that baby fat from #2 does not drop off like baby fat from #1. I'm 1 1/2 year out from giving birth and I"m still still 8 pounds away from where I want to be. AND I've been working out and eating better. It sucks.
Good luck with the running thing. It sounds like my Hubby is doing a similar thing. But not me. I don't run. I elyptical (sp?) at the air conditioned gym, for twenty minutes. I hate running.
You are a better woman than I!!
Dammit - quit inspiring me! I really don't want to do this.
Running in the summer is just wrong. It should be outlawyed.
Great! I'm also one of the Swistle runners and have been blogging about too, as a form of accountablity.
I'll be sure to get your "Swistle made me do it" Tshirt in the mail, today.
It sucks, but it also doesn't suck SO bad, at least when it's over. That's my favorite part so far- the being done! =)
Ooh, good luck. I looked at the program and it looks very similar to one I did through the Running Room here. And I was the person least likely to like running, but I eventually got suckered into doing a 10K! That was pre-kid,though. Now I too need to get off my cottage cheese and start running again.
I am 17 months post-partum and still need to lose weight- LOL! Couch to 5k sounds like fun though.
This post almost motivated me enough to get on our treadmill, but then I realized if I used the treadmill I'd have to find a place to hang all of the clothes on it, and that's too much work.
And you had me so close, too :)
Well, this is depressing news! I too was back to postpartum size six weeks after having the first baby, and was, apparently naively, anticipating the same this time. What a bummer... But thanks for the advance warning. Maybe this time, I'll plan on actually watching what I eat and trying to, you know, move around a little more rather than just waiting for the pounds to magically melt away.
I'll support you and cheer you on and all... But I hate running. HATE.
Other people running? LOVE.
Okay, I know I've never met you IRL, but since I've been reading your blog for as long as I've been blogging I feel like I do.
That said, I think you'd make a great running partner! I used to live in GA, and I would knowck on my neighbor's door after we had put our kids to bed and make her go running at night (the ONLY time of day you can run in the south, if you ask me). If I lived in L.A. I would be taht neighbor for you.
You can do it!!
I couldn't lose a single pound until I stopped nursing. It's like my body was in conservation mode. It was a lot easier to drop weight when I weaned my son at 14 months. I know that's not encouraging but at least you know it will likely get easier later.
OK, you're making having a second baby sound not quite so glamorous, hee hee!
You can do it! Everytime I run (I'm doing a 5mile in Sept. and a 1/2 marathon in Oct. Gulp.) and want to quit, I chant "I think I can, I think I can". Cheesy, but it's worked so far!
Now if I could only quit eating like they were never gonna make food again...
Ugg pregnancy weight - i so know your struggle. Im sure it will all disappear soon enough (well i can dream mines will)
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