Weighting It Out

I went to my 6 week post partum check up today, and I finally weighed in! We don't own a scale at home, so I have been waiting for this weigh in for a while. I gained a total of 37 lbs during my pregnancy, which doesn't sound like a whole lot, but when you're 4'11, 37 lbs SHOWS a whole lot more than on a taller person, trust me. There isn't a lot of room to distribute all the added weight, so on shorter, smaller people, even the slightest weight gain shows up so much more.

Anyhow, ok so I put on 37 lbs. And drumroll...I lost 26 of it already! So I have 11 more pounds to shed to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight. But I hear those last 10 pounds are the HARDEST to lose, cause for some reason, they just want to stick around.

Admittedly, those first 26 pounds just fell off. Thank goodness. I wasn't really doing anything to lose that weight...YET. But you lose a ton anyways after delivery, and then you easily lose some more those first couple of weeks. For me, I didn't even have time to think about eating since I was busy adjusting to being a new mom, and so I hardly ate those first couple of weeks, and plus I am breastfeeding, and that burns tons of calories right there.

But now, nothing is just easily falling off. So it's time to bring out the big guns. Billy Blanks is back to whip me back into shape and I'm seeing my old friend the treadmill again. I've been waiting to start exercising again, but I needed to wait for this 6 week checkup for the doc to clear me to start up again.

So now I've healed, I'm cleared and I'm ready. There's only one problem...

...When? I mean, when does a new mom find the time now to fit in an exercise regime? There's hardly time to squeeze in a shower, let alone some time to work out, and then of course if one finds the time to work out, then one must find even more time for a shower after that workout -- a vicious cycle I tell ya. I can't just pick up and head to the gym, since I can't leave my lil buddy. And so the only windows of time that I have are when my lil buddy is sleeping, but those are the times I need to also sleep, or eat, or do the laundry, do the dishes, ...blog?, etc. Finding time to work out is a workout in itself.

Curse those celebrity moms who have nannies and personal trainers. I feel like joining Dancing with the Stars, they always drop tons of weight. I was a dancer, did I mention that? Yes I was, back in the days of yore. Oh how I miss my metabolism back then.

So in short, I have 11 pounds to lose, all this pent up energy to start losing em, but with no time to lose em, what's a gal to do? Mr. Baby calls all the shots now, so I just have to wait til he gives me a chance to. Just wait.

Oh how I hate the weighting.