Along with being away from the blogging world lately, life has also kept me from my morning workout routine. At the beginning of the year (as soon as Logan started sleeping through the night), I started getting up early again to exercise. I am not a sunshiney morning person, but I had two specific goals in mind: 1. lose the babies weight and 2. lose the babies weight.
Upon starting my workout regimen, I quickly gained 3 pounds as punishment for exercising so early in the morning. I proceeded to work harder in effort to get back to my "preworkout weight." Depressing? Oh yeah.
Then I decided to increase my workouts to 1 hour per morning in hopes for better results. With that, I managed to "maintain" my preworkout weight, while adding some muscle tone. Muscle tone I like. Still being stuck at my preworkout weight? Not so much.
Here's where the riddle comes in.
In the last 4 weeks, I have visited the gym ZERO times.
In the last 4 weeks, I have lost precisely 4.6 pounds.
Sooo, now that I can technically get back to the gym this week, I am left to wonder: What in the WORLD is my motivation to get up at 5:40 a.m. tomorrow morning?? To work back up to my preworkout weight? I'd really rather not.
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Answer: you lost the 4.6 lbs. in blood, sweat and tears at camp. I say sleep in...exercise bad, sleep good!
maybe you haven't been eating as much? maybe even though you haven't been working out, your activity level has changed? just remind yourself that the number on your scale is not your goal, it is your overall health. so you know that increasing your cardiovascular fitness is good for your heart and your health, so that's why you should be doing it! plus of course you know the whole muscle weighs more than fat thing.
i know-- you wanted me to say to just sleep in, but you know i couldn't do that!
I just love being a woman! I can completely relate to your experience. I am already both dreading and looking forward to delivering this baby so I can get to work getting rid of the extra weight and wear my normal clothes again. The older I get the more I see that losing weight has more to do with what I'm eating than how much I'm exercising. I can workout like crazy and manange to maintain or even put on a pound or two. So not fair. The times I'm most successful at taking off a bit of weight are the times I write down everything I eat and pay careful attention to everything I put in my mouth. Effective, yes, but is that a fun way to live? I can never keep that up for more than a couple of weeks. And then there's my husband who eats whatever and whenever he likes and steps on the scale randomly and says, "Hmmm... I lost a few pounds since I last weighed myself." Sigh. But keep it up! The physical and mental benefits are worth it, right?
Overall health, physical and mental benefits...I couldn't agree more! And really, that's what will keep me exercising for years to come. But I still want those baby pounds OFF! The two babies in a row thing slammed me. I think what I'm REALLY whining about is the early morning thing yielding "no" results. I'm giving myself until Monday to pout about it, then I'll put on my big girl pants and get back to work.
P.S. Meredith--I think you're right--I'm really not a big eater, but I had my wisdom teeth out AND did girls camp, so it was definitely a change from my usual routine! Hmm...what surgery can I schedule next?
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