Ah....the pain!

I've gradually been watching the numbers on my scale increase and have finally decided to get serious on doing something about it. Keep in mind I also haven't completely lost all of the weight I gained when I was pregnant with Sheridan so LOTS of weight gain here to overcome! I tried doing the low-carb thing again and I just couldn't stick to it. I like sweets. I can't help it. I'll blame it on my genes that I get from the Sheridan side of my family. It has nothing to do with lack of self control. It's all about genetic make-up I'm sure.


Anyway....my friend Sara and I were driving home from our girls weekend in San Antonio (I'll post about that later) and this was when I came up with my new workout routine/diet while muching on delicious trail mix that I made for the trip complete with Crunch n' Munch, M&Ms, yougurt covered Cheerios, Cheerio Crunch cereal, pretzels, toffee covered peanuts, and cashews. Perhaps this could be part of the problem. I decided to ditch the low-carb approach and do low-calorie and healthy foods...fruits, vegetables, salads, yogurt, all of those fantastic 90 calorie snack packets to satisfy my sweet tooth, no more potatoes and rice and bread at meals for dinner. Tara also gave me a bunch of food suggestions and I think I'll be able to do it. Sara told me about a yoga show that comes on at 5 o'clock in the morning on the Oxygen channel called Inhale. Now let's not get crazy and think that I'm actually going to get UP at 5 o'clock in the morning to do yoga. That's why someone invited the DVR. So I could still sleep until 7 o'clock and then get up and do yoga. Three times a week is my goal and so far I've been a good girl and have done my yoga on Monday and this morning. Now this is where the pain comes in. After doing yoga on Monday my body was killing me. Perhaps it's in complete shock to this foreign thing called exercise that I haven't done in quite awhile. But the pain and soreness didn't stop me from thinking it would be a good idea to do some sit ups on Tuesday morning in an effort to try to find my abs again. Not the greatest idea I've ever had to torture myself like that because my stomach was killing me yesterday! It hurt to even laugh.

The other part of my new workout routine is to put Sheridan in the jogging stroller and walk around our hilly neighborhood for 30 minutes three times a week. Cameron and I loaded up Sheridan in the stroller and dug out the dog leashes on Monday night. I decided if I was going to suffer I was taking the whole family down with me! Fortunately, I mean...unfortunately, the skies looked like they were going to open up any minute and dump a ton of rain on us so we only walked for 15 minutes but I figured it was better than nothing. And Tuesday morning when I got on the scale and the scary number was 1.5 pounds lower I was thrilled and that's where my motivation came to do sit ups. I hope I can make this a habit and keep it up. I'll keep you posted.