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Workin on my fitness
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Ok so we discussed sexy time but is anyone else like me and so unbelievably exhausted, so much so that the thought of exercise makes you want to nap? Then I look down at my waist and hips and want to cry. I always was active but right at the end of my pregnancy with DS I started getting really bad foot pain. Chalked it up to pregnancy hormones and the muscles in my foot relaxing. It got progressively worse after he was born. It got so bad I couldn't even walk on my right foot, I thought it was broken. Went to the podiatrist and got xrays and he wanted to see me walk and his face cringed when he said "it hurts me to watch you walk." My foot had relaxed so much that my arches had fallen and I was basically rolling onto my ankle and gave myself a super duper case of tendonitis. I got fitted for orthotics (I feel like an old lady) and it seemed to get better until the other side of the same foot began to hurt due to the over-correction and the tendon on that side of my foot was now inflamed. It is finally starting to feel better but trying to get back into an exercise routine and being back at work just is difficult. Anybody else having a hard time getting back into the swing of things?
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I figure my body is never going to be the same so I'm not going to get depressed about it. I am not in a hurry. I have plenty of time to try to get back into shape, and certainly chasing after her when she's a toddler will help. Right now I'm just focused on eating healthy and taking care of my baby.
Whipple- that made me laugh when you said things are in weird places. I hear ya sister! I am no twig either. Now I just look like an outfit full of jelly LOL. Once the weather finally breaks around here and we get back into some nice weather I can go back to walking or running on the boardwalk. I am lucky in that I live a mile and a half from the beach. But then the problem is my DD who is 2 LOVES the beach and she will have none of staying in the stroller for any length of time. She will want to play on the numerous playgrounds spotted along the stretch of boardwalk or go down to the water to play.
The one good thing about getting back to work is I am so busy during the day I don't have a lot of time to eat so I have to make my meals count. Good times!!!!
Oh and about things in weird places...*raises hand. I still have a little shelf above my scar from the c-section. I wonder if it will ever go away? It looks funky.
I am going to have to look into that! Thanks. Yeah I am no skinny minny either. I just always wanted to run a half marathon but have psyched myself out. I may have to reconsider starting up again. My problem is my sister would probably do it with me (she just had a baby a month after me) and is looking to get back in shape but she is tall and thin to begin with. She runs faster than me so it gets hard to run with someone who isn't well paced with you. I used to run in local races mostly 5ks and each year the annual turkey trot which is 5 miles. I always did it for myself and really didn't care about times, I just wanted to finish. With the half marathon, the one I was looking into it was a half in the morning then at a certain time the full marathon kicked off and after a certain point the course was to be closed for the half marathoners so my fear was I would be running my big behind off and then not be able to finish. Not due to exhaustion but due to the course being closed out.
Way to go completing it!!!! It is quite an accomplishment
(Edited because pumping and typing is hard!)