A Healthy Postpartum

To begin the journey to greater health the first thing you need is imagination. You need to see beyond today to perceive that you can indeed say no to seconds, cheesecake and overcome other struggles. Right now all your clothes fit you, your comfortable. Buy a pair of jeans a size or two to small. I knew I could make it back from 180lbs to 155 because I had been 155 only a year earlier and had an entire wardrobe I wanted to fit again.

Since last January I've become considerably healthier, tracked by weight and messurment, I've lost 35lbs and a total of 12 inches which can be seen in greater d-tail in the messurments tab above. I love feeling healthy and every time I'm excercising I get to thinking, how can I help other people break ground in their own health transformation. The best way I could think of was sharing the day by day process that brought me to where I am now.

I hope you are inpired by my fitness story. As I record my P90X round 1 journey and other health endevours I have attempted, both the successes and the failures. I stared a round of insanity assylum, but realized in the first week it was above my current abilities. I'm going to be taking the P90X challenge for another spin.

as a note, I'm still updating my 2011 P90X round 1 story, I did record most days in the journey, it's just a matter of typing them out and posting them



Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Distracted and Discouraged

Hello, my name is Meghan and I'm overwieght... still. I keep sitting around waiting for a miracle but nothing seems to be happening my pants are still tight, I feel embarased when I walk across a room my thighs fall over the edge of the chairs I sit in, bla. I look at the common pre pregnancy high school girl, the me of 2009 and mothers.

Why is it that most of the time after having a child women just, ahblu, plump up? I supose that school kind of keeps you distracted from food, there's all morning and evening to fit a workout in and you've only got yourself stading in the way of getting it done. As a mom it's me and my fridge home all day, I've got to have a will of steel to get my workout in, first I've got to care for baby, then I've got to get through any excuses and set aside all distractions and protests to turn on that video AGAIN ugg I don't know if I can handle that excesivly excited voice chiming at me anymore "your having fun right, you won't do it if your not having fun, your going to do this over and over because you your having so much fun!!!!"

I'll admit it does feel good after a workout the sense of accomplishement the burn in my muscles from the work, I was so discouraged after my last fit test that I've gone three weeks with only one workout a week. I didn't do yesterday's eigther, but I did do todays. It also sucks that we have no groceries... again. The house is in an uproar because of construction everything is allover the place, we have just about no food in the house except soup and oatmeal, the chaos is distracting and discouraging.

I never know what to expect or if I'll have food or not because my husband has no concept of finacial planning, "we have no money" then he goes and eats out... yeah riiiight I thought we had no money, you know we could buy enough ground beef for a month for your 15 dollar lunch.

I MISS SEEING 155 LBS ON THE SCALE AND FEELING THIN HEALTHY AND SEXY D=