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Friday, March 30, 2012

Anxious! Anxious! Anxious!

Seriously. My stitches say "no" but my legs say "twitch.....twitch."

No working out for at least 2 weeks?!

The doctor says 6. The doctor also said I couldn't take a bath for 6 weeks.

The doctor is a weenie-pants.

But......I need to exert SELF-CONTROL.

Which is hard. Especially when everyone around me seems to be on a really successful workout kick.

You know, getting in good workouts and losing weight.

And then there is schlumpy me. Sigh.

Getting on that scale is going to be hard: no excuse anymore about how heavy I am!

I worry that I won't have the motivation to work out anymore, once I have the opportunity.
Will I have lost the interest? The motivation? The habit?

But, I can't start too early either. I need to remember what Hills Are My Friends said about getting back to running too early: she said it set her back.
That she started back a bit too early is a testament to how hard it can be not to work out. She is super motivated but also waaaaaaaay more self-controlled than I am about NOT exercising when she might injure herself or worsen an already-existing injury.
What I am really scared of is that it won't be a struggle not to go running anymore.
That it will be easy and natural to do nothing.
That is scarier even than imagining no workouts looming in front of me for the near future.

1 comment:

  1. I could've written this post 21 months ago. I was given the green light by the midwife to run at 2.5 weeks postpartum. I was fine but for a while things felt, shall I say, a bit loose when I was running. Things that shouldn't be hanging out felt like they were hanging out (they weren't though, thankfully).

    The weight loss part is hard. I didn't realize how long it can take to lose the baby weight. I thought something was wrong with me because I wasn't in my pre-pregnancy jeans within a month. It all eventually did come off though, and it will for you too! I found Weight Watchers really helpful with losing ten pounds or so when I hit a plateau. But you shouldn't concern yourself with that yet. Do what exercise you can do safely. There's nothing like some walks with the stroller or baby carrier to get your legs moving and calm a crying baby.

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