Getting Fit (1) Planning

I’ve been overweight for a while. At the end of 2005, I was divorced after my ex-husband proved himself to be a coward. Instead of just saying he wanted out of the marriage, he decided it was better to cut me down and make me believe I was fat (I wasn’t) and unloved (again, wasn’t) until I was so miserable that I asked for the divorce instead. Anything to keep himself from being the bad guy. The weight range for my body type and height is 140-155lbs. I was 148lbs when he told me I was fat and he didn’t know if he loved me anymore. By the middle of 2006, my depression had me hit 270lbs at my heaviest. I quickly dropped back to 235lbs and generally stayed there ever since. It ended up being the best thing that ever happened to me, as I was able to rebuild my confidence to extreme levels. I have never been as confident and pleased with myself as I am now. I wish I had this confidence back in high school. It would’ve saved me a lot of poor friendships. It never would’ve led me to my new husband though, so I’m happy I didn’t.

For those of you who don’t know, I just had a baby. Rose is a sneeze away from five months old and I am ready to start losing some weight. My plan for 2014 was to lose some weight and start getting in shape, but then I ended up being pregnant basically the whole year and unable to begin a new fitness program, so that didn’t happen. My goal isn’t to “get skinny”, I merely want to lose weight and get to a healthier situation. At my present weight, I am at risk for a bunch of different things and I would like to avoid that while getting in shape so that I can keep up with Rose once she starts walking. If I can get to 175lbs, I will be in a lot better shape and won’t be at risk anymore.

My PiYo program arrived today! I’m really excited about it. It combines Pilates and Yoga to sculpt and tone in a low-impact workout. I have weak ankles and bad knees, and really, with how large I am right now, a high impact workout just won’t do it. I’ve had so many people recommend this to me, including my OB and Primary Care doctor. Over on Babycenter, there has been a lot of talk about it on my birth board as well. I’m totally cheap, so I didn’t want to spend the $100+ for the kit. Instead, I took a gamble and went the ebay route. I found the 5 disc set, brand new without fitness gear, for $34. It’s the real deal. I’m so happy I didn’t end up with a bootleg or something. I already have a yoga mat, so I will just have to invest in the Strength Slides at a later date. I don’t need those right now when I’m still a beginning user. I’m not even sure I will like the system. I watched the Align video, which is basically just the start to show you how to do the key moves so that you can do the rest of the program without hurting yourself. Based on that alone, I think I will like the system, but I just don’t know that for sure yet. I might end up having to do a different system entirely.

I wanted to blog my progress. I think that doing so will make me keep up with it. I didn’t want to create a new blog just for that though. I won’t remember to pay attention to it. I need to stay accountable. I promise it won’t overwhelm the blog. I don’t want to be one of those people who takes daily photos and weigh-ins. That just isn’t me. If I obsess about it that much it will only stress me out. I do want to check in with things at least once a month, just to keep me honest and driven. I made an Instagram account as well. I figure I can post photos there once in a while to help me track things, but also to have a place to post some bookish things. I want to follow the system, so I will officially be beginning on Monday. I wish it had arrived late in the week, I’m too excited for it. I guess I could always do the Align video a few times, get really good at the poses and alignment so that I know each of them. Knowing me, I will get confused when she tells me to go into Warrior 1 and have to stop a lot to see what I’m doing. Maybe I should just watch all the videos so I have a good idea what the pattern is or something.

Do you have any fitness/health goals you are currently working on?

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