Working Out - Week 10

I posted here that I had gotten back to working out again. This is week ten for me, and it is going well. So far, no one has had to rush over and resuscitate me, and Rachel has even gotten me running now! I can hardly believe it. After just two weeks of running, I talked myself (with her encouragement of course) into trying for a 5K race this summer. We’ll see how it goes. I have been improving slowly, so I’m hopeful though!

In these ten weeks, I have noticed some changes that were my motivation to get back in shape in the first place. First, and most importantly to me, I feel better, I have more energy, and when Sammie says to me, “mommy chase me” I no longer want to tell her “mommy’s too tired, baby”. Second, I’m sleeping better! Granted most of our work outs going until ten at night, which puts me in bed after showering and coming down from the adrenaline high somewhere between eleven and midnight, this leaves me usually with about five hours sleep, but they are five good hours of sleep! And finally, my clothes are fitting better. I have lost six pounds, and I’ll freely admit that after ten weeks, I expected that number to be higher, but I am older and had farther to go to get in shape this time than I ever have been before, so I’m being patient, or trying to anyway!

This week though, I had some nice milestones to boost my motivation a little in place of big numbers on the scale!

1) My dress for my SIL’s wedding in two weeks fit! (I ordered it one size smaller, which is exactly one size bigger than my wedding dress was, six years and two babies ago!)

2) While working out with Rachel this week, we noticed two friends watching our exercise, this is something we were doing when we first started, and Rachel and I had to laugh when she said “OMG Kelly! It’s finally happened!!”

3) I ran for one mile this week without stopping at all

4) I had four different people tell me that they could tell I’ve been working out, hubby included!

I had a thought last week of how I would like to celebrate and “treat myself” once I lose more weight. In addition to some new clothes, I’m going to hire Rachel to take some pictures of me and my girls. I have very few pictures of me with them both, and even fewer that I like the way I look in. Since they were my primary motivation for taking better care of myself and getting back into shape, I want to get a picture of me with them and put in on my bedroom wall to always remind myself that they are my best motivation.

For Mother’s Day to support these goals, I bought myself two gifts. One, a new pair of running shoes, which were very necessary! And two, the frame that I will put that picture in. The frame has the perfect saying of exactly what I want for my girls as they grow up:

Dance like no one is watching


Love like you’ll never get hurt


Sing like no one is listening


And live like it is Heaven on Earth