Exercise

Here I am at the end of the first week in February of 2010. I am about 3 weeks late getting started instead of like most everybody else on January 1st but you already know one of my resolutions is curing my procrastination problem. I'm,of course, still working on that one. It won't disappear overnight..... so baby steps.
But I did start one thing.... exercising and small changes in my diet. Since I know a lot of people don't like the word 'diet' I'll switch it to 'food intake'. I do the 10,000 steps a day that Dr. Oz suggested and sit ups. I'm noticing a difference already so I'm sticking with it. Little changes go a long way especially in loosening my clothes. It's amazing what having babies does to a woman's body. Some women are blessed to be given bodies that snap right back to pre-baby shape. I, however, was not one of them. OK, yes I was for the first one. Not so much for the second one. Since I'm noticing the exercising making a dent in the post-baby weight, I will persevere.
And then there's the emotional weight all wound up inside of it. Hanging onto those pounds in the past seemed to make life easier but now I decided 'no more'. Moving on and shaking loose old thoughts not helping me in the now ....... in the present. Exercising is assisting me to work off built up energy, releasing overwhelming frustrations with being the title of wife, mother (all the unmentioned titles that come with being a mother) and career woman. Sometimes too many titles can be cause for all the extra stress.
There was a time when I regularly did 15,000 steps a day. Before husband and children, that is. One day I will be there again. Small changes. One day at a time ..... one minute at a time.
Exercising is helping me to feel good about myself again. For that I'm grateful.