Get Fit

My thirties have been spent pretty much pregnant or breastfeeding. It has a been a challenge to get (and stay) fit during the past 7 years. (Have I given away my age there?)

Right before baby V was born, I was in the best shape of my life. My body had been mine, and not shared with a growing fetus or nursing baby for over a year. I was going to the gym regularly. I was running. I was cycling. I had, in fact, just completed a bike tour of New York City with my brother. 

I tried to keep it up while I was pregnant. I bought a fitbit. I started walking. When winter settled in, I took my jogging stroller and my two year old to the mall to speedwalk the halls with the mall-walkers in their shiny white sneakers. Then somewhere around my 7th month of pregnancy I got lazy. Some people can escape the part of pregnancy in which you feel like every move you make feels like you need to lay down afterwards. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. 

I was excited at the 6 week post-partum mark to get the clearance to start working out again. I was going to dust off that bike and start riding again. But, I had a newborn who would scream if anyone else tried to hold her. I put off getting back into shape for a little longer. And then I lost motivation. 

Sometime in December I decided to charge up my Fitbit. I was ready. I was motivated. But, no, I really wasn't. I wore the fitbit for two days and didn't do anything else. 

New Year's is usually a time for people to commit to getting fit. But not me. I didn't want to be part of all that. Those people never stick to it anyway, right? 

My bike is sitting in our den. I look at it every single day, collecting dust. I wanted it so badly. I saved up for it for months. It makes me sat every time I gaze on the water bottles still sitting there from that bike tour that happened almost a year and a half ago. 

So, today, I made a decision. It may be cold and gray outside. I may still have a baby who needs to be attached to me every minute of the day. But I can do it. I can get back into shape. 

And I did something I really did. I navigated the xbox to the "Xbox Fitness" game and chose a 10 minute work out -- and did two of them. So even though there was one kid trying to do it with my and one crawling around at my feet, I DID IT.