Honestly the idea of working out is awful to me. I could come up with a million excuses not to do it. My idea of exercise is having to get up and plug in my phone or computer. It’s not new to me, I even failed P.E. in high school (yes it IS possible), It’s pathetic really.
I don’t like my legs however. They lack a desirable shape. (Don’t you love how I even managed to rework that sentence so that it’s not flat out saying my legs are flabby?) I could call them cottage cheese but while they are a little lumpy, they are definitely not runny. Pun completely intended. My belly could use a little help too though honestly I think I’ve decided that my belly is a result of two children and I don’t know that it’ll ever be a six pack. I would say again, but I was just as lazy when I was ridiculously thin as I am now.
I don’t want to do it for anyone but me. The sigh when I look in the mirror at the odd shape of my legs and the pooch of stomach that wants to hang out with the pockets on the front of my pants. (Again, see how we reworded that, sounds much better than calling it a muffin top doesn’t it?) I really had trouble deciding whether to word it that way or to say “arguing with my belly button that the button on my jeans doesn’t need a kiss. They have this love affair apparently and it needs to roll over the top of the jeans to say hello and get some love”. Either way, it’s not very attractive and I didn’t want to call it a muffin top. Poor muffins, they get the bad rap while cupcakes enjoy all the glory.
So how do you convert from a lazy girl that has never really exercised in her life to someone that has the endurance to get in shape? I wish I knew. But I have to start somewhere. After going to the doctor today to be seen for a double ear infection and a sinus infection he weighed me. It was a student doctor and he was flirty. When he took my weight it said 128.9 and he said ‘okay 128 pounds’. You know, I may not be a doctor, but I paid attention in math and at .9 he should have rounded up to 129. I wonder how many women have argued that the poundage past the decimal doesn’t count.
I know, some of you are going “What on earth? I would kill to be 129 pounds!” Most of my life I’ve struggled to maintain a weight of over 100 pounds. I’ve been a size zero until about 2 years ago. My goal weight is 120 pounds. It always has been. It is a good weight for my bone structure and body type, and honestly the weight that most my clothes fit. And regardless of who you are, carrying an extra 9 pounds around the waist and thighs is a lot of extra weight to be hauling about, and is about 3 pant sizes in my case.
Anyway for a formerly naturally skinny girl who literally had to do nothing to maintain a perfect form, the wondering how to get weight off is just as baffling as the wondering how to put it on. And while I know there are plenty that would have no sympathy for my 9 pound struggle, we all have our battles, and just because mine is only a 9 pound battle, doesn’t make it any less of a battle in my eyes than your battle is in your own. In other words, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, or in this case, in another size.
Carrying extra weight around your waist is a health risk, right now my waist is about 3 inches above what is considered normal for my height. Regardless of my overall size otherwise, this isn’t a good path to be on and I need to get it under control before it becomes a far more severe problem.
I am committing to 15-20 minutes of exercise a day, plus walking Merlin to get Gage from school (he’s far larger than I, and it’s a full body work out to keep him where I want him). That isn’t much, but for a exercise newbie it seems like an eternity. I was looking at fitness magazine online and there are a number of exercises for the body and the one I am looking at doing is the 4 weeks to a bikini body, only I will try to modify it so that I am working my lower body and not so much my upper body, God only blessed me with a little chest, and I don’t want that to be the thing that goes away. 9 pounds from there and I would be con-caving.
http://www.fitnessmagazine.com/videos/m/32072233/the-flamingo-balance.htm
So here is my starting point.
129 pounds, 30 inch waist. 15 minutes a day. 4 weeks. Try to loose 5 to 9 pounds. Not that I think 4 weeks is going to take away 9 pounds, but even if I can start seeing tone or any kind of change I will keep it up. Otherwise, I might just commit to allowing my belly button it’s love affair.
. About a week ago I decided a nice cantaloupe color would be beautiful in the entry way and I bought paint. This morning after dropping Gage off at school I decided I’d go ahead and paint the entry way.