Getting back in shape after pregnancy

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I loose my breath after walking one block, my clothes don’t fit and my stomach feels like jello. It’s definitely time to take action.

4 weeks ago I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. It’s absolutely wonderful to have a baby but it’s also great to finally be able to move again. At the end of the pregnancy I felt big and heavy and I was in quite a lot of pain. The last 2 weeks I could hardly walk.

So now it’s such a relief not to have to carry all that extra weight around. Still I’m sooo out of shape and I’m really longing to fit into my normal clothes again. So I need a plan and I’ve decided to:

1. Slowly, slowly start exercising.
2. Get rid of my bad eating habits.

I’m going to start my exercises by walking and doing yoga. I have to bring my sons to school every morning and pick them up in up in the afternoon so I’m going to walk to school. If I walk an extra block to two I’ll easily end up walking 30-40 minutes twice a day. That’s a good start.

Then the yoga. I love yoga it is wonderful how the tension leaves your body when you exercise. I’ll start slowly with a daily sun salutation. Since I’m pretty bad at changing my habits I should probably say at least 5 days a week.

Last but on least, changing my eating habits. Brrr, I eat too much candy and I’ve noticed that I still eat something before going to bed. I needed to eat just before bedtime during my pregnancy otherwise I’d wake up hungry in the middle of the night. But now, there is absolutely no need for it. So from now on I can only eat candy during weekends and after dinner (that I preferably should eat before 6 PM) I can only have water, herbal tea and fruit.

Sound like a plan. Will I manage? We’ll see.

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