A start. My start was having Cheyanne. BOOM there goes 10-ish pounds plus who knows how much water weight. As you may have read on my other blog I had anything from the ideal delivery. Here I was thinking I would have our baby, rest for a week or so then start being active again. Then a c-section happened and there I was on the couch for 2 weeks.
Before getting pregnant I was in pretty good shape, I was happy with myself. I would run regularily and I had just started a circuit training routine that I was loving. I tried running throughout the pregnancy, but I got to about 20 weeks and I just couldn’t. My ankles and hips were achy and I had to pee every 5 minutes as it was, let alone having Chey bounce around on my bladder. I still walked alot, don’t get me wrong. I have a psycho dog that would NOT let me not walk.
Here is a picture of my hubby and I at Jason Aldean literally RIGHT BEFORE, or quite possibly the day of getting pregnant 😛
Alright 8.5 months later I had gained 38 pounds! I always ate healthy food, just large amounts of it 🙂
Here I am, I believe this was 1 week after, ab muscles first stretched beyond belief and then cut wide open! This could take a while to get back, but it was alllllll worth it for our beautiful baby 🙂
And here I am today, 3.5 weeks post pardum
So I am using this here blog as a way to kind of track this body after baby adventure. I am exclusively breastfeeding, which helps and burns alot of calories but may hamper my diet and exercise. It burns about 600 calories a day, meaning I still have to eat extra, so starting a calorie cutting diet is not really an option. An option is choosing only the healthiest foods and filling up on those. I have started walking again this week (week 3), about 30-45 minutes a day. I cannot believe how much muscle I lost! My butt was achy after our first walk, and it was on very flat ground. I take little Chey in the carrier which adds some extra weight too. I can’t wait until I can break out the jogging stroller and use it for what it was made for, but I have to get the OK at my 6 week appointment. I also can’t wait to do some planks and push-ups….is that wierd?
I do not own a scale, so I am pretty much just going by how I feel and how my clothes fit. I can fit into my pre-preggo jeans, but I fit in them my whole pregnancy since little missy was so high in my rib cage 🙂 I have what I lovingly call my pudge in my belly and some extra weight in my thighs and rear that I cannot wait to tone up again.
SO I will post updates here and there, I can’t promise how often, let’s not forget I have a newborn baby! But I will post healthy recipes that I try and like, little tips I find here and there, exercises and my weight loss/muscle gain 🙂
9 Months Up, 9 Months Down 
You look wonderful….You just had a baby a few weeks ago,,,you will be back to normal in no time at all……your doing a great job