When I was pregnant with Carter, I was working full time at a desk job. While I sat and worked, I was constantly snacking to keep myself from getting nauseous. After work, I would be tired and the thought of exercising after working 8-9 hours a day was too much.. I would eat dinner and head to bed.
Even though I wasn’t eating a lot of junk food, I was always putting food in my mouth. I gained a lot of weight while pregnant with him. Afterwards I struggled and still am to shed all of the baby weight.
{Hello to me while I was huge, pregnant & swollen} Carter recently turned two and the thought of having a second baby is in our minds. The problem for me is that I do NOT want my second pregnancy to be like I did it the first time. I learned a lot of what I shouldn’t do. So recently {should have started a long time ago} I have started making changes for a healthier me in the future.
I seriously hate running. I do. Some people are born to run, I am not one of them. BUT, there are a lot of benefits to running and I have found the more I push myself to run the easier it has been getting.
While I am not a expert in exercise & fitness at all.. this is what I have been doing…
In the mornings I have gotten up, eaten breakfast with Carter {usually scrambled eggs, its our favorite} and then I put some toys and books next to the treadmill and jump on. I have found that I can find time to at LEAST run 1 mile… If Carter is okay and still playing, I will run a little further but I always get at least a mile in. If its nice outside, I’ll put Carter in the jogging stroller and go outside. {Its a lot harder running outside pushing a stroller!!}
