4/05/2010

Time to start Anew

Today is a new day, a new beginning.  Life is good.  You make it what you want it to be!


 My baby girl, Ariel, is 5 months old.  She is such a joy to behold.  I never knew having a baby could be so much fun and bring so much joy.  The thing I love best is her smile.  She greets me every morning with a big grin when I get her out of bed.  It brightens my day.  She is growing fast and should be rolling over any day now.  She has begun to scoot around in a circle on the floor and loves chewing on everything!  Can we say drool?   It is a privilege to watch her grow.

I have been working out at the gym regularly.  It is nice to have a gym which has childcare available.  I do have to pre-schedule it and I know that if I wasn't doing that, I probably wouldn't be working out as much as I am.  I currently at 4 days a week for 1hour and am increasing that to 5-6 as time/childcare/etc allows.  Currently on the treadmill I am doing an interval of sorts...I walk at 4.0 for 6 minutes, then run at 5.2 for 2 minutes...do this 3-4 times depending if I'm doing 30 or 45 minutes cardio.  If I'm on the elliptical, I am sure to increase speed at 6 minutes also.  I like to switch between the two cardio machines.  I am also doing weights.  Legs, Arms, Chest is my switch up and I do some abdominals everyday.  Having a baby really, really weakened them.  I have already seen an improvement as I can do 40 crunches on the ab machine at 20 lbs. The first time I did it, I couldn't even move the machine and tweaked out about 5 at 10 lbs.  So, definite improvement.

I have joined up on Buffmother.com for the Sexy in 70 challenge.  I am hoping it will help me to stay motivated as well as give me new ideas for workouts!  I want to lose this excessive weight I have and look and feel GOOD!

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