adjustments

I had two unrelated things to blog about, and then I realized they were actually related! Because they are both adjustments. One was a mental adjustment, and the other is a physical one.

Mental Adjustment

Nathaniel's been teething over the past few days. It's meant he has gotten like zero sleep. He wakes up every hour or two and screams. I tried to give him a Motrin binky last night but he spat it out--and got Motrin all over my whole body in the process. SO STICKY! Gross. He spat out the Orajel and the only thing that would comfort him was nursing sitting up.

In the midst of being really, really annoyed by this (second night in a row!), I realized how blessed I am to have a baby whose teeth are coming in healthily. I have a good boy and I am so lucky that his teeth are coming in at a normal time in a normal way.

Physical Adjustment

I've blogged before about my quest to get in shape. I am ashamed to admit I haven't FOR REALZ worked out in maybe two weeks. Or maybe just one week, actually. But it is safe to say that in the past 14 days, I've probably REALLY worked out only once or twice, tops.

I've been a little concerned because for a few days earlier this week, I was super ravenous. I ate more, and assumed that I would pay the price for it.

However, after weighing myself for the first time in a while yesterday, I've actually lost a pound. So weird!

I've noticed since I actually started trying to take care of my body, that I go through these cycles: I work really, really hard, lose some weight, and then get super hungry. I eat eat eat for like 2 days, and then go back to normal, but don't seem to have any weight gain. Sometimes there's even weight loss.

This also happened to me a lot in college. No, I am not pregnant.

I concluded that it's my body figuring out how to handle itself at a new weight. I'm not sure if that even makes physiological sense, and I can't find anything to back that up on Google searches. But that's okay! Glad my body is getting used to being smaller. I finally bought myself a new outfit yesterday. I think it's the smallest outfit I have ever had as a grown up. Hooray!

good morning!

Good morning! I'm trapped in the kitchen with my baby asleep on my lap. Of course that means I am on Pinterest. But first, I did 40 minutes of Pure Cardio with Julie--even though Carl and I were up until midnight last night, I got up with the baby a few times, and got up for the day at 7:30. No excuses. I'm not going to wake up tomorrow wishing I had done more today. My body is a blessing from God and it's my job to treat it right.

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postpartum exercise questions

Okay.

For the past six weeks, my friend and I have been doing Insanity with Shawn T. The workout. Let me tell you, after three weeks of that, Jillian Michaels is like a joke. Anyway.

We've noticed ourselves getting a lot stronger, and we've noticed more definition in our arms and legs, but for both of us it seems that our abdomens have actually gotten flabbier.

Technically this can't possibly be true (right?) because I know for a fact that our ab muscles are stronger now. However, they are actually getting bigger instead of smaller, if that makes sense.

My friend had a C-section three months ago and I delivered vaginally four months ago. Anyone know why ab work is making our abs bigger instead of smaller?