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It only took 19 months to find the energy to even try to lose the baby weight.

Is it terribly disturbing that I ironed my t-shirt before heading to the gym?

Yup. The gym. Jay has relinquished me of my mommy duties a few nights a week so that between kickboxing and yoga, I might once again find some inner balance.

Though I'm putting off yoga - treating it as a reward, really - until I can get into a regular routine of cardio. I need to fat blast in a serious way, and then I'll feel good about using my gym time for inner-me time. Besides, there really is something meditative about the rowing machine (I've always wanted to do crew), and I'm really enjoying the bike (it has a little tv and you can choose different routes and oh man, does it cater to the competitive streak in me!) Thursday I meet with a personal trainer because seriously, if I'm going to be at the gym a few nights a week, I want to be getting the most (weight loss) out of the deal.

The goal? 20 pounds - that'll put me at my South Beach/training for the 3-Day weight. And you want to hear something silly? My sister has always been thin, thin, thin and I've always struggled with my weight. We're wicked excited that she's pregnant - and in my twisted little head, this means she'll be gaining weight. If she gains enough, and I lose enough, for once in my life I could weigh less than my sister!

I've got until March to lose it all. Whatever gets me motivated, right?

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That's awesome. I finally got motivated last fall to lose the weight with a 2 and 4 year old. I hit the gym a 3 or 4 times per week but then I got sick, the kids got sick, summer came and I had trouble getting there. I just started the Couch to 5K program last week and I've been using my treadmill in the basement during naps. Hopefully it will do something and I can get back into my fun clothes and out of these fat ones.

I wish you success in reaching your deadline of Auntie.

Posted by Divrchk | October 16, 2007 9:54 PM

Good for you! I've been hitting the gym pretty regularly (@ 5 AM - yuck!), but the scale wasn't budging, so I joined Weight Watchers almost 2 wks ago. I need some help with the food management end of things ... and so far, it's worked great. I lost 4.4 lbs my first week and hopefully I'm on track to do more of the same.

Posted by jesser | October 17, 2007 9:06 AM

I just tried the rowing machine today. There was this 30 minute cardio program in Shape magazine this month that I wanted to try - and its for the rowing machine. You set the flywheel between 1 and 3, you set the timer to 30 minutes, and you set the monitor to show watts (instead of calories or whatever else they show).
1) You do 5 minutes of warm up (watts between 30 and 50),
2) then you do 2 minutes of high intensity (100 - 150 watts),
3) then you do a minute of squats (standing up and squatting over the machine);
4) then for the next 16 minutes you alternate between doing 3 minutes at moderate intensity (50 - 150 watts, depending upon your level - I did 100 watts since it was smack in the middle) and then a minute of either leaning back and doing reaches for ab work, or squats over the machine,
5) then you cool down for 5 minutes. In any case, I thought it looked like a good, fast workout.
My original goal was the weekend of Nov 9 when a bunch of the girls are getting together for a girls' weekend - I figured with half of them pregnant I, like yourself, might actually be smaller than a few of my friends (ahem, other Erica) who are normally tiny. But, it's taking me a bit longer to get my workout schedule on track. Now, my goal is the holidays when we go to Ireland to visit my in-laws, and I have to compete with my sister-in-law (who is also always thin, even after 2 kids!)

Posted by Splolly | October 17, 2007 10:40 AM

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