Diets are everywhere! Exercise is everywhere! I have friends who have gym memberships, my neighbor goes running every morning at 5am, I see those marathon bumper stickers on every other car. Maybe they have always been there, but the fact that I have been avoiding diet and exercise like the plague since college, seems to make me think that diet and exercise are always around taunting me everywhere I go.
I consider myself a generally healthy person. I've always used the excuse that I have a good metabolism and eat healthy most of the time. Plus, I have two young boys that keep me super busy, so I consider keeping up with them my exercise. I've gone pretty far with this excuse. The last time I actually dieted was my junior year of college. With my boys I, at best, gained 40 lbs. of baby weight, which thankfully fell off within weeks of having the babes. So, I have just avoided the words diet and exercise because I seemed to be doing just fine on my own. That is, until last Thursday...
I have noticed during this winter that my pants were all a little tighter. I could still wear them, but only with loose fitted, flowing tops to hide the muffin-top. Still I was not motivated to actually do anything about it besides constantly suck-in while standing. Then last Thursday I got weighed at my doctor's office, and I had a mini panic attack. I had promised myself in college (after I gained weight during my study abroad program from too much food and way too much alcohol) that I would not let myself weigh more than a certain number, EVER, besides when I was pregnant, of course. Well, the weight the scale read was only 3.5lbs. away from that number. So, I realized there at my doctor's office that I needed to do something before it got too late.
So excited for this!
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