I am loving the gym! I have been rotating 3 classes, and I enjoy all three of them: Body Pump, Body Jam, and step aerobics. The Body Pump is probably my favorite of the three. It's a strength-training class, that works all major muscle groups. So fun! The Body Jam is similar to Lynette's class (back in Provo at Gold's Gym), in that it is a dance aerobics. Step is my least favorite, but I like it because it gets my heart rate up and keeps it up the best. I feel pretty uncoordinated in Step and Body Jam, but the teachers are way fun and encouraging, and it's getting better each time I go. The other thing I do at the gym is the elliptical. I measured myself again today, and my measurements were all down! What a great feeling to see the rewards of all my sweat!

Daily Weighing

I got the idea to weigh myself every day from Flylady. Her thought is, that if your "number" is down a little from the day before, celebrate with a glass of water. If it's up a bit from the day before, you can use that as motivation to take an extra walk that day.

She said that once she started weighing herself daily, she found that each week, her numbers would go down slowly, until Sunday, she would eat a big brunch and she would be right back up each Monday, when she weighed herself. So once she found this out by her daily weighing, she modified her Sunday brunch and kept the trend going downward, instead of stagnating overall.

In reality, the day-to-day numbers don't really mean much. The important thing is the overall trend: up or down. For me, I like the daily report card. This doesn't work for everyone.

Even though I weigh myself every day, I will only post a couple of my numbers each week.

On Being Fat and Buying Clothes

I think there's a balance between resigning yourself to being overweight by buying a whole wardrobe, and refusing to have anything decent to wear because you can't stand buying that bigger "number."

I understand being frugal and all that, but you have to love the skin you're in -- where you are today. I am doing everything I can to change my "number," but in the meantime, I bought 2 pairs of size 16 capris and 4 larger shirts that I feel cute in.

Most of my pre-pregnancy shirts are form-fitting, and not flattering because they show my postpartum padding. Instead of continuing to wear my maternity tops and ill-fitting, frumpy clothes, I rotate these few items of clothing that fit me so I can feel cute every day.

I think that people who wear clothes that are too small, actually look overweight because of it, whether they are actually overweight or not. Muffin tops are all the rage, it seems, and I'm not into that fad. And someone who might be a little overweight, who wears clothes that fit well, looks better in the end because of it.

Happily, my size 16 capris are way loose on me now, and my 14s almost fit right. Woo-Hoo!

Back to the Gym

I had a great workout last night. I went to step aerobics for the second time this week and loved it! I felt so selfish, in a good way, if that's possible. I was doing something good for me, and enjoying every minute of that sweaty hour. Monday was my first day back at the gym and I over did it. I came home and felt tired, irritable and sluggish the rest of the evening. I was just so excited to be back and I gave myself too much credit for how in shape I am (not).

Last night I used John's Couch to 5K program and exercised for 60 seconds, walked for 90 seconds, alternating for 20 minutes. Then I went and lifted weights for 20 minutes and did abs for 10. Fun stuff!