I thought that after the baby was born I was going to be really ill over my post pregnancy body, but much to my surprise I have not been that distraught. I guess it has something to do with the fact that I have bigger fish to deal with and that for once it is not all about me.
Having a kid showed me how self-obsessed I really was...crazy! Now I can see that even though having a fit healthy body is important, it is not the only thing in life and I don't have to go insane trying to recapture my figure right away. At first I thought that if I did not look like I did before with in a month than the world was all wrong and I would not be able to go on. But here I am 2 1/2 weeks into it and I have a belly that is like a big gummy bear and no abs in sight, I won't even get into my legs and arms and I am sort of OK with it. I trust that my body knows how to get back to what nature intended. Besides when you don't sleep and you have a baby that is a fuss-a-dufflus there is little time for body fixations.
Now this is not to say that I am 100% at peace with my body, but its way less of a mind eff than I thought it would be.
On another note I have started running again...sort of. This was the longest I have been inactive in many years and trust me I needed the rest. But then a few days ago I got the itch to run and so I handed over the babe to Teddydigital and ran for 20 minuets on my treadmill. Now, in the past I would never have counted 20 mins as a "run" but considering the circumstance I felt like i just ran a marathon and I was just as proud. The next day I gave my self a rest and than today I ran for 25 mins. It felt really good. Slow and steady and soon enough I will be back to real running. Though running a few weeks after giving birth feels pretty real to me. I am certain that the reason that I have recovered so quickly is because I worked out up until the end. I ran until 34 weeks and then just went to the gym and did all the boring machines. I still got cellulite but at least I was not bound to my bed for weeks trying to get over the trauma of birth.
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