With weeks and weeks of post partum exercise in the bag, I was feeling pretty good about my progress and continued motivation to get the pregnancy weight off quickly. I had set goal dates to be back down to my pre pregnancy weight (after my son but before my daughter) and my pre pre pregnancy weight (before both babies). Even though I was making progress, I was losing weight and my muscles were getting toned, my goal dates came and went without being met. Feeling more than a little frustrated, I set new goal dates and switched up my post partum workouts. I started doing thirty minutes of total body cardio twice a day instead of fifty minutes of cardio once a day. This helped me overcome my exercising plateau, but it is very challenging trying to keep up such a routine with two young children. With the help of my sister, I was able to change up my routine every other week by introducing new workouts with the added bonus of a workout buddy. This seemed to really help for a couple of months but once again my ever changing exercise routine plateaued and my motivation waned. I was tired of forcing myself to workout every single day with what seemed to me to be pathetic results. So I stopped exercising every day and tried to stick to a three to five day a week workout regimen. This went on for several weeks. While I was satisfied that I did not give up on my workout routine entirely, I also felt lazy and guilty for not motivating myself to push a little bit harder and the fact that my love handles were not shrinking did not help either! I was beside myself. I needed to figure out a way to drop the last five pounds. What more could I possibly do?
(To be continued…)