and i come to realty.

so i thought "i'm doing good, i just had a baby, and i've had two kids...i'm doing good" but i think that's where a lot of woman get themselves in trouble. we make excuses for ourselves. "oh i couldn't go to the gym till now b/c the daycare at my gym only takes babies that are 6 months or older" (my baby just turned 6 months yesterday, and i just started working out on monday.) but that's what we need to stop doing, making escuses. b/c then one escuse turns into another, and before you know it, not only have you not lost all of your baby wieght, but you're unhealthy, and weigh more.

I was a gymnast for my entire life and all the way up until i was about 4 months prego with my fiirst (who is now 2.5) and after i had my second the wieght came off really fast, and actually ii can fit into some clothes that i never could after my first (to not say first and second, the first is sebastian, and the second is caydon) i have three sets of clothes. there's "pre baby" the before i ever had kids set. then there's "post baby" the after you have the baby and can't fit into maternity clothes but you can't fit into your old clothes either set. and last i have the "post post baby" which are the clothes i had to buy about 6 months after i had sebastian, b/c i lost enough weight to not fit into the post baby clothes but not enough to fit into the pre baby clothes.

so this time, caydon is 6 months, and i can actually fit into my pre baby clothes! yah!! well, that sounds good, but once i post the pictures, you'll see it's not good. b/c even though i can fit into my cheerleading uniform from highschool, you wouldn't think that from looking at my pictures. i was in extremly good shape in highschool, so i've always been a bigger build person, but it's always been muscle...think of the olympic gymnasts...and that's me. now think of an umpa lumpa..that's me now.

so i just wanted to write a little background, and to let anyone who reads this, a mom or not, that it's never too late to start. jess and i have the advantage b/c we are young and it will be easier for our bodies to get into this routine. but by changing your lifestyle, no matter what your age is, you can easily add another 10-20 years. healthy years! who doesn't want to see a little of their great grandkds? or great great grandkids?? i know i do. so lets do this, and lets do it now.

the experts say that it takes 21 days to get useto a habbit. after 21 days of doing somethng, t just becomes part of your life. and my excuse for not always eating healthy was "well i'd rather not stress myself out trying to find stuff to eat, i don't want to starve. but that's just another excuse. 'm not going to go on a diet, but i wll be watching my portions (a big step everyone can take...instead of the whole tub of cream cheese...maybe just the serving size?) and my husband and i will be doing what we can to make whole healthy meals. you can make good meals that are still healthy. and after eating this food for 21 days i should be use to it, and my body should crave nothng else. now, another thing people might be able to relate to is money! we are broke for sure lol. so we may not be buying everythng organic, but i will try to start a garden, that will take some of the food cost out. we're on wic, so we'll do what we can with what we get on that. and i'll let you guys know , how it goes, and how much my grocery bill is. i also vow from this point to not eat out for the next 21 days. i'm not against eating out, but i know i for sure have had waaaaay to many whopper jrs with cheese in the last year. and so once my body gets in the habbit of eating healthy, by theory i will no longer crave those things. i also vow to excersise at least 3 times a week, but my goal is 5. i don't have a scale at my house, so i will have to weigh myself only when i go to the gym. so here i go, on a mission...a mission to be one hot mama! i hope you enjoy the journey and that it gives you inspiration.