New thing I'm trying

So I have been wanting to be in better shape for a while now. Especially since my youngest was born. I am not a fan of working out. I am a very picky eater. When it comes to going to a gym I would like to go the route of personal trainer working with me or possibly having a friend to go to the gym to work out with me. I am not one to go by myself to work out because for some unexplainable reason I feel weird doing that. Plus when it comes to working out I want to see immediate results. I didn't have to worry about working out in high school because I was constantly on the go. Between band, school, football games and various other activities I was always on the move. I took P.E. in school, and I took a dance class in school (where we did over 200 sit ups in every class as part of our warm-up). I also did softball, soccer, dance, gymnastics, and cheer when I was younger. So as you could see I was active.

I have been a picky eater for as long as I can remember. I don't like veggies, with the exception of potatoes and corn. No salads, no green stuff. I like fruit, strawberries being my fav, but I get in moods where I want them but then I don't end up eating them when I buy them. I like chicken, steak, and pasta. But I don't like ground beef (weird I know, since I like steak), pork, fish, etc. I definitely like fried things and I love salty chips and sweets, especially chocolate. I like cheese and milk, but not yogurt or cottage cheese or cream cheese. I guess you can say I like food as if I were a child- fatty, sweet, salty, fried. So diets don't appeal to me in any way shape or form. I can try to eat smaller portions, but I definitely hate the feeling of wanting more even though I am not hungry, so I end up snacking on something not good for me or I end up gorging myself on whatever meal I was just eating. Plus I love soda, but luckily my favorite drink is iced tea (thanks to Jaxon because I was so nauseous with him iced tea was the only thing that helped my tummy).

So I go from being a skinny 120lbs when I graduated high school to gaining the dreaded freshman 15 in my first year of college. Plus add on drinking A LOT (which was a whole new thing for me, especially if you knew me in high school it was so NOT my thing, complete opposite) and I definitely was starting to get into a new level of weight. Then we come to when I moved out of my parents house into mine and Mark's apartment. I had no car, so I would walk to work. I ate a lot of chicken (bake, broiled) when we lived there. We went out to the Stampede a lot and I love dancing so it was a good "workout" for me. I stayed in shape that way, of course not by consciously doing it, it just happened.

Flash forward to when I got pregnant with Hunter. I did really good on not gaining a lot of weight with him. I didn't start showing until 7-8 mon preggo. I went into my last month excited that I wouldn't have trouble getting the extra weight off, but then in the last few weeks I gained 25lbs (total 50lbs). All water weight but still 25lbs. So by the time Hunter was born I was 196lbs. AHHH! Luckily the water weight came off really fast but I was still around 170lbs. Still not good. Tried doing Pilate's with a video I had bought but gave up/didn't have enough time/baby to take care of. Lots of excuses. Next it was Jaxon. I gain the right amount of weight that was acceptable by the Dr (30lbs). Lucky for me I guess that for one month straight I couldn't eat because I was so nauseous and lost 8 lbs so that helped. I was able to breast feed longer with Jaxon (2 1/2 months with Hunter, 6 months with Jaxon). I tried eating Lean cuisines. Got bored of the selections (picky eater remember?) but I was able to lose 20lbs of baby weight.

So we now come to me now. Hunter is almost 4 (April 23), and Jaxon is almost 2 (May 23). I really would like to not look like I am pregnant in pictures anymore. So I am trying to figure out how I can lose the weight . Mark has talked to me about getting a gym membership for me, but I like to go with someone, he would have to stay with the boys when I went, nor do I have any friends who would be able to go at night for an hour or so (I just want to do some cardio at this point). I am not going to change my diet cause I just can't (=( ), but I can try to eat smaller portions and drink less soda and more tea. So then I decided to try running here around the neighborhood where we live. My parents live in a gated community where there are 2 blocks separated by a wash/bridge. I decided to try and just run around the outer ring of the block my parents live on once as I regain some sort of fitness. Then I would move on to run the outer and inner ring without stopping. Then I would run the outer, inner and other block when I can run all that without stopping and without dying =). When am I going to do this when I have 2 boys who keep me busy? Right as I get them down for their nap. As soon as I get them quiet and settled I change and turn on the music on my phone, put the headphones and run. I started this last Thursday. I have ran 4 days so far. I don't want to do weekends, which will give me a break and since our weekend s are so unpredictable. I didn't run yesterday cause it was just a bad day with the boys and I wasn't feeling good so I took a nap instead (dreaded first day of the time of the month=P ). So today I am going to get back to it. I am going to get off now, change the boys into their clothes for the day, put them down for their nap and go run.

Here's hoping I can stick to this and maybe lose some weight I might post weekly weigh ins but don't know yet. But I will say I weighed myself Tuesday night and I was 177.8. So let that be the starting weight. Here we go!