Sunday, October 23, 2016

Getting Started: Working out for the first time after baby

6w3d Postpartum: And so it begins!



Well folks… I’m finally 6 weeks postpartum and I've been cleared by my Doctor to resume exercising. With that being said I begin this journey to get my body back. I’m all about taking baby steps so I’ve developed a basically fool proof plan to get there and stay there.

 This isn’t about just loosing the weight, it’s about making a lifestyle change.

Follow along and I’ll show you everything you need to get there too, wither you are postpartum or just looking to make a lifestyle change as well.






If you only accomplish one lifestyle change let it be this:

Eat a healthy breakfast!

I think in order to get get going on changing your lifestyle you have to change the way you start your day. If you are not already eating a healthy breakfast… stop reading this right now, go get a pen and a piece of paper and copy this list down or print this list out and put it on your fridge.




The next most important thing that I want you to do is to check and see if your phone has a health app that comes pre-installed on it (I have the health app that came with my Galaxy S7 and I love it) or you can go to your app store and find one that you like (think fitness pal, etc.)

Your homework this week:

-Put together a list of healthy breakfasts using the list above and go to the store if you need to get stuff for the week.

- Log all your meals no matter what into your health app (or just start logging your breakfast)

- Go for 3 walks this week for at least 10 minutes or march in place for 10 minutes 3x this week

- Record your weight and BMI, set a goal and take your before pictures!

- Finally follow me on facebook and instagram for recipes, work outs and great articles. 

See you next week!

-Kaila 

  


Tuesday, October 4, 2016

We had a Baby!

So… I had another baby… and although there is 8 years between the two the damage to my body and midsection have been done. I’m 4 weeks postpartum and have had all about 5 minutes to even stop and consider my activity level (unless you count bouncing an exhausted baby to sleep exercise). 

In all honestly I have had a few minutes here and there to do some stretching, yoga and pelvic floor muscles… which have been great because I really would love to get going on my postpartum recovery.

However; days like today where the time I have to get some exercise in are spent instead drinking a glass of wine and praying the baby stays asleep. My initial plans for this blog post was to post my 1 week postpartum pictures and so on but I’m going to be honest with you and tell you I don’t see the point.

It’s not like I’ve been doing some miraculous thing that has helped me lose weight… what I have been doing is a whole damn lot of breast feeding, baby oogling, and forgetting to eat. I only recommend the baby oogling. So for now I’m going to keep how much weight I lost and the method of which is was lost under wraps because it is not only unhealthy but I also feel like shit. Hopefully soon my baby will decide she loves sleep and I can actually get something done that is exciting to talk about.

Until then… I’m going to drink one more glass of wine before naptime is over.


-Kaila