This past June I gave birth to my first daughter! There were many inspirations for this blog all surrounding this one event.
Something about having a child and wanting to provide them with absolutely the best life you possibly can is probably the greatest inspiration. If I want her to grow up living a healthy life then she better see my doing it as well.
The second reason is a little more selfish! While pregnant with {E.G.} I only gained about 20 lbs. from my pre-pregnancy weight. (I should inform you that I did loose about ten pounds in the first trimester and was sick through the majority of my pregnancy. I was not trying by any means to only gain a small amount). It did feel like an accomplishment, but the reality was that I was overweight before I got pregnant. After I had her, the weight literally fell off with no effort. Within a week I had lost all the weight I gained while pregnant and within a month I was ten pounds lighter then when I got pregnant. I felt great! I do not tell you this to brag. I just say this because I thought that the weight was going to continue to fall off. I lost a few more pounds and for a few months I was able to maintain not really working at it. Now six months after having my little one, I am at about the same weight I was before I got pregnant. I now know that the weight is not going to continue to just
"fall" off. So the second inspiration is purely so that I can be happy when I look in the mirror.
Another reason is just so that I feel better in all aspects of life. As any mother knows, for the first little while after having a child I was sleep deprived. After a while though, she was sleeping through the nights and I was getting plenty of sleep. Even then, I would wake up completely exhausted. I wondered if I had a disease or was sick. It didn’t take me long to realize that there was something wrong but it was in the way I was living. I am not a smoker or a drinker so it wasn’t anything major but it was the way I was eating. I resolved quickly that this is not exactly the way I want to feel for the rest of my life. So I decided to make a change. Just as the quote of the week says, "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" I am not only seeking health physically but in all ways and this is the beginning of my journey to Rejuvenation. There will be recipes, weekly goals and other random posts!
Erin, what a fun site you have here. I enjoyed reading all of your comments. What a good beginning for you. I totally understand where you're coming from on the weight and believe me it is something that we seem to have to work at all the time. I guess we can work on it now or feel bad about it later. I've done that too. Maybe we can figure some positive ways to not let it pile up. My problem is not that I can't find ways, I read about them them all the time, it's that I don't muster up eough get-go to do it. Well anyway, here's to working harder at it this year! Love ya!
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