Still Sore!!!

I'm still sore and swollen from surgery 6 days ago. How crazy is that? She had told me that by Monday I would be feeling great, but clearly I'm very swollen and bruised on my stomach. I've been dreading working out and having done so yet since walking still seems like a chore (I hate the feeling of the clothing rubbing against my incisions...ick!)

I am sad I had to miss two pilates classes this week. Mom thought I should skip since pilates mostly works your core and since my stomach is bruised...yeah makes sense to me too.

Everything else is going well. I've worked HARD all week. Yesterday I taught all day and then babysat all night. Tomorrow I have an interview at a high school here in town. I'm a little nervous because it is a rougher high school. In fact, today in the paper there was an article about how a kid punched a substitute teacher at that high school! It's not that rough day to day, I'm sure that hasn't happened in a long time there, but the kids come from a hard economic background so I am a little nervous about that. Wish me luck!

Well, since this isn't really a working out post I'll stop now. Surgery seems like a sorry excuse for not working out, but it's the truth.

In other news: I am eating healthy and have lost a little of the weight I had gained during surgery from laying around in bed unable to move. I'm back at my 172. :)

Post Surgery Wake-Up

Friday was the dreaded d-day for my surgery. I was anxious the whole day and unable to eat anything the night before.

After my surgery I woke up and started throwing up. I felt like I had to go to the bathroom and so as soon as they tried to help me up it began. They gave me 3 rounds of nauseous medication but it wasn't until I got home and ate something that my stomach finally relaxed.

My stomach is so huge right now. Full of gas and bloated from the surgery. I have never felt more uncomfortable. On top of that my photographer posted some photos of my fiance and I from our engagement shoot on her website and I HATE them. I can't help but focus on my size and see all of the fat and see everything I want to disappear. I wish I could go get on a treadmill right now.

Maybe that was what I needed though. A prewedding wake-up call. There are 7 months until the wedding...plenty of time to still lose some weight and feel better about my body.

As soon as I can I will be on that treadmill. And this time, looking at those photographs, I can visualize where I don't want to be.

Doing Well

Hey ya'll!
It's been so hard to find time to blog in here lately. At night I'm so exhausted and have little motivation, but I'm still checking your blogs so keep me posted!

I have gained a little weight over the past 3 weeks, but my body is changing so I'm pretty sure I'm putting on muscle from my workouts with JT and doing those damn lunges all by myself. It's weird because one day I'll be up 2 pounds and the next down 4...insane. I guess my body doesn't know what to do right now. JT said I should go up a few pounds in muscle before I start dropping so that is a good sign I guess.

I started back taking pilates classes on the reformer again. I love them! I forgot how much I enjoyed it and it doesn't feel like a workout at all. Although this time I'm taking Level 2 classes so they are a lot more difficult than the Level 1's. I though level 1 was a piece of cake, but I'm finding myself a bit more challeneged now.

Sam and I are engaged and busily planning the wedding. Still don't know if his family will come or if they will be uninvited...they tuned.

I guess that is it! I have to get to the gym (where I work in the kid's daycare) and then I might jump on the treadmill for a bit again. I find it easier to workout when I'm already there...even though I worked out today I might just tell myself to do 1 mile tonight.