Yes, those sad, sad words were in fact utte­red about my waist­line this very week by He Who Shall Remain Nameless.

Muf­fin Top.

After suc­king in a quick gulp of air, I believe I said something to the effect of, “Wow, let’s not say those words out loud again. OK? I mean it’s true, but please make that an ‘inside your head thought’.”

As you now rea­lize, this post is about weight mana­ge­ment. Well, for me, it’s more about waist mana­ge­ment. I’m thin, buy the luck of the gene­tic pool, but I’ve had two kids in the past 2 1/2 years. I weigh 10.5 pounds more than I did pre-kids, and my belly flabs over my pants. I’d be happy to loose anywhere bet­ween 5 to 8 pounds. But more impor­tantly I’d love to loose three inches from around my waist, and get some muscle tone back.

I’ll spare you my exact waist mea­su­re­ment, for fear of hate mail from those of you who at this point are rolling your eyes. But, if you were to look at me, without my clothes on. Which, by the way, you won’t…my waist is pro­por­tio­nally lar­ger than the rest of my body.

So on Wed­nes­day mor­ning I took my first waist mea­su­re­ment for a base line. Then Hubby and I made our way down to the local 24 Hour Fit­ness. We enro­lled both kids into Kid Club, BC was thri­lled. eClaire was not. And we made our first step toward a healthier lifestyle.

Hubby loves to exer­cise, but doesn’t find the time. I love to lift weights, but tend to pride myself on my ina­bi­lity to break a sweat. Really, I rea­li­zed today, that I don’t break a sweat simply because my heart never works hard enough to require sweat to form. I hate car­dio. exer­cise. I hate it.

But we deci­ded that we need to change our lifestyle. So after 3 or more years of non exer­cise, I’m back. Hubby and I star­ted with 20 minu­tes of ellip­ti­cal trai­ning, which damn near broke me. I was, much to my sur­prise, swea­ting. Ima­gine that! Me swea­ting. Honestly, if you know me, you’ve never seen this hap­pen. Ever. By the end of the twenty minu­tes I felt good and was thri­lled that the worst part of my work out was over.

Now onto weights. My favo­rite!! We’ve deci­ded until we get into a rou­tine, we’d just follow the cir­cuit wor­kout that they have set up. One minute on each of the ele­ven dif­fe­rent machi­nes. With mini­mal breaks in bet­ween. Hubby and I wor­ked hard. I lis­te­ned to my new ipod shuf­fle, and felt like I got a pretty good wor­kout today.

I felt good.

This is day two of my work out rou­tine. I sure hope I keep it up. Because I feel much bet­ter about myself today. By this sum­mer, you bet­ter watch out! I’m going to be smokin’…hmm. Easier said than done. I know. :-)

This is a pic­ture of my mom, last sum­mer with my youn­ger brother. Ya. She’s hot! I defi­na­tely have someone to aspire to!

Muf­fin Top No More!

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