Wednesday Wisdom

Last Wednesday, I shared a Wednesday Wisdom, and I think I have decided to make it a weekly thing.  I’ll share a quote or a saying or some other “wisdom” that I’ve come across or that I like.  Finding forms of "wisdom" that relate to my life help me through the tough times and inspire me to be a better me.  This week, it’s this quote:

I’m trying to remember this quote every day.  As you may know, I had my first baby in April of this year.  In fact, he was five months old last Sunday.  Since his birth, exercising and losing the baby weight has been on the back burner.  If you had said to me when I was pregnant that five months after delivering, I still wouldn’t fit into all of my regular clothes, I would have laughed at you and thought you were crazy.  I had the idea that the weight would just melt off while I was chasing the baby around.  You know, like all those celebrity moms say, that are magically a size zero two weeks after giving birth. 

Well, come to find out, you don’t really chase a newborn around, they’re pretty sedentary.  In fact, you’ll probably spend a great deal of time just sitting, staring at them.  And all of that free time you had to workout before the baby, well it’s suddenly gone because now you have a BABY to take care of.  Admittedly, I have not put exercising at the top of my list these last five months, because let’s face it, I would rather spend time with Drew than do about anything else.  He’s just more important.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not content to not fit in my skinny jeans forever.  For someone who used to be a very regular exerciser, it’s definitely been hard to feel “fat.”  But I’m working on it and we’re getting there.  It’s just going to take a little longer because I have someone more important to focus on than myself.  So I’m going to keep remembering to focus on how far I’ve already come rather than how far I have to go.  I’ll get there.  And in the meantime, I’ll have fun spending every second I can with my favorite little man.