I planned to be almost halfway through bodyshred right now. That's not where I am, sadly. I have plantar fasciitis, and that has changed my whole trajectory. For the past week and a half, I've been resting, and getting used to the idea that my journey is taking a little different route right now. I [...]
PPDA Progress
I'm a little nervous to say this, but I think we might be through the worst of this. It's been a few weeks, and it feels like overall things are better. Things are still hard, and some days and parts of days are really hard, but looking back, I just can't believe how far I've [...]
Nine years ago on Friday. Our first baby.
That's when it happened. I've never told this story on any of my blogs. I've referenced it, but I've never been ready. I've written a little about September Baby, but never my first baby. As I sit here with Declan, my fourth baby, I finally feel ready. I've told his and Lexi's birth stories, and [...]
Starting BodyShred and new program resolutions
Well, here is where I'm starting from:Waist: 31.5Hips: 41.5Thigh: 22.5I have no idea what I weigh, because the scale is broken and it really doesn't matter, because it's not a great measure of progress for me anyway. I know what I weighed 2 weeks after D was born, and when I've made some serious non-scale [...]
Finding improvement where I’ve had it
So, I'm on my last rest day of this round of JMBR. I'm resting, drinking water, various teas, and good clean foods. I'm still feeling very frustrated because pants are not getting any looser yet, and I'm not looking likely at all to reach the milestone goal I had set for 12 days from now [...]
6 more
That's how many workouts I have left in this round of JMBR. I'm not sure how I feel about that. On one hand, I feel proud, because I've stuck with it, and other than injury, vacation, and surgery, I've kept progressing every 2 weeks as prescribed. I am, and should be, really proud of that. [...]
Venting again
I'm So frustrated and discouraged. I've been at this consistently for 4 months (minus the week after my surgery and the week we were on vacation which was a planned recovery week) and I'm barely any smaller. Yes, I'm far stronger, my muscles are more defined, etc, but is it so wrong to have wanted to [...]
To My Sweet Duckling at Six Months
Declan, You are lying next to me in bed right now, chewing on your toes and smiling. It seems you're always smiling, and in those rare times you aren't, I know the storm won't last but a moment and there's a rainbow just around the corner. I can't believe you're six months old already, that half of [...]
Can I do this?
I had a "moment" during my workout this morning. It was my first post-vacation/post-injury JMBR workout and it was intense. Lots of jump lunges, jump squats, half moons, just tough! About halfway through I thought "and I'm starting BodyShred in less that five weeks? There's no way I can do this!" But then I thought [...]
Looking at September
We are back from our wonderful vacation and I'm determined and motivated to make September a great month! There are a few part of this, and I'm gonna share and gather my thoughts here for myself and for you! 😜Breastfeeding: more sleep! Declan is still nursing exclusively (no bottles, woohoo!) and I'm slowly weaning myself off [...]
Mae Breakall 