Exercise challenge = FAIL

Ok so maybe not a complete fail but I didn’t do very good this week. I think I manged to be a little more active but it wasn’t exactly exercise. I got the results of my three hour glucose test and while I passed I was very close. I’m also still dealing with some pretty icky swelling in my ankles and feet. The doctor suggestested that I cut back on my work hours after my appointment on Thursday so I’m officially off work at 2:00 every day.

The reason I was more active this week is because my mom came to visit. We didn’t get out of the house to go for walks but we did get the whole house clean and a lot of organizing done. Mostly she let me with my feet up while she worked. She painted the baby’s room and shampooed all my carpets. She took care of all the big stuff and let me concentrate on the smaller tasks.

On the plus side I did manage to keep the weight gain reasonable this week, I did not get the stink eye from the nurse. Only 10 weeks and 2 days left to go. Hopefully I will do better with this weeks challenge.

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I admit it, this week I took the path of least resistance. I opted for challenge number three, the personal challenge, and let me tell you why. I have a lot going on right now, I’m 28 weeks pregnant and I work in a tax/accounting office. Basically that means that by putting in 9-10 hours at work every day and working on Saturdays I’m actually “taking it easy”. Last tax season I worked 11-12 hour days and 6-8 hours on Saturdays. My overall energy level has been squat lately and yet when I come home I’ve been trying to organize the house and get the baby’s room ready. Between that and keeping up with the interwebs who has any time!

So this week I really concentrated on taking a half hour a night to just completely relax. I shut the laptop, turned off my phone and just sat quietly. Most of this time I spent with my husband though not by myself. He’s getting ready to be out of town during the work week for the next four weeks so I think we both really needed to get in some quality time. As a result I’m wicked behind in my reader, I haven’t posted anything since last tuesday and I’ve been a really poor commentor on other sites. However, I could tell a marked difference in both my mood and my hubby’s mood. We both seem to be a little more calm and our fuses with eachother are definitely longer.

Overall it was a pretty good week. I have to go have the 3-hour glucose test today because my first test showed high blood sugar amounts so I’m guessing that next week I will take on whatever sort of food challenge there is because I see a restricted diet in my near future.

Hope everyone is doing well!!!

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For those of you who don’t know me very well (which is all of you), I’m a big fat faker. What I mean by that is I can be totally engaging and (sometimes) funny and outgoing when I’m tip-typing on my computer but in real life…whoa buddy am I shy. Large crowds don’t make me nervous, in fact I love people watching, but the thought of having more than a few people’s attention on me at a time makes me twitchy. Walking down the aisle at my wedding with 400 guests watching me – jesus age I pretty much ran down that long ass aisle, I told my dad to “hurry up”.

All of this adds up to me being very nervous about attending my first Blogher conference in July. As vain as it may be if I feel like I look good it really helps my nerves, so I really want to look my best when I go. My problem with that is I’m currently 6 months preggers, I’m due June 4th. That does not give me much time at all to “whip my sorry ass into shape”. In fact I’m pretty sure I’m not even supposed to exercise for the 6 weeks following birth. My solution to this problem…Hot by Blogher…I just stumbled upon the site today…I’m fairly certain it was Amy in Ohio who threw the link out on twitter.

So here are my goals:

• Focus on eating healthier through the rest of my pregnancy – yes that means eating some dern fruits and veggies
• Working hard to stay within the 30lb weight gain for the overall pregnancy (so far I’m at 14)
• Be able to fit into pre-pregnancy size 12 jeans by Blogher
• I would like to be back down to 165 lbs, I would settle for 170
• Find a cute cocktail dress that doesn’t require me to wear spanx (I just hate undergarmets)
• Have a fabulous new hair cut and color
• Be able to look in the mirror and be proud of what I see

Stay tuned to see how I do!

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