Mentioned it on my thread but thought I'd post it here too - glad to see you checking in on Blindsided! I think you can really help her. I try but having not been through the whole pregnancy thing, I think it probably adds a whole other layer of emotional turmoil that I don't really understand. I am SO sad and sick about how many pregnant women are posting in Newcomers right now!!
Sounds like you handled the "poopy mood" stuff very well, overall. Everyone's gonna get grumpy or have arguments at times - it's the apologies and making up for it that counts, and sounds like THAT went great!!
I'm excited you're thinking of trying Body For Life!! I actually backed off my plan a bit - I think jumping straight into that is too much for me right now (even modified). So I'm commiting instead to exercising in some form at least 30 min. a day. But if you can do BFL it is SO incredible and motivating and just WOW. I picked out some of my favorite before/afters from the site and based them to my exercise journal.
I did the pics.. definitely, I know you're not excited, but do them!! Front, back, and side.. and wear tight workout type clothes. When I started my first challenge I was probably around 175 lbs??? (at 5'4" - definitely heavy!). It was HARD to put on spandex pants and top and take those pics, lemme tell ya. But I took pics every 4 weeks. You could see a difference in 4 weeks - and then when you compared week 1 with 12, WOW!! Looking in the mirror at week 12 I felt stronger but still heavy - looking at the pics made me see just how far I'd come.
I DO need to do a BFL challenge again, just need to get a little more confident strength wise first, I think.
Me 35, H 38; Together 13.5 yrs, M 7 Bomb 1 10/07/06 Sep'd 1/14/07 - 4/15 Piecing: 4/07 - 9/07 Bomb 3 10/11/07: Never loved you, let's separate 2/08 slowly improving 7/08 Piecing (7/25/08 rings back on!!) Current thread
