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Why am I inflicting this blog on the general public? The simple answer is that I hope amid my ramblings, someone, somewhere will find some information they can actually use.

Now here’s the long answer:

A year ago this time, I was super fit and enjoying a relatively carefree life with my husband.  Then we decided to procreate.  I got pregnant and embarked on 9 months of 1) eating all the foods I usually tried to avoid (Little Debbie became my middle name) and 2) a vacation from sweating.  ”No worries,” I thought, “I’ll be back at it by the time the baby’s three weeks old.  I’ll be bikini ready by Christmas.”  If you’re not a parent, you may be thinking, “Sounds reasonable.  Wasn’t Miranda Kerr back on the runway like five weeks postpartum?”  If you are a parent, you’re probably thinking, “AHHHHHAHAHAHAHA!! Good luck, sister!”  As it turns out, the experienced parents in this imagined scenario are right.  My son is now three months old, beautiful, and blessedly healthy.  But he is a handful (literally — I’m typing this one-handed).  Being a mom is a lot of work, even when you’re in love with the job.  There are days (STILL!) when I don’t have time to take a shower, let alone the 6- or 7-mile daily runs I was sure I’d be nailing by this point.

But I haven’t given up on reclaiming my pre-pregnancy body.  I’ve just had to get sneaky about it — stealing time for a workout when I can, and incorporating exercise into my everyday mommy activities when I can’t.

Maybe some of you out there are in the same boat — maybe you’d be hitting the gym or the running trails for an hour or more a day if time and energy allowed, but they just don’t, and maybe you can learn from my failures and my successes and sneak some fitness back into your lives too.  At the very least you can save yourselves some time by not repeating my many, many mistakes in exercising AND in parenting.  This blog will likely become a cautionary tale on how not to get in shape and raise your children…