I'm Going On An Adventure!!

[Saffity]

All right, firstly, Secret Santa, I'm very sorry, I'm throwing in the towel and admitting that I don't have time to go look and find out who you are. It's up to you whether you reveal yourself or not but please know that I love my workout and will be doing it frequently.

The year has begun with a job hunt that is taking what's left of my mental capacity after keeping two tiny humans alive.

Luckily my previous job connected me with a company that assists with the job hunt for a bit so my resume is looking spiffy. Now to just apply to a bunch of jobs and hope I find one that I'm as happy in as my last one but hopefully pays a bit more.

I'm also taking an online course to get my specialist certificate in Microsoft 365 Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to hopefully give me a bit of an edge.

I've decided to start Pathfinder over (especially since Munchie enjoys the 'finding water' and 'finding firewood' workouts and often asks to do them at random). Buddy has gotten into it and puts his arms up when we're doing jumping jacks, and crouches down during lunges and squats which is super cute. I'm modifying where I need to for my knee, and so far it's tolerating it.

I've done the first 3 days so far and will be doing day 4 later today.

Between that and the various toddler exercize videos and activity songs, plus playing Chase, wherein we run in circles around the living/play room, I think I'm getting a good amount of movement in.

Checkin:

Weight - 167.2 - down 1.2 lbs

Main measures are:

High Bust- 37.75" (main bust line is inaccurate due to continued nursing) - down 0.75"
Waist - 33" - down 0.75"
Hips - 43.25" - down 0.25"

Pretty proud with that. Going back to my first weight/measurement check in on this thread it's as follows:

Weight down 12.8 lbs
High Bust down 1.5"
Waist down 1"
Hips down 0.75"

Which quite frankly is exceptional! I'll be taking progress pics soon, and will probably be surprised at the difference from the 6 month post partum checkin because like last time I don't feel like there's been much change, but I'm in my body every day so don't notice it.

 

[MadamMeow]

Wishing you good luck for your job search. Really hope you find somewhere you can be happy and be compensated well.

 

[Saffity]

Wow, where did January go? I will fully admit, the month very much got away from me. Not sure what February will get, other than another loss in the family on my husband’s side this time.

Thankfully so far the kids, husband, and I are still doing all right.

 

[Saffity]

I live! But barely. Apparently I tempted fate with my last post.

After husband flew to the other side of the country with his mother for a funeral, leaving me and two kiddos at home for 5 days, he got ordered off on medical leave and has been home since then. It's been nice seeing him with the kids, but it has disrupted our schedule.

Then, we decided to go to church for the first time in 4 years, and the kids and I got adenovirus. 3 weeks of illness before it was figured out that Daughter had pneumonia and I had possible whooping cough... antibiotics and another week and a half of recovery and we are finally back on track.

I would like to thank adenovirus though because it got me past my plateau. Now to make sure I don't increase back above it.

I've also been a little bit hindered due to physio on my knee. I have exercises specific to that but I'm not to do anything even moderate intensity (including running around with my kids), so I'm stuck on level 1 workouts at the most which is a bummer.

Doing my best to keep somewhat active and take advantage of the bit of decent weather we're getting here with walking.

With luck we'll get back on even footing soon.

 

[MadamMeow]

Glad you were able to get your sicknesses taken care of. Hoping your knee gets better for you next.

 

[Mamatigerj]

Sorry you and your family had to go through all of that! Sending thoughts and prayers for continued healing!