Put Your Back Into It

My hips hurt. I got out of doing my slimdown workout because my husband took my workout ball to loan to some girls he works with. Well, that was my excuse, although I could have done any of a dozen other things in place of the 1/8 of the workout that uses the ball.

So I did the slimdown again on Wednesday after karate, which made my hips stiff and sore, and then I worked out hard in karate on Friday doing something I haven't done in a year and my hips hurt just enough to keep me awake last night. I want them to get better, and they are getting better--the chiropractor has a lot to do with that--but as they get better I push them to the limits of their flexibility and then I hurt, like now. They hurt the most when I do some new kind of workout. After I do the workout for awhile, it doesn't bother my hips as much. I threw two workouts into the same week that my body wasn't used to doing and now I hurt.

It is a stiffness in my hips that stretches across my lower back. It makes it really hard to get comfortable to sleep, or do anything, really. They will feel a little better tomorrow, and then maybe better on Monday if I workout in a stretchy way. What we get for having babies.

I weighed myself today and I'm holding steady at 175. Since my baby girl was born last year, I have lost sixty pounds. Thirty more will put me back at my prepregnancy weight and make me as happy as can be. Ten more than that would be cool, but it's not really necessary and not really what I'm aiming for.

I just have to work with my hips, and so far they are not negotiating the way I want them to.