Day 20 - How's it Going?

Today I decided to let you all know how I'm doing. I had acupuncture this morning and talked to my Doc about the pain I had Saturday morning. He checked me out and concurred that the pain was due to using a muscle that I haven't used in awhile and not my back. It's hard for me to not get a little scared when pain happens, but with a new work out there's bound to be aches and pains. It's up to me to monitor the pain and decide on a day to day basis whether any pain I feel is one to fear or one to welcome. Because as the saying goes, no pain, no gain.

As for my weight, I weighed in this morning and remain at 190lbs. However, if you're a woman you know that if it's that time of the month, then perhaps you're carrying more than usual. I'm not counting on that and frankly I'm just happy that I haven't gained anything. Other changes are also occurring.

I am ecstatic to report that I have finally figured out how to breathe while keeping my core tight. It only took me a year and a half. I blame it on singing. When you're a singer you learn to to expand your diaphram and fill up with air without moving your chest or shoulders. When you're doing pilates the idea is to keep your core tight and breathe up into your chest and not let your abdomen extend. I finally feel my core working and it's awesome. I've also started doing these leg exercises where the straps of the Allegro machine are around your feet and you do circles it makes the insides of my legs quiver uncontrollably, makes me feel like a sissy but I'm looking forward to my fantastic legs getting more fantastic soon.

I'm also pretty stoked that my six pack is indeed on the way and it's protective covering is growing smaller all the time. When you lay on your back for a year and a half and you don't really know how to engage your core then you lose everything. Your belly sticks out, so not in a good way. It's a real bummer for me and now that it's flatter than it's been in a L O N G while I'm starting to feel confident and sexy again. There's no worse blow to your sex drive than not feeling sexy. I'm not saying that you have to be thin or have a flat stomach to be sexy, cause lord knows I'm not thin nor is my stomach flat (yet). I'm just saying that I feel Hot, with a capital H.