i bought some new shoes on saturday. they were my special tax return treat. as i considered this purchase, i realized that i often buy shoes with my tax return - my rubber boots, my hi-tops, and now my keens. i've been eyeing keens for quite some time. they're a good quality casual lace-up shoe that can still be worn to work. i really dithered back and forth about this decision. i have a number of mediocre shoes already - lower quality, very casual, wear on occasion shoes, but nothing as versatile as a keen-type of shoe. in this in between type of weather, boots are too much, but sandals are quite enough. so i made the decision to proceed. it's been a while since i got new footwear that is neither a boot or a sandal. i think the last proper shoe i bought were my merrells in 2009, which are such high quality that they don't need to be broken in. i recall being told "if your merrells are hurting your feet, something is wrong". all this to say... i'd totally forgotten the discomfort of new shoes. i really like them, but my left foot is killing me. today, when i took off my shoe to apply a bandaid to my ankle, i noticed that the inside of the heel had a little blood mark (and when i say little, i mean the size of a dime). the funny thing is that i don't recall seeing blood on my sock at any point, so i don't know if this happened recently or a few days ago. all this said, i'm optimistic that my foot will soon adapt to it's new shoe environment. i'm slightly amused by this because i can see brendan's influence. every summer he wears his sandals through the bleeding until his foot makes fresh calluses. it's gross and painful to watch, but i have a new appreciation for the logic.
i'm going to phoenix this saturday on a business trip. there's tradeshow and i'm responsible for the exhibition booth. i've been watching the weather and it seems to be in the mid-30s with a low of mid-20s. i've never experienced a dry heat before, so that should be very interesting. for some reason, traveling within the continent sans b feels less difficult. i found it really hard being in berlin without him, but phoenix is closer and they speak english. i'm hoping to visit some museums in my free time and use the outdoor pool!
after my last midwife appointment, i knew that i've been gaining too much weight. but today, i read on my ipregnant app that "by now, you should have gained 11 pounds" :S i've gained closer to 30. in my defense, i gain weight quite easily. however... i haven't been watching my intake very closely and i didn't exercise much over the winter months. i'm hoping that now that its spring and i've started walking every day again, and i'm more mindful of my intake, that my weight gain will plateau as baby's weight increases. he's now the size of a head of cauliflower!
the good old days, the honest man;
the restless heart, the promised land.
i'm going to phoenix this saturday on a business trip. there's tradeshow and i'm responsible for the exhibition booth. i've been watching the weather and it seems to be in the mid-30s with a low of mid-20s. i've never experienced a dry heat before, so that should be very interesting. for some reason, traveling within the continent sans b feels less difficult. i found it really hard being in berlin without him, but phoenix is closer and they speak english. i'm hoping to visit some museums in my free time and use the outdoor pool!
after my last midwife appointment, i knew that i've been gaining too much weight. but today, i read on my ipregnant app that "by now, you should have gained 11 pounds" :S i've gained closer to 30. in my defense, i gain weight quite easily. however... i haven't been watching my intake very closely and i didn't exercise much over the winter months. i'm hoping that now that its spring and i've started walking every day again, and i'm more mindful of my intake, that my weight gain will plateau as baby's weight increases. he's now the size of a head of cauliflower!
the good old days, the honest man;
the restless heart, the promised land.
2 comments:
I gained about 60 lbs with Jordan (i actually stopped weighing myself, though, so I'm not sure how much). I'm pretty sure that breast-feeding helped immensely afterwards, but I also ran as soon as I was able to. I don't feel that running alone would have got me back to my pre-pregnancy weight though. The extra weight really stressed me out, so it drove me to exercise a lot more than usual.
Marlene
While I'm in full support of excercise and a good diet and want to encourage you in those things, I'd also encourage you not to pay too much attention to how much weight you "should" gain. Every body is different. I find it ridiculous to say that you should have gained 11 pounds by now. 11 is a pretty precise number. I don't have any clue how they'd even come up with that. I gained more than that well before the end of my first trimesters and then my weight gain slowed down. Other women pack it all on right at the end. But like Marlene said, breastfeeding will help you take it off afterwards. Breastfeeding exclusively burns about 500 calories a day.
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