Yep, Still No Workouts....

I wish that I had a workout update for this (alleged) running blog but, alas, my biggest workout these days is walking up and down my stairs a million times a day. Not that I don't consider that a workout because I kind of do. I mean it never fails that whatever Noah wants is downstairs when we are upstairs or my phone rings upstairs when we are downstairs. And, me being me, I take the stairs the same way I always have - at a jog. So, yeah, that is my current workout of choice until little old Liam comes.

Speaking of which, this week marks 36 weeks so we are in the home stretch folks. I'd like to think that he will make an early appearance (he is a Shealy after all!) but I am not holding my breathe. I am fully counting on him being a week late just like Noah - then I will be pleasantly surprised if he comes sooner. My sciatic nerve will be pleasantly surprised too, as that has been what this baby has used to tap dance on for the last week or so. It's fun...really (not really)....

Anyway, things are pretty much the same otherwise. I don't feel like I have much to write about these days. It's like we are in a holding pattern until April 12th...at which point I am sure I will have tons to write about as my life will be thrown upside down. In an awesome way!

My Sugar High

Okay, clearly I did not plan this pregnancy very well. Oh, sure, I was smart enough to be pregnant during winter instead of summer and all that, but I forgot one very important detail when thinking about the timing of having my baby. The entire last 6 weeks of this pregnancy are occurring just as they bring out....Easter Candy! Now every time I enter Target I am inexplicably drawn to the holiday section where there are two entire aisles of nothing but Easter goodies. Why is it that when Chocolate is shaped like an egg (filled with cream) it is so much more irresistible?

Of course, all of this candy anxiety is compounded by the fact that I have not really been working out. I know, I know, but I am so exhausted these days that I have given myself permission to take the next 5 weeks off. If I make it out for a walk great, if not...well I guess I won't become a fitness flunky in one month. The funny thing is that as my working out as slowed down so has my weight gain at my doctor's visits. I was consistently gaining around 4 pounds between every visit, but in the last month I have actually lost half a pound. I think without all the extra working out my body has stopped being as hungry. That has been true for me in the past - when I don't work out, I naturally eat a little less. Anyway, all of that to say that I am holding strong at a total pregnancy weight gain of 19 pounds so far.

I am very excited for the next several weeks. I finally feel like I see the light at the end of the tunnel and that baby is almost here. And with him spring and warm weather...and the return of my running self! (That is of course unless I turn into a giant chocolate bunny first!)