Well this will all be very boring, but that's okay! My weight this morning was 219.6, which I am happy about, after some food *cough*pizza*cough* kept it higher with sodium for three days. I was in a parade at our local fair this past Saturday and was thankfully driving the vehicle instead of marching out in front, because there was no WAY I could have walked at that speed and distance without pain (fast walk for over a mile, with hills, darting back and forth to either side of the road to hand out candy and fliers). As it was, my husband and I walked through the fair to look for some lunch afterward and I almost couldn't make it. I had to stop every few steps to try and get the tightness and pain to subside. It wasn't full on contractions, but the ligaments in my pelvis as well as my poor, useless abs protested the whole time. We walked VERY slowly but it was quite a painful and intense chore.

In light of that and my last exercise attempt, I do think that I may try to do a few videos but I am not going to keep persisting through pain. If I have a day where I feel great and the exercise isn't hurting I'll do it, but right now I just have NO abdominal support or strength, and my hips are a mess. I am really sad too, that our budget right now has disallowed continued chiropractic visits, because my pelvis is definitely slipping out of alignment and causing more pain.

My eating has been fine, my target calories, without exercise, are at around 1980 right now, and that is for a pound-a-week loss. I generally overeat those by about 250-500 calories, depending on my hunger and food choices, and I figure that's fine as well. I am essentially maintaining on the food front and the scale will do whatever it wants. Some days I eat more, some days I eat less, I am generally feeling strong and satisfied at the end of the day and so I will continue on in this eating pattern until postpartum makes me re-evaluate my plan, based on my hunger and weight loss goals.

I have an OB appointment tomorrow with the midwife of the practice and I will be bringing up my pain during exercise and general discomfort. I have had a huge, tight, swelling feeling lately, and I think our son had a massive growth spurt to have pushed my uterus so high, so fast, but I want to double check it isn't something amiss. Either way there has been a TON of pressure and general discomfort that comes with being huge and getting bigger, and that is definitely limiting what I feel I can do. For now I am focusing on keeping up with my daily schedule, more or less, and trying to fight my nightowl tendencies to get enough rest. Unless the midwife encourages me otherwise, I will probably shelve exercise again, unless it is necessary or feels okay to do. The ligament pain is just intense and not something probably worth enduring at this point.

Every pregnancy I say I will look into belly support and every pregnancy I don't do it, despite needing it. Maybe it's finally REALLY necessary now! I see what I can find in the way of pregnancy girdles/belts that may help my back a bit. I really appreciate all input and comments on the subject of exercise, and I think my conclusion, especially after this weekend, is that the benefits of exercise right now probably don't outweigh the disadvantages of the strain it is putting on me. So I will try to maintain my daily activities, sans intentional exercise, and hope that keeps me in decent enough shape to be flexible and resilient for birth.

I'll report in after my OB appointment is anything is interesting :)