Starting Over...(but not from the beginning)

Well.  Hard to believe this blog started as Thirty Pounds by Thirty and here we are at 41. I lost the 30lbs  though...a few times.  

It's late.  Like 11:33pm on a Tuesday night. I have work tomorrow, which doesn't really seem to matter anymore since we are in the middle of a pandemic and I literally have no stepped into work since March 4th. Now my commute is to the office downstairs where I spend every other week as a employee and stay-at-home mom ay the same time.  To say it is mentally and physically exhausting is an understatement. 

The last two years of my life have pretty much been just that so why not throw a Coronavirus pandemic into it just when I thought things were getting easier. 

But I am not alone.  Millions of us are struggling to find the balance and the schools try to figure out how we should teach our kids while we Zoom with our co-workers.  But at least I haven't had to pack a lunch for 5 months.  Honestly, and call me crazy, that bonus right there is what made "quarantine" a good thing. 

But after 18 months of divorce that ended in me giving my ex-husband the house (for nothing) and paying alimony and child support (for kids I have 50/50 custody of) all because not was "his right to have those things", a pandemic was the last thing on my list of "well it could be worse" items to make myself feel better.

I have stayed active.  I have maintained my weight since 2017, but maybe not my fitness level.  I weight about the lowest I have weighed in 3 years but not in the last 7.  (Baby weight from kid #2....who will be 5 in a few months? Sure.  Let's say that.)

But...if we are being honest here....I feel just as big and fluffy as I did in my "before" pictures from 2016.  And I feel old and creaky and my back like...always hurts...and my kids feel really heavy.  Cardiovascular endurance feels about the same but muscle tone...meh.

So I decided to pick up my phone and read my blog and sure enough there was a whole post dedicated to not giving up.  

Today I found out that earliest return to work is January 4, 2021.  So I have 4.5 months to get to work and lose those last pesky 20lbs that I've been trying to shake since 2013.  

And I am here to declare that starting this week, I am back to building strength and endurance and blogging more and reaching my goal.  It's been a nice hiatus but it's time to bring this home.