iamachristianjesusfreak's Journal, 11 January 2014

Treadmill challenge stats. 1-3-14 through 1-10-14 with occasional rest days

16.25 miles/ 1,846 calories/ 5.25 hours

Sorry to everyone reading this just want to keep track and see how I do over a month's time to keep myself accountable. Being pregnant is not an excuse to skip exercise as long as I feel well. Since I started this I haven't been as tired and I have even been waking up withing 15 minutes before my alarm goes off which never happens. I am hoping that with pregnancy hormones it will help keep my happiness levels up since my moods swing more often and faster now. Also winter typically gets me in a funk and exercising keeps me out of it. I have also heard that women who exercise during pregnancy have a quicker labor. My longest was 8 and 1/2 hours from losing my mucus plug. My shortest was 4 and 1/2 hours. I live 25 minutes from the hospital so I am sure I will be fine. If not my husband has seen it a few times so why not. lol! I really hope it doesn't come to that though. So I guess I will try to remember to let you guys know if it makes a difference. On the brighter side for me when I had my daughter I didn't have back labor like I did with all the boys and it was way easier. Did it drug free! Hoping for the same thing again. :) Have an awesome weekend everyone.

Also about the stuff bothering me with church I decided to jut pray about all of it and for the people who are part of it and quit letting it bother me. I can't do everything all the time and not very many people are going to meet my standards of being suitable. I am going to just step out of the way and put it all in God's hands. He will deal with their hearts and convict them so that they began to prepare lessons and realize rules are important to keep everyone safe and make progress. All I can do is show up and do my best.