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This is why I weigh myself daily. Every morning I wake up, pee, and step on the scale. I log it in MyFitnessPal. It has helped me so much to look at the downward trend on the chart and not worry so much about the individual number.

I had never heard of Birthfit. It looks really fantastic! I have been a labor and postpartum doula and a birth educator for 10 years. I am on the path to becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife. I am really interested in pelvic floor and Diastasis Recti healing postpartum. I think it can often be the cause of moms not being able to lose weight or get fit again. It has been a major factor for me. I can't do cardio or group exercise classes in the gym because I pee on myself the entire time. I have had to figure out how to become a "private" runner because of this issue. I do all of my cardio outdoors and alone. This is wonderful except in the winter when the cold makes my asthma flare. Asthma/ cold weather has derailed my fitness year after year. It is tough to get help for it. My PCP says do Kegals. It isn't my vagina that is weak. There is a PT where I live that specializes in pelvic floor and Diastasis Recti rehab, but insurance won't cover it and it is completely cost prohibitive. I want to heal, but I also want to have information I can share with my clients and with my patients one day. Nobody should be afraid to work out for fear of peeing on themselves. Mamas have so much other stuff to worry about!

I feel right at home here. While I have never been too much of a nerd beyond my love of reading fantasy fiction, I married one and my kids are super nerdy (homeschool, Minecraft, RPGs, Pokemon, etc). This place feels different from many fitness forums and I LOVE that! I have homeschooled my kids for the past 5 years. They will be entering public school for the first time this fall as a 3rd grader and a 5th grader. I have been a Childbirth Educator and a professional labor and postpartum doula for 10 years. I am on the path to becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife. I was a very fit young person. I played soccer year round and I was in the Army reserves. I got married and had babies and family consumed me for several years. I really let myself get lazy and obese. I stepped on the scale in early May 2017 and I weighed 203 lbs. This is the heaviest I have ever been and I refused to get any bigger. I am starting nursing school soon and I realized I had no real stamina. Honestly, aside from the shock I got with the scale, I began my climb out of the slug hole because I need to be able to work back to back 12 hour nursing shifts. So, I started out just walking a mile per day in May. As that became easier, I upped my miles to 2 per day and began doing some running intervals and bodyweight exercise. Currently I am running 2-4 miles 5 days per week and walking 2 miles on my "rest" days. I want to get back into weightlifting because I want to be strong again! I am beginning my weight lifting journey on Monday morning! My current major work is on my diet. Words cannot express how much Ilove ice cream. If I am a nerd about something, it is ice cream and birth.