Getting Motivated and Back Into Shape After Baby – with my Garmin!
The fantastic thing about doing my workouts and using my FR 70 is that I can watch my heart rate climb and my calories burn. I can challenge myself to push harder and I can pull back when I see I have gone too far (rare of course). Then, I can spend a few minutes before heading to work to upload to Garmin Connect and squeal in excitement as I customize the name for each workout and see my progress daily. I can write cute notes such as, ‘quick 15 minute heart rate plummet due to rocking/feeding my daughter’ and I can share my profile and work outs with friends. 
I get to gasp at the colorful graphs for my heart rate and calories and know that I am staying healthy for myself and mini-me. There are times when my daughter was sick, or I was tired from working full time, or I was just plain mommy-exhausted but I knew I needed to stay active. So, I would take my daughter for a stroll, quick runs, or do a shorter workout at home because I knew Connect was waiting for me to upload. I have run four 5Ks in the last four months and am not looking back (unless it is to make sure at least some people are behind me). I look down at my Forerunner (sometimes a 610 during those events) that is telling me to push harder and to keep going. I can also set it to nag me (beep or vibrate) to go faster when it knows I can.
My advice to other mothers is to make time for yourself which, in turn, keeps you healthy for your 
family. During most of my workouts my daughter was either in her bouncer cheering me on, is crawling around me as I am doing suicides (making them even more intensified), carrying my workout equipment (jump rope, resistance bands, DVDs) from one side of the room to the other, or re-filing papers in the cabinet. If I plan it perfectly, she is napping or in bed! I spend about 30-60 minutes a day doing my work out, all day feeding/planning healthy meals for my daughter and me, and then I go to work. My relationship with my Forerunner is reliable. It waits for me every day to press start and I depend on it to keep track of my fitness, progress, goals, and time. It is like a best friend on my wrist that believes I can do better, keeps me on track, and helps me achieve results (not to mention it remembers our history even if I forget). 
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