Pooch belly.  Baby belly.  Fat roll.  What do you call that residual flab left on your lower stomach since you had babies?  I call it annoying, frustrating and just plain ugly.  I’ve been doing some research on what makes that “pooch” so difficult to get rid of and what can be done about it.  Here’s what I’ve found:

Visceroptosis - A rare, but possible condition where internal organs have been displaced by poor posture and pregnancy.  Strengthening your inner unit muscles can help alleviate this.

Bloating - Food intolerences and diet can cause bloating of your intestines and make your stomach look extended.  Changes in your diet can help alleviate this.

Body Fat - The obvious primary cause.  The cure?  Burn the fat!

Excess Skin - Even after weight loss, excess skin can hang around.  Especially when you’re… um… older.  I haven’t read any realistic solution to this problem except surgery.  Please comment if you are aware of a better solution!

Muscle Weakness - Most women make the mistake of only exercising their outer abdominal muscles by doing crunches and sit-ups.  If you want to flatten your lower abs, you need to strengthen the inner unit muscles (transverse abdominis, multifidus, pelvic floor and diaphragm). 

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Get out of bed.  Wake the children.  Get them breakfast.  Get dressed.  Take them to the bus.  Come home.  Grab coffee.  Start laundry. Start working.  Grab a snack when you realize that you haven’t eaten yet.  Keep working/cleaning until the kids come home.  Grab another snack.  Eat food while you’re preparing dinner.  Then eat dinner.  Help the kids with homework.  Get the kids ready for bed.  Crash on the couch with a glass of wine.

This is what my day tends to look like.  Not only am I spending too much time in an office chair and not scheduling time for exercise, I’m not eating right.  Lack of exercise plus a poor diet equals big butt! 

Remember my Bikinis & Diet Plans post from early this summer?  Well, I still want to be able to wear that bikini come next June (and not scare people while wearing it)!  Sometimes it’s just so hard to exercise and eat right while being so busy!

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I need to work on getting that exercise routine going again.  I have to schedule it or I’ll never do it.  And I have to start eating regular meals.  My poor metabolism is so confused it doesn’t know what to do. 

We have two soccer games, a “no peepee accidents” party and a potential play date this weekend.  Therefore, when I woke up at 6:00 a.m. this morning, I decided to make the best of it.  This is probably the only me-time I’m gonna see today.  So, I made myself some coffee and settled into my office chair to read email, blogs, etc.  Gotta take the me-time whenever I can find it.

One of the first emails I read this morning was regarding BlogRush.  My understanding is that it is supposed to help drive visitors to your blog by sharing links to other blogs’ posts that relate to yours.  (See widget in my sidebar.)  Only problem is, I think the site is still under construction or something.  I sent some of you the link.  I should have just posted here instead of emailing, but at 6:00 a.m., who’s thinking clearly?

I must also report that I exercised twice this week! 

And a word to the wise…  Don’t make website changes directly on the host.   Modify your local copy and upload it.  That way when your ftp doesn’t work, you still have a whole file.  This is a lesson I should have learned about 20 times by now… but… It was a long night last night.  (I know only some of my readers will understand that technical mumbo, but the ones who do are shaking their head’s at my stupidity.)

I can really ramble early in the morning, can’t I?