The Importance of a Post Pregnancy Exercise Diary

The key to effective post pregnancy exercise is to work within your limits, listen to your body and keep a track of your progress towards your goals.

It is this last point that I want to focus on today's post. Firstly by setting goals and secondly monitoring the progress that you make towards these goals.

Goal Setting

This is about as important to anyone wanting to lose weight as is petrol to your car. I have worked with hundreds if not thousands of clients and the ones that consistently get results are the ones that a) set themselves realistic goals and b) go out and achieve those goals. By taking constant positive action every day and moving slightly closer to their ultimate goal, be that to lose 1 stone, to drop 2 dress sizes, to run a marathon or to simply be able to walk to the shops.

Your goals are your own motivating factors that take you to where you want to be.

What you musn't do is see every partial set back, every event that stops you doing things exactly the way you want to as being a failure. It isn't, remember failure isn't falling down it is staying down.

Monitoring Your Progress

The second point is monitoring what you are doing, is it taking you towards the goals you have set yourself? I recommend that you start a post pregnancy weight loss or a fitness training diary.

Every thing that we write down takes on a greater importance than something that we simply keep inside our heads. Often we need that extra pressure to force us to take action especially when things aren't going so well.

You should write down each days activities and food consumption and also use your log to plan in advance the things what you will be doing both in terms of exercise and also diet.

When you have to write down the things that you have been eating or the fact that you didn't go for a walk today because you didn't feel like it, they become more real, in a way you then become more answerable and accouintable to yourself.

Your post pregnancy exercise log can also be used to record your feelings. Have you had a good day, do you feel tired, do you want to pack it all in? Let your emotions and thoughts spill out on to the paper.

You can use any book or notepad with blank pages to write these things down or alternatively if you want a system that is already to go then 'The Baby Belly Fat Loss Plan' contains everything you need to start getting in to shape and planning out exactly how you are going to achieve this.