Got it!

Finally got to a 4 mph walk @ 2% incline for 30 mins (plus the 5 minute warm-up and cool down). It felt just a hair below jogging actually. At first I thought it'd be too fast, but I hung in there for the 2 miles and boy did I sweat! Core swelling does happen during workouts, but it's not huge & a lot like I look pregnant or anything after, I can deal with it. I'm sure there are times when it'll be worse than now anyway. Even though I'm going to start cutting down on my binder wearing I will keep it on during the workouts for quite a while, I'm sure it helps the swelling.

I'm fighting some sort of cold brought on by the weather I think (or allergies, whatever). It sucks! The congestion is icky not to mention coughing hurting the abs. I'm trying to not cough as much as possible, so I'm drinking more water (drink whenever I have to cough). I hope it's gone by next week when I start trying to jog and such.

Anyhow, my upper abs are sore but I'm not sure what it's from - elliptical yesterday, just doing upper body weights in general, or the coughing, or some combo of it all. It's not too much soreness, so I know I'm okay to keep working out (good that I'm baby-stepping it). I also don't know what I weigh or any measurements (besides my current boob measurement lol), so I'm thinking after a week of eating clean I'll check some measurements & depending on those I'll see if I want to see the scale weight or not. It won't do any good to see something that might upset me & make me want to sit on my chubby butt & eat sugar ha, so we shall see =)