Beginning Thoughts

To be able to journal publically about my quest to get healthy is something new for me.  Usually when I say I'm "going into training" as my daddy calls it, I fail miserably.  However, when you get winded and have to sit down after playing tag with your kids for 5-10 minutes is sad.  It was a total wake up call for me.
I know there are a lot of other busy moms out there like me that had a baby and can't seem to shake all the baby weight you gained.  You feel like its a catch 22 when you even try.  You are too tired to drag your butt out of bed in the morning to just get ready for work must less get up an hour earlier to workout.
I have set my clock the last 3 weeks a hour earlier, and like clock work I hit snooze until it is actually the real time to get up to shower.  They say that exercise is a cure for fatigue, but is there any of "them" busy working moms that don't get a lot of sleep at night. 
Do they have the kids that wake up every few hours or have to nurse babies?  Or the kids that insist you lay down in there toddler bed (not easy I may say especially when you are overweight) with them until they go to sleep? Which by the way when you struggle to actually do that and get in the bed, 9 times out of 10 you fall asleep before the little munchkin goes to sleep.  Oh yea not to mention your whole body is asleep and aching and you can't get out of the little bed without waking up your child, because they are laying across you and it hurts to move.  I jumped for joy this Christmas when the kids got bunk beds.  Believe me a twin bed is really alot more comfortable than you thought after the whole toddler bed experience.
So I'm determined now, after being pregnant almost 3 years in a row and not being able to play with the kids without getting winded, to get healthy not only for me but for them.  It's not fair to any child to have a parent not being able to actively play with them.  I have caught myself telling the kids will go do something like go to the park, and then later make excuses because I'm to tired or just want to get off my butt.
However it's nights like tonight that I can't sleep and stay up till almost time to get up, and then when I get home from work and finally get to hit the couch I don't want to get up for anything.  I feel so lazy.
So I want to change that starting first thing in the morning.  Well in the next few hours.
I will post what I eat on the South Beach and what workout videos I use each day.
Wish me good luck, and I'll talk to you tomorrow!
Valerie