Gypsy is one of my favorite ponies!  And I am a horrible night owl!  Maybe even as far as to say a morning owl because its actually 5am right now and I havn't gone to bed yet!    When I say horrible I mean Horrible!!  There is a reason for it though.  My husband has a night job and I am a stay at home mom right now so we don't put the kids to bed until 12 or 1 am.  Our kids are 1 and 2 years old.  And I stay up late after that.  And on the days my hubby has off he stays up nearly all night so I stay up with him.  Make sense?  Or do you think I'm crazy?  Everyone asks "what are you going to do when the kids go to school?"  Obviously their schedules will be slowly adjusted to match.  Where eventually they will go to bed at like 8 pm.

Yes all dowels. LOL!  I had to use alot of wood puddy on the hips and front knee joints.  Thanks for the compliments! 

I could tell!  Just like water is holding her breath 

Yeah!  Glad you could tell.  I took quiet a while making that pose.

I would like to join!   I fall into the need to loose "after pregnancy weight".  I don't really gain weight in my waist. I gain it all in my hips and butt so I had a pretty small waist before my 2 kids came along.  Now I have that flabby belly that I have heard is impossible to get rid of.  Is that true?
Age: 28
Height: 5'10"
Weight: 176 lbs
Measurements using tape measure -
Chest: 34"
Waist: 36" (but I am 41" lower down on my waist with my belly and love handles. Don't know which measurement is right.  I would like to loose my belly and love handles!)
Hips: 45"
GOALS
1.) What is your goal weight?  150 lbs   
2.) What are your goal inches?   I am not sure what to shoot for.  Is 3 in. on hips and waist to much for a 90 day run or should I shoot for 2 in.?
3.) What habits do you want to break?  Eating while watching TV.  I tend to snack to much on the couch.  Not buying any more microwaveable fried foods, such as- french fries, chicken nuggets, fish sticks....
4.) What habits do you want to develop?   Eat more vegetables!  I hate eating vegetables by themselves so I want to find recipes that mix the vegetables into the meal.  Like casseroles but not that fattening.  And keep up with my exercise regimen.
PLAN
1.) What program will you be following (this is important, you need a PLAN for success, so be detailed)?  This includes how many days per week you are exercising... how many minutes/hour(s) you are exercising that day... WHAT type of exercising you are doing... etc.
-- I have an elliptical machine that I just got for Christmas that I will be using and since I am a stay at home mom and can not really go to the gym for strength training I am going to do the home workouts that I have found in magazines.  ~Updated- I found that my magazines say to do 10-15 reps of each workout and that they take about 15 to 20 min. all together so I adjusted that below.  And I am going to do my workout plan at about 7pm everyday.~
Monday- 5 min. stretch followed by 30 min. on elliptical machine.  Alternating at level 4 then level 10 every 3 min.
Tuesday- 5 min. stretch followed by 15 min. home workouts.  10-15 reps of 6 different workouts that work different muscle groups.
Wednesday- 5 min. stretch followed by 30 min. on elliptical machine.  Alternating at level 4 then level 10 every 3 min.
Thursday- 5 min. stretch followed by 15 min. home workouts.  10-15 reps of 6 different workouts that work different muscle groups.
Friday- 5 min. stretch followed by 30 min. on elliptical machine.  Alternating at level 4 then level 10 every 3 min.
Saturday- 5 min. stretch followed by 15 min. home workouts.  10-15 reps of 6 different workouts that work different muscle groups.
Sunday- Rest
- I will probably increase the cardio to 45 min to an hour after a couple of weeks.  And I may increase the workouts to 20 min. later too.
2.) What steps are you going to take to improve your nutrition?
--I want to follow a "counting calorie" diet.  I got an app. for my iphone to help me.  It says I can eat 1300 calories a day, for my weight and height, to loose 2 lbs per week.  So I am going to keep track of my calories on the app.  You can also put your exercises in it and it will calculate the average calories you burned doing that exercise so that you can eat that many calories back in that day, if you want to.
--I also have a book I got a long time ago that I need to crack open, called the 400 Calorie Fix.  That will help me with recipes and how many calories are in different things that don't have calorie info. like vegetables and fruits... and all sorts of other good info.
WHY
What are your reasons for wanting to get into better shape and play with us in this journey?
I have been wanting to loose my "after pregnancy weight" for a while now.  And I don't like what I look like in the mirror any more and I am WAY out of shape.  So I was going to start a diet and exercise regimen this year as a new years resolution and then I saw this post and thought what a great motivator! One of the best motivators is encouragement so I thought joining this group will be great to help keep us all going and not fall off the wagon.  Plus a new pony at the finish line is always a big plus!   

Wanted to show everypony my horse I did in one of my college art classes about 5 years ago.  We had to make something out of dowel rods (hope I'm spelling that right).  The long wooden poles that you can buy in the crafts section or a hardware store.  Anyway they are long skinny pieces of wood.  We were assigned to use just dowl rods to make anything we wanted and some reason I got the crazy idea that I wanted to make a MLP with them.    Bad idea!  It was way more challenging than I thought it would be!    But I figured out how to shave some wood off here and some off there and ta-da!  the front leg joints were Really Hard!  There were multiple pieces that I had to glue together for the finished product.  So with out the paint it looked wierd because the wood lines were all crazy and I had to use wood putty to fill in a few spots.  So I spray painted it with a texture paint but didn't like it much so I sprayed red glitter spray over that. And then I drilled a bunch of holes for where I would put the pipe cleaners for the hair.  And added the carrousel pole and base.  My MLP had turned into a horse.  I couldn't find dowl rods fat enough to make the pony look more plump like a MLP.  I still like how it turned out though!   
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Thanks!   

Aw, thanks guys!      Remember if anyone is interested in buying them they are listed on ebay right now.  Starting at just $29 for the set.  The link is in my signature.