Follow-through
Sep. 17th, 2013 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kajelI just browsed through my posts back to May. I thought maybe I had mentioned a plan I was supposed to implement this summer. It doesn't look like I did though. In June, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tsumyah and I made a plan to exercise each day and try to hold each other accountable. For some reason, for me, implementing the plan was actually pretty difficult. I did decently for about a week, then it was birthdays and beach vacation. Then it was finding out about Mom's breast cancer, then my uncle's death, trip to the lake in August and so on. I had lots of excuses and not much exercising done. Then to top it all off I realized that I gained 15 lbs over those three months. :headdesk:
Even after a really good motivational talk with my BFF a couple of weeks ago, I still didn't get rolling. This weekend during the Tetris wars Ned and I had, I brought up my lack of follow-through. I asked Ned if he would be willing to work out with me on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays when he doesn't have Karate. The plan I presented was that we would do the strength training dvd I have together and I would do the cardio by myself on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. I thought I would have to sell it to him, but he jumped on it. Honestly, I was so relieved. I can do really well when I have someone here to exercise with. We started last night. Ow.
I am so sore, but I got up around 3:30 this afternoon and did my cardio. I also made sure to keep my intensity up. I kept saying 'how would you exercise if someone was here watching you!' I was trying to make sure I wasn't lazy about it. It was funny to watch Nicky trying to exercise with me. He kept telling me 'this is easy Mommy'. Punk 4 year old. ;)
It has only been two days, but I feel better about this already. I have an end of the year goal in my head. If I want to start riding horses again, I need to keep up with this. Lose some weight and really get some muscle going on again.
tsumyah and I made a plan to exercise each day and try to hold each other accountable. For some reason, for me, implementing the plan was actually pretty difficult. I did decently for about a week, then it was birthdays and beach vacation. Then it was finding out about Mom's breast cancer, then my uncle's death, trip to the lake in August and so on. I had lots of excuses and not much exercising done. Then to top it all off I realized that I gained 15 lbs over those three months. :headdesk: Even after a really good motivational talk with my BFF a couple of weeks ago, I still didn't get rolling. This weekend during the Tetris wars Ned and I had, I brought up my lack of follow-through. I asked Ned if he would be willing to work out with me on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays when he doesn't have Karate. The plan I presented was that we would do the strength training dvd I have together and I would do the cardio by myself on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturdays. I thought I would have to sell it to him, but he jumped on it. Honestly, I was so relieved. I can do really well when I have someone here to exercise with. We started last night. Ow.
I am so sore, but I got up around 3:30 this afternoon and did my cardio. I also made sure to keep my intensity up. I kept saying 'how would you exercise if someone was here watching you!' I was trying to make sure I wasn't lazy about it. It was funny to watch Nicky trying to exercise with me. He kept telling me 'this is easy Mommy'. Punk 4 year old. ;)
It has only been two days, but I feel better about this already. I have an end of the year goal in my head. If I want to start riding horses again, I need to keep up with this. Lose some weight and really get some muscle going on again.
