Hi all! Happy Tuesday! (oh how sad, for a second, I was ready to type Thursday…hmp.. no fair) How are you guys? I’m doing well. I NEED to get back to the gym. Adam and I are going to check out a new gym today, because I can see it already… it’s already begun – we don’t want to go to the gym when we get home from work because it’s “too far” – I DO NOT need that excuse holding me back! I come up with enough on my own… 
Motivational Match Up
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (in which case, how do you get Internet..???) you’ve heard about the Motivational Match Up from Jen & MizFit. Well, on Monday (I think it was) I got my e-mail match! I was matched with a fabulous woman, Brenna, from California. We’ve already exchanged several e-mails and I can tell this is going to be a very productive and helpful partnership. Right now, we’re still figuring out what our plan of attack is, how we can motivate each other, what goals we’re working towards, all of that fun stuff. Needless to say, I’m pretty pumped. On a gloomy note, my partner is sick… 
Feel better Brenna! This is the beginning of a bea-utiful partnership…. wow, I’m a corn-ball. 
But really, she seems great!
Thank you MizFit and Prior Fat Girl Jen!! This was a great idea!
Sometimes I feel like my life is so utterly UN-blog-worthy. How do all of you great bloggers find new and exciting stuff to blog about everyday!? I don’t know how to do it, but I’m sure happy you do!
Work out… what’s that?
Let’s talk a little bit about my work outs – or LACK there of, as of lately. See, I told you that getting to the gym when it’s 25 minutes away was going to be a struggle. I haven’t been to the gym in… about 2 weeks. (scold me, please!) I have been doing some heavy lifting around the house, but get this… I kind of MISS the gym. I know I’ll only miss it until the next time I step foot in it, then I’ll hate it again. But right now, at this very moment, I miss it.
A while back, I bought the Jillian Michael’s “30 Day Shred” DVD – I did it once. Yes, ONCE. It was hard and I was/am fat. It was hard. But you know what? LOSING WEIGHT IS HARD! So, I’m going to suck it up and start doing my DVD again. At my parents house, my excuse was, well, I don’t have room here to do it, which was kind of true, it was a challenge. But now, I have MORE than enough room. So, I’m going to start that up again. I think I will start the DVD on Sunday, more to come on that soon. Now… I just have to steal the DVD back from my sister who I borrowed it to… who, mind you, is about a size 8 – I need that more than you do, Katie! Give it back!
Being back at work has helped a bit, I think. I may have failed to mention to you guys that I didn’t count my calories AT ALL during my week off from work. So, it really was a miracle that I lost anything at all. But now, I have a goal in mind. It’s a SUPER short term goal, but a goal, none the less. I would like to hit my “10 pounds lost” mark by November 20th. YES, I realize that is a week and a half to lose .4 pounds – but let’s be realistic about 2 things:
1.) It’s taken me a long time to lose 9.6 pounds
2.) It’s the week before my monthly lady friend… we all know what that means… I’ll gain this week. It allllll the weeks I have been weighing myself, I have ALWAYS gained during this specific week each month. I don’t see that changing now.
It’s funny, you start becoming healthy, monitoring your food and your calories and your body and you start to REALLY know yourself and your body. I do know myself and my body, and I do know, this week will be a gaining week. At least I have come to terms with that and just realized that “it is what it is” because seeing a gain every 4 weeks could really bring a girl down. Not this girl. Nothing is going to bring me down. My weight, my fluctuations are a result of my choices.
Anyways all, make today a good day. It’s good to be back….
xoxo!
Lindsay
