I am at the start of my 6th week of working! wahoo! 2 more weeks and I have made my goal of 2 months. It seemed like a long stretch but I am so close I can taste it. I started working out mostly because I have 0, zip, nada energy and cant seem to keep myself awake past 8pm lately. I thought working out and eating better would help that but so far, not so much! If anything, I have been more tired! That being said, I had lost motivation. It didn't stop me from pushing through, but I almost started to dread it coming home to work out.
My goal was to get myself to a place where I could chase after the kids and not be winded, or running for the ringing phone for that matter! I couldn't keep up and I just felt lazy. I sit behind a computer all day and there wasn't much I could really do outside with the 110+ degree weather. So a couple of friends and I started running the 5 flights of stairs at work on our breaks. They are just the emergency stairs so we have them all to ourselves. We have been doing that twice a day and they help to keep me motivated. After I get home, the kids take a short nap and I take advantage of that time with all my recorded videos from the Fit channel. Man do they kill me!
Everything that I had been working so hard for finally started to show through last night. I was teaching the kids how to play Simon Says in Jaycee's room. I played Simon for a good 15 minutes and the kids gladly did as Simon said. Darren decided that it was his turn to play Simon. His first direction was "Simon says jump as high as you can and keep going!" So I did. Then he said "Simon says jump and pat you head!" So I did. Now pre-working out, this really would have been difficult for me! I used to get winded so easily and most likely would have told Darren at that point that I had to get dinner started and to play with Sis. But I played for another half an hour with him, of which all commands were to jump as high as I could hahaha.
That little game made me realize that the kids will only get more active. They will play sports, have friends and run wild and I don't want to be left in their dust. I want to be right there with them, to enjoy the things they enjoy, to do the things that they like to do, to be active with them and experience life as they do. I don't want to sit behind and miss all the wonders that they will. I want to be healthy and live a long life for my kids. I want to see all the things that they become and do with their lives. The road I was on was not a good one. Eating bad and being lazy? Definitely not what I want for myself and my family. So, all in all, I got my motivation back. I don't want to be a muscular freak by all means, just healthy and toned.
