The Polar Express!

So, check it out.  I got back onto the saddle all the way this week.  Already, I  had bought a new pedometer, and started consistently hitting 15,000 step per day, 5 days per week.  I have been running 1x per week, Monday to be exact, for the last month.  I've really been enjoying it.  I'm a regular at my local gym, the friendly staff knows me, and my boys LOVE the playtime in the kids room.  However, for me, I've wanted a little bit more...to take it to the next level so to speak.  I have been toying with the idea of ramping up my workout routine, but I have yet to figure out how to do it.  Where do I get the time?  What about Maurice and the boys?  What about work?  Well, this past week, I decided that it was much too cold to take the boys out just for me to run for 2 miles.  My oldest had strep, the other 2 had no idea, and no desire to slow down, and my hubby had no strength to do it all by himself.  So, like the good wife and mother that I am, I stayed home.   It did help that I'm wearing my real hair and I didn't want to sweat it out, lol!  So guess what I did this week......

I pulled out my $100 plus dollar Shaun T. Insanity DVDs.  And guess what...our love hate relationship is still there.  I hate him when I'm working out, but I love him when I'm looking in the mirror.  It's not for you, though, don't worry.  I did all of this for me.  I knew what needed to be done to get me to place I want to be.  And, after all, since the title of my blog is NO MORE EXCUSES, it's about time that I really had no more excuses.  It's been a while since I can say that I lived that one.  But this week, I definitely did!! I went all out too! I'm talking tracking EVERYTHING I ate this week: the good, the bad, and the ugly. And my hair held up quite nicely might I add!

I don't know how much of a difference it has made in my weight.  To be honest with you, I've made the decision to no longer live and die by the scale.  It causes too much mental anguish.  I don't need that.  I need to know that I'm living and doing what I should be living and doing.  The rest will come.  If I do lose, that's great.  If I don't...well I doubt that is really possible.  But, if I don't then who cares?!?  I have already lost big.  I lost crazy mindsets and rhetoric that was holding me back.  I lost self-hatred, I lost low self-esteem, and I lost emotional eating.    And the weight that came off in that process was just a bonus.  

So my Christmas message, if you will, for this blog entry is this:  Jesus came into this world, was born of a virgin, so that we could live!  I mean really, really live!!  Take advantage of that very thing.  Decide this day, at the moment that you are reading this that because Jesus lived, you can too! Let go of everything that is holding you back.  Love yourself enough to get off the couch and do what is best for you.  Put down your excuses, and live!

Merry Christmas!!