Day 1 of the New Blog!

Now that my blog has found an identity, you can see I updated the look to match! I am going to be deleting the old posts as well just to have a seamless blog overall. For all of you who become "followers" of the blog, starting next week I am going to do giveaways for those who make comments on my postings, so please join, comment and enjoy!

On to the good stuff....

Getting healthy, losing weight are all things many of us say but don't necessarily act on, to make happen. Yes we have good intentions, but when it comes down to it many of us simply let it slide. I am a big culprit of letting this happen to me, and that's probably why I keep saying this will be the year, this is the right time and then 6 months later I am at the same place, or worse, I am heavier or less healthy for one reason or another.

Needless to say I am the conductor of the train of excuses, when it comes to this! My famous line is, I couldn't because ____. Now I don't have kids, but I have been shuffled about during my married life and well ours schedules weren't exactly what one would call normal, so I used it as an excuse. I tend to get injured a lot and while that never held me back in high school or college, for some reason in the 'real' world they became my excuses. So I am getting off the excuse train, how can the conductor leave you ask, well the train stops here!

I can't say I won't ever give another excuse why I wasn't at the gym that day, but I am going to commit to myself and to you all, that I am going to try and put excuses on hold as much as possible and reach my goals. Positive thinking people!

No it won't be easy, yes I will likely fight this in an hour when its time to actually go to the gym, but if we could all stop making excuses why we aren't reaching our health and fitness goals, we might realize we can actually make them!

Are you full of excuses or do you tend to be a more positive thinker? Also what are your goals in the health and fitness world?

Identity Crisis

My blog seems to have an identity crisis and since I would like to change it in to something for more than just my family and friends, I have decided to give it an identity.

Over the next few months my posts are going to be about getting healthy, both mentally and physically and my journey with weight loss. I will be testing out different ideas, commenting on new things in the fitness world, and expressing my great disdain that fat does not just melt away without the workout. I hope it inspires you to get healthy, try out some new things and maybe get on the treadmill (or whatever piece of dreaded cardio you like)!

Motivation.. or lack there of...

This week has been a struggle in the motivation department. I had a stressful start to the week and then got a little sick with being congested and to top it off on Wednesday I got a bruised face by getting hit in the face with a volleyball at volleyball. Thats a long story of bad blocking, someone else calling the ball and obviously not getting it and me not paying enough attention to get my hands up fast enough, oh and a crazy asian hitting. To me the only really bad part was how much a jerk he was afterwards about it, but with that team not surprised.

My problem for this week has been motivating myself to overcome these and get going. I have been great at avoiding what needs to be done by coming up with other things to do or simply not getting anything done. Neither of which exactly improves my life, mood or motivation and often detracts from all of those.

So I have come up with this concept, I am going to reward myself. For instance, I really don't feel like going to the gym today because I still have a bit of a headache and to be honest it just sounds like way more work than I feel like putting in, but if I go I will have reached my goal of workouts for the week and therefore should reward myself, I think that will be going to the movies! As far as my daily "chores" for stuff around the house, that is going to take a bit more motivation and a bit more of a reward. I need to go to the laundromat, because I have several things that don't fit in my normal washer/dryer that need to be cleaned, needless to say I truly hate the laundromat, it goes against well everything in my being to go. So I am going to have to come up with a good reward for this one, any suggestions?

Also what do you do to overcome your lack of motivation? I could definitely use some pointers for future days when the rewards just don't do it!