One Month Check in

So it has been one month since new years, although i said i wasn't making a resolution i did want to make a goal for myself. Do more is my new years motto. i feel like i have done well with my goal. Matt has been a big help. he has decided that i am just not going to work out myself so he drags me to the gym with him. it has been  really good for a few weeks now. i haven't been as consistent as i want but have gotten there at least 3 times a week. i go by myself and do cardio and then meet up with him to do weights. he has been very supportive in not killing me and letting me work up to his standard of workout. i feel really dumb in the "guys" gym benching a 20 lb bar but i am learning to get over what everyone else thinks and worry about myself and where i am at. Matt has also been embracing eating healthier himself. i made a zuchinni lasagna, a recipe i got from my friend shannon who is an inspiration to me of healthy eating. matt said he did miss the noodles but that it was good. he has been eating less bread and more veggies and wants brown rice now. he has always been in shape and very fit but i am glad he is doing things that are good for your heart, cholesterol etc.  we are still trying to get caleb to eat less fast food but he is a teenager and at least eats good at home!

if i can just make it through 11 more months...

My Struggle...

this is probably a really boring post and no fun pictures but since this is my journal of thoughts, i am writing it. the past 6 months to a year i have had a really tough time getting myself motivated to work out. i blame it on different things and honestly when i do get into a rhythm then something happens like my mom coming to visit or thanksgiving or whatever. i really do want to be healthy and i do other things in my life to try to always be healthy but working out just doesn't come easily. i love yoga and that has always been my steady even when i didn't really want to work out i would still love yoga. now i can't even get motivated to do that or i can't go to my classes at the time that they are or whatever. i am not lazy but i have become lazy about this. i work part time and that gives me more of an excuse that i am a morning person but i am done by lunch and still have time to go to the gym. matt hates when i don't work out, he doesn't harp on me he just adds it to everything i complain about, i just had bad cramps and he was like they are better when you exercise... i walk the dog everyday and a lot of times matt and i will walk at night again when he is home, i love just walking and talking with him but it is not a workout and at the age i am getting to i know i need to be using weights and doing cardio. i don't want to be the new yrs. resolution person and wait until jan. but we have a trip in dec. for 2 weeks and i won't be working out then which again puts a wrench in it but i just have to find the motivation. any ideas? i know it has to be in me and i have inspiration like my friend dawn who runs every morning or my friend pam who did a 10 K in the mud and nikki who put a gym in her garage and works out along with getting her masters and her 4 kiddos. i know i can do it i just have to find it in me.