50 sessions sweated - why?
So last night I got a new badge in my Fitbit Coach for 50 sessions sweated, I was so proud of myself, wow what an accomplishment, but why?
You see I never needed to exercise, everyone would comment that I was already thin, or that I looked good, but slowly I wasn't liking what I saw in photos and in the mirror. I realized I wasn't as thin as I thought I was, that maybe I should be doing something, because it seemed that once I turned 40 my metabolism thingy people talk about slowed down, maybe even packed up and left?
I started to notice that I was consciously sucking it in for photos, and pushing my tongue to the roof of my mouth in photos to avoid the double chin - and I didn't like it. This decision was all about me, I finally realized that maybe I did have a reason to get fit and be more healthy and that reason was me!
I wanted this, I want to look at photos and like what I see again, I want to have arms that I want to show off and buy the sleeveless dress to show them off rather than buy a longer one to cover them up. We all have our comfort level, the level that we are comfortable in our own bodies, and where I was on October 26, was not comfortable anymore.
My Mom used to say something to me as a kid, "once it bothers you enough you will do something about it" and I did. I used to look to everyone for encouragement and motivation, I used to say to my husband please tell me to exercise, it didn't work. He would say come work out with me, and I would always have a reason not to.
I realized that the motivation has to come from within, and where ever it is coming from now, it can keep coming, I don't want to go back to where I was, I want to do this for me, I need to do this for me.
I am sharing my journey with this blog because I want people to know what happens when that switch is made, and you realize it IS all about you. You need to make time for you, we only get one turn on this earth and I have decided to do what I can to stick around as long as possible.
This blog will either be short lived and I will fall back into my "uncomfortable comfort zone" or this is it I have changed for the better and I will get to bring you along on this journey.
50 sessions sweated and counting...
You see I never needed to exercise, everyone would comment that I was already thin, or that I looked good, but slowly I wasn't liking what I saw in photos and in the mirror. I realized I wasn't as thin as I thought I was, that maybe I should be doing something, because it seemed that once I turned 40 my metabolism thingy people talk about slowed down, maybe even packed up and left?
I started to notice that I was consciously sucking it in for photos, and pushing my tongue to the roof of my mouth in photos to avoid the double chin - and I didn't like it. This decision was all about me, I finally realized that maybe I did have a reason to get fit and be more healthy and that reason was me!
I wanted this, I want to look at photos and like what I see again, I want to have arms that I want to show off and buy the sleeveless dress to show them off rather than buy a longer one to cover them up. We all have our comfort level, the level that we are comfortable in our own bodies, and where I was on October 26, was not comfortable anymore.
My Mom used to say something to me as a kid, "once it bothers you enough you will do something about it" and I did. I used to look to everyone for encouragement and motivation, I used to say to my husband please tell me to exercise, it didn't work. He would say come work out with me, and I would always have a reason not to.
I realized that the motivation has to come from within, and where ever it is coming from now, it can keep coming, I don't want to go back to where I was, I want to do this for me, I need to do this for me.
I am sharing my journey with this blog because I want people to know what happens when that switch is made, and you realize it IS all about you. You need to make time for you, we only get one turn on this earth and I have decided to do what I can to stick around as long as possible.
This blog will either be short lived and I will fall back into my "uncomfortable comfort zone" or this is it I have changed for the better and I will get to bring you along on this journey.
50 sessions sweated and counting...
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