A Great Start...Not!

So... a great yet completely horrible way to start a diet/workout routine is with a stomach virus. 2 days of complete nausea and not being able to keep anything down. Do not try this at home! The great part is i lost like 10 pounds the horrible part is it was just water weight so it all came back a few days later...great. Then as soon as I was feeling better I decided to get cut by a rusty piece of metal and had to get a tetanus shot (which makes your arm hurt...like a lot). So now that it is like a week later I was finally able to start on my working out, although I had to take it slow because apparently it takes me FOREVER to get over a stomach bug.



So I found the following picture on Pinterest (link to website is on the bottom of the pic) and decided that would be a great thing to try....yeah, its harder than it looks. First I did some 'suicides' which is when you just run back and forth as fast as you can like a crazy person. Then a little later I started to tackle the list below. First of all one minute is a lot longer than you might think, so I was forced to only do 30 seconds. Second, I only got to the lunges. Third, my dog was looking at me like I was insane.


I am going to try again tomorrow and attempt to get farther down the list...we will see how that goes.

I am attempting to look at this not as a pre-wedding diet but rather a pre- the-rest-of-my-life all around makeover. I don't want to do all this just to look good at my wedding but also to be healthy to live for a long time and to be healthy enough to have healthy children.

Thinking about my upcoming wedding led me to thinking about my future children and how I want to raise them, and I don't want them to mimic the behaviors and habits I have now. I want my children to enjoy exercise activities, so I have to start to think about it that way myself. I want my children to be exposed to a lot of different (healthy) foods and the only way that is going to happen is if I figure out how to make (most of) them.

this is my ring ------------------------------------------------>

Kind of AMAZING! and a constant reminder not only of the immense love that my fiance has for me but for the reason i want to loose weight, so that I can be healthy and happy with my soon to be husband for as long as possible.

I am a MSW (Masters of Social Work) and help motivate people to change and make themselves grow with  different techniques....blah blah... The point is I need to start using these same methods for helping myself. I am currently attempting to use a Cognitive Behavioral technique and try to have myself about what I can do to improve myself every time I look at my ring. Without giving myself some sort of eating disorder...lol!

We will see how it goes...wish me luck!