Let`s Get Physical!

Hello followers!
Believe it or not it has been a couple of productive days for Mike and myself. Yesterday we both joined the gym craze at Planet Fitness. I was able to talk Mike into a membership and now I don`t know if it was a good idea because he is going to drag my butt to the gym (ok, that is a good thing). I am extremely excited that Mike is joining me at the gym and going there makes it even more fun!
Yesterday I completed another Couch to 5k work out to my dismay. I am a tad behind but I will be catching up soon. The program is three days a week and currently I start with a 5 minute walking warm up and than do interval of 60 seconds running and 90 seconds walking for 20 minutes and ending with a 5 minute walking cool down. I am enjoying running alot but I enjoy the fact that I have not given up yet. At the end of my run I am exhausted and I want to fall down and never move again but I keep on moving. All my life I have been a quitter so setting a goal for myself such as a 5k is a big deal. The biggest commitment will be when I sign up with my friends and come up with a team name! I can`t begin to tell you how excited I am to actually cross something off my bucket list which just happened to be a 5k. Now, I will admit there are tons of things I would like to do in my life such as sky diving, traveling, and also scuba diving but for now this will do.

Yesterday was our first work out at the gym. Michael was nice enough and walked me thru my moves and helped me figure out weights. I am baffled when it comes to exercise and figuring out the right types of moves to do. My problem areas are my hips and arms which I would not mind seeing slowly becoming trimmer by October! In our house you can easily come across dozens of fitness magazines all of which I bought with good intentions of doing the workouts, and of course I failed!
However, enough of this failure talk! So what if I failed in the past, does it matter? No, of course not!!  What matters is now, today and what I do with it. What matters is what I learned from the past and how I can move forward. This is what I have learned:

1. Exercise hurts and it does not get easy
2. The next day after I work out I am going to swear I will never do it again
3. I am an emotional eater but I have to realize that food will not fill that void.
4. It is easy to quit but difficult to start
5. There will be those who want me to fail but many more who want me to succeed.
6. Food is like friends, it can be good for you but you have to choose the right type because the bad type can lead you into trouble (aka fatness)
7.  Bad days are not excuses to lay on the couch and mope.
8. There are times I will feel defeated, but there will be many more times where I will feel well accomplished

As you can see I have learned a whole lot, and I will continue to learn. I still have the goal in mind of being fit for my best friends wedding in October and also Mike and mine's 3rd anniversary! I have so much to look forward to so now is the time to get moving!

Also, Mike and I were discussing about taking dance classes. We have always wanted to do it together for fun. Plus, I can not dance to save my life so this is the time to do it! Who here thinks we should take dance lessons?

Now, I must bid you good night untill the next time but I would like to leave you with an inspiring qoute....
"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance you must keep moving"

For now,
Jocelyn