6:20 a.m.
Goals for Week 6: - keep track of points
- exercise 3 days for at least 30 minutes
- Answer the following questions: Why am I fat? Why have previous attempts to get healthy failed? What is so different about this time?
First off, I am tickled to be entering into the 6th week of my little journey. If I were counting down instead of up, I would say I had 47 weeks to go until Disney 2006. This last week was particularly difficult with a sick baby but she seems to be almost over it. Last night was the first night she slept through till morning. So I am looking forward to a really great and productive week at home, at work, and at fitness.
I decided to answer some questions this week as my 3rd goal. I wanted my third goal to be something mental/emotional instead of something to do with diet or exercise. I am trying to make exercise a routine so I don't want to stress myself by upping the ante just yet
and, though I have some ideas about some improvements to my diet I want to make in the near future, they will take a lot of work and I don't know if I have the mental energy to deal with them this week. I struggled to come up with this third goal and wasn't initialy thrilled about the idea of answering these questions. For one reason, I think the answers can be quite boring (I am fat because I eat more calories than I burn, etc.) and I usually avoid other people's explanations as to why they are fat. (In doing the research for these questions, I found some dooseys online.) But in the end I decided these questions would give me the opportunity to do some soul searching and think about my current circumstance, take responsibility for it and hopefully move forward.
10:23 a.m.Exercise: - What: jazzercise
- Time: 40 minutes
There was some confusion at jazzercise today so they started 10 minutes late. I ducked out after 40 minutes between the cardio portion and the toning/strength work. I had to stop by the market on the way home and didn't want to leave Mike alone too long with the baby (shouldn't have worried about that, I came home to them taking a nap together, too cute.)
One thing I was thinking about during jazzercise today was a comment in Oprah's book about how she used to go the gym and she thought showing up was all she had to do. It is very possible to do the jazzercise routines and not really get your heart going. I kept thinking about how I needed to take responsibility for my own exercise and make sure I get a good workout. Having a class and an instructor and heart pumping music is great motivation, but I am the one that has to move my feet.
She did mainly the same routine today with a few new ones. I like that there are a few songs I know, I have a few favorites already.
# posted by amy @ 6:20 AM
