Thursday, September 30, 2010

Kettle bells.

I did my first kettle bell workout today.  Yikes!  It was a great workout!  I didn't feel clumsy, I didn't feel intimidated, and I got a great workout!  I did it with a regular dumb bell, which was fine, they showed someone usuing one in the video.  I do think that I need to get an 8 pound weight for it, which is something I have been considering getting for other workouts.  I love Jillian Michaels, and the work out was her 30 Shred Weights.

I realized something today.  I was feeling yucky, and tired, and generally kind of blah.  Joce had a Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Pop Tart today.  She ate one, so one was left in the package.  I decided that I wanted to eat the other one.  Who cares if I have one Pop Tart?  What will it hurt?  I was going to have it after my work out.  If I did my work out.  Yeah, it wasn't a great morning.  So, I did motivate myself to do my workout, and I was starving after my shower.  I felt so good after that work out, I didn't want to ruin it with a Pop Tart.  Doing my work out has a positive effect on my entire day.  I have to keep pushing myself, and the more I do it, the easier it will become to make the time for it.  I am so proud of myself.  It would be so easy for me to quit.  To start eating badly again.  But, I keep going, even when I slip up, and that is a big step for me.

On the slip up front, being at my moms was not good for my diet.  I wasn't there 5 minutes before I mindlessly ate an Almond Joy.  I didn't even think about it, just put it in my mouth and ate it.Why do I do this every time I am at my moms?!?  I think it is habit.  When I was younger, I used to smoke.  A lot.  I did not tell my family about it for years.  When I would go home for a weekend, I would eat constantly, because I couldn't smoke.  I thin that it is so ingrained in me that I can't stop it because I don't even realize that I am doing it.  I am spending 3 days at her house next week, so I am going to have to be hyper-vigilant about what I am eating.  I want to keep going forward, not trip myself up.

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