Health and Exercise Update!

Currently typing this post while drinking a pumpkin beer and eating some Halloween candy so things are going great over here.  Okay, okay.  But, really.  Things are staying balanced over here.  I am still eating way too many chips…but I am not drinking nearly as much diet coke?  So—that’s a win!  Monday is a new little start for some goals I just made for myself thanks to YOU and everyone else that responded to my insta story this week asking for goal ideas. 

I wanted to revisit my goals because the last time I made them they were as vague as “lose weight” and actually run.  Both of those things have happened, but I kind of hate the scale because it super doesn’t sync up with my progress in NSV (non scale victories) and so I am over it.  I also have stuck to the running plan!  Which is such an accomplishment in itself.

I was watching Julie Taylor’s Instagram stories not that long ago when she was talking about how often it isn’t what were actually doing that is important, but that we are following through on what we said we were going to do----she said it so much more eloquently!  But, it deeply resonated with me.  I had no idea that when I hired my trainer, Kevin, that this would be a time I really stuck with it…because I have tried in the past and failed.  And then when I decided to start running again, I had no idea if I would stick with it, again because I have so easily quit before.  But, here I am!  Surprisingly actually doing (most) of the things I set out to do in March/April when I hired Kevin.

So, I am focusing so much on accomplishing my daily goals so that it is just assumed (in my self talk) that if it’s on the list of course it’s going to get done.  Because I’m a boss and I am getting shit done---obviously.  Anyways, I hope that made sense.  It made sense to me! 

So, other than getting rid of the scale (mostly) my goals are to: lower my BMI, work on my body control/balance so that I can do a headstand(!!!!), be able to do 5 real push-ups well---and have it not be ugly, run a 5K in 30 minutes or less, and follow my meal plan 80%.  That 80% will hopefully look like healthy eating throughout the day during the week with a halloween size treat or two at the end of day and then indulging on Saturday/Sunday—ish!  

Now that it is written down, it’s go time!  Wish me luck this week and I go one step further in bettering myself!

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