Back on the elliptical; time for new goals
Back 0n the elliptical today despite my still being at about 50% from whatever bug I've got now. It's the "New School Year" bug. Because I started getting sick exactly 5 days after Bobbin started going to her new Big Girl Preschool.
But tonight I did it - got back on. 60 minutes on the elliptical, while watching "The Cleaner" with Benjamin Bratt. It's cheese. But it does the job. And is better than the alternatives on Sundays at 8. That meant that I was finished and able to do my stretching to Desperate Housewives. Yay!
So I was in week 11 when the bug hit me and I fell off track on the exercise routine. And so now I need to not only get back on but beat my 11 week streak by at least a week before missing a weekly goal. Week 22 just happens to be my Birthday. And it's on a SATURDAY. Which means... I get to exercise at ANY TIME I WANT on a saturday AND have y'all over to PARTY afterwards to boot. Umm... if that's, like, cool with you, Tim? ;-)
11 weeks until my birthday. Sweet! If I assume I haven't lost any ground, and I continue at the same snails pace that I'm on right now, then I should be weighing 11 lbs lighter than I am right now which puts me 4 lbs shy from the size I was when I went to try on Bridesmaid's dresses for my sister's wedding when she was last here. Which was December 2006, I believe. On one hand, I looked better then than I do now. On the other hand, I thought I looked bad then too, and I felt worse about myself then that I do now. I wasn't working out. I was on a leave of absence for depression. I was seeing a pyschologist. And oh look just how great that therapy worked out! Although it's the same meds, there are some diferences now: different therapist; different primary care physician, different age child; more experience as a mom; I haven't driven Tim insane or to drink or to leave me. All these things bode well for me.
So - cheer me on. I'm back on it. I did 60 minutes tonight. I can do it. I'm tough. I ran a frickin' MARATHON once, you know. From start to finish in 5 hours and 23 minutes. 60 minutes a night is nothing.
Comments
You've made it over the post-cold slump, so now you'll be unstoppable. Run! Or is it: Ellipse! If I have the math right, you're now ellipsing up to a marathon a week. Not only are you getting healthy, but soon, you will be able to crush beer cans on your abs. You won't have to, but you'll have the deep satisfaction of knowing that if you really wanted to, you could.
Posted by Sunfriday on September 29, 2008 7:00 PM.