Peeke Blog

Hi,

I started the week with a 2lb weight reduction, under 170 finally. I was 168 and thrilled.  This reduction kept me all pumped up and motivated all week. I tried to do the elliptical machine all week for two reasonsI feel like I get quite the workout on it and in less time.

Excuses, excuses, excuses. Thats all I kept hearing from all my friends this week. Reason after reason not to walk with me. How easy it is for excuses, their excuses, my excuses, just excuses. It was an extremely busy week for me. I had something everyday which made it tight in my planning and excuses were easy to find. The more I heard other peoples excuses the more I wanted to work out. You dont find the time to work out. You must make the time

I know I have to have a plan.  I knew that Thursday, Saturday and Sunday were all going to be difficult days to make the time to walk or exercise on the elliptical. Even though I couldnt plan for large periods of time on those days to obtain my steps, I did my best to come up with little ways to get more steps in, in bits and pieces. I parked far out, made additional trips back and forth to the car, zigzagged the grocery store, things like that.

The weekend presented what I thought was going to be my worst challenges. I felt like I was making one BIG excuse because between the two days I had to clean and mow the yard for my company coming Easter Sunday. But I had to take care of my household chores. Im a bit anal when I clean. It is an all day event, having to clean everything. I use two different vacuums, one to dust and one for carpets. I vacuum everything, knick-knacks, walls, rugs, everything. Im sure to clean bathrooms and do wash (12 loads to include rugs and bedding). I just couldnt come up with a plan for all those steps too. I started Saturday thinking I was going to let myself down, that guilt was creeping in and with me most of the day. Im just glad that I went ahead and put on my pedometer.

Wasnt I stunned and surprised to find out that just doing my household chores how many steps I got; On Saturday I walked over 9500 steps and on Sunday I walked over 15263 steps. AMAZING! Just doing all my chores, can you believe it, all those steps??? I was also proud of myself.

I gave up sweets for Lent (which I usually do). Its pretty easy for me to give it up for God but not so easy to give it up for me. Lent ends today (Monday after Easter). I did not eat one piece of candy, chocolate or dessert. Not even any of Gails homemade cookies. I didnt even lick my fingers when I was baking. I made it the entire 40 days. There are plenty of other yummy foods I can eat that are better for me, like fruit or yogurt. I made myself a pact that I do not get any sweets until I remove the 20lbs (the bare minimum I am aspiring to remove, I need to remove 30-35). Im afraid if I have even one nibble I wont be able to control myself. So Im not taking that first taste.

Jmisty