Good Habits: Hard To Make, Easy To Break

Today was the first day back at the gym after being sick with the flu last week. I realizedsomething very important. Habits, there are good habits and bad habits. The good one are hard. really really hard to make. To get them established in your life they say takes a minimum of 28 days. But…

Extreme Weight Loss & The Flu… DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

I had the flu this week. Being sick SUCKS! I had not appetite for several days, had a fever, etc… No. Fun. But today is Wednesday. It is my weigh day. So I went and got the scale, stripped down and, I lost 11 lbs. Awesome! RAH! RAH! Yes happy dance! I would not necessarily…

Marching Towards Success Six More Pounds Gone.

Today was weigh in day. It is never a day I particularly look forward to. I got up took care of business and got on the scale. If I could do a virtual happy dance I would because the scale showed a 6 pound loss, I took an inch off my waist, and an inch…

Goals and Progress

Too often we, as human beings, want perfection, and we want it NOW! This is a hard habit to break. To think that after week three that I can be at a level working out that I was 10 years ago is, ridiculously unrealistic. The reality is I have a long way to go, and…

“I Don’t Want To Die That Way!” Or Motivation Through Fear

It has been a kind of stressful week. BCC’s aunt passed away; my brother in-law had a family crisis; and the weather, well, the weather has totally sucked. There has also been 3 other family members pass away in the past year and a half. One of them was my father. Now mind you, I…

Frustration Thy Name Is Scale

I hate being frustrated. The weather is preventing travel to the gym. A friend’s son stayed last night because their heat went out, then there was no school so when she came to pick him up instead of leaving right away they made enough noise to wake me up. Then the most horrible thing happened. …

Staying Ahead Of The Storm; and Is This Too Much To Ask?

Today is Monday, and not a regular gym day. But in St. Louis we are expecting between 4 and 6 inches of snow. If you do not know, St. Louis has a tendency to roll up its streets when bad weather comes to town. So we went to the gym today. I promised myself that…

Marching Towards The Wedding

This is officially day six of working out at the gym. We have been going 3 days a week. I am proud of the fact that we have gone every day that we have set out to go. One of the hardest things for me has been how weak I really was. Very little…