Gradual changes

I'm sorry I didn't post this entry sooner. My friend came to visit for the weekend and I've been spending all day with him and my roommate. But I did still do my workout! Today was an All Cardio day. This was rough! I felt pretty strong in the warm up and I had a good pace after our first water break but man oh man after the break things definitely went up a notch. Those exercises where you have to get down to the ground and hop back up and reach up. Man it was just ridiculous. But hey I still did it. And I felt pretty good afterwards :) I felt really good that some of the people that Shaun T is working with had to take breaks too. It makes it seem more feasible when these really in shape people have to slow down and take a break every once in awhile. I've bee pushing myself, but I keep trying to make sure I don't push myself too hard cuz I don't want to make myself sick. If there's ever something that I can't do I try to make sure that I keep my heart rate up but then get myself back into the exercise. Sometimes though I take a break for too long and I know I could get in a few extra suicides or something. So I need to make sure that my mantra of not making myself sick doesn't lend into me making compromises.

And then to add to that we went to Wal Mart later and I bought two shovels with my nickname that people refuse to call me (Ames), a knee pad thing, and some purple women's gloves to do some gardening. I tore up our flower bed! No, literally, I tore it up.

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AND I also raked our front lawn. 

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So I definitely got some extra cardio working on all this :) I felt so much better after getting all this worked on. It had been bothering me so much. And last night before skyping my boyfriend I was hula-hooping around our lawn. Btw it's totes hard to walk and hula-hoop. But I definitely feel like I've got more energy now throughout the day. I'm actually making decisions to go outside and keep myself off the couch. It feels good :)

I did have a minor? stepback though. My friend treated my roommate and I out to Texas Road House tonight for dinner. Not the most healthy decision :/ But I ordered lemonade (sugary), a salad, I only had a few of the steak fries with cheese and bacon, and I ordered the grilled bbq chicken. Definitely not the worst things I could have ordered. 

And something that my aerobics professor keeps telling us is that this all needs to be gradual. That things don't just change over night and that we shouldn't be that hard on ourselves. We just need to tell us that we'll do better the next day. And that's all I can tell myself. This is all a process. This is a new road to wellness. Yes, I want to lose weight. Yes, I want to lose a few inches here and there. But I need to be patient and accept that it's not all gonna happen just like that.