30 for 30 - Days...17 - Jeni

Today: 1
Yesterday: 1
Total: 8.5 (I finally went back and counted!)

Oh hello there...I know, we're practically strangers after all this time I haven't blogged. I'm so sorry. This week is my Spring Break and I think I just kind of "checked out" on a lot of things. Good thing the new semester starts next week and I will be back to a very structured schedule, which will include blogging and food and exercise recording.

In the meantime, here's the damage. After that cold that kicked my butt (and still likes to send me reminders in the morning that my throat is sore, etc.) I tried to jump back into the routine I was doing at the gym, but it was rough. I went with my husband to the gym on Monday and woke up feeling even more sick on Tuesday.

Wednesday was a fluke. I wanted to go to the gym, but somehow between babysitting and caring for my husband who had caught my cold, it just didn't happen.

However yesterday and tonight we went to the gym together and it's been so much fun. I am VERY motivated by him being there with me. I also feel like I can push through the hard parts of my workout a lot better than before! I'm getting stronger.

I really want to run a 5K in July, so I want to do the "couch to 5K" program sometime soon. I will post about it, promise. If I end up doing that I will need to structure my time at the gym a little differently.

Right now, I do 30 minutes of cardio (usually the elliptical, but I did the treadmill today and like that a lot too) and then focus on one part of my body to work on for another 10-20 minutes. Then I stretch and head home.

I really love the set up of the BYU-I gym and how many machines and how much variety they have. They have things I've never even seen as a 3 year member of 24 hour fitness. I am impressed and sometimes overwhelmed, but mostly just glad to have a place I can go where the dress code is modest and we all know the doctrine of the body :)

My picture today isn't funny, but man is it true! I needed this and many other affirmations I recently pinned. :) Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

That's all for now. I promise I will be better. Thanks for hanging in there. Love you all!

Be happy and healthy!
xoxo