Goodbye jiggly butt!

Say goodbye to a juggly butt. I went for a jog yesterday morning and realized that for so long I have been sucking it up on my runs. My motto, since having Isaac, has just been "one foot in front of the other. Get through it....suck it up." So, in the process of doing this, I have done just that.....sucked....the end. I haven't had any improvement and I always come home with sore hips, knees and ankles. In my quest for "just getting through" the run I have been in the habit of using my joints to keep me going rather than my muscles. Armed with this knowledge, I spent the entire 6 miles focused on nothing but my muscles and, more specifically, using those muscles to propel me forward. I wasn't sure I could keep it up throughout the whole run but I did. It was awesome. My muscles were so fatigued in the end but a good fatigued. A deep-down-going-to-build-muscle-and-be-stronger fatigued. My joints? you ask..... not a single ache. Amazing.

So...I came up with this. Sometimes all we can do is put one foot in front of the other to keep us going (in all walks of life.....excuse the pun). We have to forget about the yesterdays (what we did or did not do, what we ate or did not eat (yeah right, like that ever happens), or how many pounds we STILL have to go to reach our goals. It's okay. The important thing is that we do keep going.

Then, there will come a day that we decide that those efforts are not enough and we push ourselves harder, stronger, faster. We may crash and burn the next day (ahem...I have not yet worked out today) but we will get ourselves up and move on. And then......we see the REAL results.

Val....do not be discouraged with the weight gain. IT ALWAYS HAPPENS. I used to have a rule that I could only weigh myself on days that I felt good (I'm not doing so good with this rule right now...a bit obsessed). But, that way, it doesn't matter what the scale says because you feel good anyway (and usually if you are REALLY feeling good, you will see good results on the scale as well). Holly, sweating to death totally counts in my book. Keep it up ladies.

P.S. I still have not been able to shake the extra weight I am carrying. Damned family reunion, strep throat and night time Olympic watching cravings. Now I am going to work really hard....okay now......okay now......no, maybe now. Soon.........