Dear Day #5, Yesterday I mentioned that I was going to express why I am starting this Challenge. I wasnt going to because I just didnt feel like writing a whole ton. This is going to come as a shock to a lot of you. I am not a fit person. I know. I know. Youre thinking whaaaat??. Its true. Im not. What got me even facing towards the idea of I need to do something to change this....you know, scratch that. It wasnt even a facing. It was more of a slight head tilt in the general direction of me needing to change something was the Dirty Dash with my sweetheart. I thought, Hey...this looks like FUN! Play in the mud and get dirty....get a free t-shirt (but really a free $35 t-shirt darn registering fee that I know goes to a good cause so Im really not complaining). I signed my husband and myself up for this. I had no idea this was going to be at Bogus Basin. I had no idea that I was going to be hiking up Mt Kilimanjaro. I was thinking mud. 5k. lots of fun photo opps. What. The. Heck. Towards the end of the race, the highest point before it was all downhill, I remember looking at the last mountain (i am calling it a mountain, that thing was HUGE) and thinking Im hiking up that?! I cant. I simply cant do it. My body physically couldnt do it. Okay, maybe I could have still done it but Id be as slow as molasses. So you know what happened next? My dear, dear sweet husband of mine *literally* pushed me up that darn mountain. He had his hands on my lower back and walked right behind me climbing Mt Everest. I remember thinking, He really really loves me. Loves me enough to *claim* me as his unfit (but beautiful and amazing) spouse while keeping me vertical because if he wasnt there Id be rolling-rolling-rolling down. Oh but dont you worry, I was all on my own once we started going downhill. I owned it! ;) When all is said done, I did finish it. And Im happy that I finished it. Those are bragging rights. Knowing that little history of mine, do you see why this is important to me? Im working towards my goal. My goal consists of two main words. Endurance and Fit. That is what I will get out of this. And not only that, but also having control of this part of my life. Im excited for this. I go to Bootcamp 6x a week. Im making *better* choices when it comes to food. I had sushi today for lunch. I was excited. Until I sat down at the table and completely forgot about the W-H-I-T-E rice it was rolled in. Waaaaah. This is a learning process right? Im thinking that the fact that Im starting to recognize the dos and donts are huge. I didnt eat it all---mostly because the rice to crab to avocado to cucumber ratio was *not* proportioned...but it was also a humongo roll. It was truly was too much rice. But I am appreciative to those who made the roll, it was very nice of them. And let it be known, that Im not just slightly leaning towards the idea of this change that I want. I. AM. DOING. IT. *drop mic* xoxo Jen
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:56:34 +0000
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