There are so many excuses people use for gaining/keeping on the weight. One of my classics is "if only we still had a membership to the Y, I could lose the weight so much faster!" A friend of mine (Lee for those of you who know him) gave me a bit of a reality check smack down. He basically stated the obvious. We have a treadmill. We have dumbells in sizes ranging from 2lbs up to 15 lbs. We have workout dvds and a dvd player. There are no excuses. He also lost 12 pounds in a week with no gym. Oy...ok, gloves off.
So today I planned to walk on the treadmill and do a biggest loser workout dvd and maybe even some wii fit. That plan went down the tubes with a crabby baby, so I made do. I put him in the Bjorn and walked on the treadmill. That lasted about 6 minutes before he got too wiggly for me to feel comfortable walking on the mill with him. So I wandered back upstairs, fed him put him in the playpen and did the 20 minute power sculpt biggest loser workout, and made it to the cool down before he was screaming to be picked up. Not too bad. I figure sum total I logged a 30 minute total workout today. I was hoping for 40, but I got close, and something is better than nothing.
My lesson, and my challenge today are intermingled. I will not use lack of gym membership as an excuse any longer. Further, I am challenging myself to lose as much of this weight as I can without a membership(we should be able to rejoin in the spring/early summer). I know I can lose it at home, I'll just have to be a little more creative. Or perhaps start waking up at 5am to get it in before the kids wake up.
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