December Day 4

Had a great day today and set some new personal best records on my plank and wall sit challenges. I am so curious to see what my best time will be by the end of the month.

Just when I think I can not surprise myself anymore, I do. I really do underestimate myself and how strong I am getting and how much more stronger I will get.

I have now had 6 (4 if just counting December) straight days of physical activity. Most I have ever done since being out of high school. One thing is in all my previous attempts I have had rest days/cheat days. Well for the time being I am not going to schedule for that. Everyday I want to be active in some way. This is feeling more of a permanent change, not a diet, something temporary where I go back to my old habits.

Right now my appetite is weird. With all the activity I am feeling physically hungry, every couple of hours hungry. So I need to look into all of that info. I know a bit but I guess for now if  i'm hungry I will eat I have lots of fresh veggies and fruit to choose from. I know that will get all sorted out. I am just happy I am craving good foods and not junk foods, so I say that is a win!

The next most awesome thing was, but first let me go back a bit. A couple of months back I wrote about how getting healthy and wanting to live an active life was not being very friendly to my marriage and was a really weird time for me. Not being on the same page as your spouse can be a hard place to be. I did not figure out any answers then or since then, but what I did do was choose to just keep pushing forward with my personal health goals. Hoping and praying the Husband would eventually join me and would grow to include our kids, one big healthy active family :).

Well at the end of homework today the husband said "ok, you done with homework yet cause daddy wants to go on a bike ride. I could not believe my ears. After homework we got out the bikes, roller blades and the jogging stroller and headed out.

It was so unexpected and perfect :)

This post is my 50th post, another milestone for me. I am loving day 4 From the Inside Out.....

Decembers Goals/Challenges

Like to recap November before I move onto December. I had some challenges for the month of November. The first time I tried something like this. The point was to step things up a bit and increase my activity and to also challenge myself.

One of the challenges was to do Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred DVD. I can tell you that I was able to do 1 day! yep that's right, 1 day. I was in more pain for 3 days then I was after the warrior dash LOL

The journaling went well the first 1-2 weeks. This I know will take time and I will continue to work on it. i always feel like i have too much to say when I sit and write and not enough time to do it. I think I can do it later. Funny how that rolls over to other areas of our lives too. I said to my teen the other day, " you know, with you it is always tomorrow, tomorrow , tomorrow, yet tomorrow never comes. You only have today!

Great advice mom, you should take it.. (I thought to myself) :D

I did learn from the experience and did learn something about myself. The type of workout the 30 day shred is, is not for me, not in a solo environment anyways. I would love that type of workout in a group. At this stage I am not the compete against myself type. I found that I am more motivated competing against others or participating in a group setting with that type of workout.

So after a little bit of experience in setting goals/challenges one time for a month I am going to try again for December. I can only get better right?!

I finished getting up my facebook page The Pebble Path up and running. I found new friends and joined some groups that have challenges going on. This is more up my alley.

I personally want to see that I participate in some form of activity 20-60 minutes a day for everyday of December. Participating in these challenges will help with that. Everyday I do one plank, 1 wall sit, and a yoga pose and I post my results/photo accordingly in each group.

My weekly goals focus again on getting my thoughts on paper and tracking my food and activity. 

I struggle with self hate issues, so I put something in there to find 1 or more person encourage and to physical post an Operation Beautiful post it when I am out and about. (you can click on the link to see what that is)

I have learned the best medicine for getting out of yourself is to encourage or be in service to others.

The best thing about November I do have to say was, I was busy living life :) spending time with friends, family, the husband, the kids, hobbies and my home. I may have not came close to meeting Novembers goals, but I have no regrets for November. I did not backslide, struggle with depression etc. I was more then just busy, I was productive. 

Looking forward to December From the Inside Out...