No More Frownie Faces

Yes, "frownie" is a word....says me! lol.

So due to scheduling with kids and child care and doing what's BEST for my kids, I've been off of the work out wagon for a full week.  Today, I was back at it with C25K, but couldn't manage to run the 22 minutes that today's routine asked me to do.  Maybe if I were running outside it would've been easier and maybe I'm just not as good as I think.  Whatever it was, I got down in the dumps about it, but then realized...."Listen!  There are people who didn't get out of bed today.  There are people who CAN'T get out of bed today.  There are people who don't even TRY.  You have accomplished more by giving running your best shot for 30 minutes than most people do at 7am!"  So I decided I couldn't get down on myself, but appreciate the fact that I CAN run and that I TRY to run and that I DO run, no matter how much or little and no matter how slow of fast it is, I do it!

In other news....my of my amazing, wonderful, motivating girlfriends contacted me a little over a week ago as she had moved away from her support group and now lives in BFE and wanted to know how I battled that when I had to move away from the same group and wanted to know if I could commit to an online support "group" (just me and her) where we could check in with each other, set goals, share our NSVs (Non-scale victories), etc.  I thought to myself "I'm on FB ALL the time anyway and if she needs help, who am I to deny her of that."  Boy did I underestimate how this would affect me!  I had NO idea that being able to check in with someone each and every day who cheers me on and doesn't judge me when I slip and who will praise me for my efforts instead of dogging me for the imperfections.  I had NO idea how much I craved that and how much I NEEDED it!  I think I've THOUGHT about what I'm doing, what my daily goal is, etc more in the last week than I have in a long time.  She knows who she is and I love her dearly for being my angel and giving me help where even I didn't recognize I needed it!

Here's to a healthy holiday season!

Happy Tuesday!