I HATE this picture...so I thought I would post it...Never again...never!!So...today I am sore. I just got done working out and I am beat. I lifted today and did the elliptical... even raising my arms hurts. So I think the thing I am wondering now is how often should I work out. I know my body needs rest, but I kind of feel like if I want to work out then...I should. Some people say 3 to 4 times a week, yet others say 5. Others say some excercise is better than none. But I guess what I need to remember and maybe even need to say out loud is that none of these people have had to live in my body. No one seems to know what I am capable of...and just maybe I don't even know what I am capable of. I know people mean well, but I think the philosophy I am going to follow is the one that is best for me. I am going to try and work out 5 times a week. If on day 6 of that week I feel like working out...then I will.
Today I did an extra minute on the elliptical and then lifted for 30 minutes. I was absolutely dying as the girl next to me on the elliptical continued on in her hour+ quest to run as fast as she possibly could on that machine. I kept sneaking peaks next to me to see what level she was on and how fast she was running just because she was a machine!! I started to feel bad about how slow I was going and how she could probably hear me panting...while I tried like hell to stay on that machine for as long as I could and push myself further than yessterday. I wondered what people thought as they drove by and saw a big girl on an elliptical machine or lifting weights...and then my thought changed. I am working out...I am trying to change those things. Anyone who has anything to say that is demeaning in anyway as they walk or drive by is not someone whose opinion I value anyways. Plus, what could someone say. "Look at the fat girl working out." hahaha Kind of ironic don't you think.
Oh...I am a funny girl. I think this writing will be good for me. I am being accountable...to you...to me...
So I just want to say thank you to my friend Lindsay. You probably don't even know that it made a difference to me today, but it did. We have never discussed working out together...but I think without me putting it into words to you...you know how much I want this. Thanks for the upcoming daily invites to workout. I know that some day I am not going to feel like working out...but because I get a text from you...it will push me to want to workout.
Today I did an extra minute on the elliptical and then lifted for 30 minutes. I was absolutely dying as the girl next to me on the elliptical continued on in her hour+ quest to run as fast as she possibly could on that machine. I kept sneaking peaks next to me to see what level she was on and how fast she was running just because she was a machine!! I started to feel bad about how slow I was going and how she could probably hear me panting...while I tried like hell to stay on that machine for as long as I could and push myself further than yessterday. I wondered what people thought as they drove by and saw a big girl on an elliptical machine or lifting weights...and then my thought changed. I am working out...I am trying to change those things. Anyone who has anything to say that is demeaning in anyway as they walk or drive by is not someone whose opinion I value anyways. Plus, what could someone say. "Look at the fat girl working out." hahaha Kind of ironic don't you think.
Oh...I am a funny girl. I think this writing will be good for me. I am being accountable...to you...to me...
So I just want to say thank you to my friend Lindsay. You probably don't even know that it made a difference to me today, but it did. We have never discussed working out together...but I think without me putting it into words to you...you know how much I want this. Thanks for the upcoming daily invites to workout. I know that some day I am not going to feel like working out...but because I get a text from you...it will push me to want to workout.
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