September was a rough month. Timmy is loving kindergarten, and I’m enjoying my classes for the most part. I had to drop Shakespeare. I just couldn’t keep up with everything. Also, we had some stress over a small possibility that we were going to be moving out to Phoenix. I’m so glad to be staying here! But it was so stressful not knowing about such a big life change! With all that going on, and more that I won’t bore you with, I fell off the wagon.
Until today. I hadn’t been to the gym since before school started. I hadn’t done any meaningful intentional exercise at all. Today, that changed. :)
My friend Mandi has an awesome blog (found here), and it has become such an inspiration to me. She is a certified personal trainer, and she writes about fitness and wellness in a way that makes it easy to understand. Knowing that she’s a busy mom too makes it easier to believe that I can do it too. (You are awesome, Mandi!)
Here’s another resource that I love: SparkPeople. My friend Julie turned me on to this website at least a year ago. It reminds me a bit of the weight watchers website, but this one is FREE! The website was the best part of weight watchers for me (all those years ago), but now I don’t have to pay for it. :) It’s got a great user-friendly page for your food journal and another to track your exercise. Even videos of how to do exercises correctly are easy to find on SparkPeople. So, before I went to the gym today, I looked up a workout for beginners (I am starting over again!) and it told me what exercises to do, how many repetitions and how many sets… Anyway, I love it.
If you join the website, list me as the person that referred you. I don’t get any money for referring you, but I do get SparkPoints… basically a meaningless motivator. :) My username is karacharlton. :)
So, TODAY, I’m back in action. I went to the gym. I did 30 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes of weights. I’m feeling good now, but I know I’ll be a little sore later. How do you deal with muscle soreness?
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