What are your reasons?

I am pleased to announce that after over a year of not going to the gym, I am back. Well for a month at least.

Peter has recently gone back to City Fitness and in them attempting to get him back offered me a free months membership - woop woop!!!

Once my month is up I am pretty sure that I am going to have to continue my membership. I was already starting to feel like I missed the gym but after being back there for a week I can say for certain that I did.

I have been trying to ease myself back into it. Well Peters version of easing back into it anyway - and by this I mean that I know that i am going to be sore the following day. As proved by Tuesday when I did calves, I have never curse so much walking up a hill as I did on Wednesday and I must say that it feels a little bit wrong when it hurts less walking in heels than walking in flat shoes haha. (good excuse to wear heels I might add)

So why did I give up the gym in the first place. After we brought our house in November 2011 I came up with excuse after excuse until I didn't even think about the gym anymore. So

But what is an excuse - its definition is "Attempt to lessen the blame attaching to (a fault or offense); seek to defend or justify" so in all honesty not going to the gym was just shear laziness!!!

THERE IS NO EXCUSE!!!  Every excuse has a rebuttal, a reason why you can do it. A reason why you have to do it!!

So rather than finding an excuse how about we find reasons. For example:

What are your reasons to work out? Your list of reasons should always be longer than your list of excuses.

Anyway enough about this (for now)
I have completed one of my goals this week. For the last four days I have made my lunch for work, and it was just as good as what I would have brought. Previously I was buying my lunch 5 days a week, on average this was costing me about $35 - $40 a week!!  Even if I don't make my lunch every day, I work about 49 weeks a year. I will be saving over $1000!!! 

After posting my last blog I realised that I didn't put a reward. So I have decided that I will go to a specialty food store and buy a new type of spice or flavouring to change things up a bit with my eating. 

I am also tracking well with my other goal of boxing 3 nights this week. I have done two sessions with one more planned for tomorrow night. My reward is so close I can almost taste it...

Until tomorrow, signing off and preparing for the pain caused by legs day.