Motivational Monday

 

It's time for Motivational Monday guys! I am linking up (again) with some fabulous bloggers: Wendy, Veronica, Morgan, Gwen, Tiff, Katie, & Alisha so go check out their blogs!

 

I am beyond excited that it is a new month! I love when a new month starts on a Monday. I think it's the "fresh start" mentality. I took a few days off to let the cut on my thigh heal so I wouldn't make it worse by running. Chub rub is no joke, ya'll! Last month, I posted that I would be starting Jillian's 30 Day Shred on July 1st! So I am linking up with Amber (one of my favorite bloggers ever) and Holly for their July 30 Day Shred Challenge! Amber also pointed out that it is 6 months until New Year's! I do not want my New Year's resolution to be the same ole variations of lose weight, get healthy, blah blah blah. I want to be happy with my progress in 6 months and CONTINUE to stay on the healthy train.

 

My motivational Monday advice: find a buddy! Find someone that works out with you, at the same place/time as you, or someone to text/call you to make sure you worked out, or maybe you need someone to ask about your FOOD intake! My SIL left on Friday for vacation this weekend. I planned to just skip Thursday and Friday to let my leg heal. I ended up needing a little longer anyway, but I didn't work out the whole time she was gone. Yep, I took 4 days off. I haven't taken 4 days off for the month of June! There's just something about having someone who relies on you or someone you rely on! My SIL and I don't stay together when we go run together, but we're both THERE. We go at completely different paces and we are also on different levels of c25k. Speaking of c25k, I will be repeating Week 3 this week. I am not ready for Week 4 and am not even going to attempt it. I want to MASTER Week 3 this week!

 

My weekend eating sucked. Friday, we went to dinner at Cheddar's. I had the lemon pepper chicken breast with steamed broccoli and broccoli cheese casserole. Joey wanted spinach artichoke dip for an appetizer so of course I had some of that. Joey wanted to share a cookie monster, but I said NO!

 

I did have dessert, but I had a mini strawberry cheesecake shot thing. I don't know how many calories it had, but it was much better than having that damn cookie monster. I had my leftovers for lunch on Saturday, but we had CiCi's for dinner on Saturday. I ate like a fat girl. Normally I always have a salad first at a buffet, but their lettuce looked disgusting! It was all yellow. It wasn't green AT ALL. We went to the pool on Sunday and I ended up having {almost} 3 beers. We had dinner at my mom's and she made one of my favorite Skinnytaste meals--Chicken Salsa Verde tacos (it was my idea).

 

So today I am hitting it hard and going to do 2.5 miles tonight as well as start the 30 Day Shred. Since I am STILL not working, I plan to do the Shred during Brynlee's nap time today. I have never made it to Level 3 on the Shred. I've made it through Level 2, but could never do Level 3. I am planning to get through the whole thing this time even if I follow Anita for the modified versions of some of the workouts. If you've ever done any Jillian videos, does she motivate you or piss you off? It's 50/50 for me. She motivates me, but other times I want to punch her in the face. :)

 

What is motivating you this week?