5.23.14 Day 95: Stretch

Well I got up early today but got sidetracked and decided to workout after work.  Then I had forgotten that my teenage son was having a bunch of friends over for a get together.  But I didn't use any of those things as an excuse!  I simply hid in my bedroom and did my Stretch workout!  You can literally do these workouts anywhere at anytime and I know you can find 25 minutes and a place to do them if I can!  The old me would have totally used any excuse in the world to ditch my workout but now I need to workout so I feel good!  One of my favorite sayings is that negativity breeds negativity and let me tell you the excuse train is just one negative car after another!  Once you start making excuses and skipping your workouts you start to do that more and more until one day you find yourself back to being miserable.  Let me tell you from personal experience that if you are sitting on your couch or laying in bed dreading getting up for the day you are only hurting yourself!  Just take one day at a time and tell yourself you got this and get up and go make your body feel great.  My son always says if you look good you feel good mama and what better way to look and feel great than to take care of your body.  Excuses are just negativity trying to get the best of you.  Ignore the excuses, start making a list that is exclusively for your excuses and every time your mind tries to trick you into not working out or making another choice that could be better for you (nutrition or whatever) write that excuse on there.  Make three columns... one for excuses... one for the date... and one for how you overcame that excuse!  And make sure you write all of your excuses on the list.  Pretty soon you will see the number of excuses dwindling away until you don't try to make excuses anymore.  Remember, you should always make choices that ARE good for you and not that just FEEL good to you!

Ok, I hope you will incorporate your excuse list today and go out and have a marvelous, positive Saturday!!!