In any goal, it’s important to celebrate the small milestones along the way. It encourages you to keep going, and helps you build momentum to reach the peak, your final destination.
Well at least that’s what I’m told! So I’m celebrating my first milestone, my first small victory. Yes, it’s small… pretty small actually… but gosh darnit, I did it! I went ten full minutes on the elliptical machine without stopping once!
Ok, stop laughing now. Seriously, I couldn’t do even five minutes without having to stop. Partially because I was so out of breath, but mainly because my legs were turning to jello! If you’ve never done an elliptical machine, YOU do it for five minutes and tell me how YOU feel! lol Treadmills, bicycles, NOTHING compares to the elliptical!
So anyway, the timer stops when I stop, so I’ve been doing a total of ten minutes this whole time, it just had a lot of stops and starts during that ten minutes. :o)
Well, no more! Today I put on my workout clothes, stuck in my Justin Timberlake CD, got up on that monster machine and I pumped my heart out for ten solid minutes without stopping one time! Yes, ten full minutes of my own FutureSex/LoveSounds (ok, so it sounded a lot more like huffing and puffing than love sounds!).
I’m celebrating the first step in my journey! Today – ten minutes on the elliptical. Tomorrow – Victoria’s Secret baby! Ok, maybe not that drastic, but I’m gonna do it people, I really am!
:o)
~Heather
P.S. My first major goal… lose 50 lbs by the end of August. That’s about six months away. A little less than 2 pounds a week. I can do it! I CAN do it! I CAN DO IT!!! (cue the “Rocky” music!)
