Day One and Done!

So yesterday, as you all know, was New Year's Day. So, yesterday my husband and I started our journey to healthier living! We worked out for a little over an hour yesterday and thankfully we aren't feeling it too bad today since we were lucky enough to get in my parents hot tub last night. Yes, I know it was below freezing but the water was 102℉ so I think it works.

We had a great start to our New Year. We worked out, we spent time with family and we ate our greens and peas. I believe that this is going to be a great year.

With that being said, this is only the beginning. I know that days are going to come that are hard for us to get out of bed and making it to the gym in the mornings. I know that we aren't always going to want to eat the way we need to. I know that days are going to come when I am sure that I will never lose the weight but I am going to do everything I can to push thoughts like that away. I am going to push through and get up in the mornings because I know that I want to lose 130 pounds. I know that I want to feel better. I know that I want to be healthy. I want to be the best me, I can be and part of that is being healthier physically.

I worked out with a smile yesterday. When things got tough I told myself "just a little more, you've got this! 130 pounds, 130 pounds, 130 pounds!" I told myself that, because I am determined. I am going to do this. So day one of our long journey is done. I hate pictures of myself but this is part of it. It's pictures like this that motivate me to work hard for this weight loss. This isn't just a resolution. It is a journey to change and one that won't be taken lightly. 

Bring it day 2! I've got this. 

-Kelcy J.

Let's Do This!

My husband and I have agreed to make a resolution. Starting New Year's we will get up early in the mornings to head to the gym and spend time working out together. Our intention is to do this very often throughout the week. We will change our diet. We will get more rest than we are getting now. We will lose weight, and get healthy. I know some of ya'll might be coming across this post and thinking that you've heard this same resolution hundreds of times. I mean what could be more cliche than a resolution to lose weight and be healthy? However, we are dead serious.

My husband doesn't yet have a weight loss goal in mind (not that he is in serious need of one), but I do. I want to spend the next year losing 130 pounds. I know that this will not be easy but I know that it is possible. After I lose it, I am going to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

For those of you who don't know, I am a diabetic. I don't have to take insulin but I am on medication for it. Part of my goal is getting healthy enough to come off of my diabetes medication (with the doctors approval of course). It's not going to be easy. In fact, I know there are going to be days where it is really going to suck. There are going to be days where my depression fights to keep me in bed, and my anxiety tries to convince me to stay away from a gym full of people.... but I am going to get up. I am going to go. I am going to reach my goals.

Along with getting physically healthy, I am going to get spiritually healthy as well. If you know me than you know we haven't been in church as much as we should this past year. We stopped going to our Sunday school, I don't read my Bible every day, and I don't talk to God near as much as I used to. That is going to change but unlike the eating, that is changing NOW. I know that I am not perfect, but I know what I can be for God and I haven't been that this past year. So it's time for a change.

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So, now that you have been filled in I would love to hear any tips as far as eating healthy, making the most out of scheduling, making the most out of working out, etc. So please leave anything you have to say in the comments below. 

I haven't decided quite how I am going to go about it yet, but I may try to make a post every now and then about how things are going with our journey. Stay tuned and I will keep you updated!

As always, all your support is greatly appreciated. Please share with everyone and follow. Practice makes perfect and I will be trying to make my posts better all the time. 

-Kelcy J.