random.thoughts.

I realized that most of my journaling and reflection time to try and get motivated comes on Monday nights, when I’m in bed for the night and not getting back out. Also, on Tuesdays. There’s something about Tuesdays where I get really motivated to clean and make changes. 

I’m hoping that today is the first day of my journey of change.

And there’s my first change. TODAY IS the first day of my little journey. I’m done making excuses and being a lazy asshole. As the lyrics from one of my favorite musicals, Rent, say, “NO DAY BUT TODAY.” I also read a little quote that said, “A year from now, you will wish you had started today.”

I’ve set so many goals and told myself so many times over the past few years that I would make a change, and now I really am.

Reading everyone’s posts and stories about their workouts and their eating habits really gets me excited and pumps me up. I just have to make sure I carry that out EVERYDAY. 

My eating will be rough for a few days until I can go food shopping since there’s not much in the house right now.

I will do some sort of exercise or workout everyday. I really despise the gym but I’m thinking that I need to suck it up and get in there. I’m signed up and I pay every month, but I don’t go. I need to start going.

I’m gonna start keeping track of my food and exercise in order to track my progress. I don’t know if I’m going to set a certain weight goal and/or a certain time point. I would kind of like to just make my changes and see what happens. 

I look forward to continuing to read everyones stories and posts. It truly is motivating and it definitely helps to share thoughts with others who are trying to do the same kind of thing.

With today being my first day, and the decision coming later in the day, it was definitely a lazy/slacker day. I slept until about noon (I don’t work on Mondays), so there was no breakfast today.

Lunch: Ham, egg, and cheese on plain bagel with a med iced coffee from Dunks (bad craving)

Dinner: Macaroni w/ gravy and carrots on the side

Snack: A bag of microwaved popcorn, a few pieces of pineapple, and a pear.

Water: About 2 bottles

Exercise: 40 minute walk to the beach and back.. I tried to run some of the way and ended up getting some bad chest pains so I took a break once I reached the beach and then walked back

CHANGE IS GOOD. I’m excited to see what happens on my journey. Stay tuned :)

So, a fitness and nutrition craze has swept over the world in the past couple of years. I can’t help but get distracted by it every now and then. Getting into a health kick every so often, trying to set myself on a good track. Well, here I am again on another kick. But this time, I’d like for the kick to stick.

My biggest problem is my laziness. It’s all in my head. I don’t push myself and I tell myself that I would rather lay in bed and eat like shit and watch tv. I don’t have the motivation. From here on out, I make my own motivation, as well as pulling it from other places. Blogs, websites, articles, friends, family, etc. I always think, one day, it’s just gonna kick in. Well it turns out that I have to kick myself into gear and really get it going. Even if it’s just working out for an hour a day; walking, some cardio in my room, whatever it is.

I’m hoping that by writing on here, sharing my thoughts and what not, it would help. Even if nobody reads it. This is for me, not really for anyone else.

I’d like to make a lifestyle change.. a mindset change. I want to put myself in a better place, physically, emotionally, mentally.. any way I can. So here I go, on my little journey. Let’s hope I make it more than a week!

Let’s also hope I can stop being so cliche .. noone likes cliche. :) 

(Source: t0rr3y)