the new me

Okay, so apparently the word is out about my new exercising habits. New habits = I'm actually exercising. Yes, it's true. For those of you who know me...this is insane. Seriously. I don't know what motivated me to do it: the fact that I had an elevated cholesterol level a few weeks ago on my blood work, or the fact that Brett set this "goal" for us. This was the goal:

1. For me to exercise at least once a week for the next 6 weeks.
2. For Brett to exercise at least twice a week for the next 6 weeks.
3. At the end of the 6 weeks we would evaluate and see what our 'next step' would be.

Some of you may think this is quite rude of my husband to force these goals of exercise on his 'oh so good looking wife', but it was out of a heart of trying to be healthy (weight loss is not the motivation, but if it happens, it wouldn't be a bad thing).

So I agreed to the goal and the first week I exercised 4 times! I think I had this fear that if I didn't continue to do it every day, then I would lose the rhythm I was in. I then realized that is probably the beginning signs of an addiction so I stopped doing it every day (who am I kidding, it's not like it was SOOOO many days...it was only 3 consecutively).

Regardless though, I am extremely proud of myself! Brett and I will probably work out together most of the time, but my best friend Kelli is also trying to exercise more so we are going to take a Zumba class together on Wednesdays! We had our first one last week. We had the intention of being able to "hide in the back" since neither of us had ever done Zumba before...but when we got there, there were only like 7 people in the class, so there was no hiding to be had. It was quite hilarious.

Goodbye elevated cholesterol level and HELLO to the new me!

Kim

P.S...I may never actually be able to say goodbye to the high cholesterol considering it runs in the family (lame) but I'll do the best I can :)