30 Day Baby Steps

So, my Day 17 and Day 2 were actually yesterday and I hadn’t planned on blogging until I signed on this morning and saw that my visitors stats shot up overnight. I’m not sure who or why and they could possibly be linked with spambots or something, but either way, it was surprising.

Last night’s workout went extraordinarily well. I felt really good during and there was minimal pain. My ankle did start hurting when I went through the jumping jacks/jump rope circuit, but I was fine with that. I’m sure my neighbors are too.

Whenever I workout, my biggest concern is my neighbors downstairs. I’m afraid they’ll get upset that they keep hearing this thumping upstairs and complain to the leasing office. Granted, if I keep doing that and they do complain, maybe we’ll get kicked out of the apartment complex and not be penalized for breaking our lease (hey, a girl can dream). I plan on stopping today to get this big thick mat I found at Walmart. I hope that it will cut down on the reverberations and I won’t feel as bad. Of course, if I really wanted to be nice to my neighbors, I would get something for the rocketship that is our washer, but that’s more expensive.

I have a renewed sense of wanting to workout. I guess I could chalk it up to not having done it in a while. I get bored easily of repetition and I’m starting to think that switching up workouts every day might not be such a bad thing.

The drink thing is going. Just going. I hate not having sweet tea. I hate not having coffee. Especially yesterday. I had an early morning appointment and I couldn’t have coffee. It made me want to cry. I’ll be so happy when this month is over.

It was my birthday weekend, so I didn’t work out. I think people get passes for their birthday, right?

So, tonight was remarkably better than day 15. I stuck with level 1 and felt more progress as I went into lunges and squats. My lunges especially…I’ve been having a hard time making sure my butt sticks out (I know, shocking) and tonight felt like it flowed more naturally. I hope to make more progress this week and stick with a more routine workout. You know, something like everyday.

Today also marked the first day of the no tea/Coke/coffee goal. This is going to be difficult. It was all I could do not to grab one of the Coke Zeros in the fridge and chug it down as if it was the first beverage I had ever seen in MONTHS. I mean, water’s cool and all but when I was able to have my post workout chocolate milk, it was incredible. I appreciated that way more than I ever have before.