Guess what?? My brother and his wife (who live in Idaho) had a BABY last week!! And guess what else? I came up to stay with them for a month so I got to meet him! And guess what? He is so cute!! I'm so excited to be up here not only to meet him but to get to hang out with my brother and play with my niece and nephews! It's great!! And as a bonus I get to spend some time in my much beloved Idaho (the state of my birth!) Anywho I'm super excited. And since this is a running blog, I guess I should talk about something fitness-related, so here goes:
Upon my arrival at the home of said brother and family, I found out that he and his wife decided to have a healthy-habits competition in which each of them set 4 goals, (3of them fitness related and 1 spiritual one), and they get a point for each one they accomplish everyday, and then they will weigh themselves at the beginning and at the end of a month, and I'm not sure how they'll calculate pounds and points or whatever, but it sounded great so I decided to join in! My daily goals are as follows:
1. Exercise for 30 minutes
2. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables
3. No eating anything after 7pm (this is an especially tough one for me!)
4. Read scriptures 15 minutes per day.
Mostly this is what I've been trying to do for a while, I'm just stepping it up a notch! So far it has been going well (for the whole two days I've been doing it :). Yesterday around 10:15pm I realized I hadn't done my exercising or my scripture reading so I combined them and did squats and sit-ups and push-ups while I read my scriptures. It probably would have been pretty comical to witness but luckily everyone else in the house was asleep :) Today I did a little better and got my exercise out of the way before dinner. I cycled on bike machine for 20 minutes and then did a couple laps around my brother's property which is built on a slant so there's a lovely hill to run up, which almost kicked my butt. But worry not, I defeated it in the end :)
Upon my arrival at the home of said brother and family, I found out that he and his wife decided to have a healthy-habits competition in which each of them set 4 goals, (3of them fitness related and 1 spiritual one), and they get a point for each one they accomplish everyday, and then they will weigh themselves at the beginning and at the end of a month, and I'm not sure how they'll calculate pounds and points or whatever, but it sounded great so I decided to join in! My daily goals are as follows:
1. Exercise for 30 minutes
2. Eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables
3. No eating anything after 7pm (this is an especially tough one for me!)
4. Read scriptures 15 minutes per day.
Mostly this is what I've been trying to do for a while, I'm just stepping it up a notch! So far it has been going well (for the whole two days I've been doing it :). Yesterday around 10:15pm I realized I hadn't done my exercising or my scripture reading so I combined them and did squats and sit-ups and push-ups while I read my scriptures. It probably would have been pretty comical to witness but luckily everyone else in the house was asleep :) Today I did a little better and got my exercise out of the way before dinner. I cycled on bike machine for 20 minutes and then did a couple laps around my brother's property which is built on a slant so there's a lovely hill to run up, which almost kicked my butt. But worry not, I defeated it in the end :)
