More to love…

This morning, I was leaving the gym, after a pretty good running workout. I am on the last run of week one of my couch to 5k plan. It was pretty easy. The first week only consists of about 6 minutes of running each workout, but 3 weeks ago I never would ahve believed that I could run for six minutes. anyway..not the point this morning…

I was leaving the gym, and this woman who comes regularly at the same time I do stopped me. We always smile and say hi, but we’ve never spoken. I do lust after her body. Ok, I should correct my self, I don’t want her body, I want my body to look like hers (which realistically it won’t becuase we have very different body types, but I digress–again!) So, she stops me and says that she has been meaning to tell me that she is impressed with my diligence and admires the way I always switch up my workouts. She mentioned an excercise that I had  been doing yesterday, and said she was amazed, because she couldn’t ever do that excercise. I had been THOROUGHLY struggling with this excercise, but for a woman who is thin and extremely toned to tell me she didn’t think she could do it, made me feel great.

I had just been struggling with motivation that morning as I was getting dressed, feeling like although my body was clearly getting in better shape–I can feel muscles in new places–that I could tell I wasn’t losing any weight. She put it in perspective for me.

This is about getting Healthy, and creating a strong healthy body.  A body that takes me places, that can lift heavy things, and run 5k’s, and dance, and love. And look good in jeans while I do it.

I don’t have to lose 100 pounds in a week or even a year, and it’s ok if the needle on the scale doesn’t move at first, it will.  With true (positive) life changes, the only place the scale can go is down.