This week - Valerie 1: Bed 1

I did it! I am so proud of myself! I fought the bed, and I won!

I woke up at 4:30 to go to the bathroom and lay back in bed realizing I couldn't go back to sleep. I laid there thinking about getting up to exercise. I thought about my beloved P90x and longed to feel so limber and stretched out, but as I went through the routine in my head I just couldn't bring myself to do jumping jacks. I thought about my other beloved 20 minute video. I thought about how last night I was so sick and dizzy and still a felt a little bit like that and wondered if being vertical was really that great of an idea. In the end, I decided to try. I got up, got dressed, took Aaron's laundry basket downstairs, grabbed an apple, water bottles, and my shoes and headed to the basement. I switched out the laundry and turned on the Wii. I weighed in (183 - still not bad for two months of random exercising) and thought about doing some Wii Fit exercises but decided I didn't get enough bang for my buck. I bit the bullet and put in CardioX video and put on my shoes while I waited for it to cycle to the beginning. Um, disc error. Score? I turned it off and headed to the main floor and the computer and found a 30 minute exercise video on YouTube. Perfecto!

 I didn't break a sweat, but I worked my muscles and got my heart rate up. I feel energized and good. This particular producer has three different videos so I will either rotate them every day or do three a week as I hoped with my goals. Well, who am I kidding? If I do all three in a week whether it is every day or every other day will be a miracle :) But I really do need to quit being lazy about this b/c my body is paying for it. I took a picture to post last week or the week before and I haven't posted it yet (Obviously).

Matthew came down as I was finishing the last of my workout a little before 6. It was nice having a little bit of quiet coherent time with him.

It did feel really good to exercise though. What finally got me out of bed was thinking that I could always take a nap later. I am starting to feel the crash, but a nap will have to wait at this point.