When 'older' friends said it all changes when you hit 40, I never believed them. I just thought they got lazy. Well, I'm 40+ now and lazy isn't in my vocabulary, but exhaustion is! Waking up at 5, getting teenagers off to school, work 8 to 12 hour days depending on afterhour events, picking up kids 30 miles away at sporting events, then home to cook dinner, clean up and organize for the evening and start it all over....when can I fit in workouts? When I stepped on the scale and weighed 20 pounds more than my goal weight AND I was eating ok, and exercising on weekends or whenever I felt like it and the scale kept going up, I knew I had to get serious. With the opportunity to have East Texas as my accountability partner, I feel I will accomplish great things out of sheer determination not to embarass myself.
I can work out on a Power Plate with Chet Timbs in a quick 10 minutes, Body Pump classes are tough but give quick results at Woodcreek Athletic Club and are offered several times a day, running Rose Rudman on nice weather days, work out at home on the exercise equipment I've collected over the years that are tucked away in David's office, and oh yea, I've got a rockin' cool Cannondale bicycle getting dusty. NO MORE EXCUSES!! If I have 30 minutes, 5x a week, I will fill it with good choices to get me to the goal I've set for myself. That's my commitment. Off to the races.....
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Pressure from the Editor. By Shannon Dorsey
OK, now I have to explain the title. Amy has asked that we all start blogging, which I agree we all need to do on a weekly basis. So, Amy, this is for you because I am finally starting my blog. I would have to say that starting a workout program can be hard to do because we all get so used to our daily routines and it is so much easier to go with the flow than to change it. I have just gotten over the CRUD, as my doctor called it and I have missed two weeks of my beloved Body Pump class at Woodcreek, so when I get back into class it is going to kill me. I do know that I will get back in this week and I will feel so much better because I ate a little too much at Thanksgiving. So, everyone, it's back to the gym, back to eating healthy and drinking a lot of water.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Getting Started...sort of...By Amy Brocato Pearson
I admit it: I didn't want to make the first posting on our Under Construction blog.
But I'm the editor of IN Magazine, so people have this silly expectation that I'll take the lead on writing assignments. And I think everyone else involved in our year-long fitness challenge was waiting for me to post something before they jumped in (hint, hint to everyone else involved...jump in...)
Under Construction was the brainchild of Connie McAnally, fitness instructor extraordinaire and marketing director for Woodcreek Athletic in Tyler. She posed a challenge to a few of us at IN Magazine to adopt a healthier lifestyle, set goals for ourself and get in shape ove the next year. Great idea, right? Don't we all want to be healthier and happier? The catch was that we'd track our progress in the magazine.
Connie wanted us to be brutally honest.
That's what journalists do, right?
Nope. Couldn't do it.
No matter how much I tried, I couldn't publish my weight in the magazine in the interest of journalistic integrity. You'll have to be happy with the "lost 3 pounds in a month" updates and a fabulous "after" picture next year. For the record, no one else is publishing their starting weights, either.
We amassed a group of like-minded individuals who wanted to get healthier, employees of the magazine, the Tyler Morning Telegraph and a few close friends and family members. We'd keep each other accountable.
We quickly discovered that accountability went something like this: "Have you been working out?"
"No, have you?"
IN MAGAZINE Sales Executive Dawn Rhodes and IN MAGAZINE Publications Manager Shannon Dorsey were out of the gate like trifecta champions.
The rest of us...not so much.
I started the challenge with a broken foot. That was a great excuse for a few weeks. It doesn't work any more, I'm healed.
I have been going to the gym three times a week now for...well, a couple of weeks. 5 a.m. comes MIGHTY early some days.
I'm currently not any closer to reaching my goal than I was when we started two months ago. Reality check! I will NOT appear in this magazine in a year's time looking and feeling exactly the same. It's time to be accountable.
Check back here for updates from all of our team members!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Amy
But I'm the editor of IN Magazine, so people have this silly expectation that I'll take the lead on writing assignments. And I think everyone else involved in our year-long fitness challenge was waiting for me to post something before they jumped in (hint, hint to everyone else involved...jump in...)
Under Construction was the brainchild of Connie McAnally, fitness instructor extraordinaire and marketing director for Woodcreek Athletic in Tyler. She posed a challenge to a few of us at IN Magazine to adopt a healthier lifestyle, set goals for ourself and get in shape ove the next year. Great idea, right? Don't we all want to be healthier and happier? The catch was that we'd track our progress in the magazine.
Connie wanted us to be brutally honest.
That's what journalists do, right?
Nope. Couldn't do it.
No matter how much I tried, I couldn't publish my weight in the magazine in the interest of journalistic integrity. You'll have to be happy with the "lost 3 pounds in a month" updates and a fabulous "after" picture next year. For the record, no one else is publishing their starting weights, either.
We amassed a group of like-minded individuals who wanted to get healthier, employees of the magazine, the Tyler Morning Telegraph and a few close friends and family members. We'd keep each other accountable.
We quickly discovered that accountability went something like this: "Have you been working out?"
"No, have you?"
IN MAGAZINE Sales Executive Dawn Rhodes and IN MAGAZINE Publications Manager Shannon Dorsey were out of the gate like trifecta champions.
The rest of us...not so much.
I started the challenge with a broken foot. That was a great excuse for a few weeks. It doesn't work any more, I'm healed.
I have been going to the gym three times a week now for...well, a couple of weeks. 5 a.m. comes MIGHTY early some days.
I'm currently not any closer to reaching my goal than I was when we started two months ago. Reality check! I will NOT appear in this magazine in a year's time looking and feeling exactly the same. It's time to be accountable.
Check back here for updates from all of our team members!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Amy
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