Gym Membership

Good news...Mike and I got a gym membership!!!! We locked in a stellar deal of $10 per month and after 3 months it will go down to $8!!! Wowee! I'm pretty excited about this new adventure of fitness. I've been lazy when it has come to working out and I'm definitly ready for that to change. Mike was telling me on the way to the gym that he was really tired...we got about 8 hours of sleep so I was like why are you tired? He told me that due to a lack of working out he was feeling more lethargic, which makes total sense. When you don't use your body and exercise it, it goes into blah mode--I can definately say that mine has been in blah mode. Well, it's time to wake it up and get it working properly! I do my best to cook healthy meals and we don't keep much junk food around the house. You won't find cookies, chips, soda and othe things like that here on a normal basis and I like that about us. As much as I love sweets, I know that the best way for me to not eat them is to not have them. Therefore I'm not fighting the temptations to snack/munch on these unhealthy and empty calories.

Not only do we have our membership now, but I also got some cute workout clothes. For my birthday Mike's dad had gotten me some sweaters and they were too big, so we went shopping last week to return the sweaters and get something new. We hadn't gotten our membership yet, but we knew that was in the plan, so I picked out a cute pair of capri pants--best thing about them is that they are reversible--and a top to go with them. I'm all set and ready to go! As I write about my cute, new workout clothes a question comes to my mind. Why is it that in our culture we feel as if we must look "cute" in order to go to the gym to get healthy and in shape? Goodness, talk about living in a materialistic and self focused world! I'll go in a t-shirt or an old tank top with some shorts or old pair of workout pants. I'm certainly not there to impress anyone, I'm there to for new and healthy habits. But I will admit, I am excited about my new workout attire. :)