Monday Morning Bliss

Monday mornings are so divine don't you think? I love them! You have had all weekend to psych yourself up for what you are going to do the next week and you know that it will all begin on a Monday morning!

Of course this might also be a way of procrastinating and trying to put off until tomorrow those things that you really should be doing today! I am the QUEEN of procrastination! Oh, do not mistake me...I still get A LOT of stuff done but I am also really good at putting it off.

So this morning my alarm goes off at 6 AM like it always does, and like I always do, I put my phone on silent (this is also my alarm clock cuz I use a Blackberry) so I don't have to listen to my phone chime as all my emails come rolling in from the night while my phone was turned off. Like always, I turned on my TV to Fox 13 and start to watch the news, and like always, I tell myself I need to roll my big set of hind quarters out of bed and do something...you know, like work out! :)

So this has been my daily routine for nearly 2 years now. At one time I did get up at 5 AM every morning and went walking with two of my friends. We would walk in the dark, along side the road every weekday morning for a distance of about 4 miles. And it was a good walk, I mean we had some REALLY big hills we walked up.

So these last two weeks I have been, in essence, psyching myself up for today to get out of bed and exercise on my treadmill before I get my kids up for school. Any guesses as to what I did?

Oh Come On...

I Really Want You to Guess....

Ok....

Here is what I did...

NOTHING!!!

Yes, You read that right, a big fat nothing! In fact I am going to tell you my dirty seceret for today...I made my husband take the kids to school. (normally I do that so I can get myself going in the morning!) AND THEN I LAID IN BED AND ATE 6 HUGE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!! That is AWFUL!!! Actually, I felt really bad about doing that so I immediately got out of bed and by the way, I hardly EVER sleep in. I am normally out of bed and up doing stuff by 7 AM every day, not just on school days! So at 9:30 AM today I went for a mile and a half on my treadmill. I even ran! I went in 2 minute intervals of running and even changed up the incline on my treadmill to give myself an even better work out. I did this for 25 minutes of off and on running and walking and varying my speeds and incline but the whole time making sure I was keeping my heart rate in my target range.

Hopefully I will do this again tomorrow...Only without the cookies and stuff!

Michelle 11-24-2008