Day 8

When asked to thinkg of something for the 30 day challenge, many things popped into my head that would be easy to write a research paper on.  Well, I decided that I wanted to take the opportunity to do something for myslef, instead of just focusing on ideas that will be easy to research.  So I decided that I needed to live a healthly lifestyle for 30 days, and hopefully this will carry on and I can stick with it.  I know that a few people in our class had the same idea as me too.  Well, a couple months ago I had a scare with diabetes; it runs in my family, so I was a pretty nervous.  Thankfully, I ended up not having it!!  Well, that really opened my eyes.  I need to significantly decrease my risk of getting it, and theres really no other way to do so other than living a healthy life style.  My 30 day challenge is to workout for atleast 30 mins a day and eat healthier.

I have no motivation to workout ever, so even though you might not think so, this is "outside the box" for me.  I can usually motivate myself to workout once a week, if that. I brought a workout tape here called the 30 day shred by jillian michaels, one of the old Biggest Loser trainers; I could't have found a better workout tape because its for 30 days and each workout is 30 mins.  So, I figured I would do the tape and then any other additional workout I wanted to do that day would be a bonus.  Well, I had a rocky start because I ended up getting a sinus infection on february 2, just my luck.  This made it tough to workout when I couldn't even breathe.  But through perseverance, I talked myself into doing, even when I was sick.  My sinus infection let up on sunday, so monday I felt refreshed.  I did my tape and I also ran 2 and 1/2 miles.  I hadn't run in a couple months so it was challenging, but I love running so I pushed through it.  Today, I did my tape, ran a mile and a half, walked a mile, and did some ab workouts.  I am pretty proud of myself that even through sickness, I stuck to my plan and stayed motivated; this doesnt happen very oftern, I am a very lazy person.

Surprisingly, eating healthier is harder to do than working out everyday.  Not because i'm not motivated to, but I live on campus and my healthy choices are pretty limited.  I have found great comfort in Jamba Juice and their all fruit smoothies.  I have learned to enjoy a good Woodworth salad.  I have also found many microwavable Healthy Choice meals, which are actually pretty good.  It's a struggle, but i'm trying my hardest to eat healthy, even though the temptations here are endless.