No excuses, No boundaries

Mantra: Hinduism, a sacred verbal formula repeated in prayer, meditation, or incantation. 2. A commonly repeated word or phrase.

My lovely, beautiful and determined sister, Jeni, asked if I wanted to started a diet and exercise program with her. I said, sure. Well, after failing this past week in the diet department I decided that I need to figure out what I should be doing. I am all about excuses. It's too hot, I'm tired, I need to clean my house, I have a headache...and so on. It occurred to me that I need to change my attitude, thus changing myself and achieving the things that I have wanted to do but have never finished. Alas, I am a procrastinator, the bane of my existence. I am very good at postponing, very good. I excel in this. But what good has it done me? Gaining almost thirty pounds in one year two years ago, and I'm still trying to get it off. I have about fifteen pounds left. So, what to do? I needed a mantra. I needed something to motivate me. I need to be strong. So, No EXCUSES! Think about it, if you didn't have any excuse, none whatsoever, what could you accomplish? What could you gain? When you leave the excuses at the door, what is there for you ahead? NO BOUNDARIES. That's right. Boundaries are gone. Because there is no excuse to forgo, there is nothing standing in your way when you declare, No excuses. Why? Because excuses hold you back, they get in the way. They make us weak, they make us delinquent, they bring us down, they destroy our spirit, they weigh on us...excuses. Yuck! This week, although I haven't done the best at eating, I have made no excuses when it came to exercise. I exercised every day, no matter what. I didn't allow the excuses of not doing it to overrule me. I exercised every single day...and what did that get me? Three pounds, three lovely pounds gone. No excuses, no boundaries, no excuses, no boundaries...NO EXCUSES NO BOUNDARIES!

Frustration thy name is...October!

Tis the season to be frustrated! Why you might ask me? How do I hate thee, let me count the ways....

1. Stores are getting ready for Christmas, totally by passing my favorite holiday, Thanksgiving.

2. It's still not cool enough to wear my sweaters

3. still too hot to run outside at four in the afternoon

4. Coughs are just not fun to have when you get that itch even water can't appease.

5. spelling words wrong.

6. getting booed...I don't mind the treats, but what to do for the three people I have yet to boo? paper plates with a mound of frosting? Could work.

7. my car which likes to die on me.

8. the sound of the lawn mower going off bright and early every monday..still.

9. getting stir crazy

10. figuring out how to sew a Cleopatra costume and having no clue how to sew..

11. Making a Jedi Cloak, did I mention I don't know how to sew?

12. Halloween.

13. Halloween

14. Did I mention, Halloween? It is my least favorite "holiday" I hate it!

15. The 25 cup cakes I must have eaten all by myself this past week..... seriously.

Goal

I had to write this, because well, let's face it achieving a goal is pretty neat! I just ran 4.2 miles without stopping once, and it was on the treadmill which is horrible to run on, because you run really fast and you don't get anywhere! I just tuned into my ipod and let the music take me! And it took me four miles! Yeah for Emily!!!!

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