Having a bad week..

Hey y'all,

So if you ask anyone I am an upbeat, bubbly full of life kind of girl. Always have a smile on my face but this week has been kind of hard on me. Without boring you with details there's been some family issues and some romance issues and this week was just hard. I think a lot of people would use this time to not go to the gym and I didn't, i don't think you should either.

You know they say when life gives you lemons make lemonade. Well I'm not always up for the lemonade, and sometimes the bitterness of the lemon teaches us not to forget important lessons in life. I guess this week me and my lemons went to the gym! When your feeling down working out is good, it raises endorphins and I don't know about anyone else but I always feel accomplished after a good hard work out, way more accomplished than I would feel bumming on the couch eating bon bons.

So when you hit rough patches in life (and we all do) don't let the rough patches take you away from your goals. Don't stop being active, having a fight with your husband go for a walk, clear your mind a bit and maybe you will see things better. I just know that in the past a week like this would have just brought me really low and I wouldn't have wanted to do anything, but I knew for my body that just wasn't the right thing. So i went to the gym and tried my hardest to literally exercise some of my inner demons out. It didn't work, but I lost two pounds this week so i did some good.

Next week at the gym I'm really gonna amp up my workout. Here lately I've been doing only about 1.5 hours of cardio and about 45 min of resistance. I'm gonna try my hardest to do 2 hours of cardio (stair master for an hour and run for an hour) and then an hour of resistance, plus my swimming 3 days a week. I need to shift my minds focus off of things I can't change and on to things I can which is my workouts. So this week is gonna be an experiment (hey I'm not a scientist for nothing). Let's see how my calves love me come next Friday, hopefully they are still speaking to me!

So lets just all try and remember to not let things bring us so far down that we stop pursing our goals. I'm not just talking work outs here, if your having a bad week don't skip class, or work, go on like nothing is wrong because in the end if you skip out on your life the only person you are hurting is yourself. So like my mom always said fake it till you make it and always go strong no matter what! Love you guys!