First Friday of the New Year!

And what a wonderful day it has been!
I have accomplished so much at work and I am looking forward to the weekend ahead of me.

I had a fantastic time at the gym last night! I took the Zumba class at 7pm and boy-o-boy did I get home dripping in sweat! I am hoping to make it to the next class on Tuesday night at 8pm and then to the class again on Thursday night. This is a great way for me to get my cardio on! :-)

Headed to the gym again tonight with the hubby! It should be a good workout as this is my strength training day and I know that a group of planks will be making their appearance at the end of the workout. Those should be painful but I need to work on my inner core muscles and this is the best way to do so. So I am looking forward to getting in shape with the hubby.

I am on a mission... and I am so glad that I have many people that are coming along for the ride. I really need to focus on myself and finally get this done! No more bullshit! No more excuses! Because...

And I have taken too long to get to where I need to be... and there is no more room in my life for excuses!

I have another goal that I have semi-completed... running another 5k.
I signed up myself and the hubby for our next 5k... the Chicago Polar Dash!
I am so excited! The dash is only 8 days away - January 12th - and I am so looking forward to it.
This race is downtown and at the end of the race, we will receive a finishers medal! YIPEE!!! That is why I am doing this race. LOL! Not only for the goal of completing another 5k but to get a medal to show myself that I can complete a race.
But when I added that complete more 5k's for this year, it should have said instead to complete more 5k's by running them not walking/running them. 
I know that I am at the beginning stages of completing these races and I can't expect myself to automatically run these 3.1 mile races from the word "GO" but I know that I have to commit to myself that I will run one completely.

My finishers time will hopefully be under the first one that I did back in December, which was 44 minutes. Hopefully I can do 40 minutes or less so that I can always look at a number and know that I can always do better.

I don't want to be a failure in my eyes even though it's shows that you are actually TRYING to do something and perfect it. I want to be my own biggest loser! I want to lose big and have results in the end for trying and accomplishing.

But at the end of the day... no matter how many times I say that for the new year I need to take control of my weight: 

And that is what I have decided to do... just start doing it. I have no excuses! There are women out there that have children and have better bodies than I do! What's up with that?!? There is no reason that I can't have a banging body and still be a wife and mother! NONE AT ALL!

So I am glad that I am headed to the gym tonight!
The old me would have complained that I didn't want to go to the gym on a FRIDAY night after work! But I welcome it and know that with slow progress there are even better results!

And with that, I will leave you with.... Today's word of the day! :-)

Word of the day:doctrine of signatures
Meaning:
a theory in old natural philosophy: the outward appearance of a body signals its special properties (as of magic or healing virtue) and there is a relationship between the outward qualities of a medicinal object and the diseases against which it is effective
Example: 
Among the documents are the notes of a 17th-century physician, who discusses his use of the doctrine of signatures to determine which medicinal plants to use for which ailments.


So I am looking forward to what the weekend has in store for me... and wish you a wonderful first weekend of the new year!
Thanks for reading! Hasta la proxima!