Priorities

I've been working hard on this subject lately, I won't kid you, right now I'm busy. Work plus school plus family plus exercise = spinning head syndrome. Obviously blogging has fallen to the wayside, and that just stinks because there's been so much good out there. Good weather, good folks, good rides - just downright good.

Exercise has become a priority, which is awesome, I've been at the gym over my lunch hour 4 days out of 5 for the past two weeks during the work week. I've bike commuted every day but one for the past three weeks (I give myself a optional day every week), and man, it's been kinda nice. Weather? Gorgeous. Rides? Perfect. I've been doing this wacky thing - I ride to ride, no other reason. It's awesome.

The gym, however, is where I go to die. I don't have a lot of time so, you know, gotta make it count right? 30 minutes on the elliptical, then jogging on the treadmill at 5mph for 6.. and working up. That wacky treadmill was done on a whim one day and ya know what? It ain't bad. And I'm never going to make fun of joggers again. It's challenging as hell, with that in mind, I set a personal goal to jog a 12 minute mile by the end of November. I know that's snail pace, folks, but man it sure doesn't feel like it!

Yesterday I told my wife that as I was leaving the gym I became obsessed with Chipotle. I was goona do it, I was out of "lunch stuff" at work so I was going to hit Chipotle on the way home. The obsession became almost sick, one track mind focused solely on those ginormous burritos and those oh so crunchy... yeah you get the idea. Pulling into the parking lot for a second I stopped, then fired up the Daily Plate/Livestrong app on the fruitphone. Snapping that obsession out was a simple check of how many calories are in that thing.

Yikes!

So my advice of the day? Get a cal counter or app and look at it. Man oh man. Not to mention financial impact - I got lunch stuff for a week+ for fifteen bones at the store, Chipotle would have probably been 50-75% of that cost - for "one" meal. Dang! Multiply that by 5 days and... uggh.

I might actually weigh myself one of these days, but everything is fitting better and I feel good. That's pretty awesome, let me tell you.

So to wrap everything up, my one piece of advice? Make your weight loss of the highest priority, and it will happen. It's really that easy.