Day 20 of 21….

Posted by Sammy on Jul 20th, 2010 | no comments

and a habit is definitely forming. There is truly something to say about a habit taking 21 days to form. For me its definitely true. Granted I’ve technically been a member of my gym for longer than 21 days but I’ve actually gone to the gym to work out for a total of 20 days. I have yet to decide if tomorrow or Thursday will be big day #21!

Today I decided to venture back into the world of Couch-2-5K (a.k.a. C25K). I started doing C25k a couple of years ago, well before Mikey was even a thought in the Zullo house and I didn’t last that long for whatever reason. Then a couple of months ago when it was actually still pretty cool out I decided to restart it since a good friend of mine was doing it. That didn’t last long either because the rainy season started moving in and that literally rained on my parade. So I stopped that. So I decided to restart it once again since I was back at the gym. Today was Week 1 Day 1 (W1D1) and let me just say it was a hell of a lot easier running on a treadmill than it was outside. Probably because I wasn’t pushing a jogging stroller around with a 30lb little boy inside. I’m actually excited to do Day 2

Pointless Post

Posted by Sammy on Jul 11th, 2010 | no comments

I know I’ve been bad on keeping my blog updated. I just haven’t had much to say so why bother coming on here to post about nothing really. Things are going well in the Zullo House. Work is keeping me really busy which I do not mind one bit. Mikey keeps me busy when I’m at home with him and on weekends. I’ve been trying to spend our weekends at the beach since the weather for the most part has been fantastic. Why stay cooped up at home??? I’ve also been doing my best to keep at going to the gym. I am determined to put my health first and surprisingly I’ve had no problems keeping at my gym schedule. The only day I really wasn’t able to go as planned was the day after the 4th because it started raining when I had wanted to go. Oops. No big deal. That’s my latest update, as you can see not much to report

Day 5 of 21

Posted by Sammy on Jun 22nd, 2010 | no comments

Years ago I heard the saying that it takes 21 days to build a habit. The habit I’m trying to rebuild is getting myself back to the gym. I haven’t been a gym goer since before Mikey was born. Shoot actually it was before I got pregnant really. Dealing with Mikey’s torticollis and then Gary’s real cancer diagnosis well makes sense that I’ve put MY health on the back burner, until now. A few months ago I bought a jogging stroller in hopes of avoiding going back to the gym. Figured since I wanted to train for a half marathon it was the wisest purchase. Well it was great up until the rainy season kicked in down here. Nothing sucks more than getting home from work hoping to go on your hour walk/jog and you can’t because its raining out.

Because of that I decided to rejoin the gym. I was reluctant at first because after Mikey was about a year old Gary and I tried going back to the gym and we even enrolled Mikey in their Kids Klub (yes they spell club with a “K”). But he totally freaked out there because of all of the older kids running and screaming around. So I signed us up for a month to month membership that way I could try it out for him. Low and behold he LOVES the Kids Klub. Which is great because I can get a good hour’s worth of a workout in.

So I’ve been at it for 5 official days. Been going 4x a week. I plan on counting the 21 days based on actual days that I can get myself to the gym, not calendar days, that would be cheating myself. I HAVE to do this not only for myself but for Mikey. I owe it to him. I’m his only parent now and he needs me to be around to see him grow up and have kids of his own. That means making sure I take care of myself so that I can do that for him.