Thank you!

I just wanted to thank everyone who commented on my last post about exercising. I'm so thankful for the tips and I will really try to apply them to my life! 

Just in case you're reading and you wanted some of the tips from the comments, here they are: 

-Keep going and get into a schedule. Bailey said she recommended three days of cardio and two days of weight training and mixing it up with other activities to keep yourself interested.

-Try doing a workout at home, such as yoga. Whitney recommends Crunch Yoga, available on Amazon. 

-Kami suggested working out with a friend because then you have an appointment that you would have to meet. 

I have to tell you, I love these tips. Honestly though, I think that motivation really does come from the inside and only I can decide if I am going to make it to the gym or not. If I want to, I will. These suggestions will make it a lot easier, though. I would like to add a tip that really worked for me when I made it to the gym every day:

-Plan on going to the gym right after work or school. This really worked for me because I would get home, immediately change, and head out the door. I always fail when I go home and sit down. Then I have no motivation to go back out. 

Yesterday, I stumbled upon a podcast that I had downloaded onto my iPod the other day, and the title of it is "Oprah and Bob Greene's Weight Loss Webcast" and it's dated January 13. If you have iTunes, I would suggest that you download and listen. (Search Oprah.com's Health and Wellness Channel) It's a little lengthy, but it's worth it. I thought that I would sum up a few things they said that I thought were really powerful. 

What I liked about the podcast is that they talked about letting yourself down. Oprah said that once she makes an appointment with someone, she will never let them down and keeps her promises. However, if she plans on doing something for herself like working out, she's less likely to keep that promise because the only person she's letting down is herself. But Bob Greene explains that when you plan on doing something during the day and you don't get around to it, you disappoint yourself constantly. After a while, you stop trusting yourself and almost expect to fail. Does this sound familiar? I know it does with me. 

Bob also talks about making sure your life is really balanced. He suggests making a circle and naming 7-8 things that are really important to you, such as family, religion, career, spirituality, health, etc. Then he says to think about each factor and decide if it's going positively in your life or going negatively. For example, my health would probably be a negative. Although I eat really healthy, I just don't work out. Bob says that when something is going negatively 

in your life, you are probably overcompensating with other things to make yourself feel better. One lady that called in figured out that she ate food to make herself feel better because her relationship with her husband was lacking, for example. 

So what am I missing? I'll have to figure it out, but I think there's a lot to be said about living a balanced life and constantly working towards that goal. 

What do you think?