The Window

I feel like I'm at a point in my life where I am faced with two options:
1.  Keep doing what I am doing (nothing), and eating what I want to eat (everything), and accept that within 5-10 years my body is going to pretty quickly deteriorate into that of a middle aged woman in poor health.

 OR

 2.  I can make some changes in diet and exercise and reap the benefits of being in a completely different body than I would be otherwise.  

 I feel like the window is open for me to make those changes now, but only now.  Only for this short window will I even have the OPTION of creating and living in a healthy body.  Within the next 5 years my body will continue aging, and in the 50's our bodies aren't known for getting better, only worse.  

 So, as Michael Jackson sang, "Make that change..."  



Today I joined the YWCA!  My trainer LK modeled some exercises for me while we were in Vegas last weekend.  She would show me what she wanted me to do, and I would try a few myself... and my quads are so sore that sitting down is a nightmare.  Never mind sitting on the toilet... OMG.  Dying.  

So- that just shows my baseline of fitness- 0.0.  I have no muscle.  None at all.  

Starting from ground zero TODAY.

I did 2/3 circuits of the moves she asked me to do.  But after feeling like that was enough for Day 1, I later wished I had gone ahead and completed all 3.  But never mind.

It has begun!  I'm taking advantage of my window and doing what is best for my future!!!

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