Hump Day Motivation

Last night I went to a friend's house for dinner. In the couple of years he's made some healthy changes in his life and has done a few triathlons and has become an avid biker (and has dropped a few pounds in the process). He has been really supportive of my taking up running and we plan to do a run sometime together if we can get our schedules to mesh. He made an awesome Sausage and Shrimp Jambalaya to put over rice (white rice, but we both commented that brown would have been healthier but the white rice tasted very yummy with everything on top of it). It was healthy as well, I might just need to steal this recipe from him. He has also taken up beer brewing so I just had to try some! It was very tasty as well. And one beer turned into two, and then three. I am learning that beer is a definite weakness for me. I would rather have two beers with dinner than a chocolate dessert after dinner. But to each their own.

When I checked my email this morning I had a message from one of my cousin's friends. My cousin had passed the link to my blog to her. She wrote me saying how much she enjoyed my blog and how she has decided to make a commitment to her health and to get things rolling! I am so happy that yet another person is inspired by my blog! And again, I encourage you all to share my blog with whoever might enjoy it. I wasn't going to go to the gym today before I received that email, but her positive attitude and encouraging words has given me that extra boost to get to the gym before heading to my cousin Jen's to help out with her little ones (which is a fun work out all on it's own!).

Oh, I also forgot to weigh in today before I had breakfast, so I will just have to wait to weigh in next Wednesday. That will be about a week and a half from my last weigh in and I hope that I see a loss! If not... I will kick my own butt!

I am very excited though about my new little garden! All things that I have planted have sprouted! Even if they don't yield anything, I have proof that I am able to grow something!

My front porch Zinnias (to be)

The radishes are growing the best so far!