First, let me say, many thanks to everyone who has offered support and prayers for my sister-in-law. It is always appreciated and never taken for granted.

I bought a membership at the local YMCA on August 20th of this year. Since then I’ve had some weeks that I really struggled to get in and work out. Time is short, like most people I don’t have a lot of it. But I keep trying. There have been weeks when I only made it to the Y one or two days a week. Others, I might have made it three or four days. This week? I’ve gone six days straight.

And today, I was able to do 30 minutes on the elliptical. THIRTY MINUTES! I’ve not felt that proud of myself in a while. When I started going to the Y about six weeks ago, I couldn’t do 3 minutes without getting dizzy let alone 30 minutes.

If I can do 30 minutes on the elliptical, follow that up with strength training before doing another vigorous 45 minutes on the treadmill, I know I can make my goals happen.

I’m building a new habit one day at a time. And on the days when I only have time to do 30-40 minutes of exercise, I know that I can make it count and its better than the days that I did nothing at all.

*This post is has been cross posted on my Sparkpeople.com blog.

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