Little Miss Sunshine

Okay, I'm over this whole sulking, blah, in a funk thing. It's so not me. I'm the girl that finds a positive in anything - but not in the annoying, trying too hard type of way.  Well, maybe it is annoying...I don't know. But that's really, truly who I am. I'm just generally happy and full of enthusiasm - it's not like I have to try at it.  So this "stuff"...it's got to go.

So I've found something that I've been missing the past few weeks...

Look, a smile! Or something like that...

 

 

Okay, so it's a little forced and a lot awkward...but you get the idea.  I'm plastering this smile on my face today, not matter what. Even if I do slightly resemble the Joker.

And you'll be happy to know that this little chick has been a faithful gym participant for several months now. I haven't mentioned it a lot because it seems like I always do that - get into a really good routine, share my success and then completely fail. And that's SO annoying. It's like I don't have any discipline at all. And really, I kinda don't but I get tired of highlighting that to everyone. Can I just fail privately, please?

But I've been going regularly enough that the wellness director approached me and commented about my regularity (YES!) and asked if I wanted to participate in a program called Fitbit. Of course I said yes, anything to keep me motivated. So I wear this really cool device that monitors my activity throughout the day.

You keep it on all the time (even in the shower) and it even tracks your sleep patterns. It's really interesting - I've learned that I average about 16,000 steps a day and get in about 6 miles. That's not too bad for someone that sits at a desk all day. But I do, even before this program, try to move.  I go get the mail, stand at my desk sometimes instead of sitting and at home I always try to get up and do something during the commercial breaks.  I mean, I actually kinda move a lot...I'm like really, how am I this fat? Oh wait, I forgot about the chocolate I had this morning. Yes. I had chocolate for breakfast. Feel free to judge.

I also found that I have a pretty good sleep quality but I'm just not getting enough of it. I average about 4.5 hours sleep. Yikes! Not that I didn't know that before but seeing it...I really need to start going to bed!

So more smiling, more sleep, and less bad food. I'm guessing I can make at least one of those things happen, right?