It's a great day for fitness!

You can blame my gym for the title.

Like nearly every other person, one my goals for 2016 was to start exercising. I mean yeah, I want to improve every aspect of my life (being kinder, being better with money, being more mindful of my actions and my words), but exercising is the hardest because I don't exercise. Or, I didn't, until recently. It started with me texting my friend and asking if she wanted to try a kickboxing class with me. I've always wanted to be badass, and so we went, and we had the most fun. Kickboxing is a dream and our instructor is great (plus the membership for the gym was pretty affordable, especially if we went enough). It was the first time in a long time that I remembered how good you can feel after exercising.

In any case, I decided at the beginning of the year that I wanted to exercise at least two times a week. Two times a week really isn't much, so I'm setting a new goal for myself:

Mondays: Yoga, or rest
Tuesdays: Kickboxing
Wednesdays: Kickboxing
Thursdays: Rest
Fridays: Spin
Saturdays: Yoga
Sundays: Kickboxing

Really, I'm giving myself either Thursday or Friday to take a rest day. Depending on the week, it can switch up, but I'm rooting for Thursday as a rest day, since Tuesday and Wednesday will both be kickboxing days.

I came up with this plan yesterday afternoon, after dragging my lazy bum to the gym to spin for 35 minutes. And I felt great afterwards! I felt good! I was proud of myself for going and my body always just feels better after a work out.

I want to feel better about my body. I'm still slim but I'm the heaviest I've ever weighed, and frankly, I just feel uncomfortable in my body these days. I don't like looking in the mirror, I don't like how my body feels when I move. I want to lose weight, yes, but I also want to feel good about myself and my body.

I frankly doubt I'll change my eating habits – which aren't that terrible, in reality. We could eat out less (more for financial reasons), but we don't eat junk food or get fast food and we mix up our meals. We could probably eat healthier if we really tried (cut out sugars, eat more whole grains, incorporate more fruits and veggies) but I'm pretty comfortable with how we eat now. I do want to eat healthier meals but I really think the complete lack of exercise in my life is what needs to change.

So, for the very important Day 1 progress report (complete with a capital D to show its importance), I plopped onto a cycling machine and went for 35 minutes -- did three cycles of level 9 resistance, alternated with level 5 resistance, and then continued with level 5 resistance for the last 20 minutes. Burned 225 calories (which, if I'm being perfectly honest, means next to nothing to me) and weighed in at 125 pounds.

I went to kickboxing this afternoon too! I'm on my way, I'm doing it!