Day 8 of 173

Let me run you through my morning...  I had my alarm set for 7 so I could leave the house by 8 to be to the gym by 8:30.  Well, I didn't get out of bed until 8!!!  So, needless to say, I didn't get to the gym until about 8:50 or so.  But I STILL went to the gym!!  I didn't get up (late) and say screw it and fall back to sleep like I normally would have in the past.  I figured my workout partner, Kim, would be leaving by the time I got there but she wasn't.  She even GAVE me HER machine (elliptical) and she went and did the treadmill until the elliptical beside me opened up.  So she came back over.  Wasn't that so nice of her, though???  Anyways, when we are working out next to one another, we talk, and the time goes by SOOOO much faster.  Yeah, we're huffing and puffing trying to get our words out but we do nonetheless.  :)  So, I was about 12 minutes into my workout when she came back over and I was talking about how I want to burn 500 calories and cut out 500 calories (from eating) and that would equate to a 2 lb loss every week.  My original goal going into this morning was to do at least 30 minutes on the elliptical but I was past 30 minutes and about 300 calories burned into it, so I decided to keep going until I hit the 500 calorie mark!!!  And I am so proud to announce that I DID IT!!  I went for 51 minutes and burned 530 calories!!  :)  Thing that confuses me is that when I enter my cardio activity into myfitnesspal, it says I burned 993 calories!  Hmmmm...  I think I am going to go with 530.

I also counted my calories today...  So that is a HUGE plus for me as well.  I am taking baby steps; just focusing on today...  B/c that's all I can do!  Otherwise I get overwhelmed and can't seem to put one foot in front of the other.