I’ve been super busy lately with setting up my new business, and this blog has been on the backburner. I know, I’m a terrible blogger. Why have a fitness/health blog if you’re too busy to maintain it? I still enjoy the subject, but sometimes you have to do what you need to do to make a living. So, I’m inviting all bloggers to send me guest posts. The thing is that I will only accept guest posts that have to do with fitness, inspiration, and eating mindfully. I will not accept posts that promote your product, because I believe in promoting things that I’ve personally used. So the posts can be general with your link.

You can email me at sue at workinonmyfitness.com or, you can use the contact form with your guest post all ready to go and feel free to include an image too. I will review the post and if it follows the criteria above, you will be featured. Of course, I will let you know once your guest post is up too.

I hope to learn from others with these guest posts and connect with you all more. Can’t wait to read them!

Another video blog!  I talk about working out for yourself, and no one else.  Don’t get me wrong, it’s awesome to get compliments about how you look if you lose weight, but you should think about the fact that you’re getting fit to be healthy.  And that’s the best feeling!

I am slowly getting the hang of just letting the words come out of my mouth.  It’s a work in progress ok?

I took a break from working out for a few days.  Mentally, it’s been a trying few days.  Trying to figure out my life and where I am happiest.  It’s not an easy thing to do.  I’ve learned that in order to be successful, you need to take risks.  And although I stopped working out, I told myself that it was ok.  As long as it was something temporary, I was allowed to do it.

The happiest thing that happened to me during that 5 day workout break was that I was complimented on how skinner I looked at the 4th of July gathering at my parents’ house.  And I was surprised because I never really took the time to look at myself to see if what I was doing for the past few weeks was working.  It apparently was (and is!).  And it just motivated me to keep on going.  Even though Jillian Michaels’ DVDs are killer, they are definitely doing something for me!  Sometimes, it’s really those little things (such as compliments) that make you want to keep going at it and get to my goal (which is to lose 3 inches off my waist:  29in to 26in).

I’m really grateful for a 3 day weekend.  I plan to resume the 30 Day Slimdown today where I left off today.  I don’t feel like a quitter, or a slacker.  I really needed that break to really evaluate myself and think.  So, if you’re in a similar place, remember that it’s okay to take time for yourself sometimes, just as long as you get back on track!

Hope everyone had a wonderful 4th of July (better than I since it rained all night and the closest I could see fireworks was on TV)!  And by the way, if you’re on Twitter, lets follow each other!  I’m @SusanJaneC.  Say hello too!

I’ve been doing this 30 Day Slimdown program for a while now, and it has really gotten me back into working out again, and more importantly, a fitness routine. Before I got back into working out again, I was thinking about a way to get back into it and how. I realized the best way was to get into a workout program, such as the 30 Day Slimdown. If I were to just say, ‘I’m gonna get back into working out again,” and just do a Jillian Michaels DVD, with no real plan, it wouldn’t be as motivating to me. I have done this in the past, and it proved correctly. I wasn’t motivated, and just stopped after the 2nd time I did the workout.

So, 11 days into the program, I really feel that I am sticking to it quite well. I had to do some tweaks, like swap rest days due to unforeseen situations, but that’s ok! I feel that as long as I am sticking to the workout plan, I’m making progress. Something is better than nothing, right?

I also thought about the fact that since the program is a 30 Day program, what will happen after the 30 days? I definitely don’t just want to stop working out after that, and these types of programs kind of set some kind of expectation that once the program is done, it’s done. I look at it as, getting used to a workout routine. I read somewhere that it takes about 28 days to get used to a routine, so I hope that holds true for this!

As we all know, weekends are usually good for sleeping in and not having to worry about an alarm waking us up.  But for me and my husband, we had plans to take my car to the dealership to get looked at.  So, we ended up waking up at 6am!  That’s even before I usually wake up to go to work!  Needless to say, we ended up out of the house by 8am.  Since we planned to wait there for a while, we had a small egg, cheese and bacon breakfast sandwich and just chatted away until my car was ready.  It was still early, so we also went to Target, then lunch at one of our favorite Mexican restaurants.  All of that done by 1pm!

We had a BBQ to attend later on, so before that, we just hung out at my parents’ house and took naps.  The BBQ we went to made us completely stuffed, but I had to also get my yogurt fix!  Once we got home, I wanted to do my workout, which was Level 1 of Jillian’s 30 Day Shred.  So I ended up doing it, and then my husband decided to work out with me!  He found it really difficult, since he doesn’t work out regularly.  I think maybe I’m having an influence on him!  I kept on encouraging him to keep going, and to think about how short of time the workout circuits were as we were doing it.  I didn’t even realize that they are essentially short circuits!  I guess that is a good way to think of it when it seems like it’s getting super difficult.

Tomorrow is Father’s Day and because I’m probably going to be out spending time with my family, I won’t be working out tomorrow, even though Day 5 is a workout day.  I’m going to trade my Day Off (which is on Day 7) for tomorrow.  On Monday, I’m going to attend a Zumba class!  I’m super excited.  I will consider that my Day 6 workout.  Day 7 will resume back to Jillian Michaels’ workouts.  So, with that said, I’m going to get some rest, and enjoy the day tomorrow.