Love, Walking, Motivation

I woke up this morning feeling lazy and unmotivated, and I slapped the snooze button a dozen times. Gary knew I had planned to get up this morning and work out, so after watching me roll back over, settle in, and start drifting back to sleep, he leaned over me and said, “Let’s go for a walk.”
Our walk this morning meant more to me than he will ever know. It would have been easy to let me just go back to sleep, and I’m sure he had no prior intentions of getting up so early and heading out into the chilly morning for a walk. But he did it to help me out.
As we neared the end of our walk, I said, “Thank you for walking with me.” I should have said more. Thank you for pushing me, thank you for caring enough to not let me neglect me this morning, thank you for listening, thank you for really knowing how important this is to me.
Last night we caught the tail end of The Biggest Loser, and I loved the motivating speeches the contestants gave after their makeovers. They looked great, and their families were so proud they were ready to burst. When Gary and I climbed into bed later, I was still thinking about what some of the contestants had said, and I was feeling discouraged about how I had slacked off yesterday.
I turned to Gary and admitted, “Sometimes I feel like I can’t do this.”
Without hesitation, he told me, “If you put your mind to learning to fly, I believe you could do it. You can do anything.”
No motivational speech from any Biggest Loser contestant could top that for me :) Knowing someone I love believes that I can do this, and much more, meant a lot to me.
In that spirit, my goals today are:
1. No soda
2. To limit myself to salad, a small piece of ham, and vegetables at our work luncheon today. (I know there will be pie, desserts, and lots of fattening treats, but I am deciding right now that I will make good choices!)
3. To do at least 45 minutes of cardio this evening
4. To make sure I let Gary know how much I appreciate him
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