New Ideas to Go with the New Year

It has been a pretty difficult first year of 2013. I have had shoulder pain quickly followed by a sciatic nerve flair up. After a trip to the chiropractor and then getting a much needed massage, I was finally feeling better on Sunday and decided to return to the gym. Once I was finally feeling better my hemorrhoids decided that they were being left out. Even though I woke up feeling like crap this morning, I worked through it and went to work out with my personal trainer. Once I was done working out, I felt much better and had a great day getting tons of things done. I love the endorphins that I get from working out.

On the other side though, I realized that my original goal of walking 20 miles for the month of January was rather on the low side. Instead of meeting my goal during the third week of the month and feeling like I can slack off for the rest of the month, I've decided to increase my goal to 30 miles. In three work out sessions I have already walked 6 miles and it is only 1 week into the new year.

I also found a cute idea on Pinterest earlier this week. It is a "tip" jar. The idea is that every time you work out you tip yourself a dollar. Once the jar is full or you reach a certain point then you are supposed to take the money out and use it to do something fun like buy a new outfit, get a massage or even a pedicure and manicure. I decided to start my own "workout tip" jar and am using the new piggy bank that I got for Christmas from my lovely in-laws. It is a Mr. Potatohead piggy bank. So far I have $3 in the bank and I plan to keep filling it until it is full. Then I will use it for a new outfit for my new much skinnier body.

This is my "workout tip" jar.