Family affair!

I officially started my 7 day workout routine on Saturday. Here it is, in summary (want the details I'm more than happy to give you my Trainer's number!!)

Monday - CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
Tuesday - lower body
Wednesday - rest
Thursday - upper body
Friday - CARDIO CARDIO CARDIO
Saturday - Abs, abs and more abs.
Sunday- rest.

In the meantime I'm sticking to my 1500 daily calorie diet. I'm not eating all those calories. Quite frankly I'm not hungry! I did eat c.r.a.p.p.y. this weekend. Give my body a wake up call.

Saturday I did abs, Sunday I chilled, Monday I did cardio attack and then there was tonight.....

The gym closes at 9:00pm. It's now 8:00pm. Life took me right up until the last minute. I know how long my workout is and I have to take into consideration my drive time. We don't live in town.

As I toss back and forth what to do, my 12 year old is following me around the house. I bought my girls a membership Monday night, when they came with me. They've enjoyed playing basketball. So now they have itches to scratch!

I get my clothes on and keep looking at the clock. Now it's 8:05.

"Honey, it's just too late!"
"Mom, even if you only do a few minutes of cardio...it's fine!"

Time passes

"Ugh, I can't find my other sock! I've just run out of time kid"
"Here Mom, here's one"

Crap

She's gonna make me go.

We get to the gym and I don't have time to show her how to use the workout equipment, nor should I. Need to leave that up to the experts. I'm grunting and groaning the whole way in...

"We don't have enough time...we're too late..."
"It's fine Mom!"

As I sign in I realize I forgot my workout routine in the car, my daughter jumps up right away...

"I'll GO GET IT!!!"

Off she goes.

I ask the young man behind the counter if he could show my daughter how to use the treadmill and he does.

That little shit...she weighs but maybe 85lbs. When I'm all done with my workout and call her over to leave, her little face is purple and red...but she's grinning from ear to ear. She ran on that treadmill for 50 minutes while I did my workout. 50 minutes!

"You just ran on that treadmill for an hour while I worked out!"

She closes her eyes and smiles at me

"Thank you babe, for making Mommy come" (big hug)

As we walk up the stairs leaving the gym, in silence and in pain with our legs shaking, we hear over the loud speaker "Attention, Nash will be closing in 5 minutes".

3 steps of silence

"Even if ya only did 5 minutes of cardio Mom...it would have been somethin'!"

As I glow in the beauty of my daughter and her love for me...it's quickly squashed (insert here the needle scratching across the record) when we hit the top of the stairs, open the door and there sits her crush! I think she suddenly forgot how to speak, let alone how to put one foot in front of the other!

No wonder she pushed me to the gym!