Reasons to motivate yourself to go to the gym

There are probably hundreds of blogs and articles with this same title all over the internet. But I didn't write them so...they aren't as good. Ha!

It's 4:00pm and I'm mentally gearing up for the gym after work. Here's why I don't want to go:

1. It's FREEZING here! I want to go home, put on my sweats, eat soup and catch up on New Girl.

2. I'm lazy and totally would rather do just about anything than go to the gym and send mental hate notes to the fit girl WALKING on the treadmill I want to use, perusing through the latest People magazine. Get off lady, if I'm going to be here, I'm going to do this. I'm giving up perfect good couch time for this.

But, like my post said yesterday, if I'm not making progress, I'm making excuses and I would much rather spend an hour a day making progress towards my goal. Sweatpants after that are much more deserved.

Here are the reasons I need to go to the gym:
1. Wedding. T minus 53 days. Burn calories, burnnnn. Bwahaha!

2. Any jiggle that has ever cursed my body. Don't have jiggle? Walk at a brisk pace on an incline. You have it. It's sneaky stuff sometimes, but the incline will find it.

3. High school reunion. 10 years is a crucial time to impress former classmates. By first glance, people will decide if I will age well or be a midwesternly plump lady forever. At my five year reunion, a girl that I didn't get along with in high school (the feeling was pretty mutual) came up to me and said, right to my face, "Wow, you've really filled out." Um...? I weighed 115 pounds upon graduating and at my 5 year reunion, I probably weighed 145? I guess from 115 pounds, one can only "fill out." And, that girl totally sucks. But, the words still haunt me and I want to be a hottie.

4. Grandma arms, lunch lady arms, "hi Helens" I got 'em, I hate 'em. My grandmother had arm flab that I thought was SO cool when I was a kid. I do not think it's cool now and I will be damned if that gene is passed to me.

5. Focus on positive. I will probably talk more about this at a later time, but I had a great thought at the gym the other day. I don't want to focus on things like my lunch lady arms or perma-jiggle. My church offers a fitness class that is (of course) fitness, but also teaches what God says about being physically fit. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 says "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body."

Do it for God, yourself, your spouse, kids, stupid judgemental girls from high school, whatever... find your motivation. If you can't find it, there's always Pinterest.