If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, what does a dollar do? Well keeps the flab away of course!!
Ok, let me explain. I saw an idea on Pinterest for a self "tip" jar. It basically said everyday you do something you need to do or want to do (that you don't normally do) you "tip" yourself a dollar. One of the suggestions was working out. (Thank you Pinterest! Not only are you making me fat from all your delicious recipes, but you are helping me get skinny now too.) HELLO! Perfect for me! I am horrible at consistently working out and even worse at keeping with it. And I don't have a paying job these days.... And the seed of a beautiful plan was planted.
I marched up to Ryan (marching sounds much cooler) and told him my master plan and he of course gave me stipulations. Ok, fine. It is "his" money after all... He said I can't just do pilates for it to count. If I'm going to do pilates I have to walk, run, Zumba, or pretty much anything else with it, for it to count. So I have taken up my long, long, long ago frenemy (for those of you that don't know what a frenemy is, it's a friend-enemy) running. We have a love/hate relationship. Most days I'm lucky to do a full on run workout. It is generally a run/walk workout but hey! At least I'm doing something EVERYDAY...minus Sundays and one other lazy day I took. Turns out money is a great motivator for me :)
I have currently earned 15 whole dollars and still going strong! It doesn't sound like much but for me, it's a big freaking deal! Today I even ran for over 30 minutes straight, which I have never, ever, EVER done in my whole 23 years of existence. Seriously. -Lay off me, I was a cheerleader. We didn't need to run a bunch.-So needless to say not only am I slowly getting rich, making my husband poor, and getting a rockin' body....kinda... I'm honestly making myself proud! Even Ryan has said he has seen a difference. Yay!!
On a side note. I am never making fun of Ryan again for being an old man and breaking down. I apparently am an old woman and am falling apart now too! Knees, hips, feet... you name it! I am having problems with it all these days. I guess what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Or an amputee :)
