So it’s been a couple more days and my back is still not
 awesome.  Normally that wouldn’t be a
 problem, I would roll over and go back to bed. However I am really focused on
 this last 50lbs so back, you are now an issue. Motivation, you are also a bit
 on the low side, but you are easily rectified if I can find the right
 push.  Last night I got a push, right
 after I finished the sweet potato fries at Boston Pizza.  Here’s how the push went…
   I got a call from Katherine and Chris to meet them for the
 first half of the Monday nighter (I had Atlanta and changed my pick at the last
 minute… Crap) at BP. As we watched Peyton Manning stink up the Georgia Dome, we
 discussed gym memberships, getting healthy and finding the strength to make the
 hard decisions about life changes. It was a very interesting conversation and
 we came to one very important point:
   “You have to make the gym or any major change a habit” (when
 the discussion turned to getting up early and going to the gym).
   As my alarm went off this morning I was really ready to roll
 over and go back to bed.  That’s when I heard
 Bob Marley.  Now I didn’t really hear
 Bob, just a combo platter of “Get Up, Stand Up” and the BP discussion  about making it habit. Now my back has been
 causing me grief, but that is no excuse for me not getting on the bike, going
 to the gym or dropping the last bit of weight.
   I headed down to the condo gym and boy it was crowded
 today.  I’ve never seen it so packed and
 the treadmill I got was busted.  I hopped
 off and decided that today would be an elliptical kind of day.  35 minutes later and I had worked up a good
 sweat burning 525.4 calories and 5,204 strides. 
 Not one of my best workouts, but I got up and I went to the gym, that’s
 got to count for something.
   Now I just have to string a few together.
   Beez