This morning I did the most bizarre thing.  Something so completely out of character for me that I’m still wondering who invaded my body and my mind and caused me to do what I did.

My alarm went off at 6:18 this morning, which is thirty minutes earlier than normal.  I reached over and turned it off, walked into the bathroom, I brushed my teeth before putting on my workout clothes, I walked downstairs and started the coffee and then I shredded.

Before drinking coffee.

This is completely unlike me.  I’m the type of girl who likes to put everything off for as long as possible before I force myself to do something.  It’s just what I do, it’s part of my DNA.  But this shred thing, it’s an obsession, a really good obsession that changes  my entire day.

And not just my day, but it has been changing many aspects of me, too.  Tonight, the family and I were playing a friendly game of Wii bowling (I lost to Brian, I do not want to talk about it), Brian looked at me and said “are you using new face moisturizer or something?”

“NO?!  WHY?!?!” I looked at him suspiciously, wondering if my skin was peeling or if I had a booger hanging on my cheek and I didn’t know it.

“because you look really radiant.”

Now, I know that you are thinking, the same thing that I thought.  “he just wants to get a little something something.”

Except he didn’t (okay, he probably did, but that wasn’t his focus.  Okay, it wasn’t his main focus.)  I gave him that look like “stop talking dirty, the children can hear you.“  and he was all “What?  You look really good.”

I blushed and said “oh, well, thank you, it’s all thanks to shredding.”

Because, you guys?  I noticed it, too.  My skin is changing, my sleep is better, I make dinner every night (healthy meals!), I create healthy snacks for us and not just for the kids, which is what I typically do, I’m laughing more, I’m stressing less and one of the best things?

My pants are too big.

It’s so annoying to me that all you read about at the doctor’s office and in every magazine and Dr. Oz on Oprah, EVERYTHING preaches to you is “YOU NEED TO EXERCISE.  IT’S GOOD FOR YOU, BLAH BLAH BLAH, ENERGY!  SLEEP!  HEALTHY EATING!  QUALITY OF LIFE!   LAKDJFAOWEITJOAERIHGFAJED.”

And for so long I just chose to ignore it because SITTING IS SO MUCH FUN AND EXERCISING IS SO SWEATY.

But then I made a decision to do something right for myself and OH MY GOD DR. OZ was right.  It feels so amazing.

It does not mean that while doing this really hard workout every single day that I’m whistling and there are birds flying around my head, I still curse Jillian Michaels and believe she’s the devil.   It’s just that I’m trying to pay attention to how good exercise feels to me, no matter how bad I feel while doing it.

My body is stronger, the fact that I don’t have to pay $75 a month for a gym membership is liberating and the rest of the benefits, like my skin looking better without paying for expensive skin creme and that it’s just twenty minutes a day, well, that’s just icing on the low-fat cake.

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