Day 15: Keeping up with the Joneses

I have been doing a lot of this lately... at least trying. I want a lot of what other people have or are getting, and I feel like I should have no problem doing or getting all these things AND paying for a wedding AND buying a house AND I'm insane... I know. Thankfully, I have John to remind me that it is totally unnecessary to try to keep up with any Joneses. That was, until today. Today, I HAD to keep up with one Jones-Molly Jones. First reason to keep up with Molly Jones is she totally rocked and dominated the weigh in this morning (woo!), so I of course feel REALLY far behind, and I want to keep up with her awesome weight loss! Second, she invited me to workout with her at the gym today. Now, let me say that she WARNED me. When she called me to ask me to go with her, she CLEARLY said an hour and a half. Of course this didn't occur to me until today. And HOUR and a HALF!? Did she NOT read my blog yesterday that lauded my 40 total minutes for the first time in ages? Did she miss the fact that it was a RED LETTER DAY that I had even walked in there???? Obviously.

So an hour and a half. I dreaded this hour and a half all day long. What was she going to do to me? I would never be able to keep up with this Jones! I was going to make a fool of myself! At 4:23 (her time request, not mine) we headed to the gym. THIS time, I knew about the "no more gym card" rule so it wasn't totally obvious as it had been yesterday that I had already shattered my New Year's resolution. Ok, got it. Phone number + finger scan and I was in. She suggested we start with 40 minutes on the elliptical. Great. She tells me my setting one that looked like this: IIiiIIiiIIiiIIii on my machine and off we went. About 7 minutes into the workout I was done. Could I really do this another 33 minutes? Molly gave me a silent thumbs up, and I continued... and continued... and continued, until all 40 minutes plus a 5 minute backwards cool down was completed. I had done it! I kept up with the Jones! I wasn't able to burn as many calories, or increase my intensity, but I didn't pass out, and I didn't throw up. All positives. :)

We moved on to weights where I continued to keep up at my own pace. I did every set she asked of me, and only complained a little................ :) 10 minutes in the sauna to finish flushing out all the toxins, and I was feeling hot, but great! I had done it! I had kept up with the Jones for the entire hour and half! And then she tells me she already worked out and did all this already before school too...............sigh. So much for keeping up with ANY Jones!
15 days down...165 to go!