FITNESS: Why It Is So Hard

I believe one reason it is very difficult for people who work to find time to work out... is because we work! Forty hours a week is a lot of time to spend at the office, which does not include the drive time to get there and back. Then you add in getting groceries, making meals, cleaning up, helping the kids with homework, activities, by the time the day is done and you have laid down in bed, you are not even sure whether or not you showered today.
Thanks to my work schedule last week, I only got two workouts in - one was on Sunday while I was at the gym. The other was the Pound class I attended.
This week, thank goodness, I was able to get to the gym yesterday morning and today. I also attended Pound, which was still fun, but felt harder than it did last week. Regardless, I feel I have to work extra hard this week to burn calories and make an effort in order to make up for last week.
This is not easy, and then to find a way to make good and healthy food choices, it is exhausting. Which probably explains why I made the decision to have strawberry shortcake for dessert yesterday. Today I decided to have nothing and truly felt it when I was on the treadmill. The good news is, however, I have been pushing myself hard on the treadmill so I burn at least 250 calories in 30 minutes. Since I discovered I can burn 300 calories while on the treadmill for 45 minutes, it is time to step it up and push for bigger numbers. 300 calories in 45 minutes means 100 calories for every 15 minutes.
The treadmill routine starts off relatively slow, but not a crawl for a brisk warm up. This consist of walking straight, and then walking sideways each side to warm up my muscles. After about five minutes of this and slowly adding speed as I go along, I kick it up to a speed of 3.6 from 3.3 and after another five minutes I push it to 3.8 and start to really increase my incline. If I push hard enough early enough, I can burn 250 calories. If I do not, I find I have to work extra hard at the end of the work out to try and get there. Hopefully if I can continue this, when I get to the gym earlier instead of later I will have the time to do 45 minutes and burn 350 calories.
It is a start, so far three workouts are in for this week. I'm praying things continue to go well, so I can get three more workouts in at the gym, and make it to my 6am Zumba class on Thursday! (the teacher is almost to term in her pregnancy, and I want to get as many classes in with her as possible before the baby)