My Motivation

I know I mentioned in my last post that my motivation for my personal weight loss challenge is holding myself accountable via this blog. However, my other bit of motivation is thanks to my iPod and my personal faves in my workout play list. I thought I would share some of the songs in there, if for no other reason than to give you ideas if you're looking for music that motivates you.

Now I must preface this with the following: whether you agree with this or not, rock music motivates me more than most other genres when I'm working out. So if you abhor rock or extremely dislike some of these bands, then I apologize, but I really like most of these songs, if for no other reason than they are easy to workout to, so take that as you will.

My workout playlist actually has about 50 songs on it which I just shuffle through each time so rarely do I listen to the same song 2 days in a row, unless it's just stuck in my head and I'm needing to hear it again. My entire iPod actually has tons more than 50 songs on it, but I tried to pick out either a) songs that I LOVE and thoroughly enjoy listening to no matter what, or b) songs that have a great beat to keep me going. The #1 requirement for a song to make it to the workout playlist is for me to know the majority of the words. While I obviously can't sing along with most of these because I'm typically a bit out of breath, I do enjoy mouthing the words. And yes, I'm sure that makes me look atleast a tad ridiculous on the treadmill. But the only person who might see me doing this is Garrett, and my workout time is his Wii time so I think I can say he uses every second of that time to play Wii and couldn't care less about my workout habits. Though if he does ever scrounge up the camera and take a video of me doing this he just might be in trouble. :)

Here are a few highlights: (OK. So it turned out to be a bit more than "a few." Brevity is not my strong suit...)
Aerosmith "Crazy" and "Angel"
Black Eyed Peas "I Gotta Feeling"
Buckcherry "Sorry"
Chris Brown "Forever" (I haven't liked Chris Brown even before he beat up his girlfriend, but this song is catchy and is actually the only song of his that I know.)
Darius Rucker's "History in the Making" and "Alright"
Many songs by David Cook. A couple are "Barbasol", "A Daily Anthem", and he did a cover of Radiohead's "Creep" that I like. I've already said I'm a big fan of his and he has many songs that are great to workout to.
Green River Ordinance "Goodbye LA"
Jason Derulo "Whatcha Say"
Jay Sean "Down"
Kelly Clarkson "Already Gone"
Mark Schultz "I Am"
Metro Station "Shake It"
Orianthi "According to You"
Nelly, P Diddy "Shake Ya Tailfeather"
Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah"
The Script "Before the Worst", "Man Who Can't Be Moved" and "Breakeven"
To Have Heroes "The Story of Your Life"
Uncle Kracker "Smile"
Zac Brown Band "Whatever It Is"

Tell me some of your favorites to work out to. I'm always looking for new music to listen to.

Another thing that motivates me is when my clothes start getting too big. Some of my jeans are loose, but on Sunday I put a top on for church and discovered it was way too big. It's always been a bit baggy, but it just looked ridiculous. And I did a little happy dance while throwing it into a pile on my closet floor that I will eventually be giving away. It's the first item in the pile so far, but it won't be the last.