There’s been some trouble on the home front. Without getting into a ton of personal details here, the stress level of my house is through the roof. A change in job has us financially stretched to the limits. Dealing with a blended family the first weeks of school is beyond hard. The stress is making us physically and emotionally sick.
I started a new venture to help with our financial problems, but it takes time to get things off the ground. I have great mentors, and an amazing support system in this part of my life.
I think that the problem that I have is that my support system in person has really taken a beating over the years. There are a LOT of reasons behind this, but it doesn’t help that I’m sort of a homebody. This morning I asked my nearly 600 friends on Facebook if anyone would like to start walking with me a couple times a week. The only answer that I’ve gotten so far, was from a cousin in Texas. At nearly 9 hours away, that’s not possible.
I have a gym membership, I know people that work out there. The problem there is that it costs money that we don’t have right now for me to get to the gym.
Bottom line, I need money and socialization….and to get my sweat on. 
photo credit: Evil Erin
With the stress in my household right now, my husband and I could both use a lot of the same thing. We’ve argued so much in the last week that we are fighting to stay in the same house together. I know, all couples do this from time to time. Its just hard to deal with at the moment.
So I came across a tweet about the new Mamavation campaign that’s coming up. I dropped out of the Sistahood, not on purpose but just from being lazy and overwhelmed by life. To tell you the truth, I miss it. I miss it soooo much that I lurk around the group on Twitter a day or two a week.
So it was just announced that this next campaign is going to be couple’s only. Yep, husband and wife teams. And I’m thinking. And talking to my husband. And I mention it to my friends. And I think some more.
I loved trying out for campaign 7. I thought it was a good number. I felt so much better than I had in a long time because I was being consistently active. I was sore from a lot of the things I was doing, but I was also building endurance and strength. But I’ll say this, I don’t know if my body was ready for it. I had a hard time, and I know that it only gets worse once you are voted in.
So I’m thinking about signing up again. Not by myself, but with my husband of course. He’s agreed. But only if I really want to do it. Do I really want to do this? um yeah! Who wouldn’t?! Having personalized meal plans, personal trainer, motivational coach and more…its gotta be a lot of help instead of doing it all on my own right?!
The one thing that that’s holding me back is support. My support system here locally is lacking. I know with my husband doing the workouts and meal plan too, it will help a lot, but still I need someone to help me out while he’s at work. I have the sistahood that will push me from online. I want someone local too. I really, really do!
I want to ask you something to. Will you help me? Will you support me? Online or offline. I don’t care. I don’t want to push myself to a point that in a few weeks I feel like I failed because I didn’t get enough votes to win this. I can only do so much really. I can eat right, and do my workouts, and walk until I’m blue in the face (lets hope that doesn’t happen). What I can’t do is vote for myself more that once.
I have to campaign. I need people to help with that. people to tweet for me, post on Facebook and even on their blogs. I know that I have a friend or two that’s already told me that if I do want to do this, they will help.
With the power of social media behind both me and my husband we can do this, right?
