For anyone trying to lose weight and working out in the morning, the sound of the alarm clock is dreadful. There are times when I hit snooze and go back to sleep and miss my workout that morning. This leads to a downward spiral of skipping workouts all together and not accomplishing my goals. I am determined to hit my goal weight and realize the importance of waking up when my alarm clock goes off and getting my workout in.

When my alarm clock goes off, I find myself staring at the clock and making all sorts of excuses to hit snooze. I tell myself that I will workout later, or workout instead on a planned day off. Its a dangerous game that can and will lead to me hitting snooze and not working out. Before I went to bed last night, I made a game plan. A strategy for me to get up and go when the clock bell rings. I laid out all my clothes and my gear (headphones, keys etc). I also promised myself that I wouldn’t lay there and play mind games, but I would jump out of bed and get going. When the clock went off this morning, I popped out of bed, threw on my clothes and went for a run.

Its amazing how quickly I forgot how much I wanted to hit snooze. Working out in the morning is something I love and starts the day right. I wrote a post about working out in the morning that covers this in more detail. While I’m working out I always wonder why I hit snooze and not want to get up and workout. When my alarm goes off and I lay there making excuses, I am going to try and think about how good I feel when I workout and hope that that feeling helps me get out of bed and do what I need to do to hit my goals.

The snooze button is now on my list of official weight loss enemies. Do they make an alarm clock without a snooze button?