Slacking time is over! I let myself get so caught up in computer work that I forget to get aerobic on a daily basis. I spent time last night viewing workout videos to psych myself up after a few months of ever-decreasing workouts. I’ve decided I either need a workout partner to do early mornings at the gym with me, or I need to change my perception that I need anything outside myself to motivate me. I hurt my foot, hurt my knee, caught a giant cold, I’ve been using every excuse to keep myself from taking the 6 minute drive to Planet Fitness to walk the treadmill each morning. Walking the treadmill inspires me to get on the machines. The more I go, the more excited I get about going. I need the balance. I just need to make myself show up and do it.  

It’s too easy to get out of a regular routine. The past year and a half I’ve spent mornings goofing off rather than buckling right down to work. It all started when I began taking a break from work to visit with the man as he’s on his morning walk. My standard routine is my day begins about 4:00am with meditation. By 6:00am I’m ready for an hour at the gym, and then in the office to work until 2:00-3:00pm. His routine has him walking by my house about 8:30 each morning. So I began postponing work until after he left. Except by the time he left I was in a goof off mood which lasted much of each day. I learned how little discipline I really have, and it took me a year to figure out it wasn’t going to change unless I changed it.

It’s too easy to tell myself yard work or housework equals a day’s workout. It doesn’t. It was time to get back to my routine. So this morning I was back in the gym for my first full, proper workout in a month. I followed that by walking the causeway. Oh, my freaken golly! My legs are barking, my knee hurts, my back is achey — but I feel great.

Sure, I feel exhausted but that will pass. I feel accomplished. I feel back on track. I feel I had a several month break from daily working out and strict eating. My body has softened and my muscles have weakened, but that will pass with a little daily effort.

And I’ve learned that’s all it takes — a little effort each day. I’ve learned when I slack off for 30-60-90 days, I feel it. I’m still healthy altho I’ve been eating bread and pasta since June. I’m just a little slower, have a little more sinus action, I’m a few pounds heavier. I like what the extra 15 pounds does to my face, but not to my waist.   But I’m ready to go back to the strong and fit me.

I’m not going to overdo it and wear myself out like I did today. I’ll just get back into a routine of making a little daily effort.

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