No More Excuses....

Yesterday I learned a few things – one of which is that I’ve missed exercising all the time. And I mean exercising in some form every single day. Summer is tough for me to keep that schedule. I have too many things stacked against me – main one is laziness and the people around me – which makes me feel weak like I can’t make my own decisions and do my own thing. When we started camping in June, my weekend exercising almost completely stopped. I will go for short walks with Katie but my strength training or circuit training sessions are null and void. I have dreams of keeping it up while camping, I have tubes and bands in the trailer, small easy to travel with tools so that I can exercise away from home. But I don’t do it (at least not often). Why? I get lazy. There is no other excuse. I get tired of walking on my own all the time, I worry who is going to come walking down the road when I’m outside the trailer trying to do a band/tube workout and see me do it. Why do these people even care? Why do I ?

I remember writing last year that it takes you 21 days to get into a habit and takes me about 4 days to get out of it. Waking up at 4:00 a.m., every weekday used to be a habit and easy to do. I’d workout every single morning then on the weekends I’d also do some kind of strength training/circuit training session (like 30Day Shred or something like that) plus cardio (~2hrs of working out). This year I even started working out after work and was getting in double exercise sessions every other day or so. Then I went camping in mid June. I took 3 days off of exercising and other than strolling around, I didn’t do much of anything. Monday I got sick with cold… nasty horrible cold that lasted almost to today. No energy or enthusiasm to exercise. No way was I getting up at 4, or even making it to the gym for that first week. But then we went camping for 10 days and other than one tube/band session, walking ~45 minutes each day with the dog, I didn’t do much of anything. At least I don’t feel like I did much of anything. Probably because I was still pretty sick and felt like crap most of the time. Then came an impromptu wedding (with more camping), stress for next wedding….. OH and how could I forget BABY!  I went for my ST sessions twice a week but had a tough time getting up at 4 to get on the treadmill. Lately I’ve been busy after work so that early morning workout was/is important.

I’m tired of being tired. I liked how I was feeling before I got sick. I’ve got to get that mojo back AND I have to keep it going through the camping weekends. I’m not sure how to do this when everyone around me does NOTHING and I want to get up and get out there and go for an early morning walk – it is SO easy for me to fall into the “lazy” mode.

I need to find out how I can keep being energetic, living the fit lifestyle when everyone around me lives the lazy one. I have to learn how to NOT absorb the lazy energy around me. And I have to learn to let go of the fact that I’m in this alone. That others aren’t going to change and that I am doing this for myself and get used to doing it on my own.  I have to learn to like to exercise (walk/run) on my own outdoors. Treadmill workout is always there and easily done alone. Outside workouts either make me feel self-conscious (running) or bored (walking). I have to learn to be the person I want to be and not fall into the easy/lazy lifestyle I have been surrounded by my entire life. I also have to accept that I was pretty sick and that didn’t help with my lack of motivation and give myself a break. And there was the stress….  But…. NO MORE EXCUSES.

Loretta – I’ve got to get out of my comfort zone!

I need to learn to live an active lifestyle as part of my natural daily routine.

I’m hoping as of yesterday my mojo is returning….

I also hope you all have a FANTASTIC day!

Ttyl

Sandra