Day 17 -
Weight: 121.6 lbs
I did not want to work out last night. I was so close to skipping because I was just so tired last night. But then I thought about the fact that I have to make it up after the program is over. So I went ahead and did it.
I don’t have to stop anymore during the exercises. I can do all of them all the way through. Pretty cool how your body can adjust over just a few days. I keep wondering about the future. I wonder if I can keep this up. Well, not every single day but working out regularly, I mean.
How will my body change if I keep working out for another month, two months, six months? Will I really be shredded? Can I make this happen? So many questions.
When I was younger I used to be so active. I danced competitively from the time I was three until I went off to college. Then I never exercised. Amazing how it used to be in my routine and then it disappeared. For years it wasn’t important to me and I don’t understand why.
I know exercise should be a priority. If I want to live a long and healthy life I have to place exercise into my schedule. But I’ve done this before. I’ve started exercising and done it for a month and then stopped. I can’t ever seem to keep the momentum going.
One night I decide to skip the gym and then another night goes by and then I just give up and stop at sonic for a chili cheese extra long coney dog and fries. It’s a pattern, I guess, and I don’t know how to stop.
I asked Naaman, who is a gym rat, why he goes to the gym. I asked if it was because he knows he needs to do it or because he likes to do it.
He said, “Because I enjoy it.”
Really? You enjoy getting up at 4:30 a.m. to go to the gym to work out? What planet are these people from? I certainly didn’t come from there.
But I love the feeling I get after I’m done with my workout. I’m breathing hard and it’s a huge release of I don’t know what. It’s just a release of . . . everything. I’m sweating and I’m smiling and I just feel better, you know?
If only I can find the trick to keep this going long-term.
Wow, this ended up being a novel. I guess I just needed to get this all out.
Well, if you ever figure it out, let us know. I’m not from that planet either!
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I totally know what you mean–it is SO easy to take a day off, and then never get back on the bandwagon!
That said, I think it’s also important to have rest days–I usually schedule Saturday or Sunday as my rest day, and it is SO NICE to just know that there’s one day that I don’t have to worry about fitting it in, or also one day that can be my make up day if life comes up during the week!
If you aren’t sure that you’d stick with it if you take a rest day, what about scheduling one day a week to do something different like yoga, pilates, or just a walk with the kiddos?
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