WOW. I feel like it has been forever since I have entered a blog. It has been almost one whole week since I last wrote. I admit I had a little bit of a hiccup this past week. In my last blog I vowed to attend some classes at the gym over the weekend in order to change it up a little bit. I ran with Sophia about every day, and wanted to workout another way over the weekend. WELL.... as it turns out I didn't make it to the gym AT ALL! I know, such a lazy butt! I feel like my last blog was about me turning my life around and making all of this a routine. Then the very next day (the very next 6 days for that matter) I completely forget everything. I feel like the weekend really got me feeling lazy and unmotivated. Or not so much unmotivated, but really in need of some "rest and relaxation". This rest and relaxation poured over into the week, and here I am on Wednesday, and I haven't been logging my food or working out. (I worked out on Monday that's it...).
Well, now that I have been completely honest with my laziness... here is what I am going to do about it! I am going to jump back on the horse, and get back into it! It's funny how I was feeling so rested and full of energy last week when I was working out and eating within my RDI daily, and this week I am not fulfilling either of those things and I have been dragging all week. So here is the plan... Tomorrow I will be posting my food intake. I decided not to include any of the ones from the past 6 days because they are unfinished, and I am scared to look at them! Tomorrow I work at 5:00pm, so it will actually be hard for me to fit a workout in between school and work (OH NO I just remembered all my work clothes are dirty... when am I going to wash those???), so I might just have to skip that. I might just have to come up with a way to workout in the mornings on the days that I will be working in the evenings.... This might be something that needs to be tested out, we shall see.
So here's the plan. Post my food intake for the rest of this week, then workouts starting back up again this weekend and no more falling off the horse! Words of encouragement will be greatly appreciated!
*Note: This blog was more or less me thinking out loud about how I am going to carry on with my challenge. More lively blogs will return!
You can do it! The only real failure is if you fall off the horse and don't get back on it. We all make mistakes and have lazy days, lazy weeks, or sometimes even lazy months (hell, I had a couple lazy years, which is what got me into the whole situation of needing to lose weight in the first place).
ReplyDeleteAlso, it's not all or nothing. Even if you can't (or are too lazy to) make it to the gym, a walk in the park or a yoga DVD is better than nothing. If you ate a really big, greasy, unhealthy lunch, it's still better to then have a nice salad or some grilled vegetables at dinner.
Health and fitness is something we are all challenged by every day.
And hey, at least you have a job where you walk around a lot. You should get a pedometer and see how many steps you take in a shift at work. If 10,000 steps a day means you are getting an adequate amount of exercise, you might be surprised to see how much exercise you get just by going to work. Think of it this way: I have a great job, but I sit down at it all day and I have to make sure I go on walks and go to the gym in order to get enough exercise...you have a job where you are always walking around, so if you eat healthy one day and you don't make it to the gym but you did go to work, you are still burning way more calories than your average office worker!
HAHA I never looked at it that way :) that's pretty cool! And I guess that is the whole purpose for this blog anyways... so we can keep eachother motivated! THANKS!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the reason I think of it is I remember how pooped I would often be after work when I was a server. Sometimes when it was super busy I would even have beads of sweat on my forehead for rushing around so much. We even had a chick who lost weight working at wingnuts. She didn't go to the gym, she just cut calories and went to work 5 or so times a week :)
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