Technically, I am on the 8th floor of an office building. But that's not the point...Time to check in.
Things might be going better if:
-I hadn't lost my debit card, causing my Y membership to cancel
-I haven't been able to get to the Y when the membership desk is open because I have been looking for cars.
-I would tell all these excuses to "shove off".
Yeah, it happened. Wasn't the first time, probably won't be the last. I waved a white flag to my excuses and surrendered.
But, things are looking back on track as my dad has successfully
fixed my brakes. He said the parts cost him $150 and it was between 4
trips to the auto parts store. Luckily, he works for said auto parts
store a couple hours away and was able to get the parts at a discount.
My lack of motivation astounds me sometimes! I have rewards set up for myself, however, I don't know how motivating they are!
Right now, I'm focusing more on healthy and exercise than I am on
weight. My bigger rewards are for health, smaller rewards for weight.
For 20 workouts, my reward is a bento box. Several people I know
use bento boxes for lunches and after Starbuck's protein plate, which is
bento-esque, I figured I could do it on my own. I like variety and if I
can have several small servings of things, that would keep me happy and
I might be able to indulge and not want to kick myself in the butt
later. I have been at 18 workouts for the past two weeks! Ugh!
Seriously Em, you can't walk a mile around the apt complex and get
in another workout? Oy vey! The other day I told myself I was going to
go home and immediately get in a walk. Well, it was stormy looking off
in the distance. I looked up the radar and it said rain was imminent!
Oh darn, walk would have to hold off. Well, it didn't rain in the next
20 minutes. I don't think it ended up raining at all. And really, I'm
not the wicked witch of the west -- I won't melt!
My weight reward is undergarments. Yeah. Whenever I place an
order for clothes online, they always show me discount undies and bras.
Duh, I will totally pay $1.50 for a couple of pairs of underwear that
are floral or have bunnies on them (true story!). Well, in the midst of
said craziness of the past two weeks, I COMPLETELY ran out of
underwear. Yeah, even the time of the month ones and the ones that are
too big because I bought them at my highest weight. I had worn ALL of
them! So, I have probably 5 or 6 pairs in a bag in my closet. I wanted
them to be for little things like marking 5 lbs lost. Well, I had to
grab a pair and well, why not run to the scale too. I hadn't weighed
myself for about 10 days. I jumped on and guess what...5 lbs lost since
I started! Not only did I need them, I earned them too!
I was worried about a gain after almost 2 weeks of no activity and
some worse (but not all together terrible) eating habits. Thankfully, I
was still at 275!
Physically, I know I'm not as strong as I was. I know that the
"try-athalon" that SwimSis and myself are planning on may or may not
happen. Or we may push it back a month or so. I know we ARE going to
the Y tonight.
Mentally, I'm ready to do it. I'm tired that the excuses got the
best of me. Basically, I'm not accomplishing much in my
personal/professional life, might as well focus on something else
worthwhile.
-I have taken exactly 3.25 hrs off since the beginning of the year.
-Midday work out classes at the Y!
-The open swim at the local high school is 10a-1p a couple days
during the week! I always feel rushed trying to get in the appropriate
number of yards in a 1 hr period.
The plus side is that the high school pool is cooler and therefore
better for me to work out in, it has 10 lanes and I'm guessing that they
are empty-ish during the day. However, they don't have equipment (kick
boards, pull buoys, etc) like the Y does. And God knows that I cannot
lift myself out of that pool. I have to scoot across a bunch of lanes
till I can get to the stairs. Getting out on the ends is impossible.
Getting out of the sides is more plausible, but there is a lane line
between me and the wall. (this has obviously happened to me before!)
The lane line can come away from the wall for a small distance. I spent
10 minutes looking at it, thinking. Could my body fit through that
small distance? If not, I'll have to go over. Well, if I go over the
lane line, I run the risk of it breaking. That would be freaking
embarrassing PLUS a mess with all the little pieces floating
all over the pool. I decided to go to the middle of the lane where
there could be the most room to squeeze myself between the wall and the
lane line. I went under the water and ooh the space was smaller than I
anticipated, but I did not give up! It was awkward. SUPER awkward. I
pulled myself up. barely. My arms were shaking so bad and
really almost collapsed back down. I did not look around to see if
anyone else was looking (there were probably 10
swimmers/parents/spectators in the pool area at the time). I just
walked quickly over to my things and headed straight to the locker room,
head down.
Just a glimpse into this life that I make super awkward everyday!
On a good note, one of my fave pairs of pants are loose! I'm sure I
have a tape measure somewhere, I would like to see my progress from a
set of numbers different from the scale or the number of workouts I do!
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