There is a reason I stopped going to the gym for my personal training sessions. At the end of March I had some bouts of vertigo. I went to the doctor to see why and ended up having to have an echocardiogram. I was subsequently diagnosed with a heart valve issue. And while the cardiologist says I can ease back into my training I have been very nervous about doing so. I am slowly working on easing into cardio by doing 1.75 mile walks with my hubby before work. We get up at 5 am and walk a nice hilly loop through campus.
Last night I was jotting down some goals in my journal. Many of them hark back to this quote I posted a while ago on Facebook.
This could be the title of my life story. Sigh.... I can talk the talk but don't always walk the walk. I have a tendency to easily get off track. I so want to continue this fitness journey I started two years ago. But in order to keep it up I need to also stick to better eating and better work/life balance. Some of the goals I jotted down:
- Stop eating crap! Seriously. I do well for so long then slip back to old, ugly habits of eating terrible-for-me foods and sneak eating. Why of why do I do this? I sabotage myself ALL THE TIME. Stop it.
- Stop making excuses. I am the Queen of Excuses.
- Stop blaming everything on my slow metabolism.
- Move more. Continue the daily walks and work towards getting back to my training sessions. I also want to add yoga several mornings a week. Continue to track my steps on my new Garmin and work to up my step goals.
- Complain less. Enough said. Get over it. Life isn't always fair. Either find a way to change it or deal with it. Mostly this is related to work but unfortunately this complicates my every day life. I need to find a solution at work or move on.
- Do this for health and fitness and not necessarily the number on the scale. But we all know that is a little bit of a lie - the number on the scale does matter.
So I start this journey - again - and reset today.
