So, yes, I know that it has been over a month since my last blog post. So much has happened in that month, but it shouldn't have taken me that long to update. But it did. Why? Because I'm lazy.
It's not that I'm overly lazy. I do a lot of stuff, but I just wasn't feeling the blog writing. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe. I had time to write, but just didn't feel up to it.
It's been a roller coaster of a month. In this month I have gained weight, lost weight, moved to a new apartment, seen a 9 month old child buried, got the information that our pastor would be leaving and heard who the new pastor would be. Crazy! Why does everything have to happen all at once? Can't God just give us one big thing a month instead of everything altogether? We need to start a petition...
I don't think I have updated on here since I began my Power 90 journey. For those of you who don't know what that is, it's not P90X. (Bet you never saw that coming!) It's the beginners version of P90X, which means it is an intense full body workout program. You lift weights three days a week, and you do cardio three days a week. Let me tell you...for this fat chick who is waaaayyyyyyy out of shape, it is intense! But the funny thing is, I love it. It really does give me more energy, helps improve my mood and is toning up my body.
Several weeks ago, I went to Cincinnati to visit my brother and his family. He has 18 month old twins and they are full of energy. The last time I had seen my brother was the middle of January, and he was amazed at the amount of energy I have now. Several people I know have now ordered the program, and from what I can tell, they are enjoying it as much as I am. Of course, there are parts that I hate...like Power Yoga. I thought yoga was supposed to be relaxing...not so much. And I don't like runners luges either. I don't know if I'm not coordinated enough, but me doing runners lunges is like a hippo doing the cha-cha. Not pretty. I feel sorry for the floor beneath my feet sometimes!
But the difference I have noticed has been worth it. I have a neck now! You can actually see the muscles in my neck! And I have muscles! My mother tells me that when I'm exercising, the backs of my legs are really getting toned. So I'm halfway through..
Actually, last week I was over halfway through. But stress...good old stress. The age old excuse. I was stressed out with the move and everything, and I did not pay attention to what I ate. Didn't even try. Living on my own again seemed to be an excuse to eat whatever I wanted. No one was watching! And I only exercised two days last week. What was up with that???
We all go through bumps in the road. I had my bump, and I knew I needed to do something about it. So Sunday night I decided I needed a kick in the pants. I decided to do a fast...not a full fast because I don't disillusion myself to thinking I can handle that, but a fruit and fruit/veggie juice fast. And this fast is to last for 48 hours. I bought bananas, V8 and orange juice. Yesterday wasn't too bad. When I was hungry, I would eat fruit or drink juice, and did really well. Felt energized (sugar rush!) and felt "cleaned out". Today, I even woke up not hungry. For lunch today I had a salad that was all veggies and fruit, and only a little bit of fat free dressing. I actually feel really good. I did it partly to jump start my diet, partly to remind myself that I do have will power.
That's the thing I have the hardest time with...willpower. It's almost like I can only focus on one thing at a time. If my exercising is doing really well, my eating is not. If my eating is doing really well, then my exercise is not. I need to get in sync! (Not NSync because they're Bye, bye, bye...oh yeah...I went there.)
So all you fellows out there who struggle with the same things I do, let's get in sync! I see so many of you share your triumphs and I am so proud of you. I hope that we can share our struggles as well as our triumphs, because they're real too.
Oh...and I'm back on the exercise, and I even upped the intensity to level 3/4. I kept up pretty well these last two days, so let's keep going more and more! Bring it!
Grace and Peace,
T
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