I was moving...
It's been a very stressful time. A couple of weeks I haven't even had access to my computer. I kind of dropped off the face of the earth, but I'm still here.
The house is amazing. I'm enjoying every corner, room, counter, toilet, window. Because we're built in a new development, our property has yet to be graded due to the frozen ground. We expect we'll get our top soil starting sometime next month, and following that a fence, some grass, and everything else that will make life even more fun to live.
Our now huge basement has lots of room for us to move around to work out in. I'm able to have my treadmill, hypocycloid trainer, and bowflex, all set up and ready to use. It's just setting them up that's going to be the tricky part. There are still boxes--boxes everywhere. This is the project for the the next month. Finding an area to set up the "gym."
Speaking of the gym...I have taken two weeks off. The first week I was just overwhelmed with my responsibilities getting our house in order to move. There's a lot that goes in to sorting, packing, stuffing, taping, and playing tetris in the living room. I'm so relieved to be done that part! Last week, after the move I had injured my knee from 3 days of carrying this body up and down flight after flight of stairs lifting a range of light to heavy boxes. A day after we moved in I took B for a walk outside since he can't go "out back" yet since we don't have an "out back" and he saw a puppy neighbor and pulled me through the mud suddenly twisting my ankle. I thought my leg joints were going to fire me. I had put them through Hell these past couple weeks.
After some good massage therapy, I think I'm ready to go back to the gym. I've built up a fair amount of fat reserves, binging on the pizza at 12:30am, and the left over hamburger breakfasts. I'm still not a master at this whole food preparation thing, not even a novice. I have to admit during the move, I threw away everything for me and focused on the work. Now it's time to focus on me again, and maybe one day I'll learn how to balance both so I'm not playing catch up, yet once again.
I'm excited to get my at home gym ready. Once July comes, my membership comes up for renewal. I'm sorry to say I'll have to not renew now that we're playing responsible and paying a mortgage again. I'm blessed that I have had the opportunities to learn what I have. I still have 5 good months of the gym-gym, and about 40 more personal training sessions. It will be one solid 5 months to focus and get me ready to do this on my own. I'm a little scared, but it is what it is. It's also an opportunity to talk about the differences of being spoiled at a gym versus doing it at home. I embrace the challenge!
There aren't many people that comment anymore, and no I'm not fishing for comments...what I'm saying now is I cared at first about what people thought, but now I don't. I'll keep writing for me and using this as another tool for success. So go me! This writing has helped immensely and it's everything that's changed my way of thinking about how important it is for me to be healthy. 34.8 pounds down is 34.8 pounds lighter (and healthier on the inside) than I was if I never started this thing. Being a healthier me is all the accolade and validation I need! To those of you who do continue to read or are new to reading, my only hope is that you can learn from my mistakes, and take any good you find in this and apply it to achieving your own health goals. We CAN do it. We WILL do it. Just DO it a little bit each day, a little progress along the way.
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