Rest

I have yet again been given a challenge.
True to my regular self, I have overdone on the exercise.
Now, I have to spend a few days not exercising to let the
owwie rest up and get better.

This has happened to me before and in fact caused me to
give up on myself and the exercising routine.

However, this time I will NOT let this happen. I have been
doing so well working out, loyal and regular and wont
let this stop me, only will delay me for a short time.

I actually tried to work through the pain, but when it
returned yesterday, I decided it was time to actually
listen to my body and to not let it get to my mind.

I have never had such success in staying with a
routine this long, so that shows I CAN do it.
Now to just let it go and heal and move on.

In the past, I would have used this as an excuse
to give up. This time I am fighting awfully hard
to keep from letting that happen.

Reading my writings over again has helped me
to know that this is true.

I like myself more than I have in a long time.
We are taught when young to put others first.
Sometimes it is okay to do so with ourselves.

This is what I intend to do. I will back off a bit
on the workouts till I heal my owwie, then
move onward toward my goals.

The Glass is again half full!

Hugs

Katie

Breaks in Exercise

Okay! Here we go!

I began my day in the best mood ever! This is rare for me,
so I was going with it.

I had/have so much to celebrate today!
Yes, it is Tuesday, yes it is gloomy.

I had taken that into my heart...and decided
that I was not going to let the weather ruin my
day...so....I planned my day out....what I would do,
how it would go.

Do you ever do this? I rarely do...
Im usually a free spirit...go with the flow.

I learned this through many years of having children....
Was better than the best laid out plans...easier than
swimming upstream....fighting the crowd, going against
the grain.

So here I was, doing my thing...scheduling a workout....
Eating right....getting on my Elliptical trainer....which
for laymen is the latest exercise machine.

I too had never heard of it till a year ago either.

My husband bought me one last year for Valentine's Day.
I was estatic! I had wanted something to get me into the
routine again.

I have so much weight I want to lose, but lost the momentum
last year. So, I worked hard on my mental attitude and it
took me a long time to get back into the right frame of mind
again to work on me.

But! I did it! I began again with smaller short term goals
this year. Not going at it so strongly that I would burn myself out.

Not this year! I am going to succeed this year...I have to...
I will die if I do not get pounds off.

Not going to go into why I have put on so many recently...that is another
story in itself.

Suffice it to say that I did......
I have worked out for around 20 to 25 minutes every day except 2 a week for
the last 3 weeks. The first week very slowly. The second week I hit in in
earnest...I am now up to 22 - 30 minutes a day. I was so gang ho....raring,
ripping, in the zone. Today I put in 16 minutes...then took a break to eat.
Then I got back on around 1 pm to get the other minutes in...

6 minutes into my routine, I am playing one of my fav cds and grooving, even
getting the speed up a bit and as I said in the zone....

I suddenly seem to feel like I am falling forward....I look, sure enough...I
was....my machine had broken in its weakest welding....

I nearly cried! Not for the broken machine...for me!

I felt so lost...so forlorn...afraid of what will I do without my machine?
Knowing that I need this machine...I have just now gotten into the zone....

Luckily for me...my husband can weld the machine soon and I will be back on it
going for what I hope will be a longer time every day. Now I know I will be
able to, I have stopped the panicky feeling I was feeling so deeply.

This is not the first time this sort of thing has happened to me.

The important thing is that I know it will be fixed and I will be able
to keep going. No longer will I use it as an excuse to stop, to give up,
to go back to my old habits.

This year is already a success! Dr. Phil would be so proud.
More important is that I am proud of my attitude and my strength.

Now I can sit here and write this and chuckle as I go, isnt life strange?


Strange but fun too.

Kate

Resolutions, again!

Every year I begin again...on January 1.

By about the 3rd, I have given up...again....

This year I want that to change...because it is time.

Health has now become an issue....I could die if I do not change.

Now comes the How to do it without giving up once again.

I have many good reasons this year to succeed.

There is a wedding of my Niece in July.
The Family Chat Reunion in August.
My Health improving.
Feeling better.
Liking myself again.
Moving, breathing, bending, stretching.

Ok, so I was reaching a bit on the last one...literally and figuratively too.

This is a pep talk to me....

I have all the tools, now I must implement them....so I won't die...

High Blood pressure which can be controlled by losing some weight...

So this year, as never before, tis time to take care of me...to Love me
while I still can...and because I am worth it.

Hugs Katie

From Katie

Moving Forward

I must admit I just wrote for about 15 minutes and didn't get it saved.

Guess I have forgotten how to Blog!

That is ok, what I said was mostly to myself...so I will not repeat it but will use it in my lil brain to move on.

:)

I have a sense of Humor.

Where would I be without it? I fear I would not be alive...for there are days that it is all that separates me from craziness or a permanent stay in a square padded room somewhere.

Do they still have those? So many things are not even around anymore.....lol

I was wondering the other day about where I got my wicked sense of humor from and why I am always working so dilegently to make others laugh.

Perhaps it is because I need to laugh desperately to get through the day.

Things stopped being funny somewhere along the line. I do not remember this happening...or when it did. I only know that I cannot let it continue...I need humor and laughter and joy, yes joy....laughing till it hurts kind of humor. Forgetting the real world kind....for there are things in real life that are just too much to bear without having a laugh now and then.

That is why I go to a chat room daily. I wandered into this room some time ago now and have managed to meet some of the funniest, loving, kind and remarkable people from all over the world. These folks have made my life make sense when it would not. They make me laugh when I want to cry. They can also listen and let me cry when I need to do so.

People might think that such a room or spending time there is a waste of one's time...but I beg to differ. I have seen people come in feeling blue leave with a smile. This is a miracle and I love those people I have come to know with a love that will not end, even if those people move on in Life and do not return to the chat room.

This morning I was having a typical Monday morning...and was feeling a bit sorry for myself...feeling this way for who know what reason...things sometime just don't need reasons.

Anyway, my point is this: I went to have coffee with those folks and came away with a gift from one of them. The gift was this reminder to Blog. It has changed my attitude toward the day.

Now if nothing else happens, I will have this writing to my credit....and I will have enjoyed reading another persons writings as well.

I also was given another gift just from going to get the mail at the post office.

I ended up going up there 3 times....on ice....walking.....getting a laugh at my own forgetfulness as I laid my car keys down on the counter instead of putting them in my pocket. I had to return 2 times to the post office...once to return some books I had not ordered nor needed....and the second to pick up said keys.

Through doing so, I met and greeted several more folks I would not have seen...plus I received some music in the mail from another dear friend I met online.

So here it is shortly after noon and I feel I have had a good day!! Anything else that happens will be frosting on the cake!

I also have been listening to music instead of the horrors of the happenings in the world.

Sometimes Knowledge is not power, its pain.

Knowing I control that connection to the outside world made me feel better too.

In closing, I suppose this Blog has no real literary value other than to let me express myself on what was to be another Blue Monday. Now I have managed to turn it into a not so Blue Monday.

I thank those people who helped. I will do my best to pay it forward to help someone else.

Its all any of us can do!

We can see the glass as half full or half empty. More and more, I plan and choose to see that glass become full again!

Hugs till the next time we chat....

Hug someone today, you get as much as you give!

Katie