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