Righto.
I must just say that, since I acquired the Best Sinuses Money Can Buy TM, sinus infections such as the one with which I am currently afflicted are a matter of somwhat tiresome pain, general off-colour-ness and poor sleep, as opposed to wanting to saw my own head off as was the case in the past. It's all good.
The other day Captain Obvious flew in and whacked me on the head with the 'you idiot!' stick - it finally occurred to me that the reason I don't seem to be getting anywhere much with the Great Health and Fitness Overhaul of 2012 is that I have started from where I would like to be than where I actually am.
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Consequently, boffins at the LBTEPA Institute for Behavioural Modification have conducted a thorough needs analysis, pinpointed a number of skill deficits, and come up with A Plan, bless their enthusiastic little hearts.
Issue 1: I am chef de cuisine here at Maison LBTEPA. I am also a picker and an emotional eater. I just stuff things in my mouth All The Time. Mostly little things, but my work pants are telling me it's adding up.
Plan: write down EVERYTHING I eat.
BO-RING, but so is my work pants being too tight
Issue 2: vaulting ambition o'erreaching itself (aka senseless optimism/biting off more than I can chew).
Plan: limit, limit, limit. Slow, slow, slow. 30 minutes on the bike, not 40, so my hip won't tighten up, so I can run the next day. 6km runs, not 7, so I can run two days in a row.
This is also BO-RING, and very confronting. I like to see myself as this crazed superfit superhero (STOP LAUGHING) and let me tell you, I will be that person again. But I need to suck up that I am not her now. Patience, patience patience. I will FLY AGAIN! Bwahahahaa!
Mind you I am still doing two half marathons in the next couple of months. That doesn't count.
Issue 3: no routine to my fitness.The Spousal Unit works pretty much random shifts and Noddie is a bit young to be left alone.
Issue 3: no routine to my fitness.The Spousal Unit works pretty much random shifts and Noddie is a bit young to be left alone.
Plan: get up at 6am no matter what and do SOMETHING. Minerva is set up on the trainer in the study, but even if some wretched lurgi is hanging about (as they so often do) making cardio inadvisable, I can still stretch or do weights or a core workout. I need to am going to rebuild my "I am an athlete, this is What I Do" mindset one day at a time.
The guts of it? I need to TTC, have a RHG and a GHLAM!
More anon, thinker-outers!
4 much-appreciated comments:
I have been doing my P90X whenever I get the opportunity and really want to up the ugly ante on my shingles:) I have also recommitted to weight watchers and have been chanting the following mantras:
Little Pickers Wear Big Knickers (I too am always eating)
and
If You Bite It, Write It
(or most recently, If You Imbibe It, Scribe It)
Good luck! Will be thinking of you at 6am :)
Sara
Sara! Great sayings!!! i'm stealing them to tattoo on my forearms.
Alison, You will win this!
I am actually having a similar issue myself. It just presents itself a little differently. But in the end, I'm frustrated to the point of considering QUITTING RUNNING because I'm having problems with keeping a routine, getting injured, and then having to start back at square 1.
For me it usually comes down to appreciating what I can do and not focussing on what I cannot. One of the things that I can do is walk my dogs. And they will go with me no matter what time of day or weather. Perfect training partners. It doesn't move me along with my running (or cycling) goals, but does help with my battle of the bulge.
I cannot stop laughing.
You are THE best.
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