Routines

They really are a wonderful thing in life. They give us structure, we know what to expect and when to expect it. When something happens to interfere with that, it's really really hard to get back into it again no matter how much you may want to. This is the same with weight loss and exercise. Once you break that habit, be it eating well or working out daily, no matter how much you may want to get back into it, it's so hard to do. I've been stuck in this type of a rut now for the past couple of weeks. I want to workout every morning, my mind is even there for the most part. It's just getting my body and my mind to cooperate at the same time.

It's so easy to talk myself out of it. I had to stop over the weekend due to some commitments that I couldn't avoid. Come Monday morning, I found all kinds of excuses for why I wasn't going to do one. I wasn't even going to do one yesterday morning but I happened to be scrolling through Facebook and I saw a picture of a mommy friend at the gym. Thanks to her for posting that picture, it was my motivation to give it my all and I did. Sadly this morning, I did not. I had two meetings with the girls teachers at school and thanks to having nightmares all night long, I didn't get much sleep so my get up and go for this morning was nowhere to be seen. No big deal though, I'll hop back on that ship tomorrow morning and continue to plug away.

Friday will be my switch over day I think. I've been on Level 2 a little longer than I expected because of my week long break. I figured it would be in my best interests to stick with it for a few extra days instead of starting over or diving right into Level 3. I'm not expecting any changes with the workout this time. I haven't been consistent enough with it this time around to really have that happen. I think I'm mostly just enjoying the good feelings that occur when I do them and that's fine by me!