It doesn't seem like it's been 34 days already. Time is flying. It seems like as good a time as any to take a minute and reflect on what's changed.
If I get nothing else out of this whole project, I will have gotten a really intense wake-up call about my life and habits. When I think about myself I don't see a girl who eats fast food a couple times a week, lunch out every day, and has a drink or three almost every day. I don't see a girl who drives everywhere, doesn't really get any exercise, and I certainly don't see a girl who weighs 160 pounds. My mental image was definitely living in the past, from when I lived in Montreal, walked, bussed, or rode my bike everywhere, and grabbed whatever was fresh from the market to cook every day. There’s been talk on mostly Elena’s blog about how when you no longer have dissonance between what you actually look like and what you look like in your head that you have a sort of glow. I think I need to work on not just getting my body to the point where there’s no cognitive dissonance but the rest of my life too.
With every passing day I get closer to that version of me that I hold on to as being the best or most authentic. I think that’s why the diet is so easy and so good; it’s just a return to what feels right (minus butter, cheese, booze, and delicious baked goods). The workouts are harder not just because they require more effort than cooking does. It’s primarily a time management issue. When you try to shoehorn an hour and a half of working out into a day that already feels too busy, the results aren’t real pretty. I feel squeezed and strained and start to resent the workouts. Really I just need to calm down and cut something else out. With school being done at the end of the week, it will be better.
The time management issue is crucial. I have a 2-year-old at home, plus I do freelance work, so my time is very limited. Here's something that most of us in my group have been working on this week: doing the workouts in less time. Jumping took me forever, plus I would just kind of hang out in between the various exercises. But now I'm focusing on going right from one exercise to the next, making sure I'm not resting longer than the allotted time. It's nice to just plow through it and get everything done in an hour. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteYes, so many people still live in that fantasy world of that one time in their life when they were on top of their body stuff. No matter how bad the situation really is, they view it as a temporary condition before they get back to the "real" them.
ReplyDeleteThis is great progress.
Get those workouts done faster. An hour and a half means you're taking to long on the breaks.