For those who actually read my mindless ramblings about my journey then you realize I've been completely absent from the blog-o-sphere for quite some time. For months I religiously updated once a week. I may have missed a week here and there but I've never gone this long without a peep.
Basically, my job had me extremely busy. I was working all day at work and coming home to work a few more hours. I couldn't afford to work out for an hour and drive 20 minutes home. It was extremely inconvenient and would cut into time with my family even more then my job. So, I said I would take a break and only go on the days I had my personal training sessions.
It wasn't just my workouts that started suffering. My eating did too. I've been in a lot of meetings lately at work that would fall around the time I would eat my mid morning snack and not thinking anything about it I would eat my yogurt during those meetings to at least keep my metabolism up. Until I was encouraged to not eat during my meetings because it simply looks unprofessional. So, I stopped my snacks. And I know from experience that if I don't eat when I'm hungry after a while the hunger pains stop and I lose my appetite. It happened several days in a row and the next thing I know I'm making myself stop to eat lunch at 1:00pm because I know I need to eat...not because I'm starving.
Then some very good friends of mine lost their little girl and I took it extremely hard. Sometimes during the grieving process people lose their appetite and stop eating. I experienced this and hardly had a desire to eat for nearly two weeks.
I'm beginning to feel better but I'm extremely off track. Knowing is half the battle. So, I'm committed to making the changes I know I have to make. I've signed a contract at a new gym where I will spend every Saturday morning working on building an awesome booty. If possible I will make some afternoon classes to get back in shape.
But the big news is that I've agreed to run my next half marathon. It'll be the Tyler Rose Half Marathon in October and training started today. I hit the pavement with my run buddy early this morning and pathetically cranked out a 5k. It took us 45 minutes to run 3.1 miles. It's a little disheartening since I used to run four miles in the same amount of time. But I've missed our runs together so much. It felt great to be out there with her...the breeze on our faces, the panting as I struggled up hills wanting to die and the sweat rolling pouring off of us as the day began to warm up.
I'm not looking forward to running in the Texas heat but I've never been more motivated to eat right and workout than when training for a race. She's my biggest form of encouragement and there's no way I'd commit to the daunting task of 13.1 miles without her.
Don't forget..her blog link is to the right. You can also follow her for some fitsporation on Instagram at http://instagram.com/cheafern.
Stay encouraged!
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