Greetings Friends!
I'm sure everyone thought I had forgotten all about this blog or had totally given up! Well, you're somewhat right. I won't trouble you with all my woes, but the past year has been a true roller coaster. Between hormone issues, medicine mess ups, moving, new job, new city and extreme vitamin D deficiency (to name a few), this crazy ride is starting to stabilize.
My mind and body function best with routine and patterns. I truly believe that is how I finally found success a couple years ago, I had my schedule down! Having to learn all new routines has turned me topsy turvy and taken me completely off course in my new me. This return to my old comforts of food and running around like a chicken with its head cut off, has only spiraled me more out of control so much that I can no longer visualize the finish line.
I have tried many things throughout this year to try and find my way back to the path I was on. Unfortunately, Weight Watchers isn't quite the same when you are just one of many faces and don't feel a connection with the leader (I miss you Ona). I tried to get back into a hard core workout regimen to only be reminded that my bicep tendon had never healed from last spring. I also lost my support team that I had recruited at the Pierre Y.
This blog entry is to revive some sense of familiarity and to organize my plans moving forward. I feel that this is a good time to set new goals for a few reasons.
1) I am finishing up my 2nd round of physical therapy for my bicep tendinitis and finally feeling that its "normal" again.
2) I have survived my fourth time teaching a new grade plus new subjects and am feeling more confident and excited about doing it all again next year!
3) My kids and I have started to find a balance and peace in our new surroundings which relieves a lot of built up stress and frustration.
My strategy to take back control of my mind and body has a few parts.
I had to give up Weight Watchers because I felt I was comparing it to my small town WW center and didn't like the feeling of being lost in the crowd. Instead, I am going to be meeting with a dietitian/nutritionist for a program that our local Hy-Vee offers. I know it may sound silly since I have read and learned enough about nutrition that I should be able to do it on my own however, I need a little push and a few one on one sessions will hopefully be the ticket! Plus they do measurements for before and after and will hold me more accountable with food journaling.
I am also being optimistic that my physical therapist will give me the go ahead to start boot camp again, if not, I do have a secondary plan. There are many great classes that the Wellness Center offers and finally feel comfortable including them in my schedule now that I've grown more accustomed to it. I also have adjusted my summer fitness goal. I had thought about pushing myself to a half marathon. My biggest challenge (and kind of an important element) is that I greatly dislike running. I have been praying about it and kept running across the RasDak bike ride facebook posts when it dawned on me... biking, I love to ride bike. I've done a 150 miles bike ride before, I can do a couple days on the trek across South Dakota in June and it doesn't make me dread training!
My main goal will be to use this blog again as a self motivator and, hopefully a motivator for others again?! Perhaps, through my tribulations and achievements myself and others will benefit.
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