The best laid plans...
Thought for today - Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Today I had every intention of renewing my membership at Curves and starting to work out regularly again. I had even gone so far as to schedule time with one of the personal trainers to take a new set of measurements. I was ready to face balancing my life more and focusing on my health.
Then life - more specifically, two of my three children - got in the way. Why is it when "Mom" finally schedules something for herself, the flu bug decides to come visiting?
So, today found me calling the trainer, explaining that I really wasn't giving up on all my new year's resolutions so quickly, and that I wasn't avoiding her and her painfully truthful tape-measure, but instead I was dealing with the simple change in schedules that every mother faces when her little ones need her. She laughed out loud at me, and rescheduled me for Wednesday.
And I was suddenly faced with the question of whether this change in schedule was going to derail my first efforts of focusing more closely on my own health or whether it was just a simple obstacle to be danced around.
Did you know that a jar of spaghetti sauce can make a fairly reasonable hand weight for exercising your arms while reading various stories to your daughter? And that those fancy stair-climbing machines were modeled after, well, you guessed it - the "real" stairs between the mainfloor and the laundry room in the basement?
It was pretty amazing just how much activity I found around the house that I could turn up a bit in intensity and build into a reasonable workout. I definately earned a long soak tonight in a warm tub!
Still, I am looking forward to the friendly faces of the women at Curves on Wednesday. There just something about having someone else to share your pain with that helps it go just a little bit smoother.
Carpe diem,
Kellie
Today I had every intention of renewing my membership at Curves and starting to work out regularly again. I had even gone so far as to schedule time with one of the personal trainers to take a new set of measurements. I was ready to face balancing my life more and focusing on my health.
Then life - more specifically, two of my three children - got in the way. Why is it when "Mom" finally schedules something for herself, the flu bug decides to come visiting?
So, today found me calling the trainer, explaining that I really wasn't giving up on all my new year's resolutions so quickly, and that I wasn't avoiding her and her painfully truthful tape-measure, but instead I was dealing with the simple change in schedules that every mother faces when her little ones need her. She laughed out loud at me, and rescheduled me for Wednesday.
And I was suddenly faced with the question of whether this change in schedule was going to derail my first efforts of focusing more closely on my own health or whether it was just a simple obstacle to be danced around.Did you know that a jar of spaghetti sauce can make a fairly reasonable hand weight for exercising your arms while reading various stories to your daughter? And that those fancy stair-climbing machines were modeled after, well, you guessed it - the "real" stairs between the mainfloor and the laundry room in the basement?
It was pretty amazing just how much activity I found around the house that I could turn up a bit in intensity and build into a reasonable workout. I definately earned a long soak tonight in a warm tub!
Still, I am looking forward to the friendly faces of the women at Curves on Wednesday. There just something about having someone else to share your pain with that helps it go just a little bit smoother.
Carpe diem,
Kellie
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