Party's Over

Okay - that's it -- summer is over, back to work -- or better stated: back to workouts. Due to a busy (and lazy?) summer schedule and some traveling, I pretty much blew off the gym (and all related fitness behaivor) from July thru September. Just about the time I would start THINKING about getting back to the gym, I would realize that I had a trip coming up, and, well, you know, what's the point in going to the gym if you can't really stay at it. WRONG! Oh well, I can't change what's done, but I can change what I do from here.

So - Monday, October 2nd - back to the gym. I seem to be having dificulty getting out of bed on these dark mornings, so I am trying something different. I get up in the morning and put my workout clothes on and go downstairs to my desk (working from home is a big bonus here); sometime mid-dayish I head out to the gym -- it's close to home, so I can go do a 50 minute workout (arobics and weights) and be back home within an hour (65 minutes tops); then I fix something quick and healthy for lunch and head back down to my desk. So far (yes I realize I'm only on day two!) this is working well -- it gives me a nice break in the day where I can get my mind out of my work for a while and I feel like I get a more energized workout then I did when I was going before work, because I'm more awake (and since I was having real problems getting out of bed early enough to go, I started blowing it off all together). I think one thing that is really helping me here is getting dressed for the workout when I get up -- it's like making the mental commitment when you get up in the monring.

Not sure which, or if, I will do a specified "diet plan" there are several good ones out there that have good track records, but I have a hard time staying on ONE, and when I slip off, then I somehow use that as a justification to blow the whole thing. So I'm going to try just "being good" which really means "being smart" and see how I do.

So off I go -- again! Wish me luck as I bid Tubbyville a'du.