Monday and Tuesday were pretty nice workout days. Monday night was Zumba, which is always always fun for me. It makes me miss high school cheerleading, making up dance routines and such. There is a girl in my Zumba class, totally fit. I don't know her name, but I'm so jealous of, not so much her incredible body, but more so her dedication. She is always in that gym and her appearance proves just how hard she works. Anyway, just wanted to mention her because she inspires me!
Tuesday a friend and I went to the gym and did a basic workout. It was fun to workout with someone. We also shot hoops??! And if you know me, you know that it was disastrous on my part. I'm sooooo not a basketball player. When I finally made my first shot and the 12 year old obvious athlete missed his first, I said to him, "Yeah! I made mine and YOU didn't!" So I won.
Circumstances didn't permit me to workout today, and tomorrow I'm working all day long. I hate that I can't find the time to exercise everyday. I plan on walking during my lunch breaks once it gets a little warmer, so at least that's something!
I just deleted a humongous ranting paragraph about my "current emotional state" and my "proneness to worrying and despair." I deleted it because I am more than that. There is more to me than a brief season of stress. There is more to me than recalling the day's events and only seeing the negativity and the anxiety. I am not defined by the bad things in life, and I think when we let those things affect us so greatly, we cut ourselves short. Don't do that. Be positive, whatever you're going through, even if it's the worst, most impossible, least anticipated thing ever. Even if you're in no way prepared for it. Even if you do not see any possible way of getting through it. Don't let the darkness in your life swallow up all the sunshine. Isn't sunshine a lot more fun anyway!?
I have worked hard to keep this blog strictly fitness/health related, but it's true that our emotions have an effect on our health. Sometimes we can get so caught up in the yuck of our life that we forget all about the yum. And the yum is the best!
I've found that it's much harder to make intelligent health decisions when we're stressed out or angry or sad. We can't eat our worries away, we can't sleep our troubles away, and we can't sit our problems away. We can decide to just be better and more. "Mas que ayer" has kind of been a phrase I adopted a few years ago, and I have it tattooed on my foot. Even if we fail hard over and over, we should always strive to be more than what we were yesterday, and yesterday I wasn't so terrible:)
Unless I'm mistaken, this is my 7th blog, and 7 is my number. With that, I hope that I've somehow inspired someone in someway. Even if it's simply been through the little quotes that don't even belong to me, I hope that at least one person has thought about their health or fitness state and either decided to change, maintain, or strengthen. My exercise and eating habits changed partially because I was inspired by the habits of others. I hope that I can inspire someone else.
Oh yeah! It's almost the weekend! Be happy!
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."--Shel Silverstein
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