Changing the habit of a lifetime.

[Lisa Lowther]

I sat down at my computer at 6am this morning. I wasn't ready to get out of bed, I was tired, sore, hadn't had enough sleep and feeling a bit crappy.....I could have rolled over and gone back to sleep - however Mr Daylight wouldn't let me. Usually on mornings like this, I sit and I whinge to myself about how yuk I feel, then I whinge to my husband about it when he gets up later that morning, then I find myself whingeing alllllll day, and you know what? by the end of the day, I usually still feel......oooh guess what?......tired, sore and crappy!! So, I've decided to change a habit of a lifetime - and just reflect a bit on the positives of the week - should make me feel better right? ;-)

I wrote last about strong man training, (and yes I am still mad enough to go back for more - this afternoon actually) well I can tell you ... I was mighty sore last Sunday morning! I took myself off for a swimming sesh that day to ease off. I won't start to bleat on about loud people in spas interrupting your peace right now - maybe another blog ... This last week has been what I would have called "really busy", but from today I'll call challenging and exciting. I managed to get a work out in each day, one interval session, one fat burning session (3 reps x 10 sets), one steady state cardio (even sang in that one! good job I don't have immediate neighbours!!), one high rep endurance session (after which I was uber fatigued!!!) and last night a fast cardio session (after which I was nearly sick, the gym was that hot!). All that, combined with trying to learn and get to grips with Metabolic Typing, skilling up on some web analytics stuff, starting to read through my student notes on muscles for my PT course, making certain my pooches don't destroy my house, do my chores (rather American that eh? ;-) , Twitter a lot, AND do my full time IT job. So, I could sit here and say - oooof I'm so tired, I've had such a HARD week, but you know what? today I'm going to say "hell, I've achieved stacks this week!" I may feel a bit tired and crappy, but I'll get over it!!!". Feels much better.

Now if only I can master this diet thing, I'll be laughing! Literally. :-) x

[Khaiim]

Yeah, like Dax said, just thinking positive doesn't achieve goals... but it sure does make us feel better about doing all that work!