The rug got pulled out from a lot of us this last week or so. Between the lack of toilet paper in grocery stores, losing a job or having to become a virtual employee, educator, etc, and even someone close to us contracting COVID-19, there's been a lot we've had to deal with as a society and it all happened suddenly.
Dudes, dudettes, and everyone in-between, it's tough. It's really tough. Nobody knows what the afternoon, let alone tomorrow or the next couple of weeks looks like. Nobody knows how long we'll be inside, how much food we truly have to stock up on, when the pandemic will subside. All this to say that we do have things we can control in our little bubbles and it's time (if you haven't already) to start recognizing this and wholeheartedly pursuing it!
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You know that I've been an advocate for health and fitness for a while now. It's literally what this blog is all about. However, now, more than ever, I'm absolutely going to encourage you to evaluate where you're at and attempt to live a healthy and active lifestyle--even if it means staying indoors.
Over the last week, I've had the opportunity to be with myself for most of the day. When the break first started, I couldn't figure out what to do with myself, and threw myself into my coaching side gig--to a point that I became stressed over the weirdest stuff. Then a care package came in the mail in the middle of the week containing a lovely card, some products, a pack of hilighters, and a book entitled The Slight Edge.
I feel like I'm having mild deja-vu. As if it just happened yesterday, I'm finding myself looking at rental websites, scouring neighborhoods for an apartment within our budget, and starting to apply to summer jobs. The first time we did this, my fiancé and I ended up moving into a neighborhood that's completely wrong for us, had low-paying jobs as baristas, and were MISERABLE for most of the summer.
I can't help but hope that this move is going to be different. I said on my Instagram story sometime last week that "change scares me." To which I got a lovely response from someone that essentially laughed at that statement. Change really does scare me. I like things the way they are, I like getting comfortable, and I always get apprehensive when the time comes to take on new challenges or new adventures. It makes me anxious and I tend to worry a lot. But I do it anyway.
How do you push through a tough workout?
To be perfectly honest with you, I've definitely cut workouts short because I was "too tired," the workout was "too hard" or because I had "somewhere else to be." I've left early from a class, bumped down my cardio time from 20 minutes to 10, haven't done a 4th or 5th set during weightlifting, and even cancelled out a whole planned exercise. However, these occurrences are a lot less frequent now and here are the strategies I've used to ensure I push through it: During my final semester of college, I took a class called "Learning About Adolescence Through Literature." In our studies, we read YA novels that related to a topic for the week, then discussed them and wrote a reflection on how the novel we read related to educational articles and our discussions. Our final project was to choose a topic of interest and present it to the class with at least two YA novels relating to it. I chose fashion and the media, and this is how I came across Kelly deVos' "Fat Girl on a Plane."
I didn't think I was going to travel at all but here I am starting off the year with a flight back home. It's only 4 hours from Chicago to LA, but even my two-hour flights in college made me feel bloated. Between the flights, the lack of a gym, and the constant activity that's about to happen, it's going to be difficult to maintain healthy habits and feel good--but it is possible!
If you've been around for a little bit (or watched my last youtube video), you'd know that I don't count calories or go on diets. However, this is 100% what I did when I started getting healthy. Here's what changed and why these don't work. (Remember to consult your doctor before changing your eating and fitness habits).
Happy 2020! While I truly don't have much to complain about when it comes to 2019, I absolutely love celebrating the New Year--and this one is certainly special. Not only are we entering a new year, but we're also entering a new decade--which I feel provides ample opportunity for change.
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