Weird Week

It has really been a weird week. I was very sore from starting my new workout with Sharon last Saturday. I haven't been that sore after starting a new workout for quite some time and it was frustrating. I guess I kind of felt that this would just start getting easier for me now that I've lost so much weight and gotten so much stronger. But that is a false expectation I had last week about this process. When it gets too easy, I'll be changing it to make it harder otherwise I'll just stall and that is not what I want to do. I just have to remember that in the back of my mind.

But last week, I didn't remember that. And I was not working out much because I was so sore. And something inside me just let go and I reverted back to bad habits of eating poor foods and too much of them. I also had a few rum and cokes one night and that just throws things off the next morning. Monday I was too sore for anything at all. I had a short swim on Tuesday because my legs still hurt from working out. Wednesday I didn't work out at all. Wednesday I was recognizing that I was falling off the wagon so to speak, but I still had a crappy cardio workout. I resolved after that to pick myself up and get going again. Thursday, Friday and today were great workouts. I set another new swimming record today 2300 yards. I was very, very tired but it felt good. End result, I got my sh%t together and ended up losing another pound this week despite it all. Down to 212 now!

I have so much going on in my life right now, not all of which I want to publish on my blog, and I feel that working out and losing weight is like my one constant that keeps me grounded. I love it and it helps me hold it together while the world is moving and groovin' around me. So I prioritize it really high and always get it done. I guess that is a bright side; the stress of the challenges in other areas of my life are kindof forcing me to keep at the workout. So a potential negative has just become a positive. Thanks to Carlos, because he is so good at taking a crappy situation and finding some silver lining in it and I am trying to mirror him. Talk to you later.