Sometimes it's not easy...

To work it in - to work it out - to make it happen...

Sometimes life just happens.  Making a change in lifestyle is a major commitment.  People laugh at me sometimes because I will turn down invitations to do things because it coincides with the time I go to the gym - and I tell them why I can't come.  Laugh as they will, it is my job to make it work.  There is always something that can take precedence over my time in the gym - especially since it has to be immediately following work and before I pick Jenna up from daycare.  There are times when something does need to go in place of that time in the gym, but very rarely.  If it's my time just for that activity, I make it my time just for that activity.

Sometimes fatigue happens.  Like this week, for example.  I have been exhausted all week.  I mean the "I am scheming ways to be able to be an hour late for work so I can sleep an extra hour, dammit!" kind of exhausted.  That's not very conducive to a solid workout.  So some days - and even some weeks - I just have to make myself get suited up and show up.  And understand that some workout is better than none.  It's quite interesting when your workout partner is in the same place.  However, those are the times we can remind each other than we are human, and it's important to listen to our body and not always push it to the absolute limit...and that fatigue happens.

Sometimes burn out happens.  For me, especially with diet.  A quit aside about the word "diet" - I am not on a diet, I am using the word diet for my way of eating in general.  Maybe nutrition would be a better word?  Hmmmmm....I'll just use both.  Sometimes eating the way I need to in order to produce the maximum results gets, well, exhausting.  Like keeping the commitment to my gym time, eating can sometimes be disruptive to social functioning.  For example, having to ask crazy specific details about what is in meals that friends might want to provide or trying to bring my own meals (so I don't have to ask) and having people look at me like I have three heads.  Like the gym time, there is always going to be an excuse to not eat right.  Marketers at work bring lunch all the time - I have a very active social network and everything we do has food involved - they always give us watermelons at work to kick off the official start of summer - someone has dessert for ny number of reasons - we have a couple of girls who visit a friend on Friday nights who owns a pizza joint - and so on and so on. What so many people don't understand is that the couple of pieces of fruit here, and sneaking a cookie there, and having a french fry here, and (insert whatever your thing is) there all add up to a whole lot of self-sabotage.  As a result, I have to make eating my commitment.  And if I am trying to make changes with my body - it's 90% nutrition anyway.  :)