Making Adjustments
I've been having a mild crisis these last several weeks. On the one hand, school is great, I've already learned a lot in these last couple of months, and I'm 100% sure that I have made the right decision. On the other hand, I am having a rough time adjusting to the new schedule. I'm pretty much used to the long commutes and 15 hour days now, but what I have not figured out is how to continue to work towards my personal goals of health and fitness on top of everything else. I have all but stopped working out (we're talking going from 4-5 days a week to maybe 2), and I feel hungry all the time! It's as though my body is responding to all this change in my life by going into comfort mode, where all I want to do when I get home is lay in bed and watch Netflix and then eat macaroni and cheese.
I'm one of the most flexible people I know--what gives with this resistance to change??? When I do manage to get to the gym anymore, it's all I can do to do some strength training and maybe 20 minutes on a cardio machine, which is about all I can stand before I'm completely checked out mentally and physically. Today I forced myself out on a jog, thinking that once I got out there, I'd be fine and just power through a 5k or so. Nope. I was miserable every stinkin' minute and came back after 1.6 miles.
I think part of it is that I'm just, for lack of a better word, "bored". At first when I started running, it was exciting to increase my time, speed, and distance just a little bit more every week. Now it feels like, "So what? You haven't gotten any faster or run any further for over 6 months." Maybe I just need to sign up for a 10k so I'm motivated towards a new goal, but I don't know if that is enough. I think about trying Pilates or buying a workout DVD, but I haven't been very successful with those either. I certainly don't have the bandwidth to commit to another instructional class. So I have some decisions to make, clearly. I might have to really commit myself back to lunchtime workouts or even consider going in the morning. Heck, I might even be desperate enough to try spinning. (I swore off of it 5 years ago after only one try because I couldn't sit down for days afterward, but I might have to reconsider.)
I sat down with the intention of starting a series of things that I am grateful for, but sometimes you just need to bitch it out instead!
I'm one of the most flexible people I know--what gives with this resistance to change??? When I do manage to get to the gym anymore, it's all I can do to do some strength training and maybe 20 minutes on a cardio machine, which is about all I can stand before I'm completely checked out mentally and physically. Today I forced myself out on a jog, thinking that once I got out there, I'd be fine and just power through a 5k or so. Nope. I was miserable every stinkin' minute and came back after 1.6 miles.
I think part of it is that I'm just, for lack of a better word, "bored". At first when I started running, it was exciting to increase my time, speed, and distance just a little bit more every week. Now it feels like, "So what? You haven't gotten any faster or run any further for over 6 months." Maybe I just need to sign up for a 10k so I'm motivated towards a new goal, but I don't know if that is enough. I think about trying Pilates or buying a workout DVD, but I haven't been very successful with those either. I certainly don't have the bandwidth to commit to another instructional class. So I have some decisions to make, clearly. I might have to really commit myself back to lunchtime workouts or even consider going in the morning. Heck, I might even be desperate enough to try spinning. (I swore off of it 5 years ago after only one try because I couldn't sit down for days afterward, but I might have to reconsider.)
I sat down with the intention of starting a series of things that I am grateful for, but sometimes you just need to bitch it out instead!
