April Resolutions!!

This time last year I had just finished my second half marathon. I was in great physical shape and was feeling good both physically and mentally. I was working out at least six times a week. Lots of things have changed in the course of the year. My running came to an abrupt halt when I was forced to have surgery on both my feet. As the healing time dragged on and a potential second surgery loomed on the horizon I seemed to lose all my motivation. Daily workouts dropped to every other day and now have hit the point where I am working out only twice a week. I am way more apt to feel the stress of work and life and I seem to be getting sicker more often than before. As a result of this gradual decline in my dedication to my physical fitness and my mental fitness I have become restless. I constantly think about where I was a year ago and wishing I was still in the shape I was then. I have struggled for months with myself. I know how to get where I want to go but why am I not going there? I tend to classify it as laziness. It is much easier to get a little extra sleep in morning then to wake up and exercise. It is much easier to eat fast food then to plan meals and cook them. I have decided that April is going to be my month of action. I have already gotten a head start on the cooking part and it seems to be going well. The working out part of it is still sorely lacking. So as a result I am setting some April “resolutions.” I have decided that I will be committed to doing the following things but only for the 30 days of April. At the end of the month I will reevaluate these “resolutions.”


My April Resolutions:

1. I will run, hike or bike six days of every week.

2. I will drink 64 oz of water every day.

3. I will consume food for fuel and not simply because it is there and I am bored.

4. I will plan a weekly menu and take my lunch to week a minimum of 4 days of the work week.

5. I will blog at least once every week.

6. I will follow my morning and evening routines every day of the week.

I will use this blog to record my progress on the resolutions. I hope that by the end of the month I will be back in my groove. I will write about what my morning and my evening routines are in another blog. I have a few more days to mentally prepare myself for my little (or big) experiment. I also plan to ponder these resolutions and make any tweaks to them before my launch day.