Trying a New Way

UPDATE: Did I mention that this is HARD for me? Oh my. I did full weights this morning. I must have been thinking that I was hot stuff and I did too heavy of weights or something because my legs feel like JellO and my arms feel like goo. And it's raining today(though rain is beautiful!)! Isn't is supposed to go..."I can see clearly now, the rain is gone......" Oh well. Tomorrow I will be back at it and trying to bust a move on the eliptical.




So, I am trying a new way. I have felt yucky this winter. Y.U.C.K.Y. With the rush of the holiday season and the surgery for little Sarah and her recovery and the persistent cold and BROWN landscape I have just felt a little mentally foggy. You know the kind with cobwebs that seem to cover every corner of the mind. January is usually a difficult month for me anyway since the post holiday let down sets in and it is the month when my dad unexpectedly passed away. I have actually done better this year than year's past and for that I am profoundly grateful. But, the yuckies persisted and I FINALLY decided that I had had it. IT!!!! Finished. Done. Over. Sayonara.

I started a strict exercise program. I get up at 6:30am each morning Monday through Friday. I do full cardio three days a week and a brief 10 minute warm up followed by circuit weights the other two days. Each morning when the alarm goes off I groan. Every fiber in me loathes the first moment I sit on the edge of the bed. Gone are the "springing" out of bed days. (well unless we are going to Disneyland) But after five minutes into the process at the local YMCA, I am good to go. I feel the groove comin' back. Anna's gettin' her GROOVE on. At night I am tired. But the yummy, comfy, crawl into your bed ready to rest tired. My muscles are sore...this is especially noticeable on the way up the stairs to the girls' rooms. But I feel like maybe the cobwebs are beginning to clear. The windows are opening. Maybe this new way is THE way..........I still hate it :-)