Thoughts in the sand
May. 25th, 2010 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angelakToday it has been great. My work list is very short annnnnd I'm also lucky enough to have updated my IPOD playlist for the first time in a long time with some more motivational songs that I like; for running.
I'll be refocusing on running a little more to hit the cardio more regularly and scale back on the Yoga for the time being (we'll see where Yoga falls in).
Happily have a new playlist and am all set.
Ummm, what else. Got a FitBook 3.0, so I'll be tracking things closer to make sure nothing wild is happening.
Very content to have a new mix because I had been listening to that other mix for a while and was tired of hearing songs on the radio and wishing they were on my ipod. Now they are.
:)
Not sure what else is new, spent the day with Mom yesterday, and then with Jim in the evening.
Saw some friends on Saturday, which was important. I've been reclusive lately. Too much so. And while working out is great - there is life outside of the fitness. In fact, life is not fitness, and I'm making it my goal to stop hiding behind my workouts. It's true that I will benefit from seeing more people as I change up my work out schedule to arrange for a 5 on 2 off schedule (I was probably doing 6-9 workouts per week before, dominated by Yoga.) - and ensuring that most of those are runs, with some weight training - and I am uncertain about the Yoga element. Definitely, it takes WAY less time to do every other workout. We'll see how things pan out. Gonna go with the flow :)
If my body is feeling over-stressed, physically and emotionally, maybe it is entirely possible that it is slamming the brakes on my metabolism. This should also allow other balance in my life.
Let me know if anyone wants to hang out (and it doesn't involve lots of food and high calorie drinks). I'm game to start getting myself out of this vortex/vacuum, of exercise recluse-iveness :D Also must remind myself that I am not my work outs, and I am not my body. I am beyond that, and that all of that is fantastic, and also surface level. Not the be-all, end-all of everything that I am. I'm really intending to learn this lesson and become more comfortable with myself again. (I started out that way, believe it or not). I have become really bad about identifying with my fitness and figure, and I'm all about getting past this weakness/blind spot, and oversight.
Oh - yeah. Eventually, soon - I must work on finding a local endocrinologist to see and talk about thyroid stuff with to double check that this weirdness is most definitely NOT the case, and at the very least, demand (heehee, okay, mandate kindly) to be walked through the results - so that I may understand that much more about it, even if it is 100% fine. I am not satisfied to not see the results myself, and not have the expert actually sit me down and let me know what is what.
Also on my agenda is to buy Jim a sippy cup (he tried to steal my plastic (BPAfree) re-usable to-go cup for his sweet tea last night. I must get him one of his own...
Check out Vibrams Five Fingers for fun.
Research a fun trip to take with Jim soon - because we are WAY too... um. Well, we just need to get out and act like the youthful couple that we are. End of story ;)
-Angela
I'll be refocusing on running a little more to hit the cardio more regularly and scale back on the Yoga for the time being (we'll see where Yoga falls in).
Happily have a new playlist and am all set.
Ummm, what else. Got a FitBook 3.0, so I'll be tracking things closer to make sure nothing wild is happening.
Very content to have a new mix because I had been listening to that other mix for a while and was tired of hearing songs on the radio and wishing they were on my ipod. Now they are.
:)
Not sure what else is new, spent the day with Mom yesterday, and then with Jim in the evening.
Saw some friends on Saturday, which was important. I've been reclusive lately. Too much so. And while working out is great - there is life outside of the fitness. In fact, life is not fitness, and I'm making it my goal to stop hiding behind my workouts. It's true that I will benefit from seeing more people as I change up my work out schedule to arrange for a 5 on 2 off schedule (I was probably doing 6-9 workouts per week before, dominated by Yoga.) - and ensuring that most of those are runs, with some weight training - and I am uncertain about the Yoga element. Definitely, it takes WAY less time to do every other workout. We'll see how things pan out. Gonna go with the flow :)
If my body is feeling over-stressed, physically and emotionally, maybe it is entirely possible that it is slamming the brakes on my metabolism. This should also allow other balance in my life.
Let me know if anyone wants to hang out (and it doesn't involve lots of food and high calorie drinks). I'm game to start getting myself out of this vortex/vacuum, of exercise recluse-iveness :D Also must remind myself that I am not my work outs, and I am not my body. I am beyond that, and that all of that is fantastic, and also surface level. Not the be-all, end-all of everything that I am. I'm really intending to learn this lesson and become more comfortable with myself again. (I started out that way, believe it or not). I have become really bad about identifying with my fitness and figure, and I'm all about getting past this weakness/blind spot, and oversight.
Oh - yeah. Eventually, soon - I must work on finding a local endocrinologist to see and talk about thyroid stuff with to double check that this weirdness is most definitely NOT the case, and at the very least, demand (heehee, okay, mandate kindly) to be walked through the results - so that I may understand that much more about it, even if it is 100% fine. I am not satisfied to not see the results myself, and not have the expert actually sit me down and let me know what is what.
Also on my agenda is to buy Jim a sippy cup (he tried to steal my plastic (BPAfree) re-usable to-go cup for his sweet tea last night. I must get him one of his own...
Check out Vibrams Five Fingers for fun.
Research a fun trip to take with Jim soon - because we are WAY too... um. Well, we just need to get out and act like the youthful couple that we are. End of story ;)
-Angela
