This week I recommitted myself to the Challenge. After being out of the country and away from O2 for over a month I feel like I lost some ground and slipped back into old ways of eating, working out, and thinking. During my time away I also started to face a personal issue that really needed confronting and I have begun to deal with it in earnest. For both of these reasons I feel like I'm starting over again, and it doesn't feel horrible.
Last Sunday afternoon I went to my first Spinning class since being gone, and it was not fun. It felt like it did back when I started. After my very first class Susan asked me how I it went and the answer she got was "I hated it"! Well, she did tell me I had to be honest with her...  J Last weekend it wasn't really that I hated the workout, just that it was harder than I remembered, if that's even possible. It wasn't too hard to keep me from coming back the next morning though, and that class was just a little bit easier.
One of the things I love about working out here is it isn't just working out. When I first came here I heard people talk about how they felt like part of why they come is because of the community. Uh huh, yeah. Sounded like a long shot to me, especially when coming to a class took every bit of self-discipline I could muster. But now it's clear to me that working out at O2 isn't just working out. It's changing my way of looking at things, my self-talk, my outlook. While I have yet to make a certain class my "home" class, it is one of my goals this month. Part of the Challenge for me is to gain accountability for my actions relative to eating and working out, and being a 'regular' in a class seems like a good part of that.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I went running 3 times, and didn't eat ridiculous amounts of food. I didn't deny myself anything (except the pecan pie, which wasn't hard since I don't really like it anyway) but had very small portions of the less-than-healthy stuff. Since we were the hosts of the day I had a lot to say about what went into most of the dishes and it was all much better for you than in previous years. Whoever thought of putting marshmallows on top of perfectly sweet yams? Still, this is literally the first year I've made sweet potatoes without all the unnecessary added sugar. My attachment to tradition dies hard!

 


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