Exercise, A Way Of Life

Exercise, A Way Of Life

I have been working out for as long as I can remember. In high school I was one of only two girls in the weight room. This was back in the dinosaur days when it wasn't a thing for women to work out or be in the gym

(I guess that's what happens when your a tomboy)

In college I even took weight lifting as an extra curriculum course.

I don't remember a time when I haven't worked out. Even while I was pregnant and until I was put on bed rest, I worked out. After giving birth I bought DVDs to work out in the house and as soon as the girls were old enough, I took them to the day care at the gym. I was there early in the morning, kids in tow. 

To me working out is like brushing my teeth, it's something I do each and every day and if I don't, then I feel yucky, just like when you don't brush your teeth. 

I have worked out with multiple injuries, a broken arm, a broken foot, broken toe, shoulder injuries, and even with carpal tunnel. You name it, I worked through it and I learned to modify it to keep coming. So when people say to me "Oh I wish I had your body or it's so easy for you, your little" it really gets to me! 

Really? Is it easy to wake up each and every morning at 5 am when all you want to do is sleep? Is it easy to drag yourself to the gym when your body is screaming in pain? Or dragging two kids with you? Is it easy when you have a million things to do in your head yet you block them all to give yourself an hour at the gym? Or when my girls were little and kept trying to interpret me as I was working out in front of the TV? Wait, is it easy to meal-prep every week and only eat out once a week? Is it easy making and bringing lunch everyday to work? Watching what I eat all the time?

No! None of it is easy. Hell if it was easy everyone would do it. Let's be honest, you have to work for what you truly want, in any aspect of life, your job, your marriage and yes, your body and your health. There are days I don't want to be here, there are days when I eat that cake. There are days that I go to a party and eat and drink way more than I know I should. But the next day I am here whether I want to be here or not, I come.

I am so not perfect, and I keep telling you that all the time.

But I say okay, I did it, it's over and tomorrow is another day to turn it back around. You can't deprived yourself, you have to enjoy life and live, but you also want to be around, healthy enough to enjoy it as well.

It's a balancing act, just like everything in this life is. You eat right, you exercise, you feel better, you look better but you also need to eat that slice of pizza

(Okay, I am a New Yorker after all and pizza is the end all to be all)

Here's the balancing, one or two slices and a cold beer, what is better than that? Then the rest of the week, you eat healthy and not say oh, I fell off my routine so I will just eat everything in the refrigerator! Balance people, balance. Do not say I was so tired I didn't work out so I blew it, this isn't working so I quit.

No! You fell off okay, now get back on, no excuses!

I am just like everyone out there reading this, I work fulltime (I am like a Jamaican, I got 3 jobs Mon....you got to say it with a Jamaican accent) 

I had two girls in school and I still did it. I have a social life, bills, a house, grocery shopping and cleaning just like all of you and yet I do it, there are no excuses if you want to change your life, none!

You can do it, all you have to do is make you a priority in your life. You know how in an airplane they tell you to put on your air mask, then help your kids? Well if you are not well, healthy, or in shape how are you going to be able to help your kids and others in your life? You won't be able to!

So today my friends, I am here to tell you to get up, brush your teeth and start to do something healthy. In 21 days it will become a habit and just like brushing your teeth and you too will do it everyday.

But like I say at the end of every blog only you can be the change you want to see.

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