In an effort to get back on track with my weight and exercise, I have resurrected my diet blog. I actually started the diet blog about two years prior to this one. At some point, I hit a plateau in my weight loss journey and I began working out to burn more calories. The rest is history – which you can read here on this site. I like blogging about things going on in my life – it provides a wonderful emotional outlet – much like therapy. And if it helps inspire others struggling with the same issues, than that is icing on the cake. Mmmmm, cake. Cake is evil.
One lesson I have learned since working full time is that it takes planning to fit workouts into a busy life. My new job has different hours, so I need a new plan for how to make that work. Here is a first cut:
- I’m not going to do any lunchtime workouts. For one, I’m not near any O2 fitness clubs at my new office. 🙁 And I don’t know what the culture is yet for taking long lunches and coming early/staying late to make up for it. I think it’s a bit flexible, but I want to prove my worth to my boss before asking about that.
- I don’t have to be at work until 9am. I need to take advantage of that extra hour in the morning, even though I hate early am workouts. There is another O2 Fitness club on my way to work. I am going to try getting to that one at 7am each day this week:
- spin class at 7am on Monday
- treadmill on Tuesday
- Wednesday off
- Bootcamp class at 7am on Thursday.
- treadmill on Friday (I actually like treadmills!)
- Saturday and Sunday will be long bike and long run days. If the weather is too cold for bike, I’ll just do two run days.
- I need to organize all my stuff again into bags for different workouts. I was really good about that until my last race of the season, and now my workout crap is all over the place in my house. ACK!!!!
Now for some light entertainment – which includes cake – click on the image below:
9am eh?! That’s pretty sweet. I’d be up at 7 doing an hour of something!
Enjoyed your blog story. Hope your new plan goes well.
That sounds like a great plan, you can totally do it! That’s so awesome/helpful that you don’t have to be to work until 9. 🙂 good luck!
Maria, you’re right, daylight savings time plays a huge role. and the freezing cold weather we’re having now is not helping either!!
I’m in the same boat! I got back into tri this year with the Pinehurst OLY in mid-October. I thought I’d take a week off then jump into “off-season.” Didn’t quite happen that way. I blame daylight ‘wasting’ time. As soon as we fall back, I’m useless. But I don’t have to work until 9a.m. either, so I’m with you tomorrow! We’ll be at the gym by 7!
9am eh?! That’s pretty sweet. I’d be up at 7 doing an hour of something!