life does that

I get very angry when people use the excuse "I don't have time" in order to just sit on the couch and not work out.  There seem to be an awful lot of hours in every day spent sitting around while life happens.  There are a large number of hours in the day spent watching tv or being idle where a workout could fit in.

Having said that, there are exceptions that prove the rule and today I am calling on an exception.  A stressful job and mistep that needs to be fixed kept me awake most of the night.  When I finally fell asleep it was for a full 1.5 hours in the early morning today. 

I was actually awake to see Alan come home at 4:30 today.  I had been up writing down my thoughts so that I could sort through them and get them out of my head so that I could sleep.  I was taking active steps to control the chaos and how I react to it, rather than let it control me. I was trying to be proactive and not reactive so that I could prepare myself to have a better day today.

When Alan did come home I then took advantage of having him here and vented for over an hour.  He helped me to hash more things out and make sense of up and down. Then I waddled out of the living room and into bed. The alarm went off very soon after and it was time to start my day.

I don't count my morning runs with Harley, or my afternoon walks with Harley as my "exercise".  Yes, they comprise an important part of both mine nad Harley's healthy life style, but let's face it these are Harleys workouts not mine. 

So I was up and out the door with Harley for our usual morning run. The day was off to a good and predictable start.  However, a huge lack of sleep combined with improper food to eat during the day, and an inability to keep warm today has got me scheduling today as a "rest" day and rescheduling tomorrow as a swim and gym day.  I have made the conversion in writing in my calendar and now I am blogging about it to make it concrete. These are the steps I take to make sure that I get all my workouts for the week in as planned.

Though I might not like it, life really did get in the way. It does that some times.  What becomes importatnt is how I react to it.  I need to make room for compromise and change so that I can fit in all of the things that are imprtant to me, and working out is one of them.  Life will pass us by if we let it. I am determined to shift my schedule around so that I can participate as much as possible and spend as little time as necessary simply observing from the sidelines.