Day 2 of 90

How well do you know yourself? I ask because it really does matter. Everyone has an idea of who they want to be, but it is a terrible mistake to think who you want to be is who you actually are. It can be painful (at first) to put a mirror to yourself and see the areas where you don't match up to your ideal you, but it is also extremely helpful.

So I hate exercising.

I said it.

I pretty much always have hated it. In my idealized version of myself, that doesn't matter, because I am so committed to my own health, I do it anyway. I join a gym and I go whether I feel like it or not. I take the classes, I learn to lift properly. I spend HOURS there, and I'm happy to do it.

In real life, I look for any (ANY) excuse to not exercise. I can't find my shoes. It's too cold. It's too hot. It's too far. I don't have enough time. I can come up with some doozies, but they really boil down to "I don't want to do it." But I don't like telling myself that--it messes with my idea of who I am. So as it relates to exercising, to thwart this, I took away my own excuses.

I took up running. There is an app called couch to 5k that makes it dummy proof. I take up running, not because I love running (I don't) but because it takes away the majority of my excuses (I still have rain to fall back but we are in a drought). I lay my tennis shoes out and my running clothes the night before. I've tried swimming (and I still want to give that a go before it gets too cold) but the pool requires me to drive, and I need my swim key, and my goggles that I can't get to really fit properly, and I need to put in my contacts so that I can see, and I need to shave (and ugh shaving!), so if I rely on swimming, more often than not I'm not gonna go. But running is shorts, tennis shoes, street. I'm dressed and out the door in 5 minutes. I can do it for 15 minutes or 40 minutes and either way it's worth the (non) trouble of lacing up my shoes.

I know me.

So what excuses are you clinging to? What would it take to knock them out of the way? What are you waiting on?

Today's exercise: HIIT (completed 8 of the 10--hope to do all 10 on Thursday or Friday)
Water: only 64 ounces out of 100
Steps: right at 10,000
Food diary-completed and I'm short calories. The HIIT means I don't burn as many during (shorter workout). Need to add a mile run or something in the evening.
Didn't make it to the Y so no weigh in.

Bible study today was the parable about the rich man asked to give away all his riches. At the end of the lesson, the question was, what are you clinging to instead of Jesus. Is it your wealth or even your doubt. Good stuff.