The Real Blog for Today!!
OK….I posted the wrong blog this morning!!! I had written that for FitnessRX last month. I give weight loss instruction in that one.
Someone on another site had mentioned being afraid of success. I remembered I had written about that on FitnessRX, so I found it for her. And…well…looks like I accidently put that in place of my blog this morning.
For those of you who read it and felt crazy, because I didn’t leave you with anything on Friday….BITE ME! I can’t be prefect ALL the time!!!!
So…here is the real blog for today!
I’m rarely at a loss for words.
People ask me where my ideas come from all the time. This is usually followed with, “Aren’t you afraid you’re going to run out of ideas?”
I always laugh at this one.
I am one big, walking Blog, y’all! It’s OK to say big here, but that’s the only place you’ll get away with it.
Do you hear me?!
But I stared at a blank computer screen last night.
The words were not coming, because I was thinking about other words.
Words that had upset someone I love. Someone so very dear to me.
Then Jonah came to look over my shoulder saying, “Mama, can I read what you wrote?”
“Yes, son. You always can, but right now my words are stuck.”
“OK. I’ll be back when you’re through.”
“OK, son. I love you.”
He came back a few minutes later. “Your words still stuck?”
“Yep.”
“OK. I’ll be back.”
“OK. I still love you. Even when you nag me.”
“Whatever!”
Then I remembered that someone asked me the other day where my motivation came from. In a world where 90% of the females who lose weight gain it back, the longer I keep it off, the more of an anomaly I become.
And the more people want to know what I have found.
You want to know what the secret is?
You don’t have to be motivated or inspired.
I was not particularly inspired yesterday, simply because my friend was on my mind.
But I still went to the gym at noon and worked my shoulders. They had no clue I was not inspired.
And I went back after work and got in an hour of cardio. As luck would have it, uninspired cardio still burns calories.
I ate on track. Eating junk wasn’t going to make my day better. It wasn’t going to give me a clearer vision of anything.
I laid out my gym clothes and packed my healthy foods for the next day right before bed, as I always do.
So that’s the secret. You learn to make exercise and eating clean an extension of who you are. On a some small level, you could even say it defines me.
In the dictionary, if you look up “Adina” the picture next to my name would show a little purple cooler and a gym bag!
And whether this day comes with inspiration or not, you will still find me at the gym, eating clean, and writing these words!
And at the end of the day, I’m still in that ten percent…inspired or not!
