Daily Check-in
Good morning! Well, it is morning anyway and thankfully the weekend. I am posting this early on a Saturday morning because I cannot sleep. My so-called recovery week turned out to be anything but restful. I endured an extremely stressful week at work, and I hit another rough patch in my journey. This week made me realize how much I depend on Cathe’s workouts to deal with stress. Yesterday afternoon at work, thoughts of binge eating or drinking ran through my mind, and I have not binged or touched alcohol in years. I was feeling stressed out and anxious inside like I would fly apart. My name is Heather. I am an intensity junkie. I enjoy Kari’s dancy workouts and a few of Christi’s hi-lo workouts and the TLTs, but nothing compares to Cathe’s intensity. This week was a powerful reminder that intense cardio does more for me than burn fat. It energizes me, makes me feel good, serves as a natural anti-depressant and stress reliever, keeps the blues at bay, and helps me sleep like a baby at night.
I have been getting to bed after midnight and waking up feeling tired and lethargic. I have not touched my Bible study all week. My mind has been too foggy to focus on reading anything. I did some backsliding this week in several areas, but my eating remained clean through it all. I can praise God for that. Not that it matters because I feel fat and bloated. This sounds strange, but I start gaining fat around my waist when stress hits no matter what I eat. I will face the music in the morning, step on the scale, and see how much damage I did. I really should have decreased my portion sizes to compensate for the lighter workouts, but I ate what I usually do out of habit.
I bounced on my rebounder Wednesday night. I felt drugged and lethargic when I woke up Thursday morning. I am not sure why because I did not eat any sugar or any other junk the day before that would cause that reaction. I can only attribute it to stress and lack of sleep. I did not feel like working out at all, so I thought about doing Angles, Lines, and Curves for the first time. When I looked at my VHS collection, I saw Kari’s Great Moves 101 that I acquired from a Ya Ya a few months ago. I perked up and tried it for the first time. It is a fun and dancy workout with great choreography. This one is a keeper for sure, and it gave me a little burst of energy. It was not a Cathe high, but it lifted me out of a funk. I did the hi-lo half of Push yesterday morning.
I am not sure what my morning workout will be, but I need to do something. I am hoping to do something fun today, and I am looking forward to returning to my beloved Cathe workouts next week! I also need to get back on track with my Bible study. It is no coincidence that I start struggling emotionally when I start coasting spiritually. My time in the Word is even more vital to my success than clean eating and working out.
Jane, I love Rhythmic Step!
I hope all the GTG girls have fun today!
Blessings,
Heather B.
“So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV).
