Reflection on Week 18 of 52

Weigh In: 207.8

Good week for exercising, I'm feeling more and more back on target and routine oriented. For a while there, I literally had to drag myself to the gym. Coming off vacation, then flu, busy work schedule, injured knees and three blizzards, I struggled to find the motivation to workout. In knowing how I hold myself to the highest expectations and that if I don't reach for perfect or 100%, I would get down on myself. Working with this strive for perfection, I have really started to understand my thought process and that no one is perfect and can never reach perfection. Plus it was putting too much stress on my life. It has taken me about 5 years, but I have come a long way to find a healthy level of pushing myself.

During the hard month of April, I allowed myself time to take it easy, get back into the workout routine slowly. I needed time to heal my mind and my body. I decreased my cardio to 30 minutes four days a week and took more walks, something I needed. This way I didn't give up on everything because I couldn't do as much as before. Last week was great, Thursday I skipped yoga and just walked the dog, Friday I skipped weights, because honestly I forgot about them. Saturday we rode about 5 miles on bikes around Ft Collins, it was awesome! We even raced the trolley down Mountain Avenue, so fun!