My Journey With Weight Loss – Taking A Circuit Breaker

My apologies if you have been checking the blog over the past week as I have not been posting. The main reason was going to my trailer and forgetting to bring either of my iPads. Seriously, there was no way I was typing a blog on my phone.

Last week I decided I needed to do my own personal circuit breaker. There are 2 reasons for this. Firstly, I had been having some pain in one of my toes and after a couple weeks it wasn’t easing up despite the use of a prescription anti-inflammatory cream. I thought maybe giving my feet a few days rest would do some good. Secondly, I just really needed a break.

Here in BC COVID is getting worse. The number of daily cases is increasing and the new variants are becoming more predominant. Last week our restaurants and bars were ordered closed (except for limited outdoor patio dining and take-out). Further, we were advised for Easter weekend to stay within our own health authority. I found this all stressful enough but then you see people making idiotic decisions to ignore the health orders and it got quite overwhelming.

Easter weekend is traditionally girls’ weekend at the trailer (note, the trailer is simply an hour drive from home, is within our health authority and allows us to be even more self-isolated) and my sister and I had planned to head up last Thursday. But then with everything going on we decided to go a day early and just try to relax. So we loaded up the 2 dogs and 1 cat and set off. Once we got there I made my decision, I was going to forego working out while we were there. I recognized that I need this physically but even more so mentally.

For 5 full days I just sat back and did next to nothing. I had the foresight to order groceries online so we didn’t need to even do indoor shopping. I may have obsessively read social media, drank a bit too much wine and eaten a few things I shouldn’t have (ok really I said I was going to have potato chips) but as the days passed I started feeling better, it literally felt that weight was being lifted off my shoulders. I checked in with my coach who told me it is ok to take a week off, it will help you become stronger.

What was the end result of all this? I feel better! My toe seems to have healed, my head is back in the zone and despite the 5 days off the scale didn’t go up. I feel no guilt for taking some time for myself, this journey has always been about making a better me so being selfish for a few days is ok. Today, I was back at it and quite frankly that break after months of training didn’t do me any harm. Will I do that regularly, no. Will I do it when I know that circuit breaker is going to help reset my journey, absolutely.

And finally I am happy to report that on April 1st I got my 1st vaccination. This suddenly became available in my age cohort and I fully took advantage of it. I won’t be changing anything I do in terms of avoiding contact but at least I feel a lot safer.