My Journey With Health And Fitness – Getting Through A Really Bad Day

You know it is extremely hot out when I voluntarily use the treadmill for my walks. I managed to get one in first thing and then I just kept heading to the garage for 1 hour walks until I felt I had done enough. As our current heat wave is going to be around until the end of the week I will likely do the same for the next few days.

Yesterday was a hard day for me and my family. We had made the difficult decision to have one of our cats put down. Mackie was a beautiful ragdoll who was not quite 10 years old. We noticed last week that he seemed to be lethargic and as the week progressed he kept declining. While we worked with the vet to try and get him through this it became apparent that it was his time. And so yesterday afternoon my husband and I said our final goodbyes and let our beloved cat cross the rainbow bridge. After that the rest of the day was completely blown.

I knew in advance how yesterday was going to go so I prepared myself. I did my bootcamp workout at 5:30am and did my morning walks. My husband and I decided to go to a local brewery for lunch and invited my siblings to join us. After toasting our cat and sharing some excellent pizza we stopped at a local ice cream business where they make no sugar added ice cream and we treated ourselves. We then picked up some wine and eventually we made our way to the neighbours where tequila was involved. By that point I had opted to stop tracking my calories for the day and just go with the flow.

I could have spent today beating myself up over going off the rails yesterday but I decided not to do that. Yesterday was a bad day, one I hope not to repeat anytime soon. I know that taking a day like that is not going to have any significant impact on my current journey so there was absolutely no reason to feel guilt. And really, I still got in 4 hours of walking on top of the bootcamp class, it’s just that I made sure to get it all done before dealing with the cat.

I look at yesterday as just allowing myself a day to grieve and it was well worth it.