My Journey With Health And Fitness – Back To My Mexican Routine

It has been a fun few days. On Saturday I attended my 40th high school grad reunion. I have to admit there were a lot of people I didn’t recognize and some even when I learned their name I didn’t remember them from high school. Still there were some that I was really happy to have the chance to chat with. In order to be able to go to the reunion we had to take a red eye flight from Vancouver to Houston then on to Cancun. We got to the condo at 11:45am Sunday, unpacked, had a brief nap then it was out to dinner with our friends to celebrate my husband’s birthday.

I had full intentions of getting back to my routine yesterday. Then reality set in. There was no way after doing a red eye flight Saturday that I was going to be able to get up early enough yesterday in order to get a workout in and then be able to shower and be ready for when our cab was to arrive at 8:30am. Hell, I even did something I never do, when the alarm went off at 6:30am I hit snooze. I decided it was a good call to not try and workout just for the sake of being able to say I had done so.

But today I started to get back to a routine. So, up at 4:30am so I had time to eat breakfast and hydrate. Then it was off for an hour walk. I admit I had planned to do 1 1/2 hour walk but I am not quite acclimatized to it being 27 C at 5:30am (even warmer because of the humidity) so an hour was enough for day 1. I then came home and rested a bit before getting online for my fitness class. When the class was over I took my husband (kicking and screaming I might add) out on another 1/2 hour walk. Not bad for my first workout day here.

Getting back to a routine fairly quickly is important to me. I know if I don’t do it then my motivation ebbs pretty quickly. I still have a little ways to go in terms of getting up to a minimum of 2 hours of walking each day but I am fairly confident that a few early morning 1 hour walks and I will get myself up to the 1 1/2 hour walk goal. I admit the easiest part is doing the online classes. As a reminder, we have an Apple Mini hooked up to our 55″ tv which also has a web cam attached to it so I like doing the classes. I even managed to bring down a nice, thick exercise mat. I’m still working on finding heavier dumbbells but I will get there.

So I am basically back to my routine that I will follow for the next 6 weeks. I had pretty good success last time at sticking to it so hopefully I can do the same this time.