My Journey With Health And Fitness – Am I Working Harder?

I have to say I have come to the conclusion that many people have lost the concept of common courtesy. Today I did my walk to the Caregivers’ Support Group as I do every Tuesday. I went to cross a street at a 4 way stop intersection and the cars heading north and south stopped for me. Unfortunately the e-bike rider seemed to feel he didn’t need to stop so I could cross and he almost ran into me. Then further on I was walking on a sidewalk and group of high school students came towards me. There were 4 of them and instead of dropping to single or even double file they stayed in their group across the sidewalk. There was literally nowhere for me to go except pinned up against a tree as they passed me. Please remember, it really isn’t that hard to be polite and courteous.

When I cam back from the last trip to Mexico I was determined to get myself back on track and I think I am doing that. Last week the least amount of exercise I did was on Sunday when I only did a 2 hour walk. All of the other days it was an hour of fitness class with at least 2 hours of walking (some days it was even more than 2 hours). I’m proud that I am building myself back up and it is going reasonably well.

However, I have started noticing that in my fitness classes I am burning more calories that I used to do. I get that I committed to pushing myself as much as I can but I didn’t realize how much I am doing so. Something must be working because my resting heart rate has significantly dropped and my blood pressure is awesome. I think I just got it into my head that now is the time to work hard so that I feel better about myself. And you know what, I am feeling better. I’ve got my head back in the space it needs to be which allows me to focus on being better. That’s pretty impressive since this is the busiest time of the year for my business and I have even picked up a new client.

So yeah, I am working harder and feeling really good about it. As a matter of fact, 5 weeks until I head back to Mexico and I have already worked out in my head what my workout routine will look like. I truly think that I feel better right now than I have since losing my brother and I kind of like it. Here’s to trying to keep it going.