My Journey With Health And Fitness – No Guilt!

The weather hasn’t been great the past few days in Playa as thunderstorms keep passing through. However, my husband and I are ok with this as it gives us a chance to just spend some much needed relaxing time together. The past 2 days we have spent the afternoon playing Dominoes which is one of our favourite board games. The weather is supposed to be like this for the next few days so I think we will move on to Scrabble and then Battleship next. Yes, the condo is loaded with all sorts of fun games that we enjoy.

I got up at the usual 5am this morning. As soon as I went into the washroom I heard the torrential rain. Funny, it usually doesn’t rain early morning, it tends to be during the night and then again in the afternoon. Yesterday though could have been an indication of the weather because I was barely back from my walk when a thunderstorm hit. Anyways, I just simply went back to bed as I knew there was no way I was going for a walk in the pouring rain. Unlike home, there is no treadmill option so I thought, what the hell, let’s get a couple more hours sleep.

I realized when I climbed into bed that I didn’t feel at all guilty about this. I’m pretty proud of the fact that even with the back issues I have been trying my best to get in at least a gentle walk each day. Even when on the cruise most days I was the 1st person at the gym. I also realized that if I had to skip the day it was not going to be the end of the world as I will still get in at least 5 days this week doing some form of a workout. And so back to sleep I went feeling completely guilt free.

Now I say that but when I got up at 6:30am and realized the rain had stopped I went, oh no, the kitties, I’ve got to feed the kitties! Up I got, grabbed a quick bite and some water, got myself ready and out the door within 20 minutes. I am happy to report that I fed all but 2 of the kitties I normally see each morning (Midnight is never out much after dawn and my favourite Orange is still AWOL). I felt much better when I got back to the condo as I knew I had gotten in a walk and had been able to pet a bunch of my little friends.

I refuse to beat myself up because I can’t control the weather. Once the back is better, when it rains I can easily just throw in a recorded fitness class but until then if it rains I just may have to skip a walk. I won’t feel guilty about that though yes, I will feel bad about my kitties. I think that is the right thing to concern myself with.