Ever screwed up your diet?

You can’t make me work out today!

Try as hard as you can.

Remind me of

• How I’ve lost 14 pounds in 8 weeks.
• How I’ve been feeling energized.
• How I kicked ass yesterday and ran up and down stairs to catch trains without losing my breath.(According to my trusty Fitbit I climbed 13 staircases by 9am)
• How proud my Retrofit exercise coach will be when she checks my Retrofit Dashboard and finds that I did over 13k steps yesterday.

Remind me of my evening walk in the park with hubby last night, where i walked uphill to the barricade overlooking the Bronx River (another 8 staircases according to my trusty Fitbit). Never lost my breath.

 

It was a fabulous day. And I didn’t come up short of breath once because I’ve been steadily pushing myself to be active everyday. Because my Retrofit exercise coach Michelle motivates me with her encouragement and because I now have a Fitbit buddy to compete with which makes it even more fun.

 

But today, today I won’t work out. I’ll hide under my blankets now that I’m finally home from the doc.

 

Seems I’ve got a relapse of the flu, with bronchitis and a good dose of strep throat.

 

I keep glancing at the Malibu pilates pro in the corner thinking that maybe I can do 2k steps. It’ll only take about an hour. It will burn wicked calories. I can tweet while I pedal.

 

But no, I don’t think I want to do it today. I want to rest today, so I’ll be strong tomorrow to get my butt back in gear.

 

Sometimes, you’ve gotta slow down so you can rev up to kick ass.

And you know what?

That’s ok.

I was kinda beating myself up about it earlier. But I remember my Retrofit coaches telling me, some days will be good days and some days won’t be so good. Life happens. But I can’t give up.

 

Have you ever missed a day of exercising or totally dug into the junk food and then the next morning you figure, “oh well, i screwed up my diet. I’ll start again next week” and then had a 900 calorie breakfast?

I use to do that. Why? Because I was on a diet.

But I’m not now.

Now, I changing my lifestyle, building new habits.

Last Sunday I had a slice of pizza.

Then I took a long ass walk with the kids to burn it off.

I didn’t give up because I had pizza.

I just worked with it.

In life, I’m going to want to have pizza.

How do you handle your cravings? Does it set you back? Do you work out a bit more to burn it off?

I’d love to know how my peeps are coping.

 

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