Getting out the Door

I posted on Facebook the other day (with a picture of a runner) that the hardest thing was getting out the front door.

Sometimes I lie to myself.  Sometimes it isn't getting out the front door that is hard, sometimes getting out of bed is hard.  Today for instance I really wanted to get up early and walk the dogs and then start my day.  The thing is, every fiber of my body was hurting and I just wanted one more hour of sleep.  I did feel better when I finally got up, but I also did not get that walk in yet today.

When a longtime friend of mine saw the getting out the door post, he said the hardest part is starting over again, and again and again.  It is so hard to look at the yoyo of weight loss and know that while you have no desire within you to try one more time - you simply have to.  The fact that your knees hurt and and you feel stiff after sitting is just your body's way of saying, "Hey!  You gained all this weight so now you are gonna have to do some stuff for all of us to feel better again."

We all want to love ourselves and we want to feel good.  We want to live good productive, ACTIVE lives, but after a lifetime of running up against those windmills it can be overwhelming.

SOOOOOO - we might indulge ourselves a bit in some down-time, but better to take a walk, even a short one and get the body moving.  My problem is I tend to be all or nothing.  It makes it hard  on my body to bounce back.  It is time though once again to push my self just a bit and make a few good choices each day so that eventually getting out of bed or out the door won't be the hardest thing.

Here is to one more time.