Okay- so I am just like all of you.  I have my good days and my bad.  I was so on track with the gym until I had to go to DC for a conference last week.  Work was so crazy that I skipped the gym three days in a row.  And then I got laryngitis.  I couldn’t speak at all; my husband was thrilled!   I don’t believe in working out while sick so I gave my body the rest it needed to heal.  And now I am healed.  Time to get back to the gym…

I think I snoozed 14 times this morning.  I really didn’t want to get up.  It is amazing how easily you can get out of your usual routine.  When I am on a working out regimen, I love it.  I actually look forward to sweating all my stress out.  But take a few days off and, poof, the desire to exercise evaporates.

That’s what happened this morning.  I lay in bed thinking of every possible excuse not to work out.  I had work to do.  I needed to write another blog post.  I needed to return phone calls.  I had to run those errands I never have time for.  And on and on it went.  Until I dragged myself out of bed and into my exercise clothes.

Usually, in this situation, once I get to the gym, I am fine.  Not today.  Every second of my favorite class was torture.  I don’t think my eyes strayed from the clock on the wall.  Twice I thought about walking out.

But I didn’t.  I stuck it out.  And when class was (finally) over, something miraculous happened.  I felt great!  My endorphins were flowing and my heart was pumping.  I was so glad that I had worked out.  Even better, I started to look forward to tomorrow’s workout.  I don’t see patients on Wednesdays so I have a little extra time for the gym.  I am going to take a spin class and then a yoga class.  I can’t wait.

Not only that, my desire to eat healthy returned.  Yesterday, I couldn’t force myself to eat my usual healthy lunch.  I was craving carbs.  Today, I grabbed a california roll made with brown rice and some seaweed salad.  There was no way I was going to blow my workout by stuffing my body with garbage.

The bottom line: push yourself to get to the gym.  I promise that after a workout or two, you will start to look forward to it.  Your body will even start to crave the exercise.  Give it a chance… you won’t regret it.

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