As I suspected I couldnt get a run in today due to my work schedule...bummer! I was on the go non-stop and didnt even get my breaks. But I did get a bit of a workout in regardless. I manage rec sites and trails for my job and today I had to deliver a culvert and structure to one of my contractors. I knew he wasnt going to be home but I had told him not to worry I could manage things on my own. Well apparently I vastly underestimated the size and weight of the things I was delivering! I had them put on the truck with a forklift and decided I would just figure out how to get them off when I got there...(smart I know). Well I got to his house climbed in the back of the truck and attempted to shove the culvert out and it would not budge. It also happen to be sitting on top of the structure so I couldnt remove it. I tried taking the walls off the side of the truck to roll it off but the weight of the culvert was holding them down. The dumping mechanism on the truck is broken and I was starting to panic. I had driven an hour and a half to this spot I did not want to turn around at take it all back to the office.
Thankfully I managed to find a way to flip it end over end and off the truck. Then I was able to roll it where it needed to go. Next I hauled the 4 wooden walls, floor and ceiling off too. I was beat! Took me about 30 mins and I definitely got my strength training in today!
(woohoo...got it done!)
This morning when I opened Facebook I was shown a "memory" from 8 years ago today. It was a picture of me from when I was at my heaviest. It made me reflect a bit on how far I have come on this journey. So, I thought I would post some then and now photos. I hesitate to call them "before and after" because I think weight loss and fitness is a ongoing and not something I am done with (now or ever).
The first pic was me running a triathlon in 2008 and I was about 170lbs and the second picture is running a 12k race in 2016 at 138lbs.
The first one is from 2007 and I was also around 170 and the second one was last month at 137. It took me a long time to come to the realization that in order to be where I like to be physically, calorie counting and exercise need to be something I commit to doing continuously. I was always trying to lose weight thinking that when I hit a magic number I would somehow be able to stop and maintain that weight. But now I know that I need to track my intake, commit to my meal planning and home-cooked meals forever. Exercise including strength training has become a habit and I dont always want to do it, but I just do because its what I need to do to be where I like to be.
The other thing I've realized is there will be fluctuations and not to beat myself up. I will go on vacation or eat too much over Christmas and see a gain on the scale. But I cant let that set me up for a cycle of punishing myself through deprivation and then binge-ing. I just need to get back on track and know that as long as I put in the effort I can get back to where I like to be quite quickly.
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