Daily Archives: January 9, 2016

Who Stole The Real Me!

thief

I’ve just been pampered within an inch of my life, and I’m feeling sooo relaxed. I made a deal with myself at the beginning of the week that providing I delivered on both the diet and exercise front, every day, today was going to be payback and I’m here to tell you, I cashed in good and proper 🙂

It’s been a bit of a breakthrough week for me. Actually more than a bit. I’m feeling knackered, but knackered in a good way. I’d booked the week off work with the intention of having a nice rest, because the run up to the end of the year at work was so busy, and I needed to recharge my batteries you know? And if I’m honest, what that’s normally looked like for me is a week in the armchair watching endless TV whilst eating my way through endless junk. To me, that was relaxing.

Not this week. This week I’ve got to grips with my hurt machine after it got assembled on Monday, and I’ll remember the euphoria of completing ten whole minutes for a good old while. I might only be able to manage ten minutes at a time, but ten minutes twice a day is two hours and twenty minutes a week of hard yards that I wasn’t doing before. And I’ve walked with the dog every day, around three miles. So since I finished work a week ago that’s more than twenty miles.

It’s been the kind of weather that in the past would’ve had me turning the heating up a notch and thinking not for me, maybe later, but typically, the armchair/junk food combo – and the resulting food coma – would have meant ‘later’ almost certainly did not involve walking far from the fridge. This week I togged up and walked. We can’t have had more than a five minute break in the rain all week, so every day I’ve arrived home afterwards cold and very wet, but still I walked. Even on the two days this week where my knee was giving me hell, I walked.

Saying all this out loud, is making me think that maybe someone stole the real me? It’s like I’ve discovered another gear that I’ve not used before, and I’m not sure where it really came from unless maybe it’s a mixture of knowing I’ve gone public with my commitment to do the trek in October, and knowing that this award malarkey has pushed the blog onto something of a platform so I have to bring my A game.

I was freaking out a bit earlier in the week because I didn’t know how to dig deep but I’m starting to think that no matter how elusive the theory, when you know you have to, you just can..? It seems a bit too good to be true so I’ll continue to test the theory.

So, I’ve had a lovely head massage and a facial as well as my usual manicure. It was my way of saying thank you to this knackered old body for pulling it out of the bag this week. And much as I’d love to round off my Saturday by chilling out in the chair with a bit of TV, I have to walk the dog.

Just for a change, it’s raining 🙂

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