Wordless Wednesday –

Again, not sure what the title means, but a lot of bloggers use it, so I am being cool too!

So I was in a bit of a funk for a bit, past 2-3 weeks.  I wasn’t feeling good physically – not sick, just tired, I wasn’t sleeping good, and I just didn’t want to do anything.  I didn’t want to go out to volleyball, I went there not in a good mood, I didn’t have much fun, and didn’t want to be around people.  Same thing on Saturday – I just wasn’t feeling it.  Since I started running more and more I have been very diligent about taking my iron pills.  Recently, when I was tired I was OCD about taking the pills – and even increased from at least 2 pills a day to 3.  That didn’t help, so I don’t think that was it. 

Sunday after the half marathon I felt better mentally, but I was still exhausted physically.  This week I started taking 20-30 minute walks on my lunch break to get away from my desk and give my mind a break.  Plus, it is pretty by the lake.  Monday I pretty much took the evening off and last night I didn’t go to my lifting class or spin class.  I went to the gym and got in a good workout (4 mile run, 20 minute stairs, and lifted arms), but doing that instead of the classes got me home 2 hours earlier.  Watered the lawn, cooked dinner and lunch for today and relaxed.  The past two nights, I have slept great and my workout yesterday felt good.  Solid run, stair machine kicked my a$$ in a good way, and I felt my arms got a good workout – 4 machines at 3 sets of 10. 

I also got a bit off track on my eating, I wasn’t eating bad, just not as good as I had been previously.  I was eating too much candy at work.  I made meat and veggies with brown rice on Monday and turkey burgers last night.  That will be most of my meals this week.  I have almost 100% given up pop – I have one cup of coffee in the morning.  Still not great, but I control the amount of sugar I put in it.  Been being diligent about getting enough water the past 2 days.

Not sure what was going on the past few weeks, but I think it was a combination of things going on in life, doing too much, and not eating all that good.  All of that lead to not sleeping, and me being in a funk.  Research states it takes anywhere from 21-66 days to make a habit, yet it only takes 1 day to get out of a habit – doesn’t seem fair. 

Back to feeling good!