Staying Focused

Ever have trouble staying focused on your goals? How about your health goals? Sometimes life can through you a curve ball you never expected. Those curve balls can be anything from a job change to sickness or injuries or, well, just life in general. Not sure if you have even read my last post on here or not but you can see that it's been months since my last post. The Reason?

Well last November I came down with Mono. Let me tell you that at age 53 that was not fun and I was about 60 days into my P90 workouts. Then I had 2 relapses with it during the months of December and the first of January. Let me tell you that was a really big curve ball for me. I tried twice to ease back into my workouts only to get knocked to the ground each time. My Doctor told me "Activity as tolerated". My response, "That's what you told me last time and I'm back in here".

So, I thought about my goal of getting healthy and how this was effecting me. I remembered that I wanted to change the lifestyle that lead to my being over weight. That change would then in turn change my weight. So, over the next 6 weeks I focused on my diet and making plans to go back to my workouts the middle of March. During that time I started loosing weight again with the help of "Shakeology", which is a protein drink from BeachBody. Then in March I started working out 3 days a week without doing any weight training. Last week I started working out 6 days a week and still trying to stay away from any weight training. Yes I'm now gun-shy about having another relapse. Next week I'm planning on going back with the full P90X program.

So here is the update on my progress. Since I started working again on my diet with the Shakeology and very slow workouts I have now lost another 12 lbs, which brings me to a total weight loss of 27 lbs since I started this transformation. I just returned home from shopping because I don't have any more clothes that fit. To top off all of this, my wife has decided to join me by starting P90 next week. Life is about to become better than it has ever been.

Let me close this by saying that I was able to keep from becoming discouraged because of having the right goals to start with. We all get sick, injured or whatever. It's those curve balls life throws at us. The way to deal with those curve balls is to remember there are more pitches to come and also more innings in the game than just the one we are in today. Keep swinging and remember why you decided to even walk up to the plate. Mine was to get out of the dugout and into the game. So, today I took another swing and I actually hit one out of the park. Now my wife is coming up to bat. I plan on being her biggest fan.

Just my thoughts,

PH