Fitness.

So, I'm trying this new thing. A blog a week is my new goal. And I figure I might do better with said goal if I cut myself some slack. Not every blog is going to be very long, because I want to get in the habit of regularly writing. So, suffice it to say I no longer work at Suki's, and I am instead working at a wonderful thai restaurant. I get free thai food. It's lovely.

Today my blog is about fitness. I really want to be the type of person who is super in shape, and I always make these grandiose fitness plans which involve daily workouts and diet plans, long-term goals, calorie counting and timing and improving. I'm a planner, I'm a schemer, I'm an obsessive day-dreamer! (excuse the rhyme, please.) But these grandiose plans almost always fail. I will stick with it passionately for a week, maybe two--maybe a month if I'm lucky--and then some life situation will give me the perfect excuse to stop. The last excuse was a sprained ankle. I know, it's a pretty good excuse not to work out. But still. Today I did my first yoga workout in over a month, and I had to take it really slow, because some angles just aren't quite jiving yet with Mr. Ankle-of-the-sprain-and-contusion (still don't know what 'contusion' means). I had to really, really, REALLY listen to my body in order to work out without injuring myself yet again. And I found that this was incredibly helpful. What if, instead of making long-term plans and schedules and calorie counters, I just listened to my body on a day-to-day basis, and did what I, with my limited knowledge, knew to be best for it on any given day? When I do get a workout in, I feel great afterwards. When I do eat healthily, I feel great afterwards. If I focused on each individual day--living in the present instead of being trapped in a never-ending and oft-ambiguous future--then my long term goals will, most likely, sort of work themselves out. But if I focus on making plans and continually failing at them, I will just be a person who fails all the time. And that's no fun. Nor does it really get the point of what healthy living is supposed to be about. It's supposed to be about health (go figure).

So, my new goal (besides blogging once a week) is healthy living. I'm going to take it one day at a time, and I'm going to listen to my body. Because I'm finding more and more that my body knows generally what it needs...it's me that tends to get in the way.