I haven't planned this blog entry. I haven't written notes or anything. I'm just coming from the heart on this one. Shooting from the hip, as it were.
I am a human being - prone to failures and fallings. Recently, I've been mired in a bit of self-imposed guilt-ridden laziness that has prevented me from doing the things that are necessary to be effective as a mouthpiece on this website. Alice and I were talking yesterday about how much easier writing for Wo40.com is when we're in the gym. Until just a couple weeks ago, we weren't even members of a gym; we let our membership expire about a year ago. After that membership expired, it was just a matter of attrition that stopped our writing about fitness related activities.
Our diet soon followed our exercise patterns and subsequently went to hell.
Now, that's not to say we've stopped exercising and given up totally on our health. Not at all. We still train in karate at least 3 days a week in addition to walking all over - to the store, to the post office, to the bank. Physically we're not in a bad way. We're just not training as hard as we could (or should).
Now, before people write this entry off as a "poor poor pitiful me" post, let me clear up the intent of this post: We are normal people living in a normal world with normal issues. When I read other fitness blogs, I'm sometimes led to believe that everyone else has got it all together - that they never stray from their diet and never miss a day in the gym. The truth of the matter is likely that they (those other bloggers) are likely no different from us. There are ups. There are downs. There are times when they wonder why in the hell they're going through the pain of exercising. There are times when they eat like crap. The difference is that they might not talk about it publicly.
I'm here to tell you that Alice and I are not paragons of healthy virtue. We eat junk. We drink soda. But those activities do not define us as voices in the fitness world. Eating the way I do, I still come in at under 200 pounds because I work exceptionally hard in the dojo (my karate training hall). Alice is still a lean mom of 4 that a good many women envy for the size 4 she wears. She, too, works incredibly hard in the dojo, despite injury setbacks and a conflicting work schedule.
So, we're fairly normal. Our chief goal is to be better today than we were yesterday.
If that's all you ever ask of yourself, then you're on a pretty good path.
Be well!
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