Hey, Miss J!

Sometimes failure isn’t exactly a bad thing.

Take today for example. I failed to pen out my workout regimen, however, I started verbalizing what I need to eat over the course of the day. It’s not news that I speak out loud to myself… or maybe it is.

I believe it’s a coping mechanism for me.

Without other humans to talk to, I end up having conversations with myself.

What’s even more fascinating is that I’ll state two different points of view when dealing with a situation. I don’t always go one way or the other either. Sometimes, I find myself making a compromise…

… With myself.

While I failed to even do meal planning today, I did eat mostly healthy. I snacked on some pasta tonight after I got in.

Off the exercise planning, I am happy to announce that after nearly 40 years alive – I’ve finally learned how to properly do push-ups. Modified, but it still counts. I celebrated this milestone by doing a whole ten of them.

We all must start small, after all… And my body has seriously deteriorated over the last decade.

Or two.

One of those.

Even when I was bodybuilding, it is sad to note that I was never able to do push-ups properly.

Like, at all.

I also couldn’t do pull-ups.

I still can’t… but I’m happy that I’ll be able to slowly progress with push-ups. My goal is to try to slow down or reverse the muscle loss if that’s what’s happening.

This and next week, I’ll focus primarily on the nutrition aspect of things – and the push-ups. I might add in walking. I’m not sure yet. My left calf hurts something awful.

I did a 2 mile walk on Sunday though… and I felt ‘awake’ after that, so walking might enter my regimen a lot earlier than that.

As for the PT stuff… I think near the end of November, I’ll make a call to schedule it. Hopefully by then, I’ll be able to handle the exercises. If I can find somewhere to fit in 2-3 hours free just for whatever in terms of exercise, I can do my workout and/or PT then.

ANNND… November is tomorrow – which means the start of NanoWrimo. At least, I think it still starts in November. This is fantastic, because I need a push to get me to pound out these 3 chapters for NtC.

I have to space and plan everything carefully though. I’ve already exceeded how much my hands can do in a single day between yesterday and this morning.

Still… now I want to go ahead and start working on Chapter 3 of C&R.

~J. Lyst

I’m going to be extremely careful… or at least set alerts. I don’t want to burn out anything.

In fantastic news, I finally cleaned up my office and a good chunk of my bedroom again. Trying to get the chores back on course.

Will see how it goes.

And… I suppose I need to go make a brand-new account for NanoWrimo.