I’ve just been pampered within an inch of my life, and I’m feeling sooo relaxed. I made a deal with myself at the beginning of the week that providing I delivered on both the diet and exercise front, every day, today was going to be payback and I’m here to tell you, I cashed in good and proper 🙂
It’s been a bit of a breakthrough week for me. Actually more than a bit. I’m feeling knackered, but knackered in a good way. I’d booked the week off work with the intention of having a nice rest, because the run up to the end of the year at work was so busy, and I needed to recharge my batteries you know? And if I’m honest, what that’s normally looked like for me is a week in the armchair watching endless TV whilst eating my way through endless junk. To me, that was relaxing.
Not this week. This week I’ve got to grips with my hurt machine after it got assembled on Monday, and I’ll remember the euphoria of completing ten whole minutes for a good old while. I might only be able to manage ten minutes at a time, but ten minutes twice a day is two hours and twenty minutes a week of hard yards that I wasn’t doing before. And I’ve walked with the dog every day, around three miles. So since I finished work a week ago that’s more than twenty miles.
It’s been the kind of weather that in the past would’ve had me turning the heating up a notch and thinking not for me, maybe later, but typically, the armchair/junk food combo – and the resulting food coma – would have meant ‘later’ almost certainly did not involve walking far from the fridge. This week I togged up and walked. We can’t have had more than a five minute break in the rain all week, so every day I’ve arrived home afterwards cold and very wet, but still I walked. Even on the two days this week where my knee was giving me hell, I walked.
Saying all this out loud, is making me think that maybe someone stole the real me? It’s like I’ve discovered another gear that I’ve not used before, and I’m not sure where it really came from unless maybe it’s a mixture of knowing I’ve gone public with my commitment to do the trek in October, and knowing that this award malarkey has pushed the blog onto something of a platform so I have to bring my A game.
I was freaking out a bit earlier in the week because I didn’t know how to dig deep but I’m starting to think that no matter how elusive the theory, when you know you have to, you just can..? It seems a bit too good to be true so I’ll continue to test the theory.
So, I’ve had a lovely head massage and a facial as well as my usual manicure. It was my way of saying thank you to this knackered old body for pulling it out of the bag this week. And much as I’d love to round off my Saturday by chilling out in the chair with a bit of TV, I have to walk the dog.
Just for a change, it’s raining 🙂
Nice!!! Well deserved!
You certainly deserved some pampering! I’ve never had a manicure or pedicure because I walk past those places and can’t stand the overpowering chemical smell. All the girls that work there wear little nose/mouth masks but I don’t imagine it blocks the smell much.
Oh my days, it’s a shame you can’t come and be pampered where I go…it smells like heaven in there!
This is what you find when you finally reach the “I have had it, and I’m going to change” stage, and you really mean it. You find you do have it, and the change happens.
Several times, i said i was going to change, and i did for a short while, but i hadn’t reached bedrock and it didn’t stick. When it reaches bedrock like this, it sticks.
Congratulations!
Thank you Mimi! I can’t ever take it for granted you know? In the past it’s disappeared as quick as a flash…I’m quietly hopeful this time is it though…the last time 🙂
I’m so proud of you – so happy for you! You’ve done BEAUTIFULLY. So glad you booked that time off to give you time to focus on YOU and get over the hump! Now it’s just your new normal – and you can do normal and work at the same time right? Of course you can!
i’ve been voting like mad – when’s the competition over?
Thanks Cherie! (preens) I didn’t do half bad this week did I! And thanks for all the votes…I think it runs till the 25th which seems long, but there are a lot of blogs! Really appreciate your support, you’ve all been awesome 🙂
Hee-hee-hee… I know something about what wk 3 & 4 & mid-May & late July will feel like. No, you wouldn’t believe it if i did tell you.
Oh, wtf: remember the voices that were saying, You’re going to love it – well, i predict that any time work-family-life-logistics makes you reschedule your work out, you’re gonna miss it!
Incentive to shoe-horn the exercise into your day is BUILT IN. See? it’s sorcery. Soooo cool.
Good for you, Doll! You made my day again. Love, Fleury
Haw, bless you Fleury…dunno about missing it, but the Asshole has been very subdued…p’raps he’s just working on his next campaign! D x
You slapped down the asshole voice this week, I shouldn’t wonder he is chastened. Voted today, thanks for the reminder in yr post: it is NEVER unwelcome.
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Thanks Fleury! And I’m glad you said that, about the reminder…I sometimes feel like I’m shamelessly hawking for votes and that makes me twitchy! x