Hello my friends!!! We have had a pretty mild winter so far and I am so grateful for that. The 2020 edition of Farmers' Almanac had one point predicted it to be a long, colder than normal and snow for the east. This was what I heard sometime last year. I never like hearing "colder than normal" since I am not a winter person. I hate the cold and especially the winds.
So the temperatures so far this year has been okay and I wish it would continue being normal for the rest of the winter season. Predictions are just like that and I am sure the weather forecasters can't always get it right.
So when the year started, I predicted it to be a good month in January and February for my get well/healthy plan. There is a new boot camp place that opened at the end of January and I got in for a free 30 day trial. I was doing really well, working out 5 days a week, watching my eating habits and making sure that I stay on track with my weight loss plan until.... I injured myself.
2 weeks into the boot camp while working on my core, I did something that caused my lower back to really hurt. Went for an X-ray and turns out I have a really bad muscle sprain!! ouch!!!
I predicted that this going to be a really good winter season where I will hit my weight loss goal and get fit. That just got thrown out the window. Just when I started going and feeling good, it all ends for now at least.
I am recovering slowly but surely. It has been a really tough month and I struggled to even move and get in and out of the car or go upstairs. I had to show up at work (we don't have a work from home policy) where it was really tough to sit down for long periods of time. People at work seemed to care, but my boss not so much. The lack of empathy in leaders really gets to me but that's a topic for another time.
When you hurt your back, it is really difficult to get back on track and truly limits your movement. But like anything, time is a good healer and with time my back will also heal, albeit slowly but surely.
I am definitely going to be careful and not do too much at one time but everything happens for a reason and I believe my back muscle sprain was a lesson that I needed to slow down, take it easy and more importantly not push myself so hard at the gym and to be careful with my own predictions.
I can and am grateful in a way that it happened. One of my goals is to always find something to be grateful for especially when things don't always work out the way you expect it to. I am grateful that it gave me a chance to slow down, to be thankful that my injury is not more serious, thankful to my husband who has been taking care of the kids, the groceries, letting me rest and thankful that I get to sleep in the mornings.
See you can always find things to be grateful for even if you think there is nothing to be grateful for. In some cases, it may take awhile to find gratitude but there is always that hope. I have also learned that even though this pushed me further out from reaching my weight loss goals, I am now more then ever ready and motivated. I think my muscle sprain was a lesson that I needed to strengthen myself even more and get my core stronger. It showed how out of shape I am and that I really need to focus on strength.
So I may have predicted it being a good winter and now that I write this, I actually do feel that my prediction was right in many ways that I did not realize or want to admit. Ah!! this shows how hard I was on myself!!! Yikes, I do have to give me some slack!!!
Part of living fully is also not being so hard on yourself. If I am hard on myself and my body, then I will really have a hard road ahead of myself. I need to remember that I am the only one who can love myself and my body and no one, not anyone person out there will love me as much as I love myself. It all starts with Self. Isn't that true for all of us?
So I am going to heal and I hope to be able to write really soon about my return to the boot camp and my goals. I know I will.
Its great to make predictions as long as we hold it lightly.
Wish you peace and love my friends!
Peace,
Monita
