🚨 I wanted to quit today (again)- but I didn’t.
- Arlene Gaylord
- 5 minutes ago
- 2 min read
239 weeks.
1,673 days.
40,152 hours.
2.4 million minutes.
🚴♀️🏃🏻♀️🚣🏻♀️ That’s my current Peloton™️ streak and to me it is so much more than just a number. It signifies the daily choice I make to choose discipline over comfort.
Let's be real for a moment. Making good choices is hard. Especially when I’m:
😩 Sore
🥱 Tired
🍕 Hungry (news flash- your girl is ALWAYS hungry)
I’ve made a commitment to three basic but bold choices every single day:
🥗 1. Eat with intention.
End the day in a caloric deficit and log everything that I consume. No skipping the truth. Elimination diets do not work for me. I love a donut 🍩, ice cream 🍦 or pizza 🍕 once in a while!
🏃♀️ 2. Move for 30 minutes every single day.
No matter what. No matter where. No matter how I feel. Movement is medicine. It was hard before I retired when I had to be up at 0400 to get my workout in. Now that I am retired, that has shifted to a beautiful 0800 start time. Sometimes I struggle to just get up and show up but once I am doing the thing and wake up- it's ON. One thing's for sure. Once I am done with a work out, I have never regretted it.
😴 3. Sleep 8 hours.
A rested mind and body is a resilient one. Sleep fuels every other goal I have. Again, this has shifted from going to bed earlier than most junior high schoolers (8:30 pm) to a crazy (for me) 11:00 pm.
That's it! Eat. Sleep. Move. Three simple words- none of them easy, but all of them possible.
These are the choices that build strength, inside and out. They’re not glamorous. They’re not always fun. But they’re worth it. Someday, I will look back and I’ll be glad I didn’t quit.
Today? I already am.
