I can’t believe it’s been another 6 months that I haven’t blogged!

I’ll admit it was because I was busy taking care of everyone and everything else except myself.

I was in a good routine of lifting and eating well.  Then the holidays approached and I was busy with work, family, holidays, tri club, and everything else.  No time for the gym.  No time to cook.  No time to think about my own health.

I finally got back on the gym bandwagon around February.  But things have still been on and off.

Work’s been crazy.  There have been so many days that I’ve gotten off work super late and have been too tired to do anything but grab fast food on the way home, then go to bed.

My volunteer work with my tri club’s been crazy.  We have so many new volunteers and so few people to show them the ropes!  I’m hoping all our newbs have it handled from here on out because I’m feeling the volunteer burnout.

I’ve started another lifting program- Jamie Eason’s LiveFit trainer.  It’s more of a bodybuilding routine, which I’m surprised I’m liking!  It’s a pretty high volume program, though, so we’ll see where this takes me!

I’m in Phase 2 right now, and I’ll admit I’m falling a bit behind.  It’s 6 workouts a week, and I’ve been averaging closer to 4-5.  It might not have been the best program for me given my work and volunteer commitments, but I’m losing weight and getting stronger.  So in that sense, it’s working as planned even though I’m not following it strictly.

It’d be really interesting to see my results if I can do it as directed!  In the meantime, I’ve already been researching other programs to do after this one, that are closer to 3-4x/week.  That’d be more manageable!

In any case, my main reason for posting today is to record that I’m going to commit to take time out for myself, regardless of how busy things get!  I need to make healthy eating and working out a priority.  Period!