Day 18: Bye-Bye Neurotic Workouts and Double Workouts

Today's vegan bites include:

1.) 1/2 an ear of corn

2.) Apples (2)

3.) Small, dark chocolate squares (3)

4.) Spinach & mushroom spaghetti with soy white wine sauce

5.) Rice Dream Frozen Pie - Vanilla

(115lbs and 22.1% body fat)

So since the pledge, working out hasn't been all that important to me. Actually, I'd say for quite some time now, even before learning of the pledge, working out hasn't been my highest priority. Tack on the pledge and all the activity associated with it such as weighing myself in the morning, finding time to jot some notes down in this blog, video recording something/anything, and uploading it, and daily trips to Whole Foods, well, working out gets pushed to the bottom of a very long list.

Even yoga, which is so critical to my well-being, which, by the way, I also don't consider "working out," hasn't been happening. I noticed I barely get two yoga sessions in a week when prior to the pledge, I'd be certain to get four.

I surprisingly feel pretty good though. If I didn't feel good, I'd blame not feeling good on not working out and so I'd go workout. And it's not like I couldn't use a workout (or tons of workouts!) to reshape and re-sculpt, but I'm not obsessed about it; I'm not even worried about it.

Anyhow, the whole point of what I'm trying to say is that I worked out today and it feels good!!I forget how good it feels to actually lift some weights and feel your muscles contract. It's so easy too. Working out really doesn't take as much effort as I always think it does.

It's funny, I'm going to Maui in exactly one week. Typically, the three weeks prior to a vacation, I'm neurotic about my workouts because I want to "get my body" to a certain place. I'd dread getting into a bikini and so I come up with a 5-times-a-week workout plan and include a double workout a day or two each week. But now, nope. It's a week before my trip and I'm still drinking alcohol and eating Rice Dream frozen pies and cookies and pastries. And I love it! And I'm not stopping or even curbing. I mean, I know my body could use some serious re-sculpting for bikini season, but I'm surprisingly not trying to look any way. I feel good and not looking "as-good" isn't interrupting my feeling good. Odd, huh? But, that's just where I'm at. I definitely won't be owning the pool but who needs to? I mean, seriously, who needs to?