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Learning to focus

The first time in a very long time I have stuck to an exercise and healthy eating regimen for 3 weeks and I'm super proud of myself.  I'm thick headed and it takes me a long time to remember what is important and I when I get off track I really get off track.  I have been letting work rule my life for a very long time.  Work stopped me from doing Ironman Texas 2018 earlier this year and it's been downhill since.  I contiue to struggle with that decision and I'm realizing how much it pisses me off that I let that take something away from me.  So the only way to get past this is to get back to putting myself first.

Tomorrow I turn 48 and I know that I have wasted many of my years doing things I didn't want to do.

I want to make that turn, and I want it to be a permanent turn.  I am my happiest when I focus on me, being healthy and enjoying life.  Work is work, it will never give me as much gratification as I get from taking care of myself, so here we go again on this journey.

In the past 3 weeks I have done the following:
  • Worked out at least 4+ days a week
  • Eaten healthier - reducing the # of trips to the vending machine
  • Reduced evening / bored snaking
  • Eaten healtier if I had a work lunch that required me to eat in a restauraunt
  • Only had 1 splurge meal
  • Started taking vitamin

I'm going to finish this improved week out with a bike ride this afternoon and a 4 mile run tomorrow.

Next week I'll be in India for work travel and plan to workout every day that I'm not traveling.  This will not only help pass the time, improve my mood but hopefully also help me sleep.

Decisions about racing will come later, the goal right now is to lose the weight, increase workouts (time, distance, strength, etc) and start focusing on me.

I know I want to race again and I know I want to do another Ironman, but with our decision to put the house on the market later this year and then move to North Carolina I'll have to see what life brings.

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