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Positively Weightless

A healthy life not only means physically healthy, but mentally as well. Healthy eating, healthy exercising habits, and a positive attitude are all important and help maintain balance in life. I decided to combine my love of writing and my positivity to change the world in hopes that any reader can also become positively weightless, and lead them to a healthy life.

Well another Thanksgiving has come and gone. I do hope you all enjoyed yourself on the holiday! I sure did. I have plenty of really healthy meals planned for next week and even have two training sessions scheduled this week with my personal trainer. Although I let myself enjoy the holiday and all the yummy food that comes with it, I am fully ready and looking forward to getting back into a much healthier routine this week. I figured I would continue with the post I did last year for Thanksgiving. I wrote a post listing all of the things I was thankful for that year and I think making that an annual tradition would be a wonderful idea. 

First and foremost I am so completely thankful for all of the people in my life. Every year people come in and out of our lives, and some even return. I am at a point in my life right now that I feel perfectly content with all the people that are in my life right now. Friends come and go but the true ones will stay through thick and thin. I am so thankful that I still have such a close friendship with Danielle after we reunited last year. I am so thankful that I am so much closer with Nicole now. I am very thankful that Stephanie and I are still best friends even if we are busier with our lives right now and don't get much time for each other any more. That is to just name a few. Between friends, family, work friends etc. I could not even try to list all of the people in my life that I am so incredibly grateful to have. People come and go in our lives for a reason. It is the ones who stick around that show us just how loved we really are. 

I am incredibly thankful to have the opportunity to keep my passion alive with this blog as well. Sure this page is more of a hobby than anything, I never had any intention of this page blowing up, I have always just done it for me. I see the number of viewers every week and it makes me very happy that people are reading the words I put so much into. Sure some posts do a lot better than others. Usually if I am reviewing a book or a product. The Oola Tea review I did a few months ago still gets views weekly, but really that has never mattered to me. I have always said if one person randomly comes across my page and I can help them in some way with my words, that would mean the absolute world to me. I have always loved writing and am incredibly thankful to have the opportunity to keep that alive weekly... even if it is just for me.

I am still very thankful for the growth I continue to instill in my life. I want to continue my tradition of doing an end of the year reflection this year so I won't go too much into detail right now. Over the past year I was able to establish a much more steady blogging schedule. Not just a blogging routine though, I have also been able to get into a much better routine for my health. Sure, the holidays are going to mess that up, but getting right back on track whenever I have been able to is the most important. I have grown overall in so many different ways. I am so thankful I have been able to hang onto that and to keep my chin up even when the results weren't exactly where I wanted them to be.

Just like last year I want to encourage anyone reading this post to think about what they are thankful for. A lot of people have already done this on the holiday, but if you have not, take a few minutes and ponder. Even if you are really down on your luck right now I am sure there is something you can think of that you are thankful to have in your life. If for some reason there is something that you are thankful for but need to focus on a bit more, do just that. Call that friend or family member that you may be neglecting. Eat a few healthier meals during the week. Maybe even do a random act of kindness and give someone else something to be thankful for. I hope you all had a lovely Thanksgiving, and I just wanted to end this blog by saying how incredibly thankful I am for you for reading. 
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Well even though I promised myself I would blog every week in 2018, I broke that promise last Sunday. I had 3 out of 4 wisdom teeth removed earlier that week so I was still recovering. I had them removed on the Tuesday prior and honestly had a way better experience recovering during the week than I anticipated. Once the weekend hit, however, I was having a little more difficulty. Sunday evening came around and I honestly just did not feel great. I put off really all of my usual Sunday chores just to rest up. Along with that I made the decision that it would be better if I just skipped writing that week. I am sure you can guess where I am going with this...

 I am a pretty big fan of my routines. As I have mentioned before, Sunday is the day I meal prep, do laundry, and write for this page. I go to the gym Monday thru Thursday and have a pretty specific routine with my workouts. I even eat my meals on a pretty tight schedule as well. I am not one to usually stray from this often. Having wisdom teeth surgery and recovering from that completely threw off my routine in all aspects. Like I said I didn't do my typical Sunday activities last week. I haven't been to the gym since the Monday before my surgery because I wanted to be sure I was healed enough and fully comfortable with going back. I obviously had to totally change the foods I ate as well since there were a lot of foods I couldn't eat for a while. Cutting back on sugar basically went out the window seeing as I ate a lot of ice cream and pudding. Needless to say I haven't been on a set routine in almost two weeks now. 

Recovery was my biggest focus during these two weeks. I personally see nothing wrong with this at all. I would highly encourage you to do the same if you need to spend some time off of your typical routines. I needed to do this for a more obvious reason, but there are plenty of things that can prevent you from staying on your steady routine. Maybe you are going through something emotional. It isn't the same as a physical need to stray away of course, but sometimes we need to give ourselves a mental rest. Maybe you have been really killing it at the gym and your body just needs a bit more recovery time than you are used to. I have skipped the gym here and there on weeks where I feel a bit run down and that I could use the extra rest day. There is absolutely nothing wrong giving your body a little extra TLC.

Sometimes when we do this though guilt will follow. I know there have been weeks that like I mentioned I have skipped the gym and I immediately felt guilty about it. That I should have just sucked it up and went anyways. That is only natural I would imagine, but as long as it is a rare occurrence and you are doing it because you genuinely feel you need the rest there is no reason to feel bad about it. Am I a bit sad I had to take almost 2 weeks off of the gym? Absolutely but I know I needed to do it to allow my body to recover from surgery. Realize that you are doing what you need to do to recover yourself and make you even more ready to get right back into your routine!

I am hoping to get back to the gym tomorrow. I have a training session scheduled with my personal trainer at the new gym location. I unfortunately pulled a muscle in my lower back earlier today. It was a totally random thing, but if the muscle still feels like this tomorrow there is no way I can do all that weight training. I will play it by ear but if I do need to cancel I will not beat myself up. My body once again will need a bit of recovery time. It is also Thanksgiving week so my meals wont exactly be where I want them to be all week either. I also am not going to beat myself up over this. It is the holidays and I 100% believe that you should not deprive yourself during the holidays. It just means that next week I will be at the gym (2 training sessions scheduled for that week) and my meals will be right on point. Allow yourself to recover and jump right back in, that is fully what I plan to do as soon as I can!
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It is almost amusing where I find the inspiration for the topics for my weekly posts on this page. Sometimes I have a set idea in my mind days ahead of time, and sometimes I decide the day of. I always, however, am inspired by my daily life. This Thursday I learned that the gym I am going to and have been working with a trainer at for months now is closing. Yes, even this can inspire an entire blog post. 

Let me go a little more into detail about my reaction to this news before I get to my point. At first I was really upset. The location was just too convenient being right behind my job. I never had the chance to talk myself out of going because it was right there. Now I will have to drive to a location that's a bit out of my way and I have time to think to myself "ahh I think I am too tired to work out tonight." I also was really upset about the fact that I would most likely be losing my trainer. I don't think I mentioned this, but about a month or two ago I transferred to a different personal trainer at that gym. I was really comfortable with my first trainer at this point so the idea of starting over with a new one was a bit intimidating. I am now just as comfortable with my current trainer, so the thought of changing it up again was upsetting. There were honestly so many things going through my mind. It really is funny how one little bump in the road has the potential to throw everything off.

As I got to thinking though I started to settle down and realized it wasn't as big of a deal as I was making it out to be. Danielle, my best friend who has been my support system through and through during my journey this year reassured me that I am in a routine at this point and I won't talk myself out of going if I don't let myself. I am seeing results and want to keep them up enough at this point. She was absolutely right. As far as a trainer went I had a few options. I could either get a new one at my new location and get comfortable with them, or I could just branch out on my own with the knowledge I now have. I decided I would talk to my trainer during our session that day and we could discuss what was next. Luckily I did because he just so happens to be transferring to the same gym I was planning on, so I get to stay with him. What felt like a crisis was calming down in only a few hours.

Okay I get that this was quite the lead up, but let me get to the point here. Life throws us a lot of curveballs. Sometimes they are huge. Sometimes they are small. Sometimes they are small but we overreact in a big way. As you all know I am a firm believer that every thing in our lives happens for a reason. Yes I know I have given this example so many times I am sure you are sick of it, but losing my previous job felt like a huge  crisis. That giant curveball thrown at me only lead me to the position I am in now. If I didn't lose that job I would probably have never reconnected with Danielle, I would have never met my bosses or other work friends, and I would likely still be at a job at which I felt underappreciated and was underpaid. That was probably one of the best curveballs I could have been thrown at that point in time, and I managed to hit that ball right out of the park. 

Sure me having to change gyms and thinking I may need to change trainers is a minor crisis compared to others. There are certainly way worse things life can throw at you, but I thought the entire experience and my thought process proved an interesting point. When life throws you for a loop take a deep breath and embrace it. Realize that everything is temporary and that you will move past it. Realize that it is only a huge crisis if you let it become one. Keep your chin up and smile your way through the fear of the unknown. I honestly think it is human nature to be afraid of change and hating to stray from your routines. I cannot think of one single person in my life that doesn't have any issue when unexpected changes come their way. The most important part though is how we get through these changes. 
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