Starting Over

Today marks the one year of anniversary of the first P90X workout I did.  How can I be so sure it was a year ago today?  Am I that kind of freak that remembers such random dates?  Was that first workout THAT memorable?  The answers to the last two questions are yes and no.  Yes, I normally do remember random meaningless dates for no reason, and no the workout was not that memorable, and this particular date did NOT remain in my memory bank.  It just so happened I started at the end of the last school year, and i went back into my archive to see when I had started blogging about my exercising and I noticed it had been a year ago today.  Coincidence?  Not completely.  What was a coincidence is that I received a reply to my blog on “Ink and the NBA”, and it came from a site stating “Lose 30 pounds in 30 days”.  I really hate getting these comments on my blogs from “mass commentors” who are only trying to advertise their products, and send such generic messages such as, “I learned a lot from this entry, I think I’ll come back.”   It’s a good thing I moderate these comments because 9 out of 10 of the comments I get are like this!  Still, I found it interesting that I received one from a weight loss site on the anniversary of my decision to get back in shape.

Now, I’ve been trying to get back into my fitness regimen for  some time now, and if this isn’t a call to do so, I don’t know what is.  Coincidences happen, but sometimes they happen at just too opportune a time for one to think they are 100% coincidence. (“God incidence”, anyone?)  I do happen to believe that God is involved in me staying on track on a daily basis.  And I do believe that he speaks to me.  I had just asked Him to help me get my lazy butt off the couch and suddenly I get this odd comment on a blog site I had stopped using for over two months, and only recently chose to reenter, and the message is received moments after I realized it had been exactly one year since I began my quest for a better me. (Go back and read my blogs and you’ll realize it wasn’t only about a more physically fit me)  And, no I don’t need to lose 30 pounds in thirty days, but the message is clear.  Get up and start working.  Just a few days ago I wrote about my new endeavor to train for the team relay, and yet I hadn’t made the time to run yet.  True, I was finishing the work for my “end of the year” at CCHS, and I just finished grading my last paper last night, but nonetheless I hadn’t started running.  And now that I have no more papers to grade, I am out of excuses! 

So today, I work out!  I am not waiting until Monday.  That’s so cliche!  Everybody waits until Monday, and if on Monday something happens, they wait a WHOLE ‘nother week before they can begin again.  And if they mess up on Wednesday, they give up for the remainder of the week and begin the following Monday.  I know people who have been starting a workout program or a diet every Monday for the last six and a half years!  Forget Monday!  Let’s do this together!  Let’s get off of our lazy butts and begin today!!  Who’s with me?  I knew it! The toilet plunger people will join me.  I know it because I’m on the verge of getting another response from them about how “this blog makes sense” (it would be their fourth).  Well, those plunger people are going to have ROCK HARD ABS, and may have to join me on my race across Florida.

SO LET’S BEGIN.  SAY NO TO THE COUCH, AND SAY YES TO THE OUCH!!!  And take your “before” pics today so that in 90 days you will see how you too have been transformed.  I’m taking my pics the second I get home!

LET’S GO!