5 AM Workout

I've known for awhile that I need to get back to working out early in the morning, rather than wait until after school. It seems to happen almost every year for me, that once the cold hits, I have such a hard time getting out of bed in the morning! It doesn't help that I don't have a garage, so if there's frost, I have to take the time to scrape my windshield. But excuses, excuses. I'm very good at making them.

Tina from Best Body Fitness posted a very honest blog post on binge eating, that really hit home to me. I said before that I didn't want to post, if I couldn't say anything nice at all. I've been struggling immensely with wanting to eat everything in sight, out of stress, depression, loneliness, or whatever other feelings are mixed in there. I had a training session on Sunday, and told her I didn't want to know my weight, so I didn't look. She told me "I didn't want to know," which I know can't mean anything good. At some point I have to get to a place where I want to get back on track. It's like I've been in a "funk" that I can't get out of. And I just keep sinking lower and lower, and lower until, just like I've done in the past, I've gained the weight back that I worked so hard to lose. I haven't done that, yet.... but it's quite a bit of a slippery slope for me, that I'm borderline. I actually took yesterday off of exercising, partially b/c my back was sore from my workout on Sunday with my trainer, and partially b/c I just didn't want to. Excuses, Excuses.

Well, today I finally got my hiney out of bed and exercised at 5 a.m.!! It helped that it was high 30's and no frost on the window.... I did the elliptical for 30 minutes and the stationary bike for 30 minutes. I was extremely stiff and sore (especially after taking yesterday off), but I think that I got a halfway decent workout in.

I really need to work on saying NO today, with eating just to eat.

So, on to the rest of the day...