Another rough day. I still felt sick. So even though I slept over 8 hours last night, I decided not to go workout at 5am. My alarm went off. I ran through my routine, but I just didn’t feel good. Went back to sleep and woke up at 7am. I forced myself to get ready for work. The good thing is that at lunch I felt well enough to hit the gym. I mean something was still off, but I thought I might feel better after working out.

Ran 2 miles. Not too fast. But definitely had a good sweat going. Did some core, legs, and a little bit of upper body strength training. Not a hard workout. Just something to get blood flowing and break a sweat. I think it helped a little.

But the important thing is that I got it done! That plus. I’ve been consistent about working out. And when I weighed myself, I was pretty surprised that I’m down to 202. Bye bye 205 plateau!

Sharing the difficulties and hardships of this journey to create my new morning routine is one of the things that I wanted to be real about. I didn’t only want to share the good, when I was feeling strong, but also the tough days, when I’m feeling really crappy. But that’s the truth in life. We always have highs and lows as we move forward. That’s just the nature of the process. The key is to keep going, persevere, keep trying to do better, and eventually you accomplish your goal.

Tomorrow’s Friday. All I have to do is one strong early morning workout and I can earn my rest days.

I’ll see you back at the starting line tomorrow.