Excuses

"You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself"
               - Geneen Roth


That is a quote from the book Women Food and God; which I started reading after my last post. It definitely relates to my topic this week

I'm not sure if any of you have gone through this before but have you ever gotten to the gym and just sat in your car literally trying to convince yourself why you should not go? As if you could come up with some legitimate excuse for not exercising?! Really?! Well this has happened to me many of times on my various health trends but this time it was a bit different. I actually was trying to use the excuse that I couldn't do high intense workouts yet (because of my lungs); for not going. I was thinking what is the point? It's not like it will actually make a difference? In the back of my mind I knew I was full of s*** but it's always just been easier to come up with some excuse, because then you don't feel any guilt.

Thankfully I quickly snapped out of it after seeing a couple more people pull in the parking lot and get out of the car with their workout gear; and they did so without pondering a good excuse for not going!

I know everyone is going to have "those days" where you find it hard to get motivated, and it's very easy to come up with excuses but nothing beats that feeling after you finish a workout; regardless of how intense it was.