Remember, the sleep over games where the first person who fell asleep would get an item of clothing frozen during the night. Well, today, Friday February 22 was quite similar, the weather was HORRIBLE. It was  like an iced blanket from a young girl’s sleep over.  We had a BLANKET of ice over our cars, roads and trees. It was reminiscent of when my college roommates took me “skating” on the pond in college for the first time. We were in our sneakers and just slid around the ice, twirling and laughing! This morning, I was sliding to the car to get it started (no twirling this time), enlisting help to chip away the ice (not the same fun as college) but a necessary thing to do.

Since this was the weather at early-thirty, I was able to get some lifting in at the gym. I was able to work for ME! This does not happen often, unless I focus my time and energy to accomplish it. It was while I was attempting to work that my body was not responding the way I thought it would. It felt more like an iced wet frozen blanket. Taking time to think, I realized that I have let my diet go…slightly. Date night with hubby included the WHOLE bread basket with butter, fried onion pedals, a brownie sundae, you get the idea! It is amazing how bad eating habits can make you feel, even days later. While I was lifting the same weight as before the date, it felt HARDER today. I thought these weights must be marked wrong, they are TOO heavy.

NOPE, it was not the weights. It was me. I had given up my focus on my goal and given into my earlier eating habits. The effects were not felt immediately, but a few days later. I compare this to the wet heavy blanket of ice that is covering the town. It will melt away, and the day will get better. The lifting I pushed through and it did get better. I am sore, I made it through. I was able to push my body to do something it did not feel like. This feeling of BLAH was totally NOT worth it. This is going to be put into the memory banks, so that I do not have to feel like a frozen wet blanket of ice myself, even on days that look like it!

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