21 Day Fix – Day 1
Starting a new weight loss program is a lot like trying to
make it to church on a Sunday Morning.
Not for those people who are always at church on Sunday - for them, it’s
easy. But for those people who want to get started - for them, from Saturday
evening through Sunday morning is a series of problems all trying to keep them
from getting out their door in the morning. Late night movies, friends with problems, sick
children, over sleeping, car problems…the list goes on and on. As a pastor, I have heard them all, and you
know what there usually being 100% honest.
It does seem like the universe stands against them getting to
church.
Starting a new weight loss program can almost mirror
that. Sure, if you are in month three or
year three, every day seems like smooth sailing. But day one or day two can be just a list of
things going wrong. It happened when I
started Power 90, it happened when I did 10 Minute Trainer, and yes as I tried
to start 21 Day Fix with my wife, I have once again had the list of
troubles.
1.
It all started Friday as we were waiting for the
package to arrive. The key to 21 Day Fix
is not just the workouts but the colored food containers that limit what you
eat and keep you eating clean. Well, to
prep for the week we needed to be able to see what we could eat, and my wife
wanted to start Monday as she is also doing a challenge group. So Friday I was home all day with a sick kid,
waiting for the package to arrive. It
didn’t, and when we checked the mailbox all we had was a note that they could
not deliver the package because no one was home. (So much for through rain and sleet and snow,
they will get the mail there.) Well, as
it turns out it was too late to get the much needed package now so we would
have to wait until Monday at 10 until our small town post office opened.
2.
Sunday night, we figured we would go ahead and
do pictures and measurements… I still had the items needed from 10 Minute
Trainer, as soon as my wife wrapped her arms around me her comment was “Tim,
you’re burning up.” Well, as always, she
was right and I had a fever, this was going to be a fun start to things.
3.
The fever caused me to oversleep this
morning. And also let me forget to set
an alarm. So instead of getting to the
post office at 10:00 it was now almost 1:00.
My dear wife tried to run over to the post office then as she was
getting hungry, but the post office that opens at 10:00 also closes at noon for
a 2 hour lunch. (Strangely, they also
close at 4:00, talk about great work hours.)
Anyway, I went back at two and brought home the package.
4.
With not feeling well, I haven’t eaten a lot
today, but things are working well with the containers, by 8:00 I was feeling a
little better and thought I’d work out.
I bundled up and went to the gym, and set everything up. Then I popped in the DVD and kept getting
disk error. For some reasons it works
fine at home but the Stone Age DVD player here can’t handle it, so a 40 minute
round trip and I can’t work out.
So now I will stop at the store and pick up some more
ultra-healthy food for tomorrow and hopefully tomorrow will be a better
day. As far as today went, the only
thing that could have made it worse health program wise, is if somebody dropped
a dozen doughnuts at my door. That’s
right, I sure wouldn’t want anybody to drop a dozen doughnuts at my door *wink
wink* yep don’t drop those awful doughnuts off here J
