It's not that we fall off the bandwagon that's the problem, the problem is if we stay where we've landed.
Interesting word isn't it "bandwagon" what it means and why we use it for when things aren't going quite to plan. Well I've not fallen off the bandwagon per se, rather I have had to get off it for a couple of weeks.
My father hates it when my mom has visitors, she puts herself through all sorts of stress to ensure my visitors have a good time and in doing so of course, her normal schedule rather takes a beating. He knows what it's like though he's a POM too, so when I say "hate" he understands all too well what happens. Thanks daddy :-)
Saturday - it was time to get up, get ready and go to the gym. I've managed a couple of workouts each week during mum's visit, but nowhere near as many as my "normal" schedule covers - so I knew it was going to hurt. I could have delayed the re-start of course, I was exhausted and I am running a low level cold/chill. I don't like exercising when I am sick as the body usually has far too much going on to kill the germs tocope with re-building muscles as well. Then I wondered if the reason why I was running the cold was in fact because my body was complaining about the lack of exercise. So I went. It's Sunday now and my muscles are still not very forgiving in the non-aching department, but you get that.
So what am I trying to tell you in my normal rambling fashion is this:
* You do what you need to do.
* You pick yourself up, dust yourself off and start the re-climb back towhere you were before you landed
* You try and understand why you fell off and hope that you can learn fromwhatever "mistake" that caused it and you try to do better next time.
* Understand that every day you can and do redefine the term "normal"
