Day 5 of 21

Posted by Sammy on Jun 22nd, 2010 | no comments home title

Years ago I heard the saying that it takes 21 days to build a habit. The habit I’m trying to rebuild is getting myself back to the gym. I haven’t been a gym goer since before Mikey was born. Shoot actually it was before I got pregnant really. Dealing with Mikey’s torticollis and then Gary’s real cancer diagnosis well makes sense that I’ve put MY health on the back burner, until now. A few months ago I bought a jogging stroller in hopes of avoiding going back to the gym. Figured since I wanted to train for a half marathon it was the wisest purchase. Well it was great up until the rainy season kicked in down here. Nothing sucks more than getting home from work hoping to go on your hour walk/jog and you can’t because its raining out.

Because of that I decided to rejoin the gym. I was reluctant at first because after Mikey was about a year old Gary and I tried going back to the gym and we even enrolled Mikey in their Kids Klub (yes they spell club with a “K”). But he totally freaked out there because of all of the older kids running and screaming around. So I signed us up for a month to month membership that way I could try it out for him. Low and behold he LOVES the Kids Klub. Which is great because I can get a good hour’s worth of a workout in.

So I’ve been at it for 5 official days. Been going 4x a week. I plan on counting the 21 days based on actual days that I can get myself to the gym, not calendar days, that would be cheating myself. I HAVE to do this not only for myself but for Mikey. I owe it to him. I’m his only parent now and he needs me to be around to see him grow up and have kids of his own. That means making sure I take care of myself so that I can do that for him.