So today I woke up, feeling alright. I haven’t been sleeping very well lately for reasons unknown, but today I actually didn’t feel like a zombie. Then, like at some point during the time between my morning shower and the drive to work, all the energy I thought I had was sucked out of me! I was so tired that I didn’t even feel like speeding! (Side note: I usually drive around 75mph on the highway to get to work; today I went a lawful 65mph)
When I arrived at work, I immediately set out to prepare my breakfast: instant oatmeal! YUM-O! I was starving, and oatmeal always does the trick, and it’s only 200 calories per bowl (1 cup). Now, you’d think that eating a nice hearty bowl of oatmeal would add fuel to the fire (or in my case smoldering embers,) but it didn’t. I kept yawning from about 0730 to 0845. Even my co-workers were getting annoyed by it. So, I decided it was time to move around. I headed out to the gym.
I swear to you I almost fell asleep on the 3 minute drive it takes to get there! All the while arguing with myself, the whiner in my mind exclaimed: “But I’m sooooo tired, and really sore from yesterday’s work out! Couldn’t I just take one day off! How ‘bout I just sit in the steam room—I’ll still manage to burn some calories!” And it went on and on, all these thoughts of cheating! And then wouldn’t you know it the small contrary voice in my mind ---you know that little whisper voice of good judgment—piped in with, “You know you’ll just be cheating on yourself.” And wouldn’t you know it the whiner in mind head (who has a loud penetrating voice) said, “And I’m okay with that—the whole cheating on myself thing—it’s cool.”
So there I was driving, having the full out argument with myself when I arrived at the gym. I parked the car and sluggishly got out. The small portion of my mind not engaged in the argument (the voice of compromise) decided that today would be a light work out day! And then all at once there was silence in my mind. The whiner in me then begrudging said, “Well, I guess I can handle that…” and then the voice of good judgment piped up again with, “well, at least you are going to do something, and you’ll feel better for it.” Content with my decision, I walked into the gym, and headed for the women’s locker room.
Once inside I went straight to my usual locker, as I undressed I reflected on how annoying the gym music being broadcast through out the facility was. It wasn’t bad music, just the SAME songs over and over every day!! If I have to hear Carrie Under wood’s “Before he cheats” one more time!!!! Uggg! I suspected that my bad mood was on account that I really felt drained. As I approached the elliptical machine, I noticed I was the only one in the room…the whiner slipped in, “there’s still time to escape, no one will notice!” But alas, I stepped on the machine, and began to work it out. As I started jogging away on the machine, I noticed that I started feeling better and better. Soon what I thought was going to be a light workout started turning into an all out-- give it all you got work out….It was funny as somewhere in the back of my mind I heard the whiner say softly “hey……you tricked me…..” Then very audibly---as I was the only one in there—I said, “GET OVER IT!” and so I did!! I felt great afterwards!!!
When I arrived at work, I immediately set out to prepare my breakfast: instant oatmeal! YUM-O! I was starving, and oatmeal always does the trick, and it’s only 200 calories per bowl (1 cup). Now, you’d think that eating a nice hearty bowl of oatmeal would add fuel to the fire (or in my case smoldering embers,) but it didn’t. I kept yawning from about 0730 to 0845. Even my co-workers were getting annoyed by it. So, I decided it was time to move around. I headed out to the gym.
I swear to you I almost fell asleep on the 3 minute drive it takes to get there! All the while arguing with myself, the whiner in my mind exclaimed: “But I’m sooooo tired, and really sore from yesterday’s work out! Couldn’t I just take one day off! How ‘bout I just sit in the steam room—I’ll still manage to burn some calories!” And it went on and on, all these thoughts of cheating! And then wouldn’t you know it the small contrary voice in my mind ---you know that little whisper voice of good judgment—piped in with, “You know you’ll just be cheating on yourself.” And wouldn’t you know it the whiner in mind head (who has a loud penetrating voice) said, “And I’m okay with that—the whole cheating on myself thing—it’s cool.”
So there I was driving, having the full out argument with myself when I arrived at the gym. I parked the car and sluggishly got out. The small portion of my mind not engaged in the argument (the voice of compromise) decided that today would be a light work out day! And then all at once there was silence in my mind. The whiner in me then begrudging said, “Well, I guess I can handle that…” and then the voice of good judgment piped up again with, “well, at least you are going to do something, and you’ll feel better for it.” Content with my decision, I walked into the gym, and headed for the women’s locker room.
Once inside I went straight to my usual locker, as I undressed I reflected on how annoying the gym music being broadcast through out the facility was. It wasn’t bad music, just the SAME songs over and over every day!! If I have to hear Carrie Under wood’s “Before he cheats” one more time!!!! Uggg! I suspected that my bad mood was on account that I really felt drained. As I approached the elliptical machine, I noticed I was the only one in the room…the whiner slipped in, “there’s still time to escape, no one will notice!” But alas, I stepped on the machine, and began to work it out. As I started jogging away on the machine, I noticed that I started feeling better and better. Soon what I thought was going to be a light workout started turning into an all out-- give it all you got work out….It was funny as somewhere in the back of my mind I heard the whiner say softly “hey……you tricked me…..” Then very audibly---as I was the only one in there—I said, “GET OVER IT!” and so I did!! I felt great afterwards!!!
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