Working on the guilt thing

Ok guys, I am trying reeeeaaallly hard not to feel bad. I didn't get my workout in last night. I think I have just cause, but at any rate I need to whine a little. Sorry, women's genetics I think.... I volunteer to speak at some of the Living Well classes that some wls patients are required to do. I usually do a basic casual q & A session so that they can ask those burning questions...I give everyone my email, tell them about our support group and OH if they don't already know about it. I love doing it. I did two groups this week, and one of them fell on a workout night. I think it is a really important thing to do, I worked literally up until the time to go speak, did my talk, then I got home for 30 minutes and then took my youngest to gymnastics. Then, back home by 10pm to eat and go to bed. Whew! Tonight (Wed) is our support group meeting and I am on the panel (we are doing a mentorship and there are three of us) to discuss problems, success strategies, etc. Fortunately tonight is break night, then tomorrow it will be back at it as usual. I know, one night won't kill me. But I already feel horrible for missing one day last week. Make the guilt monster go away!!! Thanks for letting me vent that, I know I am being silly I just need to work it out in my own mind. Ok, whine session over. I am going to suck it up and be a man now...err...well you know what I mean.

Hey you just gotta know that you have this thing, it is called a life, (And a busy one at that). Sometimes **** happens, you know that you will not stop working out, and later one day here and there will not mean anything when you look back over all the workouts you did. So, what I am saying, is that you is doin great, and roll with it when life happens.

Hiya Val, Yeah, I know that guilt thing, nasty little bugger isn't it? Life gets in the way sometimes. But please remember that fitness isn't ONLY about the weight training and the cardio, babe, it's also about nutrition and REST AND RECOVERY! If you run yourself down, and don't get the rest part, do you really think you would be doing your muscles a favor?? All that hard work you do in the gym isn't worth a hill of beans if you don't have the balancing part of rest and nutrition to complete the process. And all the experts agree that downtime, whether we want to take some of it from our workouts or not, generally confers benefits as well, provided that the downtime isn't so frequent as to bring one's priorities into question. Now, I'll tell ya, Val, that I shoot straight from the hip, and I am not one to coddle someone that needs a good swift kick in the pants more than an excuse not to do what they should be doing, but that's not you! Guilt-tripping is just another way to stress the body unnecessarily, increase those cortisol levels and undermine the work you're going to do today! So stop it! Be happy with your choice to rest, because it was the right one to make. Hugs, Donna E. www.teklawgirl.biz

You have been exercising regularly for a long time and kicking ass in the gym. You don't need justification for taking off one night!!! It's when one night turns into 2, 3 , 4 days and then into weeks that it becomes an issue. I don't see that happening for you. You love working out too much like the rest of us =)