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Well that was a fail!

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 As you can see, I was not successful with my plan to get up at 4:00 to exercise.  Life gets busy, and self-care is important.  Part of self-care is sleep, and when you have a teenager who is in sports, you have some late nights.  So, a 4:00 wake-up call turns into 4:30 again.  Since 4:30 is my wake-up call and has been since I started this blog, I pivoted.   My morning routine begins with a 4:30 a.m. alarm. I shower and basically get read for the day other than wearing my work clothes.  I put on my workout clothes and head downstairs to the these sweet boys. Rut and Finn keep me motivated.  Once I am greeted with licks and tail wags we gear up for our morning walk at 5:00 a.m.  Why 5:00 a.m.?  Because walking these two who total about 200 pounds can be tricky when you weight less then they do.  I put on their e-collars and turn on their lights and then I put on my Topward reflective vest  .  I grab my flash light, be...
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Day 2 Trying to Keep This Going

 I have to admit, I hit snooze one time.  So, technically, I got up at 4:09 am, not 4:00 am.  I did get up. That was the important part.  This morning I wanted to do some yoga.  I do need to able to move and I was afraid if I tried to do just lifting weights and I would be super sore.  I used this Youtube video: https://youtu.be/c2TCLPkSvU4?si=b-iL45BZFYA6U2CJ.  I felt like it was a nice gentle start to my day.  I have done yoga before, but it has been a while, and I am taking a slow-and-steady approach.    I also walk my two dogs in the morning, after I shower but before I get dressed for work.  Yes, I am wearing clothes; nobody wants to see that.  I have to walk them separately because combined, they weigh about 200 pounds.  During the first half of my walk I call it my grateful walk because I go through 10 things I am grateful for each day.  Seven of my grateful's are always the same 
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You Have to Start Somewhere

Today, I awoke at 4:00 am.  Why, you ask? So that I could exercise.  My days can be long depending on our schedule. Even if it isn't a long day, by the end of the school day, I am so tired I don't have the energy to do anything.  Even if I make a plan to exercise after school, something always seems to come up.  So, 4:00 am it is.   I woke up with a renewed sense of purpose.  I am going to change how I feel about myself.  Not because I don't fit the mold of the perfect body, but because I don't feel comfortable in my body.  Several years ago, I was going to the gym and doing CrossFit and felt really good about myself.  I was strong for the first time since high school.  An injury sidelined me, and then back surgery, so goodbye CrossFit.  I knew what I needed to do, but it was so much easier to sit on the couch.  I would say I was exercising because I was walking the dogs twice a day.  Those walks weren't making me str...
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