Nothing like kick starting your fitness goals for 2019 like a dry January, or Dryanuary.

Unfortunately the odds are 90% of us will fail Dryanuary just like we fail our gym resolutions. So how can we do this? How can I cut calories in alcohol, cut calories in food, work out more, and stay sane. I know it sounds so easy “just live healthier”, yea duh, but it takes a large amount of will power to just condition your body to get there! For example, when I tried to get up this morning to run it was 20º outside… my lungs almost collapsed and for the majority of the morning I sounded like I smoked a pack of cigarettes.

On top of that, I’m supposed to be at a girls night in three hours to watch the bachelor,   and if that sentence isn’t soaking in red wine right now then I don’t know what is.

 

Basically I have to recalibrate this whole manner of thinking on how I’m supposed to get thin again. I used to work out an hour and a half a day and it was so easy, but ever since my move I can’t seem to find the energy. I miss my old gym, it’s like I broke up with it and since then I’ve just sworn off gyms forever. My new apartment is right next to three bars  and a Jumbotron in the middle of the square showing movies and sports games every night. I’m going to have to pull a bird box just to avoid temptation as I force myself into a new relationship with the apartments gym.

So heres is my version of a recalibration, and I’ll have to let you know if it works.

1. Dryanuary isn’t ever going to happen. Stop trying to make it happen. Instead drink on weekends only, that way it’s a short term goal with less pressure.
2. Workout at least once a day, no matter how hard or for how long, just get in the routine.
3. Start eating at 10 am and stop eating before 8 pm. I’ve sworn off alcohol for week nights, I can’t also swear off good food. I LOVE CHEESE. I want to eat cheese. So everyone says intermediate fasting is good if you aren’t ready to completely change your diet.
4. Stay busy. Throw myself more into work, more into applying to other jobs (thats ironic), more into reading, more into blogging, whatever I can so I’m not sitting around and eating.
5. I really need to drink more water. I feel like I’ve substituted wine at night with tea, and I’ve always had 1-2 coffees a day. My poor body is probably flushed with diuretics.

It would be awesome if I could get back in the shape I was a year and a half ago, I get it’s a journey, I just don’t think Dryanuary is going to be on my path.

As for right now, I’m just leaving this here… and hopefully a few pounds too.