You can get instant access to the entire organizing printbles vault by subscribing for free here. Download this chart that will help you keep track of what you are eating for each meal in a day. As I wake up around 5-5:30, by the time I dropped all the kids off at school and hit the gym, I was famished and without a zap of energy left to engage with it. Instead, what I observed -after almost passing out at the gym once- was that I didn’t have the ENERGY to exercise because of an old and bad habit of going through many cups of coffee before having breakfast. The most important part of sticking to it had nothing to do with my schedule. Adjusting To New HabitsĪs I started to exercise, I quickly noticed I’d have to change things around on my regular schedule to include it in my routine as I wanted to have a regular time to go to the gym without taking much time from work. On a mission to get my cells drunk with happy endorphins, I went to her gym, signed up for a monthly membership and decided that I’d show up there daily, for at least 30 minutes even if it’s to walk on a machine. But most importantly, I was determined not to feel that way again, even if that meant exercising! (LOL) So, to me, to have felt *that* depressed was not “normal” and it was very hard. I’m a healthy person, I live in gratitude and have a content spirit. I don’t know about you, but I hate being miserable. If you would like i nstant access to the entire printables vault you can subscribe here for free. You can download an excersize routine chart here to get you started. My friend exercised at least five days a week and having that in her routine made all the difference. The answer was simple, but I heard the message loud and clear. I was shocked! After all, we live 5 minutes away from each other, we have very similar lives, so how could I have been so depressed while she had a great time? What was I missing? One day, by springtime, I asked her how did she feel during winter, because it had been miserable for me! She looked at me and said: I had no trouble at all with the winter. I kept telling her how I “hate” gyms, but she kept encouraging me to join her at least once. We’d meet regularly for coffee or go for dinners with our husbands, and she’d always invite me to come with her to her gym. ![]() Good Influenceīy that time, I had become friends with a Brazilian expat who is not only a sweet person but who is also very active, physically speaking. But with the upcoming purchase of our new home, I just felt it was a splurge we couldn’t afford, so I braced for the rest of the winter. Things got so bad that by the end of January my husband told me to take a short vacation and go visit family and friends in Brazil -where I am originally from- for a couple of weeks and “stock up” on some much-needed sunlight. ![]() I bought a bright light to keep at my desk (very helpful!) and increased my Vitamin D intake, but still, I became depressed. I was very busy with work, consulting and offering my online training but being indoors for so long was very hard on me. While I have lived in Germany and Maryland, nothing prepared me for the long and dark days with sub-zero temperatures of Chicago’s winter. With more “white space” on my calendar and in a brand new place, I was about to go through my first Illinois winter. To remedy the pain, I started popping over the counter painkillers, something that is 100% against my personal beliefs on how I should treat my body! For years I kept telling myself I’d look for a solution, but then life happened, things got busier than ever with our cross-country move, and next thing I knew, here I was in Illinois, summer of 2016. Imagine doing that 5-6 day a week for hours at a time. I was working daily, in multiples organizing jobs, and if you have ever tackled a garage filled to the brim with clutter, you know how physically demanding professional organizing is on our bodies. In 2012 I started feeling a lot of pain in my knees, ankles, and hands. New Year’s Resolution: Be Healthy What is Your Motivator? ![]() So, what changed? How did I finally learned to incorporate exercise into my daily routine and achieved this new year’s resolution? Not being able to find the time or the motivation to include exercise in my life has always been something I always felt bad about. For as long as I can remember, I have been trying to stick to a healthy exercise routine for years, and I lost count of how many gym memberships and class enrollments I went through in my life without ever – or barely – using it. Many of us will have a new year’s resolution that never came to be.
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