Oh man what a freakin
whirlwind. Since early May when I accepted a new position within my company, we
have been planning our Orange County relocation and return to our home state of
California.
We finally
arrived in Irvine on August 6th after an
extremely stressful couple of months looking for a new place to live, a new
school for our son, trying to find new tenants for our house, packing, packing,
and more packing, all while dealing with a new job that is much more demanding
than my last job. Today is September 30, 2013.
Unpacking has been very slow going because I haven’t been able to take off work any additional time and our son
didn't start school till September 9th which left my husband no time at all to unpack much less get any work done himself. But we finally finished unpacking and I promised my son we would take a trip to the beach in celebration. In his usual fashion he has shown endless patience with his parents and maintained his sweet temperament throughout this process. His parents? Not so much…
I know the reason you all
read the blog is because you appreciate my honesty and realism, right? Right!
So this move has not been good for my health and fitness goals at all. As I’ve
mentioned in the past I feel this duty to all the H.E.a.T fans and supporters
to be super guru and am finding it hard to admit when I am struggling. But this
move has gone from juice to Slurpees and everything in between. It has been
hard in so many ways. From just physically making it happen, to not having
access to our juicer and all the good foods we like to eat, to the emotional
toll it has taken on myself and on my husband.
The move was expensive and we got to Irvine on fumes financially and spiritually.
Although I’m trying to not to beat myself
up too much (these things happen) I am a little disappointed. But what have I said in the
past? Disappointment doesn’t do anything to help your cause. All it does is
push you further in the wrong direction. Turning your life around takes
strength and determination and you can’t be
that person when you are making
excuses and feeling defeated.
So I’m allowing myself to feel a quick moment of disappointment and then getting my ass back on the horse. The great thing about this process has been that I have learned how to take care of myself. Last week when we went back to the gym I found that I could still lift the same weight I was lifting before (although it took a little extra effort). I have started running again during lunch and have been able to maintain my 10 minute mile pace even for a 5 mile run in 85 degree heat. I feel like I haven’t lost a step! And throughout this move we only stopped juicing for about a week while we were physically unable to get to our juicer or find a juice bar. So maybe it’s not as bad as I’m making it sound.
Oh wait I forgot about those Seven
jeans I tried on this morning that laughed in my face.
OK, so it’s bad. But you
know what? It’s OK! Because I know what I have to do get back to where I used
to be and continue on this path to ultimate good health and fitness. Further encouragement to get my butt back in gear
is the great prospects for H.E.a.T down here in Orange County.
We were a little trepid about the prospects
for our little company as we feared that, here in the birthplace of the health
and fitness community, we would just be another face in the crowd.
But we are
finding that is not the case. Even here we have yet to find a company that does
exactly what H.E.a.T does.
There are the crazy exercise fiend companies. There are dieting and healthy eating companies galore. There are even quite a few combinations of diet of exercise out there (although not as many as you would think). However we haven’t seen any other company that takes its clients step by step, coaching them back to good health through resetting their bodies with a cleanse, and then teaching them how to eat and how to work out AND how not to get back to the way they used to be by working through their psychological and emotional issues around food and exercise. That’s a winning combination there that few companies offer. The more we look around the better we feel about the uniqueness of our company and where we might be able to take it.
Anyway, all that said, you can’t coach people back to good health if you are struggling yourself. My husband and I have agreed not to start accepting clients (for money anyway) until we are well on our way to the fitness model physiques we’re going for. You gotta give your clients something to aspire to and nothing does that better than being an example of how working hard pays off. That said, off to the running trails, free weights, and produce section I go!
