I have loved Mary J. Blige since 1992. You know, hard, hood, KC & Mary; I have always loved her music. It's just spoke to me. So today, I decided to listen to Growing Pains (her latest cd) with Just Fine on it to perk me up since I was in an emotional state. Anyway, I'm on the treadmill listening to my IPOD when Stay Down begins to play; it's one of my favorite songs on the album. So, I doing my thang and then came the tears. I must have been crying so loud someone came up to me and asked me if I was okay but that just made me cry harder. At least I knew the person but still how embrassing to burst out into tears at the gym. Can you say embrassing? I digress.
Everytime I listen to the song I think about a man, how the last one shoulda stayed down, and how the next one needs to stay down but this time I thought this applies to you. I need to stay down with yourself. I cannot let the stress keep you from your goals. I cannot give up because I things aren't the way I thought they would be in my life. I have to stay down with myself. This blood pressure and weight drama will not last forever. I'll beat it as long as I keep it together. One day I'll look back on this and laugh cause in the end I stayed down with myself.
After the day I had of not really receiving the support I expected and getting the message that I cannot lower my pressure and weight on my own, I was just deflated. Still I stayed down by going grocery shopping and exercising. I can do it but I must stay down!! Stay Down will be my anthem for this journey.
The lyrics to the song are here: http://www.kovideo.net/lyrics/m/Mary-J-Blige/Stay-Down.html
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The stressors in life can definitely make it tough to focus on weightloss, eating healthy and working out. But, you have to look at the big picture and keep pushing yourself even harder. You'll certainly feel better and look better too. There are so many benefits to making this a lifestyle change even after the weightloss. I'm in this journey with you and I try to find different ways to workout because I like change and get bored easily. I recently discovered that I really enjoy spinning. That class is so fun and it burns tons of calories. I think I will go to kickboxing tomorrow. Gotta run but you may want to change up your workout routine to a variety of different things to keep you excited and motivated to go such as skating,spinning, hiking, kickboxing, etc. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how we get this revelations at the most inopportune times, but it is during those times that we can hear and receive them. So though it may have been an embarassing moment, you were able to get a new message out of a familiar song. You are off to a good start, just stay focused.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I was thinking last night that we should share this meal planning obstacle if you are up for it. Cooking is more fun for me if its not just for me. What do you think? It may be easier when we both are not going back and forth home though, so maybe in a few weeks?
T. Trigg, you are so right. I will definitely switch up my workouts to keep them interesting but right now I just need to move. I know you got my back. Brickhouse status for us both,
ReplyDeleteShaundra, I am down for sharing the planning load but I will be out of town for a while so it may have to be in September.