Fitness - and the desire to be a healthier person - is much like a cross country road-trip.... but in a busted, broken down car that you can't get rid of.
Close your eyes and imagine - You can't read with your eyes closed, I get that - but go with it, okay?
Imagine that you want to pick up from where you are now and go to someplace better. You can see it in your mind and it's glorious... You've seen photos of other people who are there. They seem happy. They seem carefree... But they're so far away and all you have is a shitty, rundown car that has been neglected for 12 years or so.
You jump in, fire it up and BAM! - you only go 3 feet on your first day.
You realize you can't do this without new tires - so you get new tires. And then you go 2 miles - and realize the oil is crap, so you replace the oil... then the fuel, then the plugs, and everything else that goes into the car until you are feeding the car the fuel it needs to run, keeping the fluids in check, and making sure everything stays together... overcoming years of bad habits and cheap gas.
You can't replace the car - it's the only one you've got. But you can put better things in it, you can outfit it for the trip and get moving... you can slowly move from where you are to where you want to be. Some days you'll have breakdowns and some days you'll find that awesome, big-ass hill to go down that takes you so far and so fast you think it'll fall apart...
You just have to learn to be a mechanic... you have to learn to enjoy the trip. You have to learn to accept that nothing happens over night.
Getting there isn't going to happen today. It might not even happen this year. But every day is one little bit closer to where you need to be.
I like the analogy of putting good stuff in to get better performance. Right now I feel like a dilapidated Pinto, but I aspire to be more like a Corvette :)
ReplyDeleteDid you get your "day 2" in? How'd it go?
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