Consistency Over Progress
Oops, I may have slept all night and then still had to nap today. It has been a long week and I guess the sleep finally caught up. Now I have to play catch up on water!
Surprise! The polka dots are back. I love my beautiful striped suit, but I have missed my polka dots! After I tried that Minnie Mouse suit on week before last and realized it was too big already, I ordered this new one, so I’d be ready when it was time to size down again. Welp, today was that day! I had left my suit from Wednesday in my gym bag, completely forgot about it because of the doggy emergency, so it was stiiiiinky. I decided to go ahead and try the new one and it fits perfectly! Not even tight like the one I started in! I wore a 34/36 in June. As of today, I’m a 22! And if not for my boobs, I could probably wear a size down!
I woke up laaaate today. It took so long to fall asleep last night because of my anxiety about my sweet dog being away from me for the first time since I’ve had her. It was about midnight when I finally fell asleep. I slept until 8 this morning. I woke up feeling incredibly rested and eager to get to the gym. I swam three full laps without stopping! I couldn’t do just one back in July. Probably could have done more if I had started with laps instead of doing them after I had already done my cardio and strength training. My arms were already tired when I started them so they were practically dead after that. I’m looking forward to more of them though. I’ll need to get some truly waterproof headphones if I start doing those as my cardio.
We talk a lot about progress over perfection here. But I think there’s something even better. Having had to dial back my workouts for over a week because of my back, I realized -Consistency over progress.- If I hadn’t been consistent all this time, that week of limited activity would have been pretty detrimental. I wouldn’t have been able to fall back into my routine so quickly. Because I kept moving, somehow some way, I am back to full workouts much more quickly than I would have been if I had just fully stopped. Progress is great, but I think consistency is even better.
Our sweet girl is doing great. The clinic called today and said she is recovering even more quickly than expected. She started urinating on her own this morning, something they didn’t expect her to do until Sunday! I am so, so grateful that we were able to get her there and into surgery so quickly so that she had such an amazing chance at full recovery. She continues to steal the hearts of staff meeting her for the first time and the new neurologist that saw her today said she had the best disposition she has ever seen in a dog and thanked me for rescuing her and taking care of her. Our girl is incredible. I’m going to look into therapy dog training for her. As she and I recover our strength and heal our backs, maybe we can train for us to go play with children or elderly who are sick or hospitalized so her sweet nature can bless others.
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