Jumping back on the bandwagon

Here's my confession: I fell off the bandwagon.  While I was in Kentucky visiting my family, I completely bombed my P90X workouts.  I just stopped doing them.  I could tell you how incredibly difficult it was for me to squeeze them in, that I needed someone who was able to take care of the kids or that I really needed them to be asleep so they weren't tearing things apart while I tried to work out.  I could tell you that I was sick and didn't feel good for some of those days.  I could keep telling  you why I didn't but that doesn't matter.  What matters is that I wasn't doing anything.  That's unacceptable.  Maybe I couldn't do my whole workout, but I should have found some time during those days to do something.  

I know many of you reading this can completely relate to what happened to me.  We get busy, we get sick, we have other things that are higher on the priority list.  It happens. Honestly, it doesn't even matter how many times you fall off the bandwagon, it only matters how many times you turn around and jump right back on.  Last night was my first night of my P90X restart and I couldn't do my whole workout, I'll admit that.  I haven't been drinking enough water and it's hard to push through when my body is starting to dehydrate (even though normally you wouldn't feel like you're dehydrated).  That's my bad, but the important thing is that I did what I could.  I took that hardest first step and started my workout.  

So many times life gets in the way, but we have to respect ourselves and our bodies enough to take care of them and keep making the effort.  It doesn't matter how long it's been or how often you can commit, it just matters that you're pushing yourself to be better than you were.  Because for me this isn't about being skinny, it's about being healthy.  I want my body in good shape so that I'm not going to the doctor so he can prescribe me a miniature pharmacy's worth of drugs to keep my body functioning.  

So let's all stop making excuses and worrying about what others think or how we exercise and do ourselves a favor to just do better.