I don't have a gym membership, but I've been working out most days. I have a treadmill, I go for a morning run every Saturday and I'm doing the Insanity workout videos. I do those each night after I put D to bed, which is a nice way of avoiding W until I go to bed.
I started documenting a quick recap of each day and what I did with the kids yesterday. That was great advice. I'm going to keep it at work to avoid any issues.
Funny you mention Shawshank Redemption. It's my all-time favorite movie!
GAL has been a little harder than I thought it'd be so far. Exercising at home is probably not ideal, but it’s working. I’ve been exercising and eating well most of the year. In January I was the heaviest I’ve ever been so the changes started then, months before BD. Right now I’m the fittest I’ve been since high school and I’m down 70 pounds this year. I want to finish up this Insanity workout and then join a Cross Fit gym.
I’ve been trying to plan at least one activity with friends and one with the kids each weekend. I take D4 to the park a few times a week and generally try to stay out of the house on weekends. I made sure I was gone last Sunday before W came home in the morning and was able to stay occupied most of the day. I’ve joined a supporters group for a sports team and plan to attend their events for watching games. I’ve reached out to some friends/coworkers about doing things, but nothing is set in stone yet. Saturday is D17’s birthday so I don’t know that I’ll plan anything for that night, but I want to have Sunday filled with something. I’m bad at planning how to ….well GAL I guess. W was always the one that planned stuff like that, so it’s a little foreign to me, and probably part of what led to my lost identity. That will be one of my biggest focal points moving forward.
And yes, I’ll try and focus my next few posts on myself rather than W. I think most everything in my sitch has been laid out now in the previous posts, so I guess it’s time to start focusing on me and what I’m going to do to make myself better.
