Just Do It

The only way for me to wake up early and go work out is to just do it. No snooze button ever. No excuses. It's hard. It's been almost 4 weeks now that I've been getting up, and it hasn't gotten easier.

This morning I could have had a real excuse. I went to bed last night with a migraine and a sore throat. The headache stayed while I slept, even after I had taken medicine. My alarm went off and it would have been so easy to stay in bed. My baby slept all night and was still asleep. My husband always takes the side of staying in bed. But I knew this was an important test for me. So I got up. I got dressed. I took some heavy duty migraine medicine and I drove to Curves. And I started working out. It took 3/4 of my workout, but finally the medicine made it through my system and the headache went away. I felt so much better by the time I left.

I wondered if the headache would come back after the medicine wore off, but it didn't. I thought last night that I must be getting a sinus infection. But I haven't gotten any worse. My throat still feels a bit strange like it could turn on me at any moment, but I don't think it will. I won't assume that working out is always the best thing I can do to ward off illness, but today it was the best thing to do. And now I have a little more motivation to get up tomorrow.