The best laid plans...

This morning at 5:30am I was supposed to be meeting my friend at the gym.  What was I doing?  Apparently hitting the snooze button (for the second time) without even waking up.  Yeah...fantastic.  Rather than beating myself up over it, other than the fact I stood up my friend, I am taking it as a learning experience.  The only time that I hit the snooze and don't remember doing it?  When I am DEAD asleep, I'm talking hard core snoozing.  I could take it as a failure, let it convince me that I should just hold off until next week to start over, but NO.

I am looking at it as my body doing what it needed, and I'm planning on being at the gym tomorrow.

Does it mean I probably won't get 5 workouts in this week?  Yup.  Is that the end of the world?  Nope.  4 is better than none and I have to remember that if I am going to break myself of that old "all or nothing" habit.

Missing my planned workout isn't a good thing, but it doesn't mean that I can't still do things to help myself get healthier.  It doesn't mean that I can't still make good food choices and work on my goal of tracking those food choices (good and bad) which is just as important to getting healthier.  It's a start, right?

On a totally unrelated note, Ray Lewis announced today that he will not return to football after the Raven's season ends.  This hit me far harder than I thought it would.  I knew that it would be emotional when the day finally came, but I had no idea.  I felt like I had just found out that Santa wasn't real.  It has me even more grateful for the friend who bought me a ticket to this Sunday's game...I will get to see what is very likely Ray's last home game ever.  I know that I will be among the bunches of people who will likely be very emotional.  Ray has been the face of the Ravens for as long as I can remember and football without him will not be the same.  You will be missed Ray...and I hope that the Ravens have sense enough to offer you the chance to coach.

Photo courtesy: http://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/article-1/Ray-Lewis-Final-Ride/238ee0b4-d565-4a96-ac04-dbc1471d1f7f