Rise and Shine, Sleepyhead
by Bill Ivory Larson on Feb.15, 2010, under My Daily Weight Loss Blog
Is it wrong of me to want to crawl back into bed?
Don’t you wish sometimes you could do just that? Crawl back into bed under the nice warm covers and sleep. Oh man, does that sound nice. Not even fight the sleep that’s still in my eyes and go straight back to dreamland.
I wish I could do that.
But today I have to get up. Thanks to being a bit laid up this weekend with some back pain (which thankfully is now completely gone) I gained back a pound-and-a-half. I wasn’t able to work out as I usually do and was a slug on my couch with a heating pad on his back.
Don’t get me wrong. This was the correct thing to do. It just meant I wasn’t able to have the physical activity of exercise to off-set and burn off the food and drink I had. So I start this Monday back at 235. Grrrrr. So I am sitting up, eyes half open, yawning and (sleepily) ready to start a brand new week. I know I have to get to the gym and work out to work this off.
And it’s not that I won’t work it off. I know I will. I just hate starting the week on an upward trend. Oh well. As they say “them’s the breaks, kid.” I am human and it happens.
I especially have to get up because tomorrow is the airing of my episode of “The Dr. Oz Show.” And what better motivator than that to get my ass out of bed to start working out. Again I have to say it was invigorating to meet so many people traveling the road to weight loss and maintenance and hear their stories. Some of them even became personal trainers, bless their hearts. That’s awesome.
See, that’ s better. That’s how I have to think on this sleepy Monday morning. I have to think in the forward. I have to think in the positive. I have to think about the beautiful royal and azure blues now filling the sky as my alarm clock telling me to “rise and shine, go work out and seize the day.” I have to say “OK. By Friday I want to drop a pound or two” and make that happen. Setting those goals helps, and it helps me stay awake and not lay back down and go back to…sleeeeee…zzzzzzzzz…
…Damn, that alarm clock is loud in the morning 
OK. I’m up. Now’s where’s my coffee? A new day of adventures awaits…
