I keep trying...

to write a final post... to sign off for good, but I can't seem to make myself do it.

I guess that means I'm not done yet... maybe there is something more I need to say... something more I need to do with this site.

The last few months... and really the last 2 years have been a time of extreme transition and trauma and recovery for me and my family... my health and fitness has improved and declined like the changing of the tides.

Injury, physical and emotional... upheaval, revelation, just... everything imaginable and then some. I'm not going to get into it, but what I've realized as I return to myself and return to the object of my fitness... that without leaning on proper nutrition and exercise I have truly done myself a disservice.

Krista's rant in April or May was about stress and how she went thru some amazingly HUGE stresses over the last year but was able to maintain a level head and even keel primarily due to the fact that her nutrition and workouts were her coping mechanism. She poured her anxiety into her workouts and she fed her body as tho her life depended upon it (when, in reality, it did).

I have picked myself up, dusted off some of the pieces and am in the process of putting them back together and the two parts of my hopefully fast acting epoxy will be my nutrition and exercise. I WILL lift. I will eat as tho my life depends upon it. I am, for the first time in literally years, extending a challenge.

I don't know if anyone even reads here anymore, but I did get an email recently from 'Jill,' after she had been reading thru my archives. So, Hi Jill! Thank you for the push to post again and for the encouragement and the realization that I can still have an impact. Yes, I'd be happy to answer your questions, Jill... I'll respond to your email shortly.

So now for the challenge:

July: (yes, starting today)

Every day I will do some form of strenuous activity. Today it was tennis with my husband for an hour. Work will not get in the way, the summer will not get in the way. This is my opportunity and my life.

Join me. Count off 31 days with me. 31 days of purposeful, strenuous, heart-pumping activity... I don't care what you do, as long as you spend at least 30 minutes doing it. I will be biking, swimming, playing tennis, lifting weights, using the cardio equipment at the gym, etc... anything I can think of (except running because I'm still banned from that by my freakin' podiatrist)... and it will be fun.

The plan is to do Krista's Beginner Split workout Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday and filling in with other activities the rest of the days of the week. Weekends will probably be mainly tennis because I can do that with my family... And there is no limit to how much activity you do... the more the better, I say.

Make it fun, make it a challenge, remember that your life depends on it. I will.

Posted by Lexy at July 1, 2007 05:45 PM