As most of you know by now, next week I’m moving to London, UK for 3-6 months. Our official leave date is September 11th… I KNOW, RIGHT??!! Who the hell flies on September 11th? But it’s when the missus’ company booked her flight and I’m following along like a good “kept man” does, so September 11th it is.
My last day at work was last Wednesday which gave me Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday to get myself moved out of my apartment. I hate asking people for help when I move (mainly because I do it so often) so I usually give myself a few days to do it and move everything myself. The move went as it always does; me lifting, sweating, inventing new curse words and being exhausted by the end of it all. With moving for three days straight, my gym time and diet really suffered! I ate a lot of pizza and crappy take-out food and drank quite a few beer and the gym is nonexistent. The other part that’s hard on the body is my sleep is interrupted almost hourly because all I can think about is what needs to be moved and done next. The other shitty part is that we aren’t moving to another apartment and have somewhere to go next and call home, we’re storing everything and moving across the ocean, so we have nowhere to live for the next two weeks. The whole thing is quite stressful! I just have to keep telling myself that it’s all going to be worth it and after these crappy two weeks, we’ll have the best time of our lives.
All of that was last week and I’m not even going to try and hide that fact that I’m beyond glad that it’s over. The past few weeks have taken their toll on my “healthy lifestyle” and I actually put about 10 lbs in the last 3 weeks. When I weighed in and found this out it made me realize that I needed to get back at everything and get going again in the gym and fix how I was eating. My workouts lately have sucked ass because my body has been so exhausted, which means I’ve been taking it way too easy on myself in the gym, if I made it at all. I was also using the fact that we had to get rid of our food and couldn’t really buy many groceries as an excuse to not worry about what I was eating. This week, I decided to change all of that and drop the excuses.
We hit the gym really hard this week, every day actually, I took myself out of my comfort zone and went to yoga and I played softball three times this week, which meant our workout routine was back on track. We even got to do an amazing kettlebell class yesterday with one of the best trainers I know, Craig Guthrie. (I’ll talk more about that experience this coming week in a post because right now even thinking about it is giving me nightmare flashbacks, in a good way!).
For me, the gym is a sinch to get back in to because I love it so much. What I’m finding really hard to do is eat healthy. It’s not really the easiest to cook meals for yourself when you don’t have a home so we’ve been relying a lot on trying to pick healthy meals off of menus when we eat out. If you don’t know what you’re looking for, it’s not the easiest thing to do, but thankfully I have a lot of experience doing this from back in the day when I was a bachelor and trying to lose weight even though I never cooked for myself (I love cooking, just not for one person). Maybe in my first “Ask the Experts” post, I’ll as an expert like Krista from Bent Fork Nutrition about eating and selecting food off of menus when you’re forced to eat out.
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