Remember this post, “He Tells Me I’m not Suffering!“?

There were so many awesome comments on that post that I’ve been curious to know how everyone is doing with their suffering.

I up’d my intensity on the elliptical and weight training, but then I went down to the women’s business workshop, the Next Octave, in San Francisco (didn’t work out) and then from there went to San Diego for our women’s photography workshop (had ALL kinds of intentions to work out and didn’t), only to come home and feel tired from being gone for two weeks=too tired to work out for another week! Before I knew it three weeks had gone by with no exercise. ERRR!

My chiropractor is the best guy and said, “Me Ra, just don’t beat yourself up! That’s the worst thing you can do. Get your sleep, recover from traveling, be kind in your self talk and then get back out there.” So I took a deep breath, let down and can you believe that last week I slept for twelve hours a night!! Went to bed at 8:30pm and woke up around 8:45am–four days in a row! Not only that but I took two hour naps in the middle of the day! I was starting to wonder if I was depressed! 🙂

But then my energy kicked back in and this morning I got up at 4:45am and went for a twenty mile bike ride.

Watching the sunrise over the Puget Sound was AWESOME! Will I crash with fatigue at 4pm today, oh yes, but seeing the sunrise with 10 other cyclists was worth it!

I was so excited to get back on the bike because of how much weight training I did all winter. Okay, I quickly found that unless your also biking the weight training can mean almost zilch when it comes to riding the bike. Oh my goodness, I barely kept up with the group this morning. Sometimes I wasn’t keeping up at all, but Diego was kind and stayed back with me till I got up the hills. Isn’t it frustrating that just because you suffer in one area, you don’t necessarily get a Free Pass in other areas?

In case you want to put a face to Diego, he’s the second guy in with the green skirt on. 😉

So it feels a bit like starting over on my bike right now, but as long as that sunrise is waiting for me, I’m good.

Isn’t it all about how it makes you feel more than what the scale says! The feeling of accomplishment for getting my rear out of bed at 4:45am is so much greater than what the scale says I weigh. It’s like, “who cares what the scale says!! I just biked twenty miles and my family is still asleep!”

Tell us some tales from your suffering since you did your Five Steps to Prepping. Did you kick into gear and then drop off after a month? Did you have weeks where you didn’t exercise but pushed yourself to get back in there again? Have you been consistent the whole time? I’m dying to know!

p.s. I made a special category on our forum called Suffering with Me Ra so we can keep this conversation up or and maybe get some guests to give us cool tips! We are closer to the forum going live. We just can’t believe how long it’s taking to figure out how to customize the look and feel of it so the branding is consistent with our other websites. It’s so annoying because the software people told us “this is such a User Friendly” back end! Yeah right! But don’t give up on the forum, we are still plugging away. Brian says 90% there.