Hey, hey, hey! Been a minute, yeah? I know…..I feel terrible! I lost the zeal to write, the zeal to fight and the zeal to just go at it! Don’t start feeling sorry for me, it is not like I am depressed or anything like that! I am just human. I keep asking myself what I did 3 years ago to drop all the pounds as I did and even though I know what drove and motivated me, it does not seem to be working this time around. That said, I must admit that I am a tonne busier now than I was then, and barely have enough ‘me’ time to be honest. Every opportunity I get now, I just want to chill on the couch, and let my mind wonder. Problem is I don’t get all that time! I am grateful anyway, always good to be busy than looking for stuff to do.

So, I got an elliptical machine! Yay! I have it in my living room, and I have done a good job of getting on that machine since I got it. At least much better than I thought I would do with it considering I prefer the outdoors to indoor workouts. All the same, it has been a tough hurdle to pull myself up to get on the elliptical and just burn calories. Irony is, it gets easier once I am on the machine and through the first five minutes, but to find the will to just get on it – that is the problem!!!

So what am I learning now three years after my first big break into the fitness journey? Nothing that I didn’t know before…lol, except that now I am experiencing the struggles first hand. One thing for sure is that I am learning to make fitness about the experience and things that I love doing and less about the goal of losing weight. I do want to be fit to be healthier, more active, and hopefully live longer barring other factors that militate against our survival in my native country Nigeria and globally. When I reflect on what I did three years ago that I am yet to pick back up, i realize that it is Tennis. So I actually love to play that game, but I barely have the luxury of time like I did to play now. At least now I know that I miss tennis and have to create time to start playing again, even if just on the weekends.

The other thing I am learning is that this fitness business is real business. Seasonal like any business – has its ups and downs, highs and lows. Thus, you gotta just continue to keep at it, keep trying, every time you fail, you pick up from where you left off. It is not like we are all in a rat race of fitness or running against time, so why don’t you just take things in your stride and whatever you can do to be physically active as much as you can, do it?