Making Time

Recent changes in my life have thrown a wrench in my carefully crafted routine. My old routine included office time, friends and working out 2-3 days a week as well as time for my family. It was wonderful.

However, once school started (for both kids at different schools), my husband went back to work and we found out a loved one was very ill, my old routine crumbled. My days are now fuller and long story short; my workouts were the first thing to suffer.

But I wasn’t too worried. I’d been doing Crossfit for two years with a fantastic group of motivated people and I’d learned a lot. I had a good set of dumbbells, a jump rope, a pull up bar and lots of body weight movements at my disposal. I was sure I could keep my workouts going (at home) as well as get to the gym once a week. Constantly varied, right? I had this!

Wishful thinking.

Two month trying to create a new routine and I can feel the fitness I worked so hard to achieve slipping away. I get dressed to work out and get sucked into work. I make time in the evening to run after the kids go to bed, and end up doing chores or flopping into bed myself. On a good week, I get to the gym once and fit in one workout at home. I didn’t think I’d feel so lost and unmotivated without my Crossfit tribe, but I do.

I am certain this is just an adjustment period, but how do you make time for yourself? Time to work out, to plan meals, to make good choices and still care for the people you love?

How do you hold yourself accountable when you don’t have a “tribe” there to push you?

A little lost, but figuring it out.
MM