Motivation low, fading fast...

Winter is a terrible time for me as far as motivation goes. All summer I was going to the gym 3 days a week, and even when I was on holiday I was at the gym doing kettlebell classes 6 days a week and yoga straight afterwards as well. I really worked my butt off in Toronto this summer; shame it was only for a couple weeks!

Well, now winter has well and truly arrived I haven’t done one tiny smidgen of exercise. I definitely feel unfit, and I’m quite tired – I’ve found it harder and harder to wake up at 6:00 am for work now. Especially since we got our new curtains which block out the outside world brilliantly. Can’t blame the curtains though, as even when they’re open at that time in the morning it is totally dark outside. This morning, it was still dark when I got off the bus at work.

Depressing.

I can’t be bothered to go to the gym, as it would involve traipsing through the snow to get there from the bus stop, and then back up the hill again to get the bus home. It’s already pitch black by the time I leave work anyways.

I need some bloody motivation!!

I think now uni has finished for the term, I’ll start going back to yoga. I need to do something or I’ll go stir crazy, and it’s not helping that my boyfriend wakes up waaay later than I do (yes I know 6:00 am is antisocial) and is perky at midnight, when I’m barely able to prop my eyelids open.

I need to do something soon.

I’ve ordered Insanity from Amazon, so am hoping it will arrive over the weekend. I’ve heard good things about it, and I think it will definitely help being able to do a workout at home that will kick my butt. That was what I loved about kettlebells – totally takes it out of you and you definitely feel like you’ve done a hard workout. My trainer at my gym always makes sure I don’t go away feeling I’ve had an easy time!

I want to get more days in skiing this winter as well. Last year I wasn’t even working or going to uni, but I only managed to go twice (thrice if you count the dry slope, which I don’t). I miss getting in a full 2 weeks of skiing in Whistler every winter, plus whatever random ski days I could muster up. I think if I had to live in Canada again, Whistler would be the place. I would be happy being a ski bum!

I’d probably also be skinny. The last time I can remember being able to eat anything I wanted and still fit into a size small trouser was when I was doing 8 hours on the slopes every day and stuffing my face every night. I could eat anything I wanted and just burned it off the next day.

I miss those days…