Totally Off Track!

This week is/was my last week in Beijing and it is madness!!! You try and keep a schedule, workout routine, but it just goes out the toilet when you're about to pick up and move country. This is my third time doing it. It's never been easy, but it has never been hard. There is just a lot of stuff that needs to be done... All week I have been wanting to pack for the summer and haven't been able to - it has to be done today because the packers come on Saturday. Then I have to figure out what we are going to need to survive for the next couple days without all our stuff...because EVERYTHING is going to go! Pots, pans, plates, etc... but lucky for us we have friends who are going to feed us... If it weren't for them, it wouldn't be as "easy."

But back to my original thought for this post... Sometimes life happens and you totally get off track... food, wine, exercise... all the things that you are supposed to moderate just gets right off track. I haven't had a good workout since Monday, food has been on (trying to at least have a salad a day and there is a banana on my desk...) and wine... too much wine to "drown" my sorrows of leaving some very good friends and help with the overwhelming feeling of all the tasks that need to be accomplished. But still it is not an excuse to let these things totally make you go off track. That is the whole problem isn't it... that if you really want to look for it there is always an excuse to have that next glass of wine, that egg mcmuffin or not go for that run... and that gets into a bad habit. I do know that this time round, I will find the time to go for a run, I know that this pattern won't last and I know that at the end of the tunnel there is that nice waterfront run where the air is clean (even if the skies are grey) because I'll be back home in Canada... So yes, I have totally gone off track in the past week, but I feel the need to run, exercise and that this is just a temporary setback - I am determined this time to stay on track!