And it’s mid-January already. It’s always a weird time for me – the hype, hustle and bustle of November and December are over and you’re left with the “aftermath”. Holidays are over, and a long cold winter is ahead of me.

Those two months throw my regular routine all out of whack. My many months of groove are thrown into an upside-down mass of somewhat controlled chaos. Eating habits? Out the window. Exercise Habits? They followed the Eating Habits out that window while Eating Habits cheered them on. My usual daily routines are struggling to exist in an environment of holiday mayhem that is just not conducive to their survival. So, they go dormant, waiting to be activated once again. Enter January.

One would think that the good habits in their dormant state would be easy to reactivate. They’re not. They fight it, they WANT to stay dormant to a certain extent. It’s just soooooo much easier and they whisper to me “look at all the extra time you have by letting us sleep!” (There’s definitely a flaw in that logic because at max it saves about an hour and a half). So I bet I spend most of the month of January trying to find my routine again, and some years it seems it’s not until April that I get my act back together.

It’s full of lots of starts and stops. Hit and miss workouts, hit and miss watching what I eat, and hit and miss healthy foods being brought in. One week I get in a whole lot of treadmill time, and some weeks, well, not so much. There’s a lack of consistency and balance. I think that sums up my January so far this year. But I keep at it, and eventually I find my way back to what I call my “Me Routine”, the things that take care of me.

Every week it’s a little bit more and soon I’ll be back up and running with consistency, and tell myself, once again that November and December will not throw me off! Who knows, maybe THIS will be the year that they don’t! Yeah, I know but I can always try and hope for the best!