Be Your Own Inspiration
A Quarantine Tale
The signs were there with the extra jiggle. An overlapping roll, and the need to hike my sweatpants up a little higher over my stomach.
The quarantine 15 is a real thing from the master breadmakers to the Instagram famous quarantine chefs and you know what? We shouldn’t care if we give ourselves some wiggle room of a pound or five or ten, right? Pun intended. There’s a fine line between ignoring a topic and behavior until it gets out of hand or allowing ourselves to be outside of our comfort zones.
This time is not normal. The entire world is out of their comfort zones. Nothing about today or yesterday or even three weeks ago is normal. But you know what can be normal? Not beating ourselves up or being our own worst enemy during a time where uncertainty is the new norm.
Like many of you, I miss the gym. I do. I miss putting on my workout clothes to jog ten minutes to my gym. I even miss the act of scanning my red rubber bracelet to allow entrance. Where I would skip down the stairs to the underground locker rooms. A place where I once made eye contact with a woman as she eyed me through the mirror, “How you doing?” she said in…
