Apologies in advance, normally I am a very positive person but I've been struggling the last couple of days and as they say a problem shared...
Since the Friday / Saturday I've been feeling down. All caused by the current global situation, lockdown, and not seeing friends & family, so not much I can do about that. I tried to take care of myself, I did my workouts and ate healthy but really took it easy otherwise.
Monday morning rolled around and there was no way I could get out of bed - I usually work out before starting working from home - so I slept through and started work groggy and basically an absolute grump.
Roll over to this morning when I did get up and do a workout but it was the worst mood I've ever been in doing a workout in my life. I was basically cursing Kelli the whole time [sorry Kelli!] and no endorphins kicked in at all. Add to that it was absolutely lashing rain here so all I could think all morning was that my normal lunchtime walk - one of the few things I can do right now to get out of the house - was not going to be on the cards.
I was really stewing in self pity and my bad mood. Eventually around 12 I thought feck it, what's the worst that could happen if I went out in the rain, so I put on the rain gear and headed out for my normal 4k.
It was wet and muddy and really not very nice but... you know what... I started to feel better. Halfway through the rain started to ease and the sun was trying to come out and it was like with that my mood started to lift.
I'm not saying I'm 100% over it - we're still in lockdown for another month - but I'm glad I made the move and did something that I didn't want to in order to make myself feel better.
What have you been able to do to help you when feeling down?
Venting!!!
Apologies in advance, normally I am a very positive person but I've been struggling the last couple of days and as they say a problem shared...
Since the Friday / Saturday I've been feeling down. All caused by the current global situation, lockdown, and not seeing friends & family, so not much I can do about that. I tried to take care of myself, I did my workouts and ate healthy but really took it easy otherwise.
Monday morning rolled around and there was no way I could get out of bed - I usually work out before starting working from home - so I slept through and started work groggy and basically an absolute grump.
Roll over to this morning when I did get up and do a workout but it was the worst mood I've ever been in doing a workout in my life. I was basically cursing Kelli the whole time [sorry Kelli!] and no endorphins kicked in at all. Add to that it was absolutely lashing rain here so all I could think all morning was that my normal lunchtime walk - one of the few things I can do right now to get out of the house - was not going to be on the cards.
I was really stewing in self pity and my bad mood. Eventually around 12 I thought feck it, what's the worst that could happen if I went out in the rain, so I put on the rain gear and headed out for my normal 4k.
It was wet and muddy and really not very nice but... you know what... I started to feel better. Halfway through the rain started to ease and the sun was trying to come out and it was like with that my mood started to lift.
I'm not saying I'm 100% over it - we're still in lockdown for another month - but I'm glad I made the move and did something that I didn't want to in order to make myself feel better.
What have you been able to do to help you when feeling down?