Back to the. Basics

If you're following me on Twitter you've probably realized that I tweet a lot while I watch tv. *cough* Torchwood *cough cough*  The most recent Netflix marathon I've become attached to has been Grey's Anatomy.  I just started season three yesterday, and if weren't for our internet being slow because of the pile of snow on our roof affecting our antenna, I would probably be close to the end of the season by this evening.

Off topic.

In one episode, don't ask me which one because I've watched so much Grey's in the last week I can't remember specific episodes/seasons since it all kind of blurs together, the chief put's Dr. Yang in her place after teaching her a lesson.  The moral of the story basically was that sometimes you overlook things and make them more complicated than what they need to be by letting things cloud your mind.  It's all about going back to the basics and doing what you know.

Since I'm back in school this semester my bank account is pretty empty and I can't afford to pay for my gym membership like I did last year.  Last year I was pretty good about going in three to five times a week and working out for at least 25 to 30 minutes.  The goal was simple: to get moving.  Clearly, in the last month I haven't been able to do that and I've started to see how much it's affecting me.

I spend a lot of time at my desk sitting in this office chair that should really have been pitched and replaced a few years ago, doing homework.  I lose track of time pretty quickly, especially if I'm doing research. I mean, come one, one website leads to another and then another and before you know it you've got a bunch of new resources saved to your favorites and a hour and a half have passed!  It's been difficult for me to get used to this way since my two classes are on Monday and Tuesday and then my third one is online (the one that has yet to start...) so I spend the remainder of my week at my desk.  This ends up causing back flares (from the terrible desk chair I was talking about), hip flares and overall just really sore and weak muscles.

Determined to find some sort of solution I did what I thought was the easiest way to ask for help with something like this. I went to one of my Facebook groups of fellow spoonies and asked for any and all suggestions for at home stretching.  I got a lot of feedback and decided to join fitocracy.

I've been on fitocracy before but my mindset wasn't right when I had joined.  I think I'll have to explain why I stopped using it some other time because this post is already long enough.  I seriously wasn't for sure if I wanted to go this route again, mostly because I didn't know how to make what I used to do at the gym work for me at home without any of the equipment and very limited space.

Back to the basics.

My goal is to get moving more so I'm not sitting at my desk for hours and hours at a time during the week.  That's simple when you really think about it!  I was trying to make everything 10 times as difficult as it was needed.

Like I said, I'm on fitocracy now and if you'd like to follow me my username is JessieJohn .

 A good lesson to remember, just to take it back to the basics.