Tia Today: Party the new way
How would you celebrate at the end of 10 weeks of walking, playing games, lifting weights and laughing? The answer for this time is a walkathon the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Call it a new way of launching the traditional Christmas season!
For those who covet that as a Christmas-shopping-only day, the walk runs 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Shop early, shop late.You can have it all. We can bring guests to walk with us.
As my first 10-week cycle of the Totally Fit Life system winds down, all my “classmates” are pushing harder to reach goals we all set individually for our first program cycle. Thanksgiving week — appropriately — is our final week of this cycle of commitment. And we have much for which to be grateful.
So, I have found I recover faster from health challenges. I continue to enjoy going to the Gathering Place gym facility so much that I miss it on days off. Being someplace by 6 a.m. isn’t unusual, but looking forward — I said, forward — to exercise is very unusual indeed.
I find I now tend to naturally favor healthier foods. No, chocolate isn’t out, but it really doesn’t appeal much anymore. Coffee in moderation is still in, but I really enjoy grabbing a glass of water more than ever. Clean water to drink is a wonderful gift.
I can walk with much less pain now and have more endurance. My daughter, whom I haven’t seen in nearly two years since she married and moved to South Africa, came for a visit. She even noticed when she arrived at the airport at midnight — not my best time — how much better I move. And, she is one of my main motivators for continuing to participate in these 10-week TFL cycles. I have fun — yes. But I want to be strong enough to make that long trip to see her in South Africa.
So, on Thanksgiving I’ll gobble — in moderation, of course.
Friday I’ll wobble to the downtown tree lighting ceremony.
And Saturday I’ll toddle to the walkathon.
Time to celebrate the 21st Century way.
The Totally Fit Life System is being premiered in Indiana at The Gathering Place sports facility at Community Church of Greenwood, 884-0531, www.gatheringplaceonline.org. Tia Nielsen is not compensated by the TFL program or any of the facilities referenced.
