My inspirational thought for this week is: know your limits. Doesn’t sound very inspirational, does it? Just follow me on this one…
This past Saturday I went to the Zumbathon at Kailua Elementary School. Super. Duper. Unreal. Fun! Met a ton of great people, learned some new moves, did Zumba for 3+ hours. I got home, jumped on the scale—hey! I lost four pounds. Good news? Not so much. It was probably about four pounds of water I sweated out that morning and wasn’t able to replace fast enough. Sure enough, that afternoon I felt nauseous, and had a headache all Saturday night and into Sunday.
I’m fine today, and so next is the humbling task of figuring out what I learned from making myself sick. All of the lessons (hydrate, listen to your body, work smarter) fall under the header of Know Your Limits. It’s important to understand what your body, mind, and spirit are capable of handling, and to both honor those limits and at the same time push them, just a little. So, while 3.5 hours of Zumba is too much Zumba for me, maybe 1.5 or 1.75 hours would have been just enough. Or, maybe going all out for the whole song is too much, but concentrating on just the footwork is a doable challenge.
None of us should be making ourselves sick by trying to do everything, but we also shouldn’t bore ourselves to tears by not trying things slightly beyond our comfort level. I hope you have a great week of knowing your limits—and of testing them, just the eensiest bit.
See you soon,
Meredith
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