Hello all! I'm your substitute Shape Up Sunday host this week. This is a place to talk about your successes and frustrations with your wellness goals. It's a good place to set your intentions for the coming week.

If I had known I was going to host this week, I would have maybe exercised even a bit in preparation. That's a lie. There's nothing that could have motivated me to exercise this week. I had many opportunities to go for a quick run, take a short walk, or even just do a sit up. And instead I found an unending supply of excuses not to exercise.

And that's too bad. Because just about everything I was dealing with this week and using as an excuse would have been made easier if I had just gotten out and moved my body a bit. My anxiety, my stress about work, my frustrations with kids, my mild depression. All of that eases up when I get out and get my blood pumping.

In sobriety, I've gotten pretty saavy at catching my addict brain whispering addict thoughts in my ear and that helps keep me sober.

I'm still not so saavy at catching my lethargic brain whispering lethargic thoughts in my ear.

How do you stay motivated or, better yet, how do you respond to those excuses when they crop up?

What are your goals for the week? Want to brag about a recent Shape UP Success™? Need to talk through a disappointing Shape Up Snafu™? Or just how are you doing?

No matter how it's going, sometimes I need to remind myself that, hey, I'm sober today and that's already a pretty good start to a healthy day.