It’s, I believe, too early into the new year to already feel like I just want to stay in bed, and especially like I do not want to exercise. Yet, here I am, feeling this way already on the 5th day of the year. The rain is of course not helping.

It scares me when days like these make me feel like nothing I do works and make me wonder if it all really is worth it. All the early mornings… All the exercises that I cannot do, yet try my best to get right… All futile…

I know that the alternative – a life where I can sleep late every morning and eat whatever I want – is not something I want either. I’ve been there before, it is not all it promises to be.

But what do I do when sometimes it is just so tempting to quit?

I try my best to remember why I started and I reluctantly get up, brush my teeth, get dressed into my exercise gear and start the session planned for me today, and I hope that the feeling of feeling down will pass by swiftly.