The Night My Husband Didn’t Come Home
By Melissa Bianchino, Out Run Your Fork Personal Training and Nutritionists in Westfield, NJ
After having emergency surgery and staying in the hospital for almost a week my husband finally came home. I was scared. Between taking care of the kids and now caring for my hubby I lost track of taking care of myself. Over the next few months I was getting sluggish and tired. I was stressed. My muscles started to ache all the time. I couldn’t sleep. I was gaining weight.
Going to the gym was the last thing on my mind. I felt like I didn’t have time to go. My husband was immobile, in a neck brace and partially paralyzed. What would happen if I left and he needed me? I was so overwhelmed that I couldn’t even think of going. I felt guilty and selfish for even thinking about the gym.
But my husband kept telling me to go to the gym. “Get a good workout and let some of that stress out,” he’d say to me. “Eat good. Your body needs nourishment. You’ll feel better.”
I resisted. My guilt wouldn’t let me go more than a few times, but those few times I did go I felt better. I started to remember that I always felt better after a workout. So I started to go more. And I started to eat better. And I started to feel better. Pretty soon I was going almost everyday.
And an amazing thing happened. I started to feel more in control. I was happier. I had fewer muscle aches. I had more energy. I was starting to feel like me again!
After only four months I was back into the swing of things. I had made a commitment to take better care of myself and I feel so much better.
It’s now three years later and I’ve maintained a healthy lifestyle. I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t get back to it right away.
I’ve seen so many people fall into a hole and then wake up one day to realize they had let themselves fall so far down. I didn’t want that to happen to me.
I watched my husband fight his way back. I watched him go to work everyday, in neck brace, to help others take back their lives and build them back to a healthy, vibrant state… even when he himself was struggling.
He never showed his own struggle. He smiled and joked with everyone while he wrestled his own demons along his journey to recovery.
My husband has been helping people get their lives back in order for years and I can honestly say that I couldn’t have done it without his encouragement and ability to build a workout schedule that fit my new, super busy reality.
How many of you have something in your life that is preventing you from taking care of yourself? If you want to feel better, have more energy and regain control of your life, then maybe it’s a good time to give him a call. I’m so lucky to have him and now I’d like to share him with all of you.
About Melissa and Out Run Your Fork:
As a personal trainer and nutritionist near me in Westfield, NJ, we create better health for people over 40 who are looking to lose weight, build strength, increase energy without sacrificing time or risking injury.
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