It's Hard

It's Hard.  Period. The End.  Everything is hard. Life is hard.  We just have to pick and choose the hard that we want to overcome.  One at a time.  We can't do it all at once.  Small goals that bring us little successes closer to the big goals.

I only weigh myself once a week.  That way I am not totally obsessing over the number on the scale and the little fluxuations that happen naturally depending on the time of the month and don't discourage me from the ultimate goal.  So I got on the scale the day after posting last week. 

I lost 5 lbs!

I was so happy.  All my hard work started to pay off.  It actually made me want to work harder.  Then the next day I woke up so sick I couldn't get out of bed.  I have been fighting a sinus thing for this whole last week and couldn't breathe well enough to really get into it.  I still try to do the other things that I would do throughout the day, but I am almost sure that I have gained all those 5 lbs back, or maybe just part of it. 

However, being sick this week has taught me something.  I noticed that the days that I don't exercise, I don't eat as well.  When I exercise, I feel good about myself and then think more of the good things that I need to put into it.  When I don't exercise, I don't feel as good, which means then I start craving the bad things.  Weird, isn't it.  It makes it extra hard to eat right on those non-exercise days. 

I can do hard things.

I can do it.  I will make it happen and again I am starting fresh this next Monday as I can finally breathe again.  It is never too late for a fresh start.  It doesn't even have to be at the beginning of the year, or the month, or the week.  Any day you want can be your fresh start day. 

Sometimes I feel so discouraged on the days that I haven't been strong enough to resist the food I don't need.  I only eat it because I know it tastes good, and not because I am hungry.  It is reprograming your mind.  When I get stressed with my kids (which is every day) my brain says, you need chocolate, you deserve it after cleaning up the 5th potty accident of the day and it's only 10am.  But I don't! I have to reprogram my brain. However, if I slip, I can try harder the rest of the day.  A fresh start doesn't even have to start at the beginning of the day. It just has to start.  Just say to yourself, I will do better.  That is all you need to do.  Do a little better everyday and it will pay off in the end.