For 12 solid weeks, I lost weight. I rocked it. It really wasn't hard. I had my mindset correct. I liked to feel the energy I received from exercise. My stomach turned at the thought of artificial ingredients, fake food, white bread, etc. It was easy. My weight loss felt like a gift. I just felt blessed and all pulled together. I wasn't struggling. at all.
IT IS NOT A GIFT.
A gift is something you get just because. Weight loss isn't just randomly handed to you with a Merry Christmas. Weight loss only comes because of something your are DOING. works.
I had this mentality of "oh yeah, I've got this. I'm losing weight and I can not fail.". That is a bad way to think! My weight loss mentor (whom I text every night) is in the midst of a long term family emergency and I'm not texting her (...there goes a big accountability thing...uh oh!). Then I got sick (again) with this sinus, cough, low energy stuff and I felt like NOT exercising so I haven't been. (yeah...so much for my "rule" of eating what I planned--- I threw that out way too easily). Throw in the fact that it is a few days before payday, we are broke and there's not a lot of choices in the kitchen. Bad choices are SO easy to justify!!!
JUSTIFYING BAD CHOICES is the exact same thing as MAKING EXCUSES.
Yes, I have been making them.
And so....after 12 weeks of losses, last night I had a turtle (stayed the same).
I need to pull myself together. NOW.
One good choice makes the next good choice easier.... Good choices, here I come.
Just want to say well done, a sts is awesome.
ReplyDeleteNicely said. I have seen a few flatlines over the last 4 months.. it just tells me that I need to work harder, and I do.
ReplyDeleteHang in there, next week will be better!
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