Thursday, March 3, 2011

At long last....no more excuses

I've been a procrastinating poster as of late.  I was/am frustrated with myself, I have not really progressed at all with my weight lately.  My significant other moved in and he's a big cookie/sweet eater so that's not helping matters, can I blame him??  No, I can't but I can at least ask for his help in changing our home environment so I can be more successful.

I also made some excuses, you know the ones..."I'm tired" "PMS is acting up" "I'm sick" and a variety of other excuses.  But now I don't have the option of continuing to excuse myself, two reasons:
1.  My 5K race is in 17 days....so I'm running that whether I "feel" like it or not
2.  I'm not getting anywhere standing still

I always pride myself on moving forward, but right now I'm standing still and not getting anywhere fast.  So in an effort to kick-start myself, I changed gyms.  And I'm logging, whether I like it or not.  Even on days when my food consumption is 30+ points over what it should be.  Tracking my food forces me to own the truth about my food and forces me to look at it critically.  I do not have a good relationship with food, I still think I need more than I really do, but I have yet to identify why my relationship with food is still not fixed.  I didn't have a traumatic event as a child, my parents loved me, I did well in things that I tried.  I never am the smartest person in my family or group of friends and sometimes that made me feel inferior, but since childhood I've accepted my lack of traditional brains because I know I'm good at other things.

So tonight I'm making a new playlist to take to the gym tomorrow and I've got a log for my workouts too, so here we go.  That's the nice thing about life, we can always improve it.

"Don't call it a mistake, call it an education" ~Thomas Edison

"It's never too late to be what you might have been"  ~George Eliot

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