Excuses!

Another week.  Another 2 pounds gained.  This is getting out of control.  I have to snap out of it!  I have been using all of these excuses for the past two weeks:

*retaining water
*craving sweets
*stress
*too busy
*can't get up in the mornings
*way to tired in the evenings after school
*moving classrooms
*I will be better once summer vacation starts.

There may be more, but those are the ones I could think of this morning that I have told myself.  Those are just excuses!  Excuses make it okay to gain the weight or not to exercise.  Excuses do NOT allow me to be my healthy self.  Excuses are really lies and opportunities for me to deceive myself.  No more. 

Here is a list of 10 excuses.  How many of these have you told yourself in the last day?  Week?  Month?  Year? 

Am I really going to let my excuses win?  Am I really going to let these lies set me back?  I have come so far...was I really just going to let myself go?  NO!  I saw this quote, and I think that it sums up perfectly what excuses will do to us:

I do not want a monument of nothingness in my life.  I am a type A personality that does not function well with incompetence...yet I am going to be incompetent in this area of my life?  NOT UP IN HERE!  :)

I think a little reminder of why I have decided to run and eat healthier is in order. 

 

 

I particularly liked this reasons to run picture because of the comment about would you rather be covered in sweat at the gym or covered in clothes at the beach.  Let me show you some pictures of me on a beach:

 

April 2008

 

April 2012



Notice what these pictures have in common?  I am covered up as much as possible.  Part of it is because I get sunburned easily, but the biggest part is because I am overweight and want to hide as much as myself as possible. 

Posting these beach pictures is exactly what I need to remind myself that I am tired of living life in this fat person perspective I have been living in for the past 33 years.  I deserve more.  No one else can do that for me.  I have to do it for MYSELF! 

Wishing you an excuse free week!