Saturday, March 21, 2015

My, How I've Grown

It has been awhile since I have blogged, and now that my spring break has officially started, I have time to get back to something I love - writing and blogging about my journey.  In the weeks I have not posted, I have made notes about upcoming blog posts so no worries, I have plenty to write about.

Today, though, I just want to share something.  Something that I noticed this week.  Something that the more I think about it the more I am really proud of myself.  Somewhere along the way of this healthy food journey, I have changed.  I can't pinpoint when it happened but this week it became evident that it did.

This week I have not been the best at following my food plan.  First of all, I didn't plan out my meals for the week like I usually do, and to make it worse, I was really, really busy and hardly at home.  Needless to say, my eating suffered.  Normally, I would spiral out of control and use it as an excuse to binge as much as possible.  That is when I noticed that this time I did not do that.  Did I still make some poor food choices?  Yes.  Am I beating myself up over it and continuing to punish myself by binge eating as much as humanly possible? No.  After each poor food choice that I made, I made a conscious effort to make better ones at the very next meal.  That is growth.

Even though I was busy and not prepared on the food end, I still made working out a priority.  I continued to wake up early and workout every morning.  That felt pretty amazing.

So I noticed that I am more forgiving of myself.  I don't have the all or nothing mentality that has sabotaged me my entire life.  I have finally realized that this is a journey and it is going to have bumps and bruises along the way.  I just needed to change my reactions to those bumps and bruises. Somewhere along the way I have done that, and I couldn't be prouder.


Sunday, March 1, 2015

March Challenge

Well, hello March!  I love that today is March 1st and we had over 7 inches of snow here in Indy.  I was so lucky that I got to shovel my driveway not once but twice today!  Waking up on March 1st to this much snow reminded me of the saying: 



Then I came across this beauty:


And I knew.  I knew that with this month comes a chance for me to enter beast mode.  I am at that point in my journey that I have been at many times before.  I see success for awhile and then either I become complacent or discouraged or distracted and I end up falling off the wagon and gaining the weight back and sometimes even more weight with it.  

Not this time.  

Something I am going to try is a new photo challenge for the month of March - one that I hope will be fun even though I know it is going to be challenging at times for me.  I found the challenge on Pinterest and decided to give it a try..  Here it is:


So, there it is - the photo challenge.  I started it today and plan on continuing it daily for the month of March.  On the 31st day of March, I plan on posting a picture of how much weight I lost during the month.  

I posted my first picture today.  I went back and forth a lot on how many pounds I wanted to lose this month.  I wanted it to be achievable but also something that I had to work at.  Since I posted the picture I have had doubts on whether or not I can achieve the goal I set.  It doesn't matter now - I put it out there, and I am going into beast mode to achieve it!  



Anyone else want to do this photo challenge with me?