"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, 'I'll try again tomorrow.'"
It seemed apropos for the day I'm starting, yet again, to try to maintain healthy eating. It's a little scary to start again, especially when I have tried so many times - and failed many times. There's that voice that always tells me I can't succeed. That this effort will be just like last week's effort and the week before that.
But the little voice of courage speaks too. The only thing that counts is to which you choose to listen.
Today's major victories:
It seemed apropos for the day I'm starting, yet again, to try to maintain healthy eating. It's a little scary to start again, especially when I have tried so many times - and failed many times. There's that voice that always tells me I can't succeed. That this effort will be just like last week's effort and the week before that.
But the little voice of courage speaks too. The only thing that counts is to which you choose to listen.
Today's major victories:
1) Ate breakfast at home.
2) Ate the lunch I brought and got in a great workout at lunch.
These are two major areas I've been struggling with lately. I'm always at my weakest when I wake up (I'm just not a morning person), and often if I give in to temptation at breakfast, I end up giving in all day long.
About lunch - I don't know what's been wrong with me at lunch lately, but for most of the summer it has been a struggle to find my motivation to get my lunch time workout in. Yes, it is a lot of work to change into gym clothes, work out hard and get cleaned up and back to work within an hour. So it's just been easier to skip it. Again, I'm lazy. Plus, it's tastier to skip it and go out to eat instead.
Today's trials:
1) We had some communal M&Ms at work that I, of course, could not help partaking in. Admittedly, I was the one who brought them in last week to share with the group because they were WU colors (also known as the fall mix). Luckily, they sit on someone else's desk so I have to get up, walk over there and be watched as I scoop a tiny handful out. And I only work half a day in that office, so I escaped their siren call at lunch time.
2) I'm eating dinner out tonight with friends, but it is at McAlister's, so I should be able to order responsibly.
At the end of the day, I'd say it was a pretty good Monday. Not the best I've ever been, but so far from the worst.
How'd you guys do today?
Awesome Jill! Today I went grocery shopping with both children--first time doing full shipping with both of them in the shopping cart--and this afternoon I ran/walked ~4 miles pushing the double stroller. I am exhausted now, but it feels good. Eating-wise, other than being at Granny's last week surrounded by the most delicious food imaginable, I haven't had much of an appetite since weaning B :)
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This is one of my favourite quotations. I actually have it framed in my bathroom so that I see it both before I go to bed at night and again when I wake up in the morning. I'm thinking of moving it to my dorm at the camp so I'm seeing it more than 2 days a week.
ReplyDeleteMy major victory today was a GRANDE soy chai latte. I usually only get a tall, but decided to go a little crazy today since it is one of my two days off. :)
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