Gracious Day!
That is a saying that my husband says (he is so southern!). I have picked it up and say it often. This "gracious day" refers to my inability to stay motivated to count calories and write my food down, and my ability (negative) to just grab snacks, or extra food whenever I want to. The question here is not whether I am eating something healthy. The problem is that I am eating too much of something. You should see how many small handfuls of chocolate chips I ate yesterday... Vacationing makes it worse, because I am off of my schedule. I eat different things. Its just hard to get back on it. We went camping this weekend in Mesa Verde, CO- greatly recommend it, so pretty! We had a lot of fun seeing a bunch of cliff dwellings that are hundreds of years old. But, when we were camping I did not write down what I ate, and I snuck snacks often. Its just hard to get back into the swing of things. I have the hardest time staying motivated to count my calories, and write everything down that I eat. Even if I wasn't trying to lose a little bit more weight, I would still at least try and write down everything I eat, because I eat better when I have to write it down. This reminded me how easy it is to fall back into old habits, even when you have been working at them for many months as I have. I am a stress eater. I am a social eater. Those things combined over the last few weeks have not been good. I just keep hoping that cookies, and candy bars, and cakes, and other not-so-healthy-items would just start sounding gross to me, so I don't feel like eating them, of that I can just eat till I am full, and not continue eating for no reason... But, alas, that is not how I am. I like my treats, and I like to eat a lot.
The great and comforting thing about life, though, is that we have the opportunity to change and become better, and I know I can do that, because I have done that. Its not like I am doing horrible, I just need to bring in the reins a little bit. My goal today is to write down EVERYTHING I eat, as well as exercise (exercising is not the hard part... eating is). And, its okay to have treats. Luckily, I make ours pretty healthy, but I still need to control what I eat a little more, and not binge...
Life is good, I am doing good. Today is a new day. I am going to face the battle head on, and I will conquer my bad habits. Who knows how long it will take, or what I must go through to do it, but its worth the journey.
The great and comforting thing about life, though, is that we have the opportunity to change and become better, and I know I can do that, because I have done that. Its not like I am doing horrible, I just need to bring in the reins a little bit. My goal today is to write down EVERYTHING I eat, as well as exercise (exercising is not the hard part... eating is). And, its okay to have treats. Luckily, I make ours pretty healthy, but I still need to control what I eat a little more, and not binge...
Life is good, I am doing good. Today is a new day. I am going to face the battle head on, and I will conquer my bad habits. Who knows how long it will take, or what I must go through to do it, but its worth the journey.
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