Life happens every day. Good stuff, bad stuff, all sorts of stuff. How we choose to deal with it is what’s important. I find that when bad stuff happens (my basement floods) I end up eating my emotions. Never a good thing. But lately it seems that I find excuses in every day bad stuff to eat my emotions. Work is busy, I’ll just have a little snack. Basement floods? Who has time to stay on plan while we clean this up? HVAC system needs a new motor? What’s a little ice cream? Well, all that emotional eating adds up. It takes me completely off my plan and makes it very hard to get back on. So, what’s a girl to do? Well, she puts on her big girl panties and hops back on that train and presses on. Bad things are always going to happen. We can’t stop it. We can’t avoid it (unless you decide to live in a cave somewhere). What we can do is choose to meet it head-on and not let it defeat us.
I’ve been on my journey to a healthier lifestyle since April and I’ve done pretty good, not as well as I’d like, but not horrible either. I’m down 35 pounds, I feel better and I do have more energy. I’m not close to my goal yet, but I’m getting closer. I know that I can do this, I just get in my own way. I’m really good at being a cheerleader for others. Now it’s time to be a cheerleader for myself. You hear people say all the stuff about lemons and lemonade. I guess there’s something to that. For me, it’s all about focusing on the good stuff. So my basement flooded, at least I still have my house. Some people lost theirs. So we didn’t have A/C for a week, at least it was summer and not freezing winter. So we lost some stuff, I was going to go through it and get rid of a lot anyway. It’s all in how you look at things. Am I always going to see the good? Hell no, nobody does. But if I try to see the good the majority of the time, then that’s a win in my book.
This journey was never going to be easy. Nothing worth having is easy. If you really want something, you have to work for it, strive for it, really crave it in your soul. Otherwise, you’ll never get it. That’s my take away in all this. Accept that it’s not going to be easy, suck it up and push ahead. From rain come rainbows, remember that.
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