This is a post I’ve been dreading writing, but I believe in being authentic and real and honest, even when I don’t want to be. When I want to pretend everything is fine, great and awesome. But it’s not. You see I’ve been cheating. Terribly. I’ve fallen off my get healthy wagon and I’m struggling. And that’s okay.
What To Do When You Want to Quit and Abandon Your Healthy New Lifestyle Because It Sucks.
My quest to get healthy remains happily on track. Inches are coming off, butt is shrinking and muscles are forming. All wonderful, great things that make me strut around my apartment like I’m the Queen of the World. Ain’t no mountain high enough! This get healthy lifestyle is so easy …. or not. I do strut around feeling proud of my progress and I also stare longingly into the fridge and whine about being hungry. I regularly want to quit because size ain’t nuthin’ but a number. And on and on it goes.
How an Avowed Exercise Hater Started Regularly Working Out
It’s unlikely that I will ever be the person who leaps out of bed in the morning anxious to do her workout. Or the person who feels off all day because they missed a workout. I may never love exercising because I still don’t like it today. And yet I exercise six days a week. That’s right — six days a week. The person who succumbed to daily phantom big toe pains, which left her unable to exercise for years, works out six times a week. Mic. Drop.
What I Ate in September
Other blogging friends have done similar posts and I always enjoyed them — partly because I am nosy and also for future meal inspiration. Thus, I decided to do it myself, but as the month progressed, I began to feel a little uncomfortable in light of my get healthy announcement. My intention had been for this to be fun post and now I felt self-conscious about being judged. This could become an inadvertent step back versus a step forward.
The Chicken or the Egg. Exercise or Food. What Comes First?
Thank you so much for your kind words of support and encouragement to my big announcement that I was FINALLY taking the necessary steps to get healthy. I appreciate it so much, because anyone who has ever had to lose weight, knows how difficult it can be. You also made me laugh after every single comment because pretty much everyone gave advice on eating. And that’s not where I’m starting. Sorry. #NotSorry.