25 feels good on me. And to that end, I didn't make any progress on my weight loss goal this past week. I ate ice cream, I drank wine, my grandma made me 2 chocolate cakes, and I just indulged. But luckily, I feel like I didn't go too overboard - a sign that my appetite is chaning. And I think that going on a 12 mile backpacking trip didn't hurt either to balance everything out ;)
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| My birthday view // Lake Dorothy |
But I have to say that when I stepped on that scale Monday morning and saw I didn't lose anything, I was angry. I spent most of yesterday beating myself up. Why can't I just have it easy? And then I stopped myself, this wasn't meant to be easy. Life throws a lot of good and bad at you, and you have to take it all in stride. Some weeks you're going to indulge, other weeks you'll buckle down. But that I can't let myself have any more excuses. This is what I am doing, I am being disciplined and thoughtful with my diet right now, and I just have to work harder.
I am not going to bury my head in the sand.
On our backpacking trip, my friend talked a lot about teaching kids to have a growth mindset versus a "fixed" one. We allow boys to think they are just born good at math. We allow girls to think they are better at just being "good". In all reality, we must work hard to be successful. In the same vein, I think we do this with people who appear very fit. But let's look at their diets or workout routines, are they really working for their nutrition and overall health? A chunk of them are probably just riding a pure wave of metabolic luck. But a bigger portion of those folks have put in the work and have laid a solid foundation of holistic well being - bit by bit.
You want to be fit, lady? Did you fail a little this week? Work harder.
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