Let me start this blog by saying..............................
HAPPY VETERAN'S DAY TO ALL THE VETERANS WHO FOUGHT AND DIED FOR OUR COUNTRY AND WHO WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT AND DIE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND OUR FREEDOMS!
I hope that I can tie all the messages that I want to share into this blog without confusion and with some eloquence. :)
I have so much on my mind, this week has been such a reflection for me. I'm still trying to adjust to being home from my caregiver weekend in Nashville and it's been a difficult adjustment. I do realize that I am not alone and that I have love and support when I don't feel strong. I do realize that I am much stronger than I ever realized. I realize also that it's OK to take care of me, to let down those walls and to take off the mask that we as caregivers wear all the time. It's really o.k. Life will continue to go on, and things will keep moving as they should.
So now time to ask the inevitable question that we all ask ourselves from time to time when we fail at things that we think we should succeed at.........WHY DON'T WE CHANGE?
We can ask ourselves this question about anything.........weight loss, finances, jobs, kids, finishing school, setting goals.........etc.......pretty much anything....
We don't change because most of us tell ourselves that "It's OK to continue bad habits because nothing bad happened today". Think about that statement. I know I have thought about that statement a lot. Especially when it comes to eating habits. I see a snack pack of Oreos and think........hrmmmm, if I eat those Oreos, the scale won't change today, it won't show a 5lb gain, so I'll be o.k. I can work that off tomorrow. It's like a vicious cycle.......we continue to keep making bad choices because that bad choice or that bad habit didn't make the world stop spinning TODAY. We survived, we escaped the day unscathed.......we tell ourselves we'll do better TOMORROW, but tomorrow comes and goes and we are now stuck in a cycle of "nothing bad happened today, so I can work that off tomorrow". Before we know it we are overweight, not fitting in our clothes and miserable with ourselves....asking "How in the hell did I get in this position?" We have to break the cycle and stop reaching for the bad choices.
Have you ever seen die-hard sports fans? They are for one team or another........they don't play both teams, they either love or loathe certain teams. Think of eating habits like that. You can love food and you can love eating, but you have to have a healthy respect for both of these things. You can't continue to keep making bad choices, eating crap and then trying to make healthy choices. It's like your playing for both teams. Someone is going to lose and if your like the majority of Americans, the crap food is going to get a new team member! You have to fight hard for the healthy choices. It may seem like you are giving up the things that you love, but you don't have to. It's all about changing and doing it at a pace that you can live with.
We all have this invisible clock over our heads. We can't see it, no one can. Only one person can see that clock and it ticks down....every second, every minute of the day. Do you know when that clock stops? When we take our last breath. Time is precious, and we never know how much time we have left to impact a life. The choices we make today can make an impact on our own life or the life of someone else. All of the choices we make in life, all the choices we make in our daily eating habits have a forever impact. With our daily eating habits, the choices you make today can affect your health forever. If we get so distracted and consumed by our bad habits and choices, we lose the ability to make healthy choices and succeed, whether it be with food, money, etc.
You never know who might cross your path on any given day and how something you might say or do might impact that person's life forever. I would like to think that through this blog that I might impact someone's life in that it might give them courage to start their own journey of finding them self or getting healthier and helping others.
Hopefully this wasn't too confusing........this seemed harder today..........not sure why......... :/
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