I like my new "one day at a time" approach. It makes it much easier to reset after a bad day. No regrets, no looking at the difficult challenges ahead, simply reset the day and go. I have noticed this approach does bring a lot of frequent ups and downs though, but I've realized it's really all about perspective. It's not like I'm succeeding really well one day and doing terrible the next, but yet my perspective changes based on my mood. Yesterday I felt like I was doing a terrible job this week, but today I feel like the week went quite well. Nothing really changed except my perspective.
If I can keep reminding myself it's about my perspective then it stands to reason that I can choose what perspective to use. Even if I'm in a bad mood I can tell myself to keep things on a positive perspective.
Tomorrow I weigh in; I'm not expecting a big loss, but I think I should lose something as I've done pretty good eating. My water intake was a little off late in the week so that might hurt. Monday is a holiday for me, so I get to enjoy a nice 3 day weekend; I'll be rebuilding the ceiling I fell through so I should get plenty of exercise.
40 Days of my journey are now behind me. From a long term perspective that's one ninth (1/9) of my total journey this year. However, as I've said from the beginning it's not about the whole trip, it's about tomorrow. On to Day #41.
-Stay Strong!
:) Just keep moving forward. It's the only way to go anyway, right?
ReplyDeleteyou have kids, you will get this.... Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming.... haha
ReplyDeletePerspective makes a huge difference. Congrats on 40 days FD!
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