One day at a time

I am the type of person that tends to get frustrated when I am not successful at something. It can be a very small failure, but I take it and make it huge. If I mess up once, then I can’t seem to recover. I continue down a path of self destruction and feel like I have to climb the mountain all over again. My journey with becoming healthy and trying to lose weight is always like this. I start of by making over ambitious goals and get carried away for the first few weeks. Then I get bored or tempted with bad decisions and I have one bad day that turns into a bad week that turns into a bad month and so on. I wish that I could find a switch that would just make that go away.

I tell myself to take things one day at a time. Each morning is a new chance to make a change. If I have a bad day or even week, I need to move on and become stronger by learning from my failures, not reliving them. As much as I don’t want to make long term goals, I feel like it is a necessary evil. When I am looking towards the future, I need to see something that I want to attain. If it were a perfect world I would want to lose 20 pounds, but I know that would be something that I just am not sure is even possible for my body structure. I think if I can lose 15 pounds I might be able to live a healthy lifestyle and maintain a healthy weight. I don’t want to get to a point where I am starving myself only for the fact of being 20 pounds lighter. I still want to be strong and I still want to be healthy.

I am committing myself today to lose 15 pounds. As for a timeline, well, I just don’t know. I don’t want to limit myself or get off tract, so I will just say that 15 pounds is my goal and I will work hard until I reach that goal. I don’t care how long it might take me. I am putting this on my blog to make it public and known that I have a set goal. I have mentioned my goals on here and as you can see by my lack of writing, I haven’t exactly been dedicated to them. All I can say is, I am trying. I am not perfect, no matter how hard I might strive to be, and I know that I will slip up from time to time, but I want to be successful. I have done this before and then gotten back to where I am now. I know how to lose weight, but maintaining it is a different story. One step at a time, one day at a time. First things first, I need to lose the weight and get back into the shape I know I can be in. This is pretty challenging for me because I would not classify myself as fat or even overweight. According to my doctor I am in fact at a healthy weight for my height, but this will be more for my happiness. I know I can be in better shape and I am going to work to get there.

There is no magic pill or regimen that will make this easy. It’s pretty simple, eat less and better foods and exercise more. It’s will take a lot of hard work and commitment, and I am here to say that I am going to do it. Since I started the blog of my journey to becoming a healthy nut, I have lost about 5 pounds, so I know that it will work if I commit myself to it.

One day at a time…..