"If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward."
This quote is scaring me a bit because I have been on a serious stall for a while and have started a teensy tiny backslide. I need to catch it NOW and keep pushing through.
I feel great. I love my new body and am really enjoying life as a normal weight person. I am finally past the emotional trauma of my divorce and so my stomach isn't in a constant state of nausea and my ability to eat has completely returned.
It takes more effort now to lose weight. I am smaller, so it comes off more slowly (more calorie deficit required for same weight loss) and now that I feel better it takes actual discipline to eat well. I put a lot of things on hold in my life so that I could spend a lot of time in the gym and so skipping it to have a free evening to run errands or clean the house is becoming more and more of a temptation. I am converting over to the long term and need to make sure I keep the gym as a part of my routine.
I had two off plan days this week and am up 2lbs. I'm not worried about the actual weight gain at this point, but more seeing how easy it would be to backslide. The ironic thing is that I feel so incredibly crappy today - the chemicals in processed food are leaving an icky taste in my mouth and I feel so fatigued and washed out. I am going to hold on to this feeling the next time I see junk food to remind myself how much it isn't worth it.
So, here's a toast
to staying on plan and to keeping on plan and accomplishing my goal once and for all!!!