Little steps

As anyone who is struggling with weight loss can tell you, it’s one step at a time. Trying to make any drastic (usually unrealistic) changes only cause more heartbreak, trust me been there done that. My previous tactic has been to set some crazy goal like only eating salad and chicken for the rest of my life, or working our 2 hrs a day after months of nothing. When I couldn’t reach that totally and completely unrealistic goal, I would get WAY down on myself which would just make things worse. To this point,  I came across this great quote a couple months ago and just found it again:

“ What you have to remember is that changing your eating habits is a process of recommitting to your goals each and every day. Anytime you lose sight of that and start focusing on what’s wrong, you’ll take yourself away from the life you want to lead. The key to overcoming your eating problem is to remind yourself that at least you’re taking today (or this afternoon or this hour) to move toward your goal. And that’s the trick of the 10% of those who manage to overcome this problem”

Long winded, yes, but powerful just the same. And even more relevant as two of my biggest enemies came face to face today; stress and workplace treats. The stress came from one of the worst work days in recent memory combined with the fact the entire family had been awake since 3am after my lovely sweet MB had an explosive barf attack, which was in fact HILARIOUS to me. Last night may have been the first time my wonderful hubby might have actually contemplated divorce as I was laughing so hard at him and MB dripping with formula barf. Before you judge, I was the one cleaning it all up but it really tickled me. I’m giggling right now as I recall it, must be my sick sense of humor. *snicker*
Anyway, back to the topic at hand, so I was super stressed coming in and then work turned to crap, Oh and I didn’t have any Starbucks.  And (!) then my co-worker walked into the office with a bag of Oreo balls. Dear Lord. My one weakness. Oreos. God’s gift to the human race.  So as my day got worse and worse that bag of deliciousness got prettier and prettier but I was determined to resist! And I did it! So I’m proud of myself.  AND! This weekend the scale looked pretty good. I’m almost down to the next group of 10! So long story short, I'm super excited to start seeing progress from the small changes I am making in my lifestyle starting to add up to big changes on the scale! So the question of the day is what do you all do to control that little voice inside telling you that you NEED a treat?

In terms of running/ biking, not a great weekend. Still need better shoes and cables for the bike but we are getting there! The journey towards Feb 2014 continues! Stay tuned for the world’s greatest (and healthy!) fall soup recipe!