The Road

“It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.”  ~~~Unknown

It’s been nearly two months since I started my new health plan.  I can tell you that it has not been easy, nor has it been that horribly difficult.  I am proud to say that I have lost 18 pounds and am beginning to feel a bit better most days

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It’s nice to have an objective, independent support person to help guide me in the right direction, provide words of encouragement and mostly reassure me that I am on track.  But I know that there will come a day, a day much sooner that I anticipate, that I will have to forge ahead on my own.  That’s the hardest and scariest part for me really. 

Eating healthier and even the exercise is not the biggest hurdle for me.  It’s maintaining the positive mindset and not giving in to the path of least resistance, which got me to this unhealthy state of living.  It’s realizing that whatever story we tell ourselves will become our reality.  That’s the hard part!  So I am trying desperately to re-script that story by using different strategies to keep me on track and to reinforce the changes that I am making. 

I’ve turned my facebook page into basically a vision board—collecting and posting motivational quotes and uplifting, positive pictures.  I’m trying to shut down the negative self talk and to let the stresses in life go.  I am starting to engage in activities that I enjoy and planning (and dreaming) of those things I want to do.  I am distancing myself from the people and things that bring me down.  I have rediscovered and am practicing in earnest meditation, which my friend, has made a HUGE difference in just a very short time. 

Though it may be silly to some, hard to understand by others, for me being in the right state of mind just makes everything easier!