So single parenting hasn't gone as well as I had planned. As you know, I had a great plan. Unfortunately, I sabotaged myself. I let my inner petulant toddler take over, and wasn't getting to sleep by 10 o'clock. Once again I have proven that getting to bed at a reasonable hour is the absolute lynchpin to my success in living a healthy lifestyle. Started feeling deprived of any sort of adult time, and as a result because Toddler was staying up late and being difficult about bedtime I felt entitled to stay up late as well and therefore have some me time after she went to bed. Unfortunately this was after 10 o'clock and I have spent the last five days, more like seven, absolutely exhausted. Q lack of exercise and cookies and I don't even want to talk about how much the scale has gone up. However I'm ready grow up and put my big girl pants on and start being an adult about this.
Posted on January 28, 2015
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Sign in to CommentI am sorry it has been so rough on you. I completely understand where you're coming from. Sleep is something I always always always put off. Then I whine when I don't get enough, but I wake up every 60-90 minutes anyway. I don't have a child of my own, but I know how much worse it gets when my niece comes to stay with me for weeks at a time, or I go to stay my brother's house with her for weeks at a time. It is rough because kids demand so much of our time. I really feel for you. I don't know how you're doing it all alone for now. I say any single parent, or any full-time parent at all is a Saint. You deserve medals!!! Don't beat yourself up too much over the scale and the cookies and the lack of sleep. You at least have your mind in the right spot and know what's best for you. Try and pick one thing you can focus on improving. Work on that one thing for a couple of weeks and then try improving something else too. Baby steps make the changes a lot easier sometimes.
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