Think weighing in each week isn’t important? At the beginning of this contest, I contemplated buying the weigh in tokens and wondered if they were really important and if they would be beneficial to my goals. Each week of round 1 I religiously weighed in each Monday morning. I was excited to see my progress and got excited to be getting closer to my goals. Then the round ended and we weighed in on Saturday. I decided it wasn’t important to weigh in again on Monday because I had just done it two days earlier. The next week I forgot to weigh in, just completely slipped my mind despite the friendly reminder from the game. So here we are, two weeks into round 2, with only 2 weeks to go. I am not any closer to my goal than I was 2 weeks ago (I got on the scale tonight although I still didn’t do an official weigh in). So, do you think weighing in each week is important? I’d say YES! I’m feeling lost as to how I’m going to reach my goal for round 2 and if it is even possible with only 2 weeks left. This of course leads me to my thought about excuses.
On my drive home from work tonight I was thinking about the last two weeks and how I could have done things differently. It started with the Valentine weekend weigh-in. I was reading posts about cheat days and cheat meals and thinking that I wasn’t going to give myself a reward yet because I have so far to go to reach my final goal. And it all fell apart from there. I was good for Valentine’s. No special splurge, but I must admit I was feeling accomplished. I was also a little relaxed with my commitment to logging everything that entered my mouth. Then the next week Mother Nature threw a curve ball at us and dumped 17 inches of snow over several days. With this came 90 minute drives to and from work and the kids missing six days of school. After an 11 hour day (3 hour drive, 8 hour work day), cooking was set to the side and we ate unhealthy junk almost every night. It’s fast and easy. This week was supposed to be better. Then do to unexpected circumstances it’s been after six the last two nights when I’ve gotten home. Too late to cook, so we’ve resorted to restaurant food again two nights in a row! This in turn leads to unhealthy choices for lunch at work because I don’t have healthy leftovers to pack for lunch. So what does all this mean? It is EASY to make excuses! Things haven’t gone as I wanted them to. The cards have been stacked against me. Or I can just admit it all resulted from poor planning! Instead of taking the easy option and ordering out, I should have planned to have crockpot meals ready when I got home from work. Even if we needed fast options, we didn’t have to resort to pizza and Mexican take out when Subway offers healthier options. If I was going to eat garbage, I could have pushed myself with some extra intense workouts. So excuses are easy, but accepting responsibility for poor choices isn’t. If I don’t reach my goal this month, I have to admit it is due to my poor choices, not because of Mother Nature or work or anything else. It is because of ME! From this point on, I need to quit making excuses and make results.
Starting tonight, right this minute, no more excuse! No more I’ll do it tomorrow. No more buts, I can’t, or putting it off. No more I’m too tired or it’s too hard. No more I’m not good enough or I would if….NO MORE EXCUSES!