After so many months of doing good, I have fallen off the wagon. The past couple of weeks I have been struggling to get in exercise. Actually, I shouldn’t really say I have been struggling…it has been easy to not exercise.
Circumstances in life have gotten me feeling down, and unfortunately I have been handling it (or should I say not handling it) by eating junk food and skipping exercise. I am stuffing my emotions with food, something I thought I had overcome.
It’s frustrating that I could so easily allow troubles in life to do this. Months and months of doing well and suddenly I am knocked down. But I am determined to not stay down. I will get back up.
Yes, I am back to the whole Monday mentality. I say I will start again on Monday…oh, how did I get back here?
I should drag my butt off this chair and skip the blog. I should go take a walk. I should do some jumping jacks. But instead, I sit and write about my intentions.
I guess this is reality, though. This is what happens too many of us. We are doing well and then wham; something comes along and knocks us off course. But the question is, “What are we going to do?”
I am encouraging myself through this blog but hopefully encouraging you as well. Just because I fell off the bandwagon doesn’t mean I’m knocked down for good. It doesn’t mean that all of my efforts have been wasted. It doesn’t mean that I am a failure.
It just means I am human. And it means that I haven’t completely conquered the emotional eating ties I have battled for so many years.
So thankful there is always tomorrow…a new day…a fresh start. I just pick up where I left off.
What about you? How do you handle it when you fall off the wagon?
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