Are you ready to change or ready to make excuses?

Ok, so I have another blog post.  I am feeling inspired.  I found this on facebook today.  Not even sure who posted but man is it good!  Then a friend emailed me that she was struggling with consistency and discipline and thought that the message in the picture above probably applied to her situation.  So, I was simply sending her a response to try to help her and I realized that maybe what I said to her could help someone else too.  So, here it is.  That big black post translates to your situation very much. It says it all. At the end of the day, it all boils down to how bad do you want it...??? Do you really want it? Really? Really? Because if you don't really want whatever it is you say you want. I can promise you, you're never gonna get it. For years I was fat, for years I said I need to exercise, I need to diet, I'm gonna start tomorrow. I'll start Monday. Then Monday or tomorrow came and I found a different excuse for why I wasn't going to do it. I was too stressed. I was too tired. I was too busy. It wasn't until I decided I didn't care what it took I was NOT going to be a "fat" mom. It wasn't until I had kids that it really became important to me to not be fat.  So for years, I made excuses instead.  But then I decided I was not going set an example for my kids of how I didn't want them to live and then expect them to live differently.It became important for me to not be fat.   And there are times when it sucks, when I don't wanna do it. I fall constantly. I fail at something everyday. But you know what I no longer use my failures today to justify more failures tomorrow. Every day you have to get up and say today I am going to do better today that I did yesterday. And you know what you can do that. You can do better everyday. And when you screw up, because you will, just say to yourself, well I will do better tomorrow and MEAN IT!!! Tomorrow DO NOT get up and think, well I might as well eat like crap today because I did yesterday or because  I am going to eat like crap on Thanksgiving. That is little life. That is making an excuse to justify doing something you know you shouldn't do. Do what you can when you have control over it. Don't deprive yourself of Thanksgiving or date night or beat yourself up if someone invites you over for dinner. At those times when you can't control what you eat, control how much you eat. And please remember the next time you eat bad is probably not your last supper. You don't have to eat four desserts. Eat one dessert or eat one piece of pie and half a piece of another. If you eat Taco Bell, eat one burrito, not a burrito, a mexi melt, and a taco (that's what I used to do) eat one. One is enough, you can have the other next time. Plan your work outs. Commit to following your plan and don't waiver from it. Make the decision that if it's on your calendar its because this is when you believed you could do it and should be able to do, and then do it. And if you screw up and don't do it when you are supposed to, forgive yourself, move on and by golly, you better do it next time. Don't excuse yourself out of doing it next time just because you didn't do it last time. So here's a reminder of what I did last year. I weighed 221 pounds the day after Thanksgiving. By new years day I weighed 203. That's roughly 8% of my body weight. I believe you can  lose 5% of your body weight by New Years day.And I will make the commitment to you that I am going to do the same. For me it's 8 lbs.What are your goals that you want to have met by New Years Day? What is gonna make you feel like you have lived a big life, lived your best by New Years day? What's your work out plan for the next week. Find someone who can be your accountability partner.  Share with them your work out plan, share with them what you eat.  Hold each other accountable.  It's hard to be consistent if you don't have any accountability. It's hard to be consistent until it becomes a habit. It's hard to be consistent until something becomes important to you. So when you set goals make sure they are something that are important to you, not to me, or your friend, or your husband, or anyone else in this world. Only you. Then your accountability partner will help you stick to it. So do you really want to make a change? Because if you really wanna make a change you can. You just have to decide it's important to you and stop making excuses.  And remember you don't learn discipline over night, it is a process, a greuling process.Are you ready?


I hope this helps someone else.  And I hope it helps her.  By the way, for anyone who wants an accountability partner, I am willing to be that for you.  Really I am.  I really feel like part of God's plan for me is to help others through the same journey that I am going through.  If you have my number call me or message me through Facebook and I would love to help you meet your goals!