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| Tue, 12-07-2004 - 9:21am |
...are like a candle in the dark to me. Despite the fact that many of us are "sucking" (as we so elegantly put it in the HH thread) these days, I can still see you trying by either facing the fact that you aren't doing so hot (Let's Get Serious/No More Excuses threads), or continuing to journal food and exercise even if you aren't up to your own standards right now. Then there's "starting over mid-day", and struggling through challenges in this season when we're all too busy to breathe, nevermind shopping and working and putting up decorations.
I hang around in my head hating my fat belly, laying in bed at night thinking "tomorrow is the day! I'm going to eat this and this and this and I'm going to work out for an hour and tomorrow is the new beginning and I will stick with it!" and I wake up the next morning with the whole "eh, whatever" attitude. Then I come here and I read your posts and see I'm not alone in struggling... and then I see the point. We're all struggling, but you know what that means? By the very nature of the word it signifies that we're *trying* and not giving up! Struggle isn't a bad word, it's an action! It means we aren't just sitting around thinking about it.
Here are some definitions of the word "struggle" that we all throw around so casually like it's a bad thing!
an energetic attempt to achieve something; to exert strenuous effort against opposition
So, in your energetic efforts to keep on track, you're helping to keep me somewhat grounded in reality as well and I thank you all for that - all, the newbies, the oldbies, the lurkers, the once-in-a-whilers (:

I agree with Shawna...even at my lowest, coming here, and going to other boards helps me immensely.
Fear
What a way to start the day. Very well put!!!!
Machelle'
was in an emotionally predisposed frame of mind but this had me tearing up...
YES I am trying. Maybe not hard enough
YES it is a struggle,
but it also seems so unfair... I know I did it to myself but it is just not fair sometimes (even though I know there are other worse struggles) but sometimes... when I'm the only big girl in the gym and my butt is flying all over the place... it just SUCKS!!!