Obstacles...

Hi everyone, 

I hope you all had a lovely bank holiday weekend.. It flew by a little too quick!!! 

Well this weekend, I had great intentions of planning all my meals, and planning out my blog posts for the next few weeks as well as setting myself my short, medium and long term goals.

However, life got in the way, and all my plans went out the window in one fast swoop, I was stressed, tired and hungry and on Sunday morning I thought to myself "I can either sink or swim" and well I chose to swim (quiet funny really seen as I can't swim- its on the to do list though, when I can wear a comfortable swimming suit without feeling like a beached whale I'll be in that water swimming away!!) 

On Sunday morning I was so upset and I just wanted food, I hadn't slept the night before so I was hungry and very proud because I had resisted the midnight munchies all night which was extremely difficult because there was a Cuisine de France roll in the press and I swear every time i passed the press it was calling out to me but I said no (even if it was through gritted teeth I still said it and even better than saying it I stuck to my word, something I defintely wouldn't of done a few weeks ago!!). 

I had a choice on Sunday- I could stay on plan and achieve a good weight loss this week or I could go off plan and eat whatever I wanted, I must say the latter of the two appealed to me more and I wanted nothing more than to eat sweets and chocolate and just wallow in my own self pity after the events of the weekend however, my inner strength spoke up loud and clear and it said "who exactly are you fooling by eating?" The answer of course is myself. By eating it was not going to make everything better, it wouldn't solve all my problems, in fact it was adding to them and it was going back to that vicious circle of eating, feeling guilty, getting upset, putting on weight and feeling down again...

My point is when life throws us challenges we need to search for the hero inside ourselves, listen to that little voice that says "no don't do it" and ask youself "who are you fooling by eating" 

Everyday we face obstacles, good and bad, some worse than others, sometimes they last a day, a week, a month, a year but don't let these obstacles put you off what your main focus and goal, you are strong, you can achieve all that you want to achieve if you stay on track and trust me the feeling we get when we know that we could stay on track through the hard times will be so worth it!! 

"You are not what has happened to you, you are what you choose to become"

Stay Strong,

Little Miss Sunshine xxxx