Numbers have been a nemesis of mine for as long as I can remember. It started with fractions. It got worse with algebra. By the time geometry reared its parallelograms and obtuse triangles, I was as good as gone. As an adult, bills and other red numbers stalked me and haunted my shopping dreams. But the one number that I’ve struggled with the most sits at the top of a small white box sitting on my bathroom floor … the scale.
See, I love chocolate almost as much as I hate numbers. Thus raising that dreaded scale number. When it comes to sugary deliciousness and carbolicious pastas, I am weak. I say yes nearly every time. If I had a nickel for every time I’d “start on Monday,” I wouldn’t have to worry about the bills or red numbers ever again.
Starting Monday seems to be a common declaration of many of my friends and I am sure others have made the same decree. Oh Monday, you just can’t win … why would anyone start a difficult, hard and tiring journey on the worst day of the week? The only thing that starts on Monday is the work week … now, who out there is so wildly inspired by the anticipation of diving head first into the daily grind? Not me. Now, I am not blaming Mondays for my failures … just pointing out the idiocy of my declaration.
So, starting TODAY … not Monday, not next month, not tomorrow … TODAY, I am making the commitment to myself to no longer run from numbers (well, at least one set of numbers). I will face them head on and confront its challenge. I will say no to the bad and yes to the good. The numbers I concern myself with will be the ones that matter … heart rate, minutes working out, calories in and calories out, reps … and I will focus my energy on increasing the one number that matters … my opinion of myself.
Starting today.
Bravo!! You are not a prisoner to yesterday and you are not indentured to the future – TODAY is the only important day in your life.
Way to go lady! The best “numbers” to improve are for your health not the scale. It is a constant struggle every day to make the “good” decisions over the habits that got us through life so far…. like french fry runs to McDonalds or pizza morning, noon and night because it was free.
Try to remember it isn’t a race, it is a life change and slipping up with a tub of New York Super Fudge Chunk every once in a while is not a bad thing, it is therapy in the form of caloric validation. Just try and make sure to validate and reward yourself more often with non caloric options and you will be well on your way to a healthier relationships with your numbers!