Yep, you heard me right.... Just quit.
Because that's what everyone expects don't they?
How many times in life does something get really, really difficult and instead of sticking to it through the end we just quit.
Am I hitting home a little?????
The world convinces us that we have too much on our plate. That we deserve to be happy... and we should do anything possible to create that happiness (even if that means indulging on some things a little too often!)
After all, our comfort and happiness is more important than the alternative.... right!?!
If you feel like you have been hit in the head with a bag of warm hammers this message is for you. Don’t give up. Just don’t. Not while you have a breath of air in your lungs. Everyone quits. Everyone blows it. Most people give up. Cry if you need to but please understand that you are not helpless.
There WILL be bad days... hard days... and even harder days. You can be sure of that. There will be days when you want to quit SO badly. You will start to forget the whole reason you started this journey.
Maybe it was to lose weight?
To feel better about yourself?
To do something that you didn't think you could do?
Maybe you are doing it for loved ones?
But now, all those reasons have escaped your brain because it's gotten a little hard. But I want you to pull way down deep and think about this question for a minute.
WHY!?!
Why are you trying to lose weight? Why are you trying to get healthy? What is your motivation?
Is it so that you can fit in at the gym? Is it because all your other friends are doing it so it seemed like a good idea? Or maybe it's just because you wanted to be healthy and live a long life for all the loved ones you have in your life.
Okay, so you have the reason in your brain right?
Chew on it for a little bit.
Digest it.
Own it!
Because until it becomes apart of who you are, when it does get hard, you WILL quit. And I KNOW you are not a quitter!
So, it's a choice. It's a daily choice. Every day for the rest of your life you will have to make this choice. Yes, that does seem a little cumbersome doesn't it. But doesn't making the choice to not be healthy seem just as hard!?!
The most important thing you need to know is that it doesn’t matter! You don’t have to be the fastest or the strongest or the best. “Your only objective is to keep going.”
It sucks that every time you are going to start your diet you get sick.
It sucks that you never get time to yourself and when you do working out is not top of your list (all you want to do is take a break!).
It sucks that your husband is always gone and while you are thankful he works so hard putting food on the table, you are worn out.
It sucks! I agree with you!
Now we've gotten that out! We've cried, we've agreed that life sometimes sucks, and now we are going to move on.
We aren't going to live in our self pity any longer.
We aren't going to wake up every day and say poor me. But instead we are going to say Thank you God I still have breath in my lungs!
I don't know about you, but this life is short, and I don't want to live each day with regrets, with negativity, with self pity. I want to use this body, the ONLY body that I've been given, as a vessel to do the work that God has called me to do. I don't want to be healthy to fit in. I don't want to be healthy to look like everyone else. I don't want to be healthy so that I can complete the triathlons that I love so dearly. I want to be healthy so that each and every day I can say "God, use me and my abilities to further your kingdom."
Please dig deep today and decide which direction you are going to take. It's never too late. If you still have breath in your lungs then I am talking to you!!
1 life.
1 Choice.
Choose wisely!
My deepest love to you all! Stay Simply Healthy everyone!
~Heather
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