My Health Journey

 Well since my last Blog post was in April of 2020 and a lot has happened since then, I thought I would do a quick recap of the last 2 years!

I started Optavia on May 11, 2020 trying one last resort for losing weight.  Little did I know how much it would change my life!  I lost 30 pounds by the end of September and felt better than ever!! I have been maintaining a 20-25 pound weight loss since then.  It is not easy, but I keep doing my best.

I then became a health coach for Optavia in September of 2020 as well.  It has been such a blessing to pay the gift of Optavia forward to so many others and offer them health & hope.  That has helped me stay accountable in my own health journey, too. My journey is never over and I continue to work on my health every day.

Which brings me to the reason for this post.  I had a very bad moment in my health journey yesterday and I need to write out my thoughts here to hopefully prevent it from happening again.

I came home from work yesterday (on a Friday) to start my spring break.  I was so looking forward to relaxing and enjoying my 1st night of the break.  When I came home my hubby was doing something that made me so mad (it was something really silly in hindsight).  But I became so angry because I felt like he was not taking my feelings into consideration or listening to me.  So I stormed off, grabbed 2 of my favorite cookies and a hard seltzer from the fridge and stormed upstairs to get away from him and binge on these things that I didn't really need.  I fumed for the next hour until he came up and asked what I would like for dinner since I told him I was NOT cooking!!  He said, "How about Wings N More?"  And I said that it sounded great.  I could have gotten a salad or something grilled, but NO - I decided that I needed ALL the fried things:  Chicken wings, chicken tenders, onion rings and french fries.  I did have some celery, but I don't think that offset all the greasy, fried food I was eating.  I kept trying to change all of my angry feelings with unhealthy food and guess what?  I did not feel any better after I had consumed all of that food & drink.  It did not make the situation any better or change anything.

I decided that night that I needed to be reading in my LifeBook more.  It addresses these exact issues of using food to comfort ourselves or for reasons other than fuel.  I let the moment get out of my control and did not Stop, Challenge and Choose.  So I am going to go back and read Element 04 in my LifeBook.  We are not perfect.  Even as a health coach I slip up and make bad choices sometimes, but it is what you do with that and learn from it that matters.  I woke up with a new mindset today and made better choices today.  It is never too late to make changes and we are always on this journey.  So enjoy your life, but fill it with good choices you will not regret later.  You can do it and so can I!