Hey There!
The hits keep on coming. I weighted in this morning before work and I have lost another 4 LBS this week. That brings me to a grand total loss in 4 weeks of ... 15 LBS! Quick math here ... and ... carry the one ... only 88 LBS to go! Just a few pounds more down and I will weight less than I have weigted this entire year.
I realize that I will eventually, maybe sooner than later, slow down from this crazy pace of weight loss. But for now, it is a welcomed jump start towards a big goal.
I have had a good past 7 days. It was a long week with longer than normal hours, but I got a lot done and even more importantly maybe, is that I made good choices around the fatigue and extra pressure and ate and moved around like a fit person. (Which I am feeling more and more like everyday!)
I have thought a great deal about small successes and small stumbles this week and how they are both a part of the journey to reach any significant goal. It is important to set up small goals in between where you are now and the large goals you have. We all know that. What is tougher to remember sometimes is that small stumbles are a part of the whole thing too. If I beat myself up over the small stumbles along the way, I am shooting myself in the foot and I like my foot with its current amount of holes. (let me see for a second ... Yep still no holes to speak of in either foot!)
If I put myself down and feel all defeated or ashamed when I stumble, I am setting myself back in my progress. I certainly am not being my own biggest cheering squad! I love this particular line that Al Pacino says in Scent of a Woman. He is talking to a young woman in this restaurant/club and is about to give her a short tango lesson. He says to the young woman who is tentative to accept his tango lesson and states that she is afraid of making a mistake, "There are no mistakes in the tango darlin'. Not like life. If you get all tangled up, you just tango on."
In this way, I like to imagine that making significant changes in our lives, or working towards big goals in our lives, is like the tango. We can chose to get down on ourselves when we get tangled up with stumbles or difficult patches, or we can just tango on. I choose to dust myself off, take inventory of what contributed to the stumble so I can put into place strategies to minimize it happening again, and then simply choose to "tango on".
Don't get bogged down this week. "If you get tangled up, just tango on."
Scuba
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