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Last week my post for No Comfort Zone was about ‘being brave and speaking out’ and i did that and i half expected to come back to my blog the following day to find everyone had deserted me but i am glad to report only one person did – the guilty take the truth to be hard.
So today my No Comfort Zone is ‘Owning UP’. At the beginning of the year there were things i wanted to achieve and okay things changed in my life and i had to side step some of those goals and set lesser ones. However even the lesser ones have quietly been stacked in the cupboard under miscellaneous and dangerous to health.
Yesterday and again today i was reminded of some of those goals that i had set and i feel that i really needed those reminders. One the reminders was a blog entitled 100 days of Real Food’. This family did what i wanted to do but they did not fail, okay they are normal and side stepped occasionally but it showed me that my original goal of eating real food was sound, i just hadn’t pushed it to the limits, no one had cheered me on and in the end i had just quit.
Well it is time to own up and state clearly for all to read ‘i gave up’ and it was only through giving up that i then went on to fail. However i can start again. I have a very restricted food budget right now and so eating real food is even more important but like all goals it needs structure and clarity. It is 3 weeks and 2 days till my daughter gets married, it is by this date that i will have structure and clarity.
The other reminder i had was from Stopping the Wind who wrote an article entitled ‘Try one more Thing before you quit’. My friend was doing the one thing that i had suggested helped me in the past and was writing down what she was eating and drinking every day and then changing her diet to make things better for herself and not for anyone else. It is beginning to pay off, things are a-changing. I started it, i did it was several weeks, well about a month but then i gave up and i quit.
It’s time to own up and say it’s not good enough, i am a grown up and i don’t need anyone else to tell me what you should and shouldn’t be doing or eating or drinking or even thinking. So i would like to thank all those who sit and write, just for themselves but then share those words with the world, do not think for one moment that do not matter because to someone, today you will.
What a great post! The fact that you put something out there and FAILED … well, isn’t that the first step to success? In the failing of something, you understand better what works, what needs to be tossed or revised. What a great message you’ve put out there for all of us! Bravo for you and feel free to keep on failing, to learn new lessons and most of all – to share them with the rest of us!
so now at least i can start again and isn’t it how we all learn from each other?
I lost track long ago of the number of times I start good projects and get off track! Yes – it’s so easy to eat junk when you’re under stress, and so important to eat good food then because the junk just makes you even more stressed.
Thanks for the good ideas. Now that you reminded me, I think I should go back to keeping a food diary myself…I need to stop using candy as a quick-n-easy reward for doing necessary but upsetting stuff.
I don’t know if a bad diet makes me more stressed but i am sure it does nothing to make me feel any better and losing weight would definitely make me feel better in all sorts of ways. I am going to do some research and some planning and organising – food cupboards first i think!
“Do not think for one moment that do not matter because to someone, today you will.”
YOU DO XX
Thank you Cat, take care xx
i think it is so wonderful the impact we have on one another as bloggers. It’s an encouragement , to each of us, to keep on writing, keep on sharing.
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