Beyond Willpower

Today is one of those days where I'm thankful to have an all or nothing mentality. It's one of those "all" days. On days where I'm more ' nothing', like I have been for the last few months, I'm not quite so thankful for such a mentality. How many of you have this mentality? You throw yourself into getting healthy 110% and then once you start to slip you don't watch at all? What causes this? Augh. I wish I could break this pattern. Although I must say my 'all' did last 10 months, and my 'nothing' only lasted 3 months or so. I'm spending more time in the 'all' than ever before and less time in the 'nothing' than I ever have. I've gone YEARS in the 'nothing' with only a few weeks in the 'all' zone. It's such an odd head space. But, here I am, just trying to make it work to my advantage. The other day Joey and I went grocery shopping. We are all stocked up on healthy food, and I have t...

So yesterday was another good day. I've figured out a few things with work to help me out. #1 I plan to take two 15 min breaks and eat both times instead of eating once during a 30 min break.  This way by the time I get home I'm not so hungry. Today I'm bringing potatoes to work, they are yummy and cute. Tiny purple potatoes! :) I'm having a pain flare, I think it's the sudden drop in temperatures and all the rain.. So I've decided to work out at home until it passes, but I am going to work out. Monday I think we're taking a nice walk to the movies. There and back is 3 miles. Half of it u p a HUGE hill. Ha. I'll be doing my recumbent again too. I've been working a lot on the book I'm writing, polishing it up before sending the first few chapters out to be edited tomorrow night. I'm super excited to be so close here to the home stretch. I started this book last November, during National Novel Writing Month, but couldn't finish because ...