Many the Miles

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I am embarking on a new journey today. If I want to truly make my health a top priority, I really need to stop messing around and do it. Its no longer a thought, it really needs to be a priority in my life. And I need to start today, or else I am going to really deal with negative consequences years down the road. I do not want to have high blood pressure or diabetes or debilitating arthritis in the next 20 years. I don't want to have my life compromised because I can't get my butt off the sofa or put down the jelly donut.

Its a major life style renovation.
Actually, its not THAT bad. I've been making small, steady progress towards this. I have been making small changes and some of them have stuck. I do like healthy foods, its just I am not consistent about it. Where I go wrong #1: not eating a healthy breakfast. I don't eat something that is going to fuel me the right way (read: sugar crash). Then I wind up starving at around 10:30 or so, and its downhill from there. #2 problem: after I have the sugar crash, then I am starving, and I am not going to make a healthy choice. I am going to go for the sugar (back on the roller coaster). Then there's #3-lunch. I don't usually take the time to make myself something healthy for lunch. Its basically me scrounging something together and its never pretty. All I have to do is plan out the night before, but I don't. Its hard enough to throw something together for the little man it seems. I eat healthier at home than I do at work.
The other half of this is exercise. All I have to do is get my butt off the couch and move. Simple enough. But I don't consistently.

It gets down to this. Either I stop whining about all of this and do it, or I spend the rest of my life making excuses.
Do I want to be healthy? Or am I going to whine that my life is SOOOOOO hard and I can't do it because of x, y and z? A lot of other people have tougher lives than I do, and they seem to be able to eat healthier and exercise regularly. I am great at making excuses. I spend more energy in getting out of doing something rather than doing what I should be doing in the first place. It runs rampant throughout my entire life. Do I do what I need to do to get it done or am I just going to look for excuse after excuse?

I look back to where I was a few years ago, and I was in a much happier place and moving right along. I don't know how everything got upended, but it did and now its putting all the pieces back together in my life. Something hiccuped and its time to right myself. Its a long journey, but I am so ready to take it. I'm not in crisis mode yet. YET. I want to divert the crisis. I need a intervention of one. Its not a 50 yard dash, its a marathon. Its a journey of many the miles.