this is true! I was speaking to an older lady yesterday and her and her husband make it a priority to exercise regularly – they like to swim and walk laps. She was saying it was simply a fact that their bodies worked better when they did this. It was a matter of accepting their age and doing what they could to keep things working – so they could do the things that God had put in their heart. To me this is a big motivation – at the moment I am limited because my body doesn’t work well. Though I know there will always be some physical limitations (injuries and age) there is still a lot of room for improvement – if only I had the self control to do what I know is good for my body!

No pretty way to deal with it, is there. :/

May I share what I’ve been thinking lately? (I’m going to assume that you know I won’t be able to help sharing whether you nod or not 😉 )

I have gone back to weights recently. I avoided them for a long time after baby #4, because I couldn’t cope with feeling the pain all the time – you know, just the “I’ve been at the gym” kind of pain – nothing debilitating. But after a half hour run and a session in the weights section, all I wanted to do for the rest of the day was go to bed!! (Ya, to sleep!)

But I’ve realised that as we age, there WILL be pain of one sort or another. So… I figured that if I get back to the weights, keep dragging myself out of bed to walk/run, then at least I can manage the amount of pain, (who says the weights have to get heavier and heavier?) and it will be more of my choosing. I know that if I don’t exercise my body will fall to bits. If I don’t eat right, my body will fall to bits. But if I do the right things I will be mildly uncomfortable.

This probably sounds ridiculous, but it was a huge mental shift for me to come to a place of accepting that something has to be at the very least, uncomfortable, and to a degree I have a choice in the cause. So I choose to be uncomfortable about the exercise, rather than the .. diabetes, or .. whatever other things come from neglect. (I hope that made some sense… I’m a bit brain blurry today!)

At any rate – my point was that if you think of it as consciously choosing for your good, rather than as depriving yourself, (for me, at least), it helps with the emotional aspect of with holding things you take comfort from.

Be good! xx

xo

My sister gave me the best advice 3 years ago in reagards to changing habits. She told me “replace one bad eating habit at a time with something else.If you try to make too many changes too soon, you’ll quit.” I have taken this advice and have done just that. Baby steps. You’re more likely to stick to something if you master one new habit at a time. When you have successfully created a new habit, only then do you work on changing and crating another habit.

Forget the juicing and green smoothies for now and concentrate on one thing – quitting coffee. You’ll have to find a replacement (for me this was http://www.teecino.com inititally which I am now replacing wth tea)as you’ll still want that warm mik sensation.

Don’t worry about exercise either for now. When you have successsfully quit the java, you will have more energy and will actaually feel like exercising! I know I do. But I’m going to wait another week before toatlly shocking my body.

You can do it! xo