Don't Beat Yourself Up...No One Is Perfect!

Hello my fit friends! I hope everyone is having a great weekend! It always goes too quickly for me. So this week I wasn't sure what to post. I was kinda stuck because nothing was flooding me with the urge to write. Then just now as I was standing in the kitchen with my son making him an ice cream cone and I took a spoon full of ice cream I had this twinge of guilt. Then I thought to myself as to why am I feeling guilty? I work out 6 days a week sometimes 7. I go running about 3 times a week between 3-6 miles. I eat healthy every day and never eat junk food. So why am I feeling so bad about eating 1 spoonful of ice-cream? Why did I feel so guilty when I had a small, and I mean small slice of pizza the other day? Then I thought about how various times this week I've seen many others posting in groups about how they fell off the wagon, or how they ate a cookie, or how they went out to eat with their children and had an ice-cream for dessert. We are NOT perfect. Nor do we have to be. There are things in this world, actually LOTS of things, that taste amazing!! Wouldn't it be awful if we didn't taste them sometimes? We are all working hard. We are all getting up each day pushing play on our DVD players to bust our butt for 25-45 minutes a day. We are putting on our running shoes and stepping out that door and onto the pavement to move our bodies and run one more mile then we did the day before. This is a lifestyle. We are not always going to be perfect. We should not always deprive ourselves of those delicious tasting foods. When we work hard every day burning calories, eating healthy, and watching what we put into our mouth we deserve to have that ice cold beer or glass of wine sometimes. We deserve to have a slice of that delicious pizza or cake at your child's birthday party if we want. We just have to do it all in moderation. We are learning to build a new lifestyle. A new way of living and being healthy. But we need to remember to not get angry at ourselves because we deserve a treat every once and a while. 

This isn't the only reason I've seen people posting that they're upset with themselves. I've also seen posts where you're upset at yourself because you didn't work out much during the week because you've been busy. We've all been there. I've been pretty bummed because I didn't run at all this week. The weather along with a busy schedule at work as well as other commitments made it a tough week for me. We can't get angry at ourselves every time something happens. We deserve to treat ourselves better than that. The fact that it is bothering you when you miss a workout or eat something that may not be the healthiest choice means that it matters to you. You are changing your lifestyle and you will stick with it. We all fall sometimes, but the most important thing is getting up and continuing on to reach your goals. Life will happen, and it will get in the way at times, just know that tomorrow is another day and you will do your best. Make that commitment to yourself that you'll do better the next day then you did the day before, but also accept that you are human. You deserve to every once and a while have that piece of cake, but the rest of the time make that commitment to stick to your plans, reach for your goals, because with hard work and consistency, you will make progress! 

Here is a video I saw this week. It is VERY inspirational and I hope you can take from it what I did. We sometimes may fall, but if you get back up and keep your goal in sight, you can achieve it. You can reach your dreams! 

What she did shook the entire crowd! Strength and Determination in Action!