Want to come to my cheese and cracker party I'm hosting on my sectional sofa with all the chocolate bunnies?
Sometimes life is weird like this.
So I've got three challenges I’m sparring with, causing me to live a less-than-stellar healthy lifestyle—at the moment. They're listed below in no organized fashion and I mean, we’re condensing a lot into three little paragraphs but you’ll get the gist:
1. Saying “Yes!” all the time to working out.
I waffle... a lot. Yes, I do work out pretty consistently but I do skip a day here and there—usually two days which is easy to recover from. However, once I hit the three-day mark, hello sloth mode.
Staying motivated is hard and always saying Yes! to a workout is a struggle—the mind-numbing reality is that our brains are lazy curmudgeons and if it had its way we’d be forever stuck in the corner nook of our sectional sofa—the most comfortable spot in the Universe—under a wool/cashmere blend blanket that's so ridiculously cozy we’d build a shrine right there and pay homage to this enlightened soul who created such comfort and magic by intersecting two sofas, and we’d NEVER WORKOUT AGAIN!
But that’s our lazy brain, and it got us in this anti-workout funk and we have no other choice but to destroy its cozy nook. (And I’m saying this like you and I just had a chat about this very thing and you’re struggling with it as well… did we?!)
2. Avoiding crackers and eating enough veggies.
What is it about afternoons and cheese and crackers? Is it that I always want to be at the appetizer stage of a great party? And what’s my problem with sneaking veggies in during daylight hours? I’d argue veggie sticks as an alternative or cauliflower crackers (which are oddly delicious) could suffice but we all know—it’s a ruse. It’s like eating a veggie casserole covered in Velveeta cheese —yes you’re eating veggies and it tastes out of this world but we know it ain’t the real thing. (Fun fact: Velveeta garnered the seal of approval from the American Medical Association back in 1930 as a nutritious health food—good to know in case you ever play Trivial Pursuit! Sidebar—don’t you want to live a day in 1930? Just to eat Velveeta and be smug about it?)
3. Candy.
Like legit candy—sour patch, jelly beans, Reeses Pieces, M&Ms, chocolate bunnies. This is what happens when your kids have birthdays three weeks apart, and Easter falls between them. Candy is ALL OVER THE PLACE! For the love of all things holy, I can’t eat anymore!
Yes, these are all highly problematic, and if they’re not dealt with soon I dread to think of the consequences. I’ll be the one shuffling down the grocery store aisles having to stop mid-step multiple times and do that awkward pulling up of my athleisure pants that are slowly sliding down as the bulk of my belly becomes too unbearable to contain, also making my bum look like it’s reaching for the backs of my knees.
I leave you with these problems as an offering that we won’t always have it figured out, and there will be struggles, pitfalls, and candy coming at you from every angle—and it’s ok. It’s ok to be imperfect and messy and skip workouts for a comfy romp in the sectional.
It’s a passing urge and the time will come, sooner than we realize, when we do get our sh*t together and commit to doing the workouts again, and the candy is gone because this is life and it’s not one straight line to the top… it’s curvy AF so try to smile and enjoy the ride and let’s stop coming down on ourselves so often! We’re perfectly imperfect and mama always said, there’d be days—weeks—like that. You won’t live there forever. I promise.
Sis, YESSSS!!!!! I love my workouts and my snacks! So this hit.... "this is life and it’s not one straight line to the top… it’s curvy AF so try to smile and enjoy the ride and let’s stop coming down on ourselves so often!"
I too always want to be at the appetizer stage of a great party! Maybe if we arranged our veggies and yogurt dips on charcuterie boards we could pretend we are?