We are now in the third month of our New Year and I am wondering where does the time go? It seems like only yesterday that I was celebrating one year on my journey to a new me and hitting my one year goal to lose one hundred pounds in one year.
So you may be wondering where have I been over the past few weeks, or should I say months? Well the answer is really simple ... Everywhere and No where. I say everywhere because in my own fashion I have once again committed myself to many different things at the same time. Now don't get me wrong I thoroughly enjoy everything that I am involved with right now but it makes for a busy, or should I say very hectic life with very little time for myself. Which leads me to not taking time to do the things that I need to do, and that is posting to my blog, exercising like I should, and spending quality time with my husband. I don't know how I do it, but I simply have a way of getting busy with too many things at one time and letting other things, important things, fall to the way side.
The other place that I mentioned above was that I have been "no where". It is not that I have just sat in one place and not moved but that on my journey to a new me I have found myself in "No-Where-Ville".
I successfully lost the 101 pounds and felt like I could take on the world, or at least the next fifty pounds and be down 151 pounds by the end of '2012, but no matter how hard I have tried the scale just doesn't budge.
So now that I have stated the obvious please allow me to continue down this road. I noticed during the holidays that even though I was exercising and eating my daily 1400 calories that my weight just stopped coming off. Then January rolled around and I began to get real busy with all of my busyness and the Road Block continued. By February the scale remained unchanging and with it my spirits began to fall. I found it hard to write in my blog because I was always the one to inspire and encourage others but I now felt like I had nothing to say that would do either of those things. Now don't get me wrong, I have plenty to say but when I can't report a weight loss while on my own journey it seemed silly to try and help others while on their own journey
Every day I wake up and I look at the Road Block that has been in front of me for the last two months and I wonder when it is going to move. What is going to have to happen for the Road Block to stop blocking my path of weight loss on my journey to a new me, and I began to think about it and this is what I came up with.
If I had been driving down the road in my car and I came upon a Road Block, what would I do? Would I just sit there until the Road Block was removed for me? Would I stop my journey and go back to where I came from? Or would I look for another way to go around? And that is when the light bulb came on. When faced with a Road Block you should always follow the signs and look for the detour. A detour is the route that is used to get you back on the original path that you were going down. It may be a little out of the way and it may cause you to take more time than you had planned to arrive at the destination, but the destination is what is important.
So beginning today, I am going to begin my search for the detour that will lead me around this Road Block and back to my journey to a new me. I don't know what the detour will consist of but I know that there has to be one. I refuse to continue to sit idle and wait for this Road Block (plateau) to be removed for me. It is time that I take action and see just how quickly I can get back on the right path on my journey to a new me! I love the way that I look and feel right now at 101 pounds lighter, but I know that I am not at my final destination. So please bear with me as I seek out that detour that will help me to get back on the path to losing weight and becoming a more healthy me!
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| I pray that the detour will lead me to this open road. And that there will be no more "Road Blocks" in my near future! |
