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Stress, Moving, and Staying Motivated

Being in a position of needing to move, looking for homes, finding a place, running all of the errands, dealing with all of the unpleasant correspondence, still keeping up with all of the day-to-days and caring for 2 toddlers is stressful. I am grateful for my wonderfully supportive husband and for God's faithfulness through all of this, but these things do not make the reality less hard. Just more bearable.

Working toward weight loss (and even maintenance) and a healthy lifestyle that is still in progress is really tough through this process. I have given into a lot of temptations and struggled against a lot of mental blocks over this last month.

Tracking my workouts and food have suffered, grazing has reared its ugly head, lack of self-control has made justification after justification, and exercising has fallen by the wayside or been far less intense with the wrestle it has been to even get a decent start to our morning prior to 7:00am.

Thank you all for going on this journey with me. I want you to know that I am not giving up. I am pausing loss to take on maintenance, and reevaluating my minimum requirements for healthy living in order to continue my progress. Taking care of myself and my family are my top priorities, so everything else goes on the schedule during nap times and after I have been able to read and journal.

After all of the moving and settling in craziness, I am going to be working through a couple of Half Size Me courses to seek some structure on setting up my schedules and boundaries, as well. Thank you again for your support and encouragement, especially the Half Size Me Community, it would be difficult to keep pushing forward without knowing that it's possible from you all!

Happy Monday!
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