Healthy Living

It has been quite a while since Heather Robertson shared this point on the Half Size Me show, but it still rings true and continues to be a type of mantra for me:  1. Barely made it out of bed./2. Oh well, guess the day is just going to be "survive."/3. Workout done, kitchen cleaned, girls napping, ready to tackle the day!  "Motivation does not cause our actions,  motivation comes when we take action." It is quite difficult to balance life when you have such a heavy goal in weight loss (see what I did there?). Anyway... I began this journey on January 9 at 251 pounds. On June 9, when hubby and I took a short vacation, I had hit 187. It is almost August and I am maintaining between 183 and 185. My emotions have been all over the place with this:  Okay, maintenance, this is new Let's up the calories a little bit while we increase movement Let's switch up the food Maybe I'll change my exercise Okay, now I'm a little frustrated Ins...

This is random, but today I had a tuna sandwich for lunch. Not that anyone cares about what I had for lunch, really, but there it is. The weird thing, though, is that I have always thought there had to be a side dish with sandwiches, I have even eaten chips I do not enjoy because there weren't any veggies or fruits around for me to eat alongside my delicious sandwich. (Chips aren't my weakness, I do enjoy soda, but those 2 items are usually the easiest for me to give up when I am deciding to set certain treats aside). Do you know what though? I am not stuffed, I am not still hungry, and I am totally satisfied with just having had that tuna sandwich for lunch. I have some sandwiches prepped for myself and hubby for quick grabs at lunch, and when I came home from working out and running errands today, I grabbed that tuna sandwich and enjoyed my grub. It did not have to be a 3 course meal, there did not need to be something sweat that followed it, a simple sandwich was enough ...