I've had a few things that I continue to plague me regarding my life!
1. Become healthier by eating well & daily exercise.
2. Stop feeding my family processed foods.
I just HAVE to make exercising a daily part of my life. A priority! Like - doing laundry or making dinner. It's so easy to let that be the one thing that gets pushed to the side. I need to stop also stop eating my kids' leftovers or eating easy junk (goes with #2).
Let's see - I have a very nice treadmill & elliptical machine. My husband mounted a TV above them so we could watch it while working out. We have free weights, jump ropes, exercise balls and yoga mats. I have a Wii Fit, Jillian Michaels & the new Wii Active. I have a beautiful neighborhood and a bike. I have MANY different options!
I really hate the way I look, hate the way my clothes don't fit well and that I have to shop in the "plus" size all the time and that they just DON'T make the same cute styles - not even in workout clothes! Argh! And let's talk about the more serious aspect of it - my health! I have a family history of diabetes, heart disease and now cancer. I'm 35 and some days my body feels much older.
What's it going to take? I WANT to be one of those people that LOVE to exercise. I WANT to be one of those people that would choose a healthful dinner over a big cheeseburger & fries. Argh?!?!!? I'm always a bit envious of those people you see running - EVERY day.
O.K., so that's mostly about me. Now onto #2. It's sick when I go to the store and see all the processed foods that are being run across the beeper thing. Peanut butter crackers-beep. Trix cereal-beep. Frozen pancakes-beep. Cheese Nips-beep. Granola bars-beep. Diet soda-beep (this ones mine!). I could go on! It hit me last night as I was watching the checker and the items I had put up there, that 20 years ago people didn't have this many options for convenience foods and thus, MADE their own. It makes me quit ill to think of all the things that my kids are ingesting that they wouldn't if I made these things.
So - today is a new day. God's mercies are new every morning and I praise and thank Him for that. For me, today is a new day to make better choices and to THINK about my choices and the result of those choices. I want to treat my body as a temple, to love it and give it only good things and move it. I want to make better choices for my boys' little bodies by making not giving them so much processed/colored foods. THEY are worth it and so am I!
Here's to a day of good, healthy choices for my family!
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