The light at the end of the tunnel?!?!?!?

I first off need to say that I am very sorry that I did not blog at all this weekend! I just had so much to do, and Friday I wasn't feeling very well so I took some Nyquil early on and it knocked me out for almost 10 hours! Now that I am back in a normal life routine I feel very guilty to not have been on at all updating or showing support to those of you who read my blogs. So sorry and I will try my very hardest to make sure that it does not happen again. I did however, follow my diet and exercise plan, Sunday I followed my diet plan but did not do all of my exercise...bad, bad, bad Justine..go ahead and tell me that if you want too!

So as I was thinking today about not blogging this weekend, and feeling guilty, I started to get a little overwhelmed with what I needed to do today. I had 4 kids that had to go to school, 2 kids and 3 different dance classes to get too, and it was Awana night also so I had to take the boys and get dinner done a little earlier than normal tonight so they could eat before they go. To top it all off Monday is my housecleaning day the day I move out appliances and furniture, and clean the couches out, and scrub bathrooms and floors, and dust and all that good stuff. So this crazy day is looming ahead of me and I started to think how on earth am I going to fit exercise in??? I started to rationalize to myself saying, I'm a mom and a wife first, there are things that have to be done and if I have to take one day to do all that stuff, and skip the exercise than that's my right! And you know what? It is my right, because nobody is telling me I have to lose weight, this isn't required, it's not a law, it's all about what I want for myself. So if I slip up, and skip my exercise I'm only hurting myself, and I am not going to feel good about it later!

I ended up doing my exercise today once I got smart and told myself....it's one rough day, I can do this, and if I do it when I go to bed tonight, I'm going to be not only exhausted but PROUD! I won't be feeling guilty and beating myself up over what I didn't do, I can tell myself even though it was tough to fit it all in...I DID IT!! And what's more important than that is that next time I step on the scale it's gonna reward me for doing that!

When we don't see day to day results it's easy to get discouraged, I know how easy it is to be impatient because if your like me when you want something you want it NOW! I want to be at my goal weight! I want to buy a pair of pants in a much smaller size! So when I go from one day to the next and I'm not seeing huge differences, I can get to where I feel like it's not working so I might as well quit. Pushing through stuff like that is what is going to make us successful in the end. Whether we acknowledge it or not when we are eating healthy and being active...our bodies are changing IT IS happening, little by little, day by day, week by week, month by month....it's happening!! If we can just be patient 6 months from now we will look in the mirror and say WOW...there really is a difference!

A friend of mine emailed me today and what she said really pushed me through my slumpy attitude this morning, and reminded me of what it is we are working for...all she told me was that she had washed and dried her jeans and when she put them on they were loose! How amazing is that, all of us, celebrating our victories together, and when your jeans are getting too big, that is a big victory when your goal is like ours :) There is a light at the end of the tunnel, if we can keep that in mind, it will keep us going, and all the little stuff in between is pushing us through. I can feel my body changing, in some small ways and some that are bigger, and that's what keeps us going. Now if only we had a time machine or a crystal ball so we could look ahead and see how amazing we look and know that everything we are doing now has paid off!!! We can and we will! I promise you that!

I like to go through old pictures now and then because it's easy to forget what I might look like when I'm a smaller person, of course my body has changed, I have had 4 kids and gotten older so it won't be exactly the same but it's something that keeps me motivated...right along with those jeans I wanna fit into so badly! Can't wait to get there!!! Here are a few of me when I was a much smaller version of myself!


Sometimes seeing what your working for is the best motivation!!! :) I'm definitely feeling more motivated after digging through some of my old pictures!