Who would have ever thought that I would be blogging? Certainly not me. I mean, I look at other people's blogs and they are lovely, and I like to read them, but surely my life is not really interesting enough for others to be much involved. Okay, so yeah, I am a little silly, and a little funny, and I tend to smile a lot, laugh a lot, and enjoy life...but do I really have the time to sit down pretty often and write about it? I may not, but I'm certainly going to try and make time...
So why did I decide to start a blog? That's simple, and the answer is accountability. Truth be told, and just to get it all out there in the beginning, I've been trying to lose weight for YEARS and so far, to no avail. I absolutely KNOW without a doubt in my heart of hearts, that I am capable of it. I feel this way even more within the last six months, because about 4.5 months ago, I just quit smoking cold turkey. Yes, I did use the patch, but I woke up one day (October 9, 2010 to be exact) and said "I'm not going to smoke today" and I haven't since then, not even a drag. Unfortunately, when it comes to getting healthy and weight loss, I just cannot seem to get my motivation to stay with me. It is, what most would call, a runaway. It just, takes the midnight train to Georgia and I wake up the next morning like, "whoa, wait a second, where's my motivation?!" With that said, my hope in creating this blog is that it will be the anchor for my motivation. A way for me to think about why I do what I do and to work to change these habits. After all, I kicked the butt, and they say that's like harder than quitting heroin?! Certainly I can just begin to make some healthier food choices! I've had support in my journey with quitting smoking, though, and that's what I'm needing daily in my quest for getting healthy, so hopefully this will be it. I'm sure there will be a few paths that I take occasionally as well that have nothing to do with my motivation and accountability - including dating (or lack thereof), frustrations, annoyances, and so on..but then again, they just might have more to do with my motivation that I think! Aha, I'm already having epiphanies. Sounds like I'm off to a fabulous start...
<3 Tara
Hey girlie,
ReplyDeleteI think we all suffer with our own forms of lack of motivation, and this is one that I've always had a hard time with.. It was definitely awesome seeing and hearing about you quitting smoking cold turkey! It says a lot about you, you are determined or you wouldn't have been able to do that! I know I don't know that much about you, from the times we have talked, you are a sweetheart, you are gorgeous, and you have an amazing voice!
Keep your head up and remember you can do all things through Christ that gives you strength!
<3 ya!
Sierra