A Southern Wedding Weekend!

I must admit, that even though I have been doing much better about sticking to my plan and my workouts have been great, I was a bit worried about this weekend.  My cousin got married in a beautiful little historic town in Mississippi, roughly 8 hours away.  Road trips have always been a challenge for me diet wise.  It is usually one long food fest of greasy dives and yummy new finds… but not this weekend!  With the help of my trusty little cooler I mentioned in the previous post and some wise choices… the weekend was not all lost.  There were certainly deviations… such as several mimosas during our pampering session and of course a few too many carbs at the reception… and more champagne   But for the most part I was able to make wise choices and steer clear of many of the pitfalls that I used to jump into head first.   We’ll see tomorrow if there is any damage done on the scale,  but I’m guessing probably not. 

I’m looking forward to this new week.  I’ll be cleaning out the fridge tomorrow and making way for more pre-prepped foods for my little cooler.  I have 3 intense lifting sessions planned as well as 6 cardio sessions!  I’m also starting back to occupational therapy for my left hand.  I had developed what they believe to be something like a pain disorder and just wasn’t able to make any progress because the unending pain of therapy had finally messed with my head so to speak, but after taking a few months off, and making a bit of progress on my own, my therapist thinks that we may actually be able to get my middle finger to start to bend the way it’s suppose to… Oh, I hope so!  The therapy is horrendous… it’s kind of like volunteering to be tortured for an hour once or twice a week…. but as is the case with fitness…. no pain, no gain! 

One of the most valuable  things that I have learned through this last year, is to just get over myself!  LOL.  I used to have such a lazy, self-limiting mindset… I never wanted to do anything that made me too uncomfortable… pushed me too hard… was painful to me either mentally,  physically or emotionally… guess what?  That’s all of life!  Growth and change are painful… they do not come easily… to grow you must stretch beyond your current limits… you must reach those uncomfortable places that are so unfamiliar and scary.   I love the quote “Feel the Fear… and Do it Anyway!”  It says exactly what is necessary for true growth and change.  All of those success stories… all of those people who have done the very things you dream about…. do you think that it all just came easily to them? That they woke up one morning and everything was in place and ready for them to simply take the prize?  Nope!  Everyone who achieves true greatness… who does something extraordinary with their lives… fought for it… they went through the pain of growth and change and challenges, set backs and disappointments….. And Kept Going!  They faced the fear and did it anyway…. because the payoff is so worth the sacrifice of a little comfort!