19th June 2014
When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try and treat the
world better than it treated you – Patrick Stump
I love my meetings and my members, the things that I hear
often make me smile, they also sometimes make me cry but that’s life isn’t it,
today though I’m focusing on the positives and I thought I’d share this that
was said yesterday, so we’re all talking about the week that’s just gone and
one on my BeYOUtiful ladies says;
“I had a brownie tower!”
I reply “Did you ProPoint that?”
Response “I lost 1½lbs.”
What’s not to love about that member, it wasn’t the answer to
my question but it really made me smile and yes she’s right if you can lose a
pound and a half in a week and eat a brownie tower who cares how many ProPoints
were in it!
So you may have noticed a distinct lack of food photos on my
facebook page and blog this week, there are two reasons for that, the first
being I haven’t really eaten food worth sharing this last week, since last
Wednesday I’ve been off my weight loss game and therefore haven’t really made
an effort. The other reason was what one
of my younger members said to me last Thursday, she told me food never came up
in her Facebook news feed before she started trying to lose weight and now it
makes her want to eat! Toxic
environment, it’s everywhere isn’t it, there is no escape from visuals of food
and after posting lots of cake photos last week before of our Bake A Difference
event I thought I’d give it a break.
I was a little deflated yesterday, I won’t go into details
but it hasn’t been a great week for me at all, feeling a little overwhelmed by
a few things – nothing major or life changing so nothing to worry about – just stuff. Anyway I’ve spent this week sorting out how I
feel about stuff and I will continue to do so, I’m not one to dwell, I work through
things and make changes if they’re necessary, because life is too short to be
stuck with situations that don’t make you happy! I’m learning this new word – 'NO', and
yesterday I used it for the first time, it took me 4 hours to say it, but I got
there and I shall be saying it a lot more.
If you struggle with that 'NO' word, start small and work up, we can do
it, if you’re like me you naturally like to be helpful, but there’s a point
where being helpful to everyone else means you’re neglecting yourself and then
things aren’t good.
So yes as yak as this last week has been, it’s also a good
thing because it’s made me take stock and start to make a few changes, I love
my life and I won’t be stressed or unhappy unnecessarily. Tomorrow I will be doing some work but then I
will be sorting myself out, I need some healthy food in my house, I need to find
some time to clean my house, the ironing still hasn’t been done (ok I don’t
want to do it but that’s not the point, I haven’t had the time or energy to do
it even if I did want to do it!)
Prioritising and getting the balance back in my life is the
agenda for the next few weeks, Saturday will be my chill out / pamper day and
Monday will be my gardening day (Sunday I’m at work), oh man housework might
have to wait till the weekend after! ;-)
Have a great day BeYOUtiful, keep smiling even if you’re a
woman (man) on the edge, life’s too short for it not to be ALL GOOD!
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