one choice at a time...

thats what it all comes down to.

one choice at a time.
what an epiphany!
i had a less than perfect...less than decent day of eating.
but i think thats the hard part for some. not the eating itself...but the feeling that one bad day, one bad choice unravels weeks or days of hard work.

IT DOES NO SUCH THING.

its one choice at a time.

i just poured myself a glass of coke before bed...instead of the water i didnt drink today...and that i should be drinking now. its a choice im making.
i could go dump it out and get some water...thats a choice i could make.
rather than giving up because i had a bad choice day, i wont. rather than justifying it as a "cheat day" i wont. cheat days don't exist. they shouldn't anyway. because they allow us to make horrible choices.

tomorrow im going to wake up...choose my healthy snacks for tomorrow.
i made a choice today to buy candy for my new team and keep it at my desk in a cute candy holder. and every day i will make a choice: eat some or dont. today i did.
but one choice doesnt ruin it; it can be a setback.
i choose to allow myself temptation. rather than forcing my family in this house to choose the same foods i choose, i let them make their choices, and myself mine.

tomorrow i will wake up and choose my light n fit yogurts (80 calories and 0 fat) and maybe a granola bar. i will choose to drink all the waters i need to (roughly 90 ounces if i...) choose a rockstar to help with the day.
tomorrow i will choose to smoke on lunch and breaks...though i can choose not to.
i will undoubtedly choose subway for lunch.
i will choose to make the best of the choices i allow myself. i will consider two good choices and let them cancel out a bad.
i will choose to eat great the rest of the week, and will choose to not let the weigh ins throw me off.

its all about choices.
while we may not choose to get overweight, as some are predispositioned based on matters beyond our control, we choose to change it if we want. either by surgery or healthy choices. we can choose which route to take. we choose consciously to go to burger king, or to make snacks and bring them. we choose how many calories to eat. we choose what we drink..be it something bad for you (like the coke today despited the fact i never drink soda) or water. we choose how many calories we consume in the alcohol we drink.

same as the way we choose to get up and go to work. while we need it for money...we choose to go because we know our responsibilities. we choose to have children...or to not. we choose to marry someone, or we choose to not. we make choices daily. its all abotu WHAT we choose. and WE can. we are so fortunate to live in a country where we CAN choose, and its sad how we take that for granted.
some places have no water to drink...and daily we pass by the brita filters at work or the tap in our own kitchens and we go straight to the calorie filled poisons.
some places they sleep in badly insulated dilapidated houses on the floor, and we can sleep in warm beds, yet we stay up too late.
we can CHOOSE to go for a walk and enjoy our freedoms. we can choose to wear what we want and do what we want. i am SO blessed that i can do all of those things.

i am choosing to choose. choosing to make good decisions.
while today wasnt a day of great choices, i acknowledge that i consciously CHOSE them, and do not feel bad. toimorrow is a new day. even if i start out badly tomorrow, i can make up for it by walking, and drinkign water and choosing better foods for the rest of the day...but i choose to not start badly tomorrow.

i will choose to do my physical therapy exercises to get stronger so i can exercise and be healthier. i will choose to take the stairs. i will choose water.
i will choose to choose. and i will love and embrace the decisions i make because i made them.

i choose to embrace ME!

i CHOOSE ME!

how great to be able to say that.
there is always an out to the decisions we make when we make the right choices available.

what will YOU choose today? what will you choose tomorrow? how do you choose to feel?
choose wisely and enjoy!

:]