LET CRAP GO!!

I haven't posted in such a long time!! So much has happened between then and now and yet I haven't gotten very far on my goal. I am posting this tonight, because I felt that it was important enough to make the effort to share it here. This week has been an interesting one and I have been reminded of something that we all know but find it hard to put into practice on a day to day basis. Sometimes we try so hard to get to a goal, and it seems that no matter how much we try, and how much we do all the right things, we seem to go 2 steps forward and 1 step back, or in some cases, 3 steps back! It happens to me all the time as I know it does to a lot of you also. I have been trying to get to my goal for a while now. It is not actually a weight goal, more of a body goal, but to get there I still need to lose a certain amount of body fat and while they are not my only measure by any means, the scale is my most regular measure. It hasn't been kind to me for a while now no matter what I seem to do and I finally realised why. It is amazing what happens when you just let crap go! I got sick this week, and because I only have 5 weeks until the marathon & 7 weeks until the Kokoda Challenge, I knew that I couldn't afford to be sick for long. So I let crap go. I stopped stressing about what I wasn't getting done in a day. I stopped worrying about all the things I should be doing. I made sure I ate right, I still exercised but toned it down a lot, and I made sure I got a decent amount of sleep. And I didn't stress about anything. Not the scale. Not the work I wasn't doing. Nothing. The only thing that changed this week was the stress on my body and mind, and a lot more sleep, and I had better results from half of this week than I have in the last 6 weeks combined. Sometimes, we just need to LET CRAP GO!! Until the next time, good luck on this hard road that we travel! It may be hard, but I know it makes me stronger every day & I hope the same applies to you all!! Shari