Excuses, Excuses!

“Rise and rise again until lambs become lions.”

That quote was in the recent Robin Hood movie, which we watched last week for the first time. I don’t know why it takes us so long to see movies these days. Anyway – I find myself loving the quote because it speaks to those of us that feel downtrodden and hopeless, encouraging us to fight against the odds and rise up until the fight is fought and the war is won.

…and I need it right now…

The last few days the whole “I’m going to eat healthy and exercise” has kind of gone by the way side. I’m a master at finding excuses to NOT do something…yes…I’m very skilled in that area. I found an excuse to waiver from the meal plan and not exercise. My inner little devil told me it was okay to scarf down some junk food because I’d been sooooo good the previous week, which sounded something like this:

Little Devil (LD): “Jenny, doesn’t that bunt cake look so good?”
Jenny: “ooooooh (drool) yes it does!”
LD: “Go ahead, have one, two, three….you deserve it for eating so well recently.”
Jenny: “Ok, maybe just one…”
LD: “Yes…YES! … How about a burger now that you’ve gone off your plan?”
Jenny: “Really? Can I? Should I?
LD: “Of course – you’ve already blown it, let’s totally go crazy!”

Anyone what’s been in my shoes totally understands this mentality. You can find any excuse to NOT eat well, to not exercise, not clean the house, not go to work, not call your friends, and not do anything at all but wallow in self-serving laziness and gluttony. Damn you little devil (as I point the finger to myself).

“Rise and rise again untill lambs become lions.”

So here we go again.

Day one goal = stick to meal plan today, and just say no to LD.

Now I don’t want anyone to get all preachy on me. I know that people are allowed to mess up now and then, and I’m not beating up myself over any of this. Nor am I going to get all super psycho about counting calories, or exercising for hours on end, or any of that nonsense. I’m just stating the obvious that we all deviate from “the path,” (whatever path we may be on) and that it’s okay – it’s okay, but I hate it.

Time to kick the excuses to the curb. You with me?

4 comments on “Excuses, Excuses!”

As a fellow Queen of Excuses – I’m with you! Working on my post about the same (general) thing right now.

I am a little lamb trying to be a lion also. I started a 10 week ‘Get Healthy’ program at work and damn is it hard! The woman running the program didn’t do us any favors when she told us we could have chocolate cake still, but to have a two oz slice instead of an entire piece. Have you ever tried to have just a two oz piece? It’s like eating one potato chip or three goldfish crackers.
Excuses are easy, finding (and keeping) motivation is not. I think we need to call Jessica @ Booshy out of her self declared exile to organize a Bufftober type of thing again. At least then we were accountable to someone other than ourselves and got awards.