Let me paint the scenario for you…

You made up your mind.  You are tired of being fat, sluggish and/or out of shape and you decide to do something about it.  You psych yourself up and you get ready for MONDAY!  Monday!!!!  The day everyone’s life changes.  You buy veggies, fruits, healthy oils, lean meats and you even cook your food on Sunday to start Monday well.

On Monday you wake up and  you’re ready to take over the world.  You look at every skinny person and think “Give me a week and I am going to look just like him/her.”  There is a confidence no truck can bulldoze.  Throughout the day you find your breakfast was so tasty, lunch was filling and dinner was amazing. You even let yourself have yogurt and fruit at night and you post it on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, FUBU, Nike, Sesame Street, etc.  You put it everywhere!  You did well!  You are proud and you go to bed a Champion only to wake up to….

TUESDAY!

NOBODY warns you about Tuesday!!!! It’s as if everything that happened Monday went out the window.  Perhaps you knocked your head on something overnight and you got a mild or very serious case of amnesia.  You forgot how to eat right.  You forgot how to go to the gym. You forgot about all the fruits, veggies and lean meats you have in the fridge/freezer. The only thing you seem to remember is not having pizza the night before so you have two pizza’s to make up for it.  IT’S. NOT. HOW. THIS. IS. SUPPOSED. TO. BE.  But if you’re anything like me this is kinda how life is.  It can be from Monday to Tuesday OR from one week to another. Your thinking pattern changes.  Its as if the light bulb in your head that lit up all the reasons you wanted to be healthy and happy on Monday became dim and stopped working making everything dark on Tuesday; discerning good choices from bad ones becomes so hard and trusting yourself becomes a battle.

Well, this past week or so the light has gotten slightly dim…NOT too dim or 911 emergency dark, just a little darker and I have had to check myself.  I have to keep going back to why I started this. I have to check in with those I am accountable to.  I have to reassess where I am and make changes to get back on track fully. I have to recognize when this happens and what triggers the dimming of the light.  This is the time where a sista can fly off the handle and live like everyday is Tuesday and that can’t happen. When I see the temptations become a little bigger and the self control becomes a little smaller, its time to go back to the drawing board.  If I have to do this everyday until I get it, I will, God will help me. I can’t allow myself to live life on #Tuesdaymode.

If you see yourself slipping take this as your signal…. GET BACK TO THE PLAN!  I’m  catching it now, just a few days shy of a mess!  Today is Tuesday BUT tomorrow is a new day and what a wonderful, shiny, light filled, Jesus filled, victory filled, amnesia free day it will be!

Be encouraged today…We can do this…The best is yet to come!

Madelynn

“Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” John 8:32

p.s.

Thank you for the recent outpouring of love from my last post.  You are all a big part of why I continue this journey.  I appreciate you more than you know!  God bless you!