What are obstacles?

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal" 

~Henry Ford

This quote was in a presentation at our meeting today at work and it's true.  Keep focused on that goal and you can accomplish it all!  I figured it'd be a good day for an update.  I haven't been to the gym lately but may try to go tonight depending on what we're doing. Monday and Tuesday I had started work at 5:30 a.m. , so there was no way I was gymming before that and I really wanted to go to bed relatively early too to do it all over again.  Since Monday, I'm down nearly 5 lbs since last Thursday. I was going to do all shakes this week, but I've done some shakes (mostly at work) and then made better decisions for everything else.  I haven't been drinking my calories or having junk food (we did have froyo last night, but that was basically my dinner) but I've steered clear of the candy jars here at work and the cupcakes from the vending machine...  I even was tempted to take a pop tart this morning, but I looked at it was 200 cals in ONE pop tart...not the package...ONE....and who eats one anyway?! It's packaged as TWO, you eat TWO.....but 400 cals...no thanks. 

Trying to keep this in my mind.  I struggle a lot with confidence.  And by struggle, I mean, I don't have any. I'm trying to keep a positive mind without placing a ton of presure on myself. I want to be strong and successful but I have to give myself a chance.  So I am at least moving in the right direction again.  We're all human. We all stumble and fall in different aspects of our lives.  My biggest obstacle is weight loss.  I am persistant though, and will continue fighting this challenge until I crush it.  I'm debating on signing up for the 90 day WL challenge from Life Time.  As long as you weigh out at the end, you get your money back as credits to use there, so it's not like you're losing anything.  Weigh in would be this weekend.  The greatest WL nationally gets $10K ---- but I read some of the winner's stories and they worked out for like 6 hrs/day and that's just not realistic for me.  But there are runner up prizes and plus, there's other incentives like little classes and extra stuff that you get for free, so that's pretty cool.  I'll prob sign up. What do I have to lose besides fat right?! 

Keeping it real as always -

     ~Katie