Everybody wants to have a perfect journey to increased health and fitness, but we all know that's not possible. We will all miss an exercise day, stay up too late, or indulge in one too many donuts as they're sitting on the counter at work calling our names. And I want everyone to remember that these things are part of the journey. Don't let one mistake ruin your entire day. Or if you're had a bad day, you can vow to make tomorrow better. Even if you've gotten off track for a week or a month or more, there is always time to turn things around.
Don't worry about the box of Oreos you just polished off. That's already happened--there's nothing you can do about it now. Look instead to the present and to the future and do your best to make every day count, remembering as you go that mistakes are unavoidable.
Maybe you don't want to share your "failures" with others (they're not really failures if you learn from them and use your experience to get healthier), so perhaps by my sharing that I have partaken in a donut and bagel with cream cheese this morning after getting to work and having eaten breakfast at home, I'll have given you a little bit of reassurance that yes, other people do struggle sometimes, too and that I'm not alone in this. I have plenty more struggle stories to share, too, if anyone ever needs an extra boost of reassurance after a particularly bad day.
Yours in LFS and Health,
Jessica Szweda
Section 67 Communication Chair
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