Making the choice to live healthier is not an easy one. There are so many different aspects to 'healthy' that it can seem overwhelming. What kind of exercise to do, how long, how frequently, what to cut out of your diet and what to cut back on, where to eat out, healthy choices on the fly. What do you tackle first? You can't possibly master everything all at once. It's a learning process and it's not plausible to completely transform your life over night.
It can be really easy to focus on the bad choices you make through out the day instead of the good. However it's those little choices that start to add up that will make the difference in the long run. So you "only"walked a mile instead of running two, or went out to eat dinner and "only" brought half of it home, or only had one soda instead of three today. Don't focus on what you didn't do but what you DID do! Those tiny changes will start to transform the way you think and act and will eventually grow into bigger choices that won't be nearly as difficult to make. A month from now you will be able to run those two miles and look forward to doing it. You will pick grilled chicken when you go out instead of pasta with cheese sauce, and cut back to one soda a week instead of every day.
These are what I like to call the baby steps. The seemingly small and insignificant choices that we make that no one else may notice, but YOU should. Be proud of making a choice at all to do something better for your body. Write them down if it helps you realize that you're beginning to change. Eventually the scale will catch up with those choices and you'll be down a pant size before you know it. This isn't about dropping weight as quickly as you can, it's about changing who you are and truly living a healthy life style. The baby steps reflect that more so than any number on the scale.
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