Something dawned on me earlier this week while I was facilitating a group meeting to discuss committing to living a healthy lifestyle. Someone asked if this commitment to making healthy choices in food and fitness ever gets easy. And, that's when it dawned on me. "No", I replied. It just starts to feel a little less hard. And, some days it's just back to hard.

So, why do I even mention what appears to be semantics in word choice? Because, I'm thinking if we approach this commitment to lifestyle change with some sort of expectation that it will eventual get easy to do, we most certainly will feel let down, get frustrated, and throw in the towel. Instead, if you go into this lifestyle with the understanding that every day brings new challenges and detours to making the healthy choices in food and fitness, when the apparent road block appears you will have the patience to figure out how to go around it.

Some days present fewer road blocks than other days.

I often hear people describe their days as "good" or "bad". I ask them to please define. A "good" day includes exercising and eating small amounts of food throughout the day in meals and snacks which consist of healthy choices. A "bad" day is anything that deviates from a "good" day. And, the real issue is that a "bad" day or even a "bad" moment in a day often derails them. And, I mean really derails them. This is what it called in the biz as "black and white" thinking or "all or none". So, you eat the chocolate chip cookie. So? How does that make the day all of a sudden a "bad" day. And, better yet, why does eating the chocolate chip cookie become the reason you stop working on this whole lifestyle change all together?

Remember, if you really approach living a healthful life over the long haul, build into the process chocolate chip cookies. You get me drift. It doesn't ever get easy. It just gets a little less hard.....on some days.

Keep on keeping on....