I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends

When I can't muster the determination and drive from within, I look to friends to do so.

Today I'll focus on two people that are in my corner right now.  Okay, so there are lots who are in my corner, but two I'm going to mention.  One I know very well, and one is someone I'm still getting to know.

I have a neighbor who started her journey to losing at the beginning of this year.  Our daughters have been friends since they moved into the neighborhood, but we only met in the last few months.  In fact, the lovely world of social media (Facebook and the ever-addicting Pinterest) have allowed us to get to know one another.  She wakes up most mornings before the sun, before her husband, and before her kiddos to go and workout.  She has extended the offer to me on more than one occasion.  I did go, once, and it felt great.  She happened to not be able to make it that day LOL.  I didn't make it again.  Long story short, I came down with a sinus infection, a hernia, and lost all motivation once again.  Fast forward two months, and my hernia isn't gone, but my habits and stalling sure don't help it any.  I think I've been using the hernia as a reason to not dive back in, or that the new year is approaching, or just insanity.

In fact, losing weight is what would make this hernia get better.  The Rx for this thing is losing weight, avoiding alcohol, high fat foods, chocolate, anything tomato based (says the ketchup addict), citrus, anything else worth enjoying, and eating six small meals a day.  When I first got this hernia, it hurt so badly that I didn't eat for 8 days.  I lost a good 11 pounds, but that is not how I wanted to do it.

I've gained all the weight I lost with that hernia back.

I'm planning on waking up in the morning, and every morning thereafter to go and workout.

Another lovely person I'd like to mention who has been a driving force and inspiration for me is my dear friend Blaire.  She and I are both in this boat together.  We have conversations about succeeding, how we can do this, what we're going to eat, when we'll wake up, etc.  Well, they can be sometimes one sided.  She tells me how she's going to do it, gives me suggestions, has woken up to work out, and has really started doing this.  I've been so ashamed that I haven't stuck with it that I don't often say what I've done.  Because that is nothing.  But the more that I text with her, talk with her, the more I "avoid" saying how I'm doing, the more I want to do well.  The more I want to keep my drive and desire to do this.

Thanks, love :)