Hitting the reset button

I am hitting the rest button. I started this app back in 2013. I lost 55 lbs in the 1st year. In 2 years I lost 85 lbs and keep it off until I got married, and more directly, had my first child.

I gained 37 lbs back with my daughter but within 4 months I had lost it again plus 5 more lbs. But life began to take over. My husband lost his job, my financial situation changed, relationship trouble began, friend and family support lessened. So, as you might've guessed, I gained some of the weight back. In the passed year I have gained back 16 lbs back which may seem like nothing but it is a lot when you can't find motivation, energy, and most times, well time itself, to focus on eating properly and exercising and you become afraid you will soon be 300 lbs again. In the passing weeks I have been thinking about the hitting the rest button and not only resetting my health journey but also my inner self. I have consumed myself with the many things that have gone wrong for me this year that I put the amazing blessings that have occurred in my life on the backburner.

With this being said, I hope that if you are like me and your health focus has been clouded by the unfortunate circumstances that you have encountered understand this; you are not responsible for those things that you had no control over but still negatively impacted your life. And as for those things that you may have had control over which also negatively affected you, you still have time to either change those circumstances or if those circumstances cannot be resolved; learn and grow from those situations.

You are ONLY in control of you and you consists of your thinking, your actions, your eating, and your response to the things in which you have no control. So let us push the reset button together, not just on our healthy eating and exercise but also our healthy thinking. For the head leadeth to where the body will follow.