Personal Responsibility and Accountability.... Uhhgggg!

Part of the WW journey is logging everything that goes into your mouth... Yuck! Nothing like a good, hard look at reality. I was traveling today and went WAY over in my points. Dumb fast food, it is evil. Subway is my friend. However, I did find out that you can ask for nutritional info and every place is really good about giving you a chart of info. Sadly, I now have Panda Express' (or Panda Oppress as Emma refers to it) menu memorized in WW points.

I had way too much time to think as I was making my way down the road and was just struck by how similar something like logging ww points and food intake is to so many choices in our lives. It is hard to realize the impact of a single choice that we make has. We make multiple choices throughout the day, each and every day and yet how aware are we of the direction that each choice we make will have? So many times we may think "Well, this isn't really the best choice but I will do better next time" or how many times do we get caught in the trap of just not caring. When in fact most times we really do care but it can just be overwhelming. There is something to be said about having goals and then being accountable. It really is near impossible to reach a goal if we do hold ourselves accountable and measure where we are and where we want to be on a regular basis.

So today, I am starting off the day knowing the bad choices that I made yesterday and will try to remember that not only did I not feel good physically but they did not take me in the direction to meet my long term goal. It reminds me of the same message that I have heard two different ways recently. First by Manda from her college health/fitness class said, "I learned an important lesson from physical education, everyone who wants a healthy life must give up bad habits. More then often we go back to the bad habit before we give it up completely, but don't get discouraged just keep pushing forward. Something is better then nothing". Second, from our Stake President saying that change is a very difficult thing and conversion is a long, growing process. He said that the statistics are extremely high that someone will turn back to old habits before they can completely abandon them and become more converted. It is all a growing process. What a great message. Thank goodness for each new day and brand new starts!