Balance. Choice. And trying to not fall off the tightrope.
Posted Jul 14 2009 12:00am
Sometimes I feel like I am on a healthy living tightrope. I am walking along this tightrope carrying the options of eating healthy and exercising. And I am not the best at balancing both while staying balanced on the rope.
A couple of years ago, I would have given into the fears of change... or in this metaphor... the fear of heights, and jumped off the rope into the land of gluttony and sloth. It is safer down there and because less focus is required since you are already on the ground, I could do lots of other things with my time.
Now I on okay with being on the tightrope. But it is hard to stay up there while carrying both the focus of making healthy portioned food choices AND getting in physical activity each day. I feel like I can walk the tightrope carrying one of these focuses, but as soon as I try to add the second one, I get out of balance and risk plunging to the deadly ground below.
The last couple days I have not been the best about journaling my food choices, both here pictorially but also just even writing them down. But in order to lose weight and get to a healthy physical state, I do need that calorie reduction in addition to the increase in calorie burn. The problem is that when I manage to balance both, I am so focused on staying on the tightrope that I forget about everything else in life (like socializing, cleaning, and just living).
For those of you who are successful at this balancing game, what are your secrets? How do you maintain a social life, healthy portioned eating, and daily exercise. Or did you have to give something up? And if so... what was it?
Sometimes I feel like I am on a healthy living tightrope. I am walking along this tightrope carrying the options of eating healthy and exercising. And I am not the best at balancing both while staying balanced on the rope.
A couple of years ago, I would have given into the fears of change... or in this metaphor... the fear of heights, and jumped off the rope into the land of gluttony and sloth. It is safer down there and because less focus is required since you are already on the ground, I could do lots of other things with my time.
Now I on okay with being on the tightrope. But it is hard to stay up there while carrying both the focus of making healthy portioned food choices AND getting in physical activity each day. I feel like I can walk the tightrope carrying one of these focuses, but as soon as I try to add the second one, I get out of balance and risk plunging to the deadly ground below.
The last couple days I have not been the best about journaling my food choices, both here pictorially but also just even writing them down. But in order to lose weight and get to a healthy physical state, I do need that calorie reduction in addition to the increase in calorie burn. The problem is that when I manage to balance both, I am so focused on staying on the tightrope that I forget about everything else in life (like socializing, cleaning, and just living).
For those of you who are successful at this balancing game, what are your secrets? How do you maintain a social life, healthy portioned eating, and daily exercise. Or did you have to give something up? And if so... what was it?