So over the last few years I have been on a journey to get healthy with a focus on weight loss. There were so many little things I did over time that helped me lose (at my smallest) 80 lbs. I say “at my smallest” to be transparent, that I am both honest and forthcoming, not perfect and am no longer focusing on the scale but how I look and feel. It wasn’t until I realized that seeking “perfection” killed my progress time and time again during the many times I tried to lose weight before. I would try so hard to do EVERYTHING right that when I didn’t do something right my self sabotaging, sick mind would tell me to give up or that I’ve already messed up might as well start again tomorrow (instead of putting down the ice cream). Once I realized the way most successful people weren’t focusing on perfection but focused on progress, this was the epiphany for me.

It wasn’t until I realized that falling down wasn’t failure it was life, it was a chance to learn a chance to grow. Messing up when you are striving for a goal doesn’t make the goal any less worthy it also doesn’t mean you can’t reach it either.

This is HUGE

There is going to be days where you don’t want to workout, where you don’t eat the way you should (insert millions of different “mess ups” that make you feel like you’ve failed) but it’s what you do in the moments following that matter WAY MORE then the “mess up”.

If you don’t take away anything else I hope this resonates with you. Keep getting up, keep trying, and give yourself grace and learn.

All my love,

Stephanie <3