Happy Sunday everyone! It's been a whirlwind few days for me at the Take Shape for Life leadership retreat at Sundance with lots of great training, wonderful people, and gorgeous surroundings. It will definitely take some time for me to process everything!
One of our speakers, Robert Fritz, talked about the power of choice, and he talked about how choice is different than commitment. I often talk about (and encourage everyone, including myself) to commit to staying on plan, but Robert said that commitment can often end up feeling like obligation - and nobody likes to feel obligated :-).
The reality is that we have the freedom to choose whether or not we're going to be healthy, and once we make the fundamental choice to be healthy, other choices become much easier. Sometimes we feel very conflicted as things threaten to pull us in two different directions. We want to get to a healthy weight, but we also want to go out with our friends and enjoy eating the same food they do. Robert urged us to create a hierarchy of values between competing values. What that really means is that we may value both getting to a healthy weight and value time with our friends, and it's up to us to decide which is most important. (Of course, we always have the choice of going out with friends AND still staying on plan - the two are not mutually exclusive!)
We all started on this program because we wanted to lose weight and get healthy. When things threaten to become obstacles to us reaching our goal, it's time to reassess what it is that we really want. The choice is ultimately ours, and we will bear the consequences - good or bad - of the choice that we make.
I hope you're choosing to make this an on-plan day today!
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