Tomorrow morning I am off to the place I was born.
Oh good ol' Fair Oaks, California where the weather keeps you snuggled up inside on the couch, the friends like to eat out, and the grandparents bring the desserts.
The perfect formula for a mini catastrophe.....bring on the bloat which seems to stay through the month of January! ;)
I know I am not the only one who's bad at peer pressure. How many times have you thought you were "being good" until all it took was for someone to casually invite you to a huge caloric trip for a scrumptious ginormous Chipotle burrito? And their buying? How can you say NO?! you can't right? It is free and all.... then for the next meal, and why not the next meal? and the next and next and next.
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Hmmm think Jessica, think. What would you tell yourself in a few days that will help you keep your insanity following this lovely holiday week? Sure, I play off like I have a lot of self discipline but do not be fooled. All it takes is a setting where all there is to do is play around with friends and family, no responsibilities, no work to go to, no school to attend....personally, I dive into unhealthy-feel-good-now-world and I never look back.
I am not lying to myself, I know what always goes down over the holidays but I have got to at least attempt what seems like the impossible.
Maybe I will try something I never have before.....
Getting the people I am surrounded with, in my native town, to help me stay motivated and on track without realizing it! I can try and get some family members or some friends to want to make the little rainy drive to the gym if I set a time to go everyday that they are all available.....ORRRR
I can go on field trips to the grocery store to get yummy healthy things each night for dinner and cook meals for my family to avoid the temptations of holiday food and dining out.
(could be an opportunity to learn how to cook a little bit too ;)
So the moral of the story is that I have noticed the influence of the people around me plays a huge part of what I do and don't do. So getting people I love and that are around me to support me, may be my best bet.
Let's see how this pans out.
What do you think? Can you keep a social life and a healthy life at the same time?
