Happy Holidays!
What a busy time this past few weeks have been. My apologies for mising posts the last 2 weeks, but as they say, Life got in the way.
I had a pretty successful 2 weeks since the past post...dropped 2.6 the Wed. prior to Christmas, and maintained last week (pretty good considering all the pot lucks, Christmas, etc). I feel good about the last few weigh ins.
A while back “Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back” was on. I haven’t seen it in years. So, I spent the night vegging in front of the TV. It was great! Although now I want to see all of them again. Anyways, while Luke is training to be a Jedi Yoda is sharing his knowledge with him and something he said jumped at me. Actually, several things did but I’m going to only hit one for now.
While Luke is training he continually fails and says, “I can’t”. But Yoda continues to teach and he says something very profound. “You must unlearn what you have learned.” Wow! How true is that? So many of us fail time and time again and we feel like we just can’t do it. Whatever ‘it’ might be; losing weight, stopping negative thoughts, letting go of the past, creating healthy habits; you fill in the blank. The point is from the time we are born we are being taught. But when we make the decision to change our lifestyle we find ourselves in Luke’s shoes. We are trying to live a new way of living through the eyes of our old one.
We must learn to unlearn what we have learned. This happens as we take each step one at a time. You've spent years learning how to be unhealthy, so it's not going to change over night. It is a learning process. Spend time reading articles, research new recipes, exercises or healthy activities. Spend time with people that have the same goals. The more you put in the more that will begin to come out and bear fruit in your life.
Want to stop feeling like a failure? Start unlearning what you have learned. That Yoda guy’s pretty smart.
Something to think about....
Until next time!
