Good Enough?

Being happy doesn't mean everything's perfect. It means you've decided to see beyond the imperfections!

-Helen Keller

After the lovely trip to NY with my hubby and then last week away in Utah visiting family with my kids, I am definitely having a hard time getting back to the grind. 

But it's only Monday, I'll be rocking it by tomorrow, right?

So this 10 weeks has been interesting for me weight wise. When we started I had reached my previous goal weight, but then I decided I'd set the goal to try and lose 7 more pounds over the 10 weeks. I am at a healthy weight, but it's not like I don't still have some fat that I can spare. But even though I've had a calorie deficit every week, exercised six days a week (except for once when I only did 5), have made moderate and healthy food choices, logged my food, did a short cleanse, stuck with all the group challenges (except for the no sugar while in New York) . . . I haven't lost those 7 pounds.  I've gone up and down, up and down, up and down 2 or 3 pounds the entire time. I am down a bit in the inches, but not much.

Hindsight is 20/20 and I'm just wishing I had said my goal was to maintain throughout the competition; I would have had 10 points every week! Probably not enough to be competitive with Erin, but still! The real thing is that I could have felt good about my efforts every week, instead of disappointed that I'm not achieving.

Not only because it's hard and discouraging to try and lose weight that just won't budge, but because I have felt more than once over the past couple months that what I'm doing activity and eating wise right now is good enough. It's moderate, it's sustainable, it helps me be a good mom, I have energy for the things I need and want to do and I have pleasure as well. So is the magical number I've been chasing on the scale really that important? Most days I'm leaning toward, NO!

I'm healthy, so now I just need to choose to be happy and decide it's good enough!