Let it roll off your back. I learned that once, it now seems appropriate once again. I'm totally forcing myself into day 1 of getting it back together on the healthy lifestyle train (not that I ever left it because it's secretly always in the back of my mind). I'm not ready, but if I continue on at the rate that I am I'll be disgusted with myself within a weeks time and out of my clothes in 2 months tops. And I have a wedding and a football game to make an appearance at; 5 weeks for one and 7 weeks for the other. Not that I'm putting time limits on myself, but I'd at least like to feel 10 knotches better about myself. Just sayin...
So there you have it. I'm forcing myself into the action stage. I have to - I can continue to recycle back into the preparation/contemplation phase if necessary as long as I continue to move forward in the action phase. For all you people who are wondering what the hell I'm talking about, let me impart a little knowledge on you:
There are stages of change:
-----Precontemplation (Not yet acknowledging that there is a problem behavior that needs to be changed)
-----Contemplation (Acknowledging that there is a problem but not yet ready or sure of wanting to make a change)
-----Preparation/Determination (Getting ready to change)
-----Action/Willpower (Changing behavior)
-----Maintenance (Maintaining the behavior change) and
------Relapse/Recycle (Returning to older behaviors and abandoning the new changes
So I'm basically just forcing myself into the action stage. For the last week or so I've been recycling between contemplation and preparation. I haven't quite completed the preparation stage, but I'm willing to just push past it in order to get the ball moving on this sucker. I'll continue trying to understand who I am and why I'm in this situation, but in the mean time. It's day 1.
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