If you are on it, be on it, if you not, then don't

Well its been a while, I know. Sorry. The last couple of weeks have been up and down for me. I haven't gained any weight at all, in fact, I am down two more pounds, but my mind hasn't been in the game and that is starting to bother me. I just stopped being focused on the prize!

Yesterday one of my friends at work who follows the blog with his girlfriend asked me if I posted anything, when I said I didn't, he kind of shook his head and said "If you are on it, be on it, if you not, then don't"...and he was spot on. They are rooting for me, and don't want to see me give up. Being that we work together he can 'see' how I am living, and I have to thank him for reminding me that people are watching, sometimes I forget that. (Thanks Chris!)

You see I am going on vacation this coming Friday, my family is heading to Walt Disney World, and I think in my head I've been in "vacation mode" if you know what I mean by that, and if you have ever been on a diet then you know what vacation mode it. Its this fun little world where you don't exercise and calories don't count. Of course that is not a healthy way of looking at vacation, but it is how I always lived my life. That needs to change.

Things go down hill fast, it starts with eating a little to much of your healthy snacks, and that just leads to the addition of some junk food, and then the flood gates open. You start thinking..."Why am I breaking my chops when I know that I am not going to weigh in on Saturday and I am going to eat my fair share of Disney World crap food while I am there. Its like "Why kill myself now and when I know that I am going to be killing myself in Disney!" Stupid.

This kind of negative thinking leads to negative living and of course, all of these negatives could never have a positive result. I have to stop being a loser and keep my mind in the game. Oddly enough, last week was one of my best weeks when it came to exercise, but I slacked off on that over the weekend and I need to kick that back up as well. Tonight I train!

So, I have to either be "on it" or "off of it" and I choose to be "on it". I guess some times we just need a little kick in the butt, and I owe it to Chris for giving it to me. This job is usually reserved for my wife or my friends Walt and Dave, but I guess we added a new person to that group.

I will still enjoy my Disney vacation, but I will be great until then. Even when I am in Disney, I will keep that scale in mind and not go to crazy. I am still very much on this, but like everything else in life, I guess my mind wandered off of my goal a little. I needed to re-set and I did. We always hear the word "plateau" when people stop losing weight. They are of course referring to the number of the scale...but I am learning that it is really a mental plateau that you hit. Your mind just gets used to living a certain way and you lose that sharp mental focus.

I have it back. Its all good now.

Thanks!

-BIG Sean