We tend to set our sights on what’s ideal: perfect meal planning, perfect work-out schedule, perfect compliance to every little thing we plan for ourselves… but what do we do when we find – for whatever reason – that we can’t keep up with perfect?  

The old me screamed in horror, “This is a disaster!  What am I going to do?  How am I going to lose weight if I can’t stay active?!”  

Thankfully, the me that’s in charge countered calmy – “You won’t.  You’re not going to lose the weight right now, and that is entirely OK.”

Not long after my divorce, I met a man who changed me forever.

I found myself facing a bizarre feeling: all I wanted to do was drink and eat. Since I never really have wine in the house, it was popcorn, salted caramel ice cream, and frozen pizza to the rescue… followed up with pretzels, raiding the Christmas stockings, & anything else I could get my hands on. What in the world was going on?

We habitually fall into the same patterns every year. But what if this year, we got in front of those patterns… what if this year, we make it a point to pick up some positive momentum BEFORE the mayhem takes over? That just might be the trick to avoiding the end of year spiral that typically unfolds… and the very ugly reality check that hits us come January.