"Past the point of no return"

 So for a couple days now, people have been stopping me at work and saying "You're looking good" or "I can really see a difference".  It's comments like these that make all the hard work and long evenings, early morning spent exercising and training worth it.  And yet, I feel a sense of failure every time they compliment me.
 I do not, in any way, want to sound ungrateful for the comments I have received, they are very special to me and I am so happy to receive them. Yet, I have responded to almost all of them with "I'm just not feeling it this week".

 So what's the problem? I have absolutely no idea. I wish I could tell you that something significant caused me to "back slide" but the truth is, things have been going great.

 This happens to me a lot--I take a big step forward, get off track and then spend days/weeks trying to get back on course. So I reverted back to bad habits: I threw myself a big ole "pity party", I slept long hours, and I'll admit that I didn't really do great with my diet....and, I felt absolutely awful.

 Last night, when I was walking around my neighborhood I had a talk with myself and reminded myself of how far I have come in all of this and it would be foolish to give up. Failure, is not an option. I was reminded of our first meeting with our Life Coach, Chris (www.strongwithin.com) and that a quote from Yoda was brought up:  "Do, or do not. There is no try". (This has to be pretty memorable for me to remember a line from a George Lucas movie!)


 So, I officially called off my pity party, dusted myself off, chalked it up to a lesson learn and am moving on with my journey.  Thanks for the compliments and for cheering me on, I'm going to do better by you all.