Stronger - Friday's Inspiration - a Day Late

I know that today is actually Saturday, but I think you'll all forgive me for being a day late with my Friday Inspiration.  I just couldn't wrap my head around things yesterday.  Boston and the surrounding towns were in lockdown as the local and state police, FBI, SWAT and everyone else hunted for "suspect #2".  It was a very tense day and there was great concern for those we knew in Watertown.

If there is one thing we have learned over the past week is that we are all stronger than we ever knew.  And that is the focus of this post. 

 (thank you Nancy for sharing this and providing the inspiration for this week)

When life throws things at us, we can cower in fear or we can find our strength.  This week, all of Boston, Watertown, pretty much all of Massachusetts, we found our strength and we grew stronger. 

At first I thought I was going to dispute the "it never gets easier" portion of this picture, but then I thought about it.  Maybe it really doesn't get easier, maybe we just adjust.  With each step and each day, we are more focused on getting stronger and we adjust to the hard part.  We don't forget, but we make getting stronger a higher priority.  Nothing in life is easy.  And sometimes, life throws curveballs at us, so we change and adjust and we find what keeps us going.  So while it may seem like it's getting easier, maybe we forget about how hard it is because we're finding ways to deal with it.  

And that applies to our health and fitness goals too. We can all agree that losing weight isn't easy.  Does it ever get easier?  I don't think so.  If it was easy, we'd all be thin.  We have to work at it each and every day.  And as we do, we are getting stronger.  We make adjustments in what we eat and in our workouts and we lose weight.  One day at a time, one step at a time. 

But who doesn't have those days when they really want that piece of cake or that ice cream sundae or we just don't feel like working out?  Is it easy to walk away from the goodies or to start the workout?  Nope.  But with each day you're a little stronger and you find the will to walk away or to just start walking. 

And of course, there will be those days when you give in and you eat that piece of cake or you don't do your workout, but you can't beat yourself up over it.  Because we are going to have to eat for the rest of our lives and sometimes, you just need a piece of cake.


We are all STRONGER!  (And I'm pretty sure none of us are EASY!  )