Being healthy is really, really, REALLY hard.
It’s a time-consuming, exhausting, overwhelming undertaking of which only the clinically insane are capable.
In my experience, the hardest part of any healthy lifestyle improvement is getting started.
Approximately 78.6 percent* of healthy eating/ exercise plans (cough, diets) begin on a Monday. Why this is, I can only speculate. But let’s be honest, Mondays are the worst.
What should be the fresh new beginning to a sparkly happy week is actually a dreary conglomeration of stressful situations. You probably weren’t as productive over the weekend as you intended, you didn’t clean your bathroom, get started on your taxes, get the haircut you so desperately need or mail that birthday card to your great-aunt Maureen (maybe this one is just me).
So you wake up (probably 20 minutes later than you intended), cringe at the hardened toothpaste stuck to the sides of your sink, think about cleaning, give up on that idea and make your way to the kitchen.
You could make a nice healthy egg-white omelet with chopped up veggies and freshly squeezed orange juice. Or you could throw some Honey Nut Cheerios into a bowl with some milk and get on with your life.
It’s Monday morning, you laid in bed too long checking Twitter and you have to stop by the post office on your way to work because your great-aunt Maureen isn’t going to live forever and dammit you’re going to get her that card if it kills you!
From: www.elkharttruth.com
