don't give up

I am entering a new phase and I've named it: DON'T GIVE UP.  We are 8 weeks away from the finish line of our SSHE Project Real.  I feel like I'm at mile 10 of the one half-marathon I did before I started growing people.  That's that brutiful part of the run when you can either start to quit or you can start to really catch your stride.

So many things have changed in the last 4 months:

• what I eat
• what I drink (no soda, no sugar, no fake sugar)
• what I feel like in my clothes
• what clothes I can wear
• my energy level
• my attitude about being healthy as a lifestyle - a permanent one
• oh yeah, that number of the scale too

What hasn't changed:

• I am still an emotional eater (wait, I think everyone is or can be)
• I still hear that dark voice whispering things I'd like to ignore; those doubts, those assumptions of negative energy - - they still creep in. 
• I still think frosting sounds delicious

I am not giving up.  So here we go team, coming around that turn.  I say MORE COWBELL.