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To anyone who is reading this, raise your hand if you have ever put back on weight that you had worked so hard to take off.  Now that the people around you are wondering why you have your hand in the air, feel free to drop it!  I am definitely one of the backsliders - wish I wasn't - but it's the truth.   Every time I am on a roll of healthiness, something happens to block me... mainly myself.  I know myself well enough to know that when life throws a wrench into your success, you have to have a plan B.  My plan B seems to be dipped in chocolate as of late.  When I got on a roll with walking and exercising, I had some heart issues that paused me pushing myself a little harder.  A few years back when I was on a really great roll with Weight Watchers, there was a bump in the road that required me taking a little sabbatical.  Most recently, we had a death in the family at the beginning of the summer that has really thrown several other things in motion that have made it super difficult to get back into the swing of my routine.  For all of the above obstacles (and so many more) I have had very valid reasons to put my healthy eating and exercising on the back burner.  I have also had an even more valid reason to stay on track - Me.
I feel better when I'm eating healthier.  I feel cleansed when I exercise and don't self sabotage with the 30 point + dessert (for you ww'ers out there) that takes me 5 minutes tops to actually devour.  When you are like myself (and my blog Partner, Brooke) and this is a life change you have decided on, there will be constant hurdles and detours.  The strength and pride come not in avoiding them, but in how you handle them.  It's unrealistic of me to say I'm going to avoid social situations where there will be food that isn't WW friendly - I love my friends and family (and food) too much for that.  It's unrealistic to think that every time I sit down and make my menu and grocery list on Sunday afternoon that nothing will ever come up to make us stray from that plan.  It is realistic however to say to myself, 'it's one day - pick yourself up during the next meal or the next day.' 
I mainly wanted to write about this topic to commiserate with anyone out there who can relate - I'm still in the backslide if I'm going to be honest.  I have put back on lbs that have taken me a long time to get off.  I've gotten myself back into my meetings and weekly weigh ins that are my way of a weekly check in - it's my first step to get back to what I know to do. 
It's such a shame that so many of my clothes have been shrinking in the laundry just when I'm getting back on track! ~

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