Day Eighty-Four - What's Stopping You from Trying to Reach Your Goal?

So I'm sitting here tonight realizing that I have now completed twelve weeks of my journey.  I feel blessed to have made it to this point.  I don't know about all of you out there, but sometimes when I set a goal I feel like it is something that I can never reach.  Especially when the goal is rather massive like losing over 166 lbs.  Then once I get started, and I hit a few of my milestones I start to realize how possible hitting this goal really is.  So for those of you who haven't started your journey yet, do you feel overwhelmed?  Does your goal seem like something that is just too big?  Maybe you are thinking "why even bother?"  I've been there.  I didn't want to try and lose this "second person" I've been carrying around out of fear that I couldn't do it.

The best way to silence the negative voices is to look around and find others who have met or are on their way to meeting their goals.  Find encouragement and strength in those who are successful.  I'm not entirely sure if I'm ripping someone else off here (so if I am, all credit for this idea goes to them), but stop looking to others who haven't started their journey or aren't willing to make a goal.  You will only move in the direction in which you are looking.  If you look down or at others in your same position, it will be much harder to move towards your goal (you might even move further away from where you want to be).  If you look up to others who are having success, you too will move up.  Read encouraging blogs or pay attention to people on social media who are constantly moving forward with purpose.  When I say I have made a lifestyle change, it isn't just my eating and exercising habits.  It's also a mindset.  It's a desire to better myself and those I come into contact with.  So here I am on this journey.  I want my story to be an encouragement to anyone who is on a path toward a goal.  What is your goal and how can I help?  Please find encouragement in these posts as I'm losing my butter half.

My calories and exercise seemed right on track as normal.  I have my twelfth weigh in tomorrow morning and I am starting to get my weekly weigh in jitters.  Come back tomorrow and see where I'm at on my journey!