Giving myself permission

Why is procrastination so darn easy?!  This morning I really wanted to just sleep and not get up to work out.  I did sleep a little longer than I had planned, but I finally did drag my bootie up out of bed.  Got my water, made coffee and grabbed my iPhone and hopped on the elliptical.  I told myself I was just going to do 10 minutes.  (We talked about giving ourselves permission to do things that we would normally have guilt about in this week's Weight Watcher meeting, will touch on this more in a minute.)  So I thought I would give myself permission to just do 10 minutes.  Once I got on the elliptical though, I pushed myself I wanted to get at least the 18 minutes that I had gotten the last time, so that was my goal for this morning.  And you know what, I did it!  (Yay me!!!)
 

I like the idea of giving yourself permission to do or not do something that you would normally feel guilty about.  However, I think the first time that I actually do it I am going to fall back on that on a regular basis and not do things and then I will just be headed in the wrong direction.  I know that my permission would be to not work out.  Let's face it, I am not a huge fan of exercising (really...you thought all this weight just magically appeared didn't you!?) and the first time I give myself permission to NOT exercise I am doomed.  This isn't my first time doing WW.  (I know the program works, and every time I give myself permission to do it on my own, I slack off and gain all that weight back and then some.) So the moral of my story is that I will have to hold off giving myself permission to NOT do something, I believe I will be ok giving myself permission to do something for a shorter amount of time so long as I am still doing it.  Because like this morning the thought of posting a picture of my elliptical to the Facebook Group of a time that is less than the time before.  So I am sure that will be my motivator to get at least what I got the time before!  (That is what I am telling myself!)

And here as promised is my food journal from yesterday.  I had to cut the word morning off the top to show the activity points that I earned.

It's OK to give yourself permission to change things around, just be sure that it's not something that will set you up for failure.

~Kari