"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever"

So the past few days I've been doing a fairly good job with regards to my healthy lifestyle plan. Yeah, that's right, I called it a healthy lifestyle, not a diet or eating, because I want to be more healthy overall.

Okay, pause---- I have to comment on the fact that in so many of the magazines (i.e. OK, people etc) a lot of stars - Kardashians, yeah, I'm referring to those ladies who are known for what again? Anyway, not important, the point is that a lot of famous people who have graced the

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magazine covers with headlines like "How she lost 10/20/30lbs" seem to refer what they did as a being healthy. For example, Courtney (?) - I'm not sure if it is her or not, but the one who married the basketball player and got the ridiculously good pre-nup. Yeah, so she kept referring to her weight loss - as wanting to get healthy. It is nice to hear them refer to it as that, but at the same time, I can't help but wonder about what it implies. Okay, you know what? I'm not going to go there. I was going to say how, just because you're not a size 2 or 4 or 6 doesn't mean that you're not healthy, but I'm sure she didn't mean it that way. The unfortunate thing is that there are probably some teenagers out there who will look at that and think, I'm not healthy because I'm a size 10 or 12 , when they are. But whatever, I'll leave it alone and stop this rant.

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Aaaannnnyhooo, as for my healthy eating plan ;) I've been eating much better foods - adding vegetables to my meals, trying to cut back on the crap. Making my lunch as opposed to buying a poutine (that's fries, with cheese and gravy poured on top -->divine) or a slice of pizza. I've also gone back to eating bran flakes or oatmeal (cinnamon flavoured - sorry can't stand the plain stuff) for breakfast. I think that I'll have to add yogurt to it as well - so yummy. The only real difficult thing is the fact that when my shift changes next week it'll be a little harder for me to have a proper breakfast. I guess I just have to make more of an effort to ensure that I still eat healthy. We shall see. Otherwise I've been going to the gym after work every other day - tomorrow will be a bit of a challenge, since it'll be closed by the time I get home. Still trying to think of what I will plan to do - maybe some floor exercises. But yeah, I've been going straight from work, which is a miracle seeing as I am always so tired when I come from work and normally want to do absolutely nothing except for veg and watch the shows that I taped for the day. The one really nice thing about going at that time of night is that it tends to be pretty empty (i.e. no teenagers posing and taking up valuable space on mats and giggling with each other - yeah, that's right I'm calling them out - I'll talk about that one another day). So you can get into a nice rhythm. So I'm pretty proud of myself there. I just have to keep it up. As one of my favourite workout tracks says - the Lance Armstrong Run Longer mix says "Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever"