Mental Health

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel as though I am mentally exhausted from this challenge.  We are halfway through it and I am beginning to lose the initial excitement that kept me really motivated.  I am hoping I can keep pushing forward.  

This challenge has opened my eyes to negative habits and tendencies I didn't know I had.  On the positive, it has made me see that I do have inner strength and discipline.  This week in particular, I am realizing that this challenge requires an enormous amount of mental strength.  Various circumstances have come up this past week that have added an increase level of stress to my life.  I feel I do a decent job with managing stress, but this week I am coming up short.  It hit me that I am probably more uptight because I can't turn to food to ease the tension in my life.  Surprisingly I look forward to the time I get to workout, knowing it will help lift my spirits.  I know that if I continue to do these hard things, they will get easier, and hopefully become second nature.

I have always loved this quote:

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.” 

― Heber J. Grant

To quote Frasier Crane, "wishing you all good mental health."