As the Kari Kardio 30 Day Challenge winds down, I'm sure we've all been on and off the scales, pondering how sweating could mysteriously cause weight gain, and wondering why we weren't programmed with an intuitive understanding of what our bodies require us to eat to lose body fat.
So what challenges have you faced? My struggles included family in town, road trip, plane trip (even though I never actually boarded a plane), rugby match (beer is usually mandatory), Super Bowl, sunset toasts, not to mention the stress that comes with day to day living.
So did you draw a hard line and take no prisoners?
Maybe you were a proper mediator and found an appropriate compromise?
Or you gave your self a "day off" to "splurge" with the promise of perfection in the following days.
Whatever you did, please take a minute, and realize that no matter how you did, or what you did or didn't do, you are IN THE GAME! And that is the most important thing!
So recognize that it is a misnomer to call it a Challenge. Think of it as more of a "wellness binge" or a "veggie bender", pat yourself on the back, and be so proud of your accomplishments and achievements as your own personal victories.
Win or lose.
Be happy.
That's all there is.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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