Need Motivation? So did I.

Okay, so I know that having motivation for anything anymore seems tough. There are so many things to do online and if you are like me, you sit here for hours and hours browsing social media sites, clothing stores, and of course...Pinterest, and do not even realize how much time was wasted until its midnight and you wonder what happened to your afternoon. You sit here and tell yourself "one more hour and then I will workout". (That never happens.)

By the time you are done, you have either stuffed your face with anything and everything that you can find while looking at all of the delicious looking cupcakes, cookies, and desserts on Pinterest, pinning them all, in hopes of one day eating them yourself, OR you are drained from staring at the computer screen for hours. I don't know about you, but i have to turn the brightness on my screen the whole way down so I do not acquire a migraine.

The point is, no motivation. So in the past week I have suddenly gained this overwhelming push for myself to be happy with myself. My diet is going great (I passed on my absolute favorite chicken- broccoli- cauliflower- cheesy- garlic-oliveoil topped pizza that my mother makes homemade last night , and settled with a bowl of steamed cauliflower, broccoli, chicken with garlic powder. Let me tell you, that pizza smelled AMAZING, like it was calling my name. But guess what, i survived without eating any of it. And in return I am proud of myself). Main point here is that you can go without unhealthy things and in the long run feel better and more energized. If you don't believe me, try it for yourself.

I would like to compare my recent thoughts on a healthy lifestyle now to something rather odd but it seems to make sense in comparison. (Warning: children stop reading.) Ok. So think about this, you have a yummy piece of chocolate cake with fluffy frosting sitting in front of you that you want really bad after dinner (i do not like chocolate cake, i would rather have ten cookies but i feel like most people have a weakness for chocolate cake so i am using it as my example), when you aren't even really hungry anymore, but just seeing the cake makes you hungry. So, of course you aren't thinking about how you will feel tomorrow once you have inhaled that cake in five seconds flat and pretend that you didn't eat it since you scarfed it down so fast. You will regret it, feel groggy, and wonder why on earth you wanted the stupid cake so bad. My comparison is that you are pretty much having a "one night stand" with your junk food. Think about it. It is SO not worth it. You will feel fifty million times better about yourself if you don't eat the cake. (unless you are the type of person who does not feel this way, then I don't know what to tell you). 

So to conclude my motivational rant and rave here. Try it, just once, pass on your favorite junk food and see how great and proud of yourself that you feel afterward. You will not regret it! :) Enjoy your Saturday!