When life happens, keep making good choices!

How many of you have a decent routine on getting your stuff done, eating decent, and getting your movement in, until life happens? Oh my, I use to be on the roller coaster for years. I would start out doing well, keep up with all my appointments, chores, etc., until I either had to travel, got sick, or some out of routine part of life happened. I would then let that child brain of mine start making the decisions. I know that sounds strange, but that is what I would do. I would have an excuse to be lazy or just unmotivated to make good choices. After years of finally catching on to this, I am beginning to figure it out that this is when we need to be a little more focused. That is all it takes! To be aware that our primal brain will want us to use it as an excuse to do what is easy, comfortable, and what feels good (at that moment). If we stay a little more in tune with our mind, body, and spirit, we can override that little child brain and say no, I want to be in charge. I want to keep making good choices.

Last week, my husband had to go to the emergency room for an inflamed appendix. We were not sure what it was but headed to the hospital. Yes, it was his appendix. They also happened to find a mass, from the CT scan, on the right kidney. They scheduled surgery to first remove the appendix and then decide what to do next on the mass. While being at the hospital for 3 days, I drank lots of water and never ate anything that would be considered junk or processed. I was shocked. This would have never happened several years ago. I would have told myself that I deserved the big pretzels in the vending machine or the fast food near the hospital. No, I drank hot water (hospital was extremely cold), and waited to eat either at home late or in their cafeteria. I was impressed with the hospital's choices in the cafeteria. All kinds of healthy choices. After we checked out and came home, I was quietly celebrating to myself that I might have got behind on a few things that were needing to get done but had to cancel but at least I felt good. I cannot stress how good I felt with keeping my commitment to myself to make healthy choices 90% of the time. I want to save that 10% time of cheating on fun things such as a plate of nachos watching a basketball game LOL. Anyway, the reason I wanted to share this with you is that when we feel stress in our life, that is when we can start making choices that are simply easy, comfortable at the moment, that we think we make us feel better. It does not. This is when we really need to step it up, and do what is best choice

s for our bodies. Being fully in control of our choices will help us with the added stress from something that arises that was unplanned and help cope with it other than feeling blah and unhealthy. Of all the stress that I was feeling in the hospital and even now while anticipating another surgery to remove the mass, I am not a bit concerned about not taking care of me so I can be there for him. It is all about being aware and making good choices.