Step Away From The Cupcake!

So if you didn’t gather from yesterday’s post I was having a bad day.  Yeah, it happens, even to me Mrs. Optimistic.  A friend posted about needing to see more self loathing in weight loss blogs and so here it goes, yesterday I felt like I had accomplished nothing at work or at home.  I didn't feel pretty.  And I felt like I just wasn't good enough.  Yep, this happens when you are a fatty and when you are a former fatty.

So what did I do?  I ran.   That’s right I ran!!!  Just thinking about it puts the Black Eyed Peas in my head.  Let's get is started!

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So I know I have discussed a runner's high before, totally a real thing, but I just wanted to ask you; When the last time you found an answer to any of your problems in a cupcake?  When has that cupcake ever helped you feel better about yourself and helped you deal with your insecurities? 

If you have found answers to any of lifes questions in a cupcake either I suggest you stop your drug use (ha ha) or I need the phone number to the magical baker you buy them from, I would like the recipe.  Food, any food, is good and satisfying but it is not an answer to any of your problems, unless your problem is hunger, and even then you need to ask yourself;  Are you hungry or just bored or sad?

See running gives me time to myself and time to think.  I often run without music so that the only thing I can hear is me and the pounding of my feet on the ground.  Running can be spiritual (oh I hate that "f"ing word but it is true) and it can be therapeutic. 

Can't run?  Great then walk.  And I don't mean be a jackass like my neighbor and put on a full jogging suit and walk a mile and act like you did something big today.  I mean get out of your house and walk for hours.  Take a path a trail you have seen while driving and find out where it goes.  Take yourself on an adventure and choosing a new path is always fun. 

Go ahead and take the difficult path because it will have greater rewards, this is true with running and in life.

I am working on tomorrow's blop already, and you want to read this one because it will have a shopping list.