Tomorrow Is a Dangerous Word

Tomorrow, someday, on Monday this is when we all promise to start living.

Once I complete 75 hard, after I lose 30 lbs, when I’m skinnier. 

Skinny has become more important than the experience of living. As if we cannot fully start living until our pants are smaller. 

I started this year thinking of all of the blog posts I could write to help you on your fitness journey, but something was blocking me. I didn’t want to spend another year adding to the noise. I don’t want to spend another year telling you how to fix yourself.

I will take this next year and inspire you to love yourself enough to live now!

What makes you feel alive??

• It is sitting on the couch and scrolling on your phone?

• Numbing out with trash TV and wine?

• Eating food that you hate so that you can lose weight?

• Spending hours on the treadmill even though you despise it?

• Beating yourself up in front of the mirror?

• Missing out on memories because you don’t like the way you look?

• Living on Instagram or TikTok?

• Binge eating ice cream because you feel like a “failure” when you can’t commit to your strict diet?

Most of us are waiting to start living. But I believe if we start embracing what it truly feels like to be alive, we won’t just be happier…we’ll be healthier as well.

So no, I am not going to write a blog that gives you 5 quick lunch ideas to help you lose weight. Instead, I encourage you to make your own list.

What makes you feel truly alive?? And then go do more of that. 

Here is my list:

• Daily walks 

• The sound of birds

• That first sip of coffee in a quiet house

• 15 minute BFF workouts

• Belly laughing

• A meal that fuels my body and my soul

• Sex with the love of my life

• A good book

• The smell of good food or coffee brewing

• Sunshine on my skin

• Hanging out with my 4 year old niece

• My cats

• Making memories with my family

• Being in community with amazing people

• Experiencing life outside of social media 

I encourage you to start making a list of your own, and add to it when something else comes to mind.

Stop waiting, start living!