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I Need You To Feel Sorry For Me Again
June 29th, 2010 • 26 Comments | Leave a Comment »
Oh, no no no! Don’t get it twisted. I did NOT eat up all the Ritz Crackers in a beastly fit of hunger like the Wooly Mammoths do (although I wanted to). My non-sugary ways are causing me to have better self control with all kinds of food, not just the sugary sludge kind.
But this is what I woke up to this morning. Food all over the damn table. Packages left open, stuff half eaten, and large crumbs everywhere that probably fell out of someone’s greedy mouth. You would think the Hungry Hungry Hippos came alive and tore the house to hell. There was crap strewn all over – blankets, toys, a cardboard box (huh?). I could barely walk from the living room to the dining room.
This is what happens when I fall into a couch-coma while the Greedy Family plays. Sometimes I get questions from you lovelies asking how I “do it all”, but in reality I’m flubbing my way through work-wife-mother-blogger-maid-cook-cleaner-exerciser just like everybody else.
I am not Wonder Woman. I cannot get it right every time. I am not perfect.
Husband had to talk me down this morning. I was about to jump off Greedy Baby’s high chair and hope for a fatal injury to my big toe that would spread to the rest of my body like a moldy infection and surely end it all. No heartbeat. No brainwave activity. Just a gone-er.
But, eh, I changed my mind. I whined for a bit and got a grip.
This is what I accept about my fitness journey, too. I can’t get it right all the time. I won’t ever, because I am human – not robot; not animal instinct; not android. I accept the fact that I still have greedy pizza-eating problems and have been avoiding my next long run, because I’m a wuss when it comes to high humidity.
I am flawed.
But it’s the flaws that keep me thinking, learning, growing, re-evaluating myself, changing how I do things to improve, and getting better all the time – just never perfect.
So the Hungry Hippo tornado blew through the house during my couch-coma phase, but that does not mean I am a slob who doesn’t keep her home tidy. This is how fitness works, too. You had a bad eating day and gnawed on a 1,200 calorie slice of cheesecake, but that doesn’t mean you are doomed to never achieve goal weight.
In the title of this post I asked you to feel sorry for me, but never mind that now. I need no sympathy. Everything will be cleaned up tonight and back on track. Fitness works like that too.
Don’t have a pity party about a major food or exercising fail. Get back on track and keep moving forward. We are flawed and imperfect, but we can still achieve our goals.
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Sarah June 29th, 2010 at 12:25
Amen. I really feel you on this one.
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Amanda June 29th, 2010 at 12:33
LOVE this! I need to hear this every single day!
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Trish @IamSucceeding June 29th, 2010 at 12:46
YES! did you hear me roar AS I read this!?
thatisall
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Josie Reply:
June 29th, 2010 at 1:12 pm
That ROAR of yours echoed all the way down here to Delaware. You mean business!
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Pubsgal June 29th, 2010 at 13:13
You sure you didn’t stumble into MY living room by mistake?
Love the analogy. I remember reading a National Geographic article about Tibet, and there was a Buddhist nun who spent her days in a spiritual exercise: she spilled a pan of sand and then picked it up, grain-by-grain, and then repeating the whole thing. I was at home with my toddler and preschooler at the time, and I remember thinking, “Wow. That’s MY life, except with more bodily fluids and noise!”
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Laura Jane June 29th, 2010 at 13:14
So true. It’s all about getting right back on track.
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A Teenage Gourmet June 29th, 2010 at 13:26
Oh my gosh! I’ve actually been to your site before when I was looking for fast food nutrition info.
Thank you so much for you comment on my recent post. 
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Katie @ Health for the Whole Self June 29th, 2010 at 13:44
Love this post! I absolutely love the idea of changing how we view our flaws and mistakes – they’re actually opportunities for us to improve. Fitness doesn’t follow a straight, narrow, linear path; rather, it’s a winding journey with ups, downs, and veers to the right and left. That’s what makes the process interesting!
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Reinaldo June 29th, 2010 at 14:23
I feel bad now, because I’m the one that throws used clothing in the floor, wet towels, leave my plate on the table after eating… yet everything “magically” gets cleaned up T_T
About the fitness analogy, that’s so true. It’s a lifetime journey, we will never “graduate” from it (well, when I’ll become a healthy corpse maybe I’ll be done with it) so we can expect not being perfect all the time.
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444 June 29th, 2010 at 14:47
You should see what my house looks like. We clean it up once in a great while, but most of the time it looks like people with no pride whatsoever live here and never clean up after themselves. Have you ever seen “Clean House” with Niecy, Trish, Matt, and Mark? My nightmare would be to let them into my house and see their faces. Niecy would most likely hit my head so fast I would not even see it coming.
And you should see what I ate today, after supposedly starting a diet (and breaking it yesterday, too.) I started off great with a Special K meal bar but hours later when my version of greedy baby was screaming for no apparent reason in the car I did what the Burger King executives dream of and said, “Would you like CHICKEN? From BURGER KING?” Quieted her right down. I even said to one of the boys, “The Burger King corporation is profiting from my daughter’s behavior problem. And they love it.” Did I have to buy anything for myself? No. Did I have to buy more than one thing? No…
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Kelly @ Healthy Living With Kelly June 29th, 2010 at 17:52
Great post Josie! I struggle with idea of perfectionism and it is unrealistic. The problem with trying to be perfect is that since perfectionism is impossible it means you are always failing. That is hard and not a very fun life. So I am trying to be a lot better about accepting and embracing my imperfections.
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merri June 29th, 2010 at 20:20
Hmm that happens to my house every single day. Its definitely like that now. It looks like five hurricanes went through it. Or more. Unfortunately, roomie and I are not as great as you, and our house will probably continue looking like a bachelor pad frat house college dorm for a while longer.
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Diane Fit to the Finish June 29th, 2010 at 21:56
With seven kids at home you can IMAGINE what I have to clean up every day. Somedays I’m more on top of it than others. Great analogy to fitness and just doing our best to keep on top of everything in my life!
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Angela June 29th, 2010 at 22:30
And this is why we love you.
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FatFighterTV June 29th, 2010 at 23:22
You are so right. We are all flawed, but just gotta keep getting back up.
And man, that was a crazy Hungry Hippo tornado!
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Angelia Sims June 30th, 2010 at 0:57
That was always my downfall. One bad food day and all was lost in the Candyland maze.
Maybe I can find my way to the end after all. You give me hope gumdrop!
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Miz June 30th, 2010 at 5:44
I swear that could be my mantra many days (I AM NOT WONDER WOMAN) and definitely yesterday.
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Erin June 30th, 2010 at 9:04
Honey if you weren’t flawed you wouldn’t be you! We all love you for the caring, wacky and big hearted person you are! We can all over look and slip up day or two!
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JourneyBeyondSurvival June 30th, 2010 at 12:19
You are on a brainwave I compute. Even when we’re trying to earn our way out of the Heap-o-Dump of a house, I never say we’re stuck in it. I never give it up. I’ve just got to prioritize and plan. Then I move on when needed and damage control on bad days. Just life.
You go woman. Awesome.
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Jody - Fit at 52 June 30th, 2010 at 13:35
That is the key Josie.. just get back to it… don’t look at it as a failure but just as a moment in time & now is the time to get back to doing your thing!
I think you are awesome no matter what! Work, fitness AND 4 kids.. I would never survive!
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Nora Riley June 30th, 2010 at 14:15
I loved this post Josie! It’s *just* what I needed to hear. Thank you!!!! xo
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amanda June 30th, 2010 at 19:43
It really is about not approaching your life with an all or nothing approach. I have this problem when I eat stuff that I have deemed as “bad” food. I am like…well I screwed up now so I might as well eat whatever. Than the exercise torture will be brought on the next day. Ugggh damn vicious cycle!!
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Faith @ LovelyAsCharged June 30th, 2010 at 19:51
This is so true, and I’m finally learning to believe it. We are incredibly resilient creatures, and our weaknesses won’t break us in the end.
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GiGi June 30th, 2010 at 22:21
What, we’re flawed? No way, there is NOTHING wrong with me… BAH HA HA HA HA! Oh heck yea there is… this comment space isn’t big enough. Oh well, what can you do, you’re given what you’re given and you just have to make do!
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steena July 6th, 2010 at 20:56
“This is what I accept about my fitness journey, too. I can’t get it right all the time. I won’t ever, because I am human – not robot; not animal instinct; not android. I accept the fact that I still have greedy pizza-eating problems and have been avoiding my next long run, because I’m a wuss when it comes to high humidity.” <—– Best paragraph EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm also a wuss in the humidity. Maybe Alaska would be more up my ally?
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