The Grass Is Not Greener....Words to live by

Sometimes life gets the better of us, let's face it, only the best photos make it to Instagram, for every one status posted on Facebook five get deleted. If you were to look at my Instagram right now it would be all gym, food and happy moments, it doesn't show the broken heart, the sore muscles, the sleepless nights and the daily struggles to find my purpose and make my mark. All of this is necessary for change, and sure if you were to look at anyone else's Facebook or Instagram you would see the same thing. You want their body, their marriage, their relationship......whatever it is they have and you don't. But here's a secret they won't tell you. The grass is greenest where you water it. It's personally taken me 6 long years to realize this. There is no easy road to weightloss or success in life. I see so many quick solutions to weightloss, waist slimmers (which btw did you ever look at the Victorians once they stopped wearing corsets? It's not pretty #smooshedorgans) the detox teas ( and yes I drink them but not in the hopes of quickly dropping 10lbs like the military diet, yes I've tried that too) 

Now back to the grass. Like I said, greenest where you water it. For a long long long time my grass was brown and I blamed everyone else. It was everyone else's fault that I ate poorly, didn't workout, made goals and plans and never followed through, I wanted someone else to pay my way, pay for rewards for goals I didn't achieve and I made so many scenarios about how I was gonna accomplish my weightloss goals your head would spin, I made deadlines and watched them creep by, I always said the next Monday, next week, next month I would start, I would change, I would be serious about my weightloss journey and guess what I lied to myself. Here I am a few months shy of my 31st birthday and although I've made some changes there is always more I could do to help my fitness journey and help inspire others, the only thing I'm inspiring right now is women to expand their workout wardrobes (lol) so what's the difference now you are asking? Well I've started watering my own grass. 

At the end of the day there may be one person out there reading this, struggling with their own weightloss journey, noticing how much greener everyone else's grass is. And I'm here to tell you what you see on Facebook and Instagram is a highlight reel you are comparing to your own behind the scenes. That 20lb weight loss didn't happen overnight and if it did I guarantee its water weight and it will come back. So just remember it's a marathon not a sprint and focus on your own grass and pretty soon people will be wondering how your grass is so much greener then theirs. 😉