Tuesday's Motivation

I am ever in awe for how upbeat and awesome you guys alll are :)
Good morning, girls!

Meghan, I hope you continue to feel better and great job rockin' the halfie training!  Shanda, I hope your knee heals soon or else that dancefloor is going to be missing you something fierce!  Tara, how's your halfie training going?  Mini Me, I hope your unpacking is going well and I am SOOO majorly impressed and stunned that you are already at the gym in your new town!

Something I've been thinking on lately is that you all are becoming such experts in your own weight loss and fitness journeys.  We know exactly what it is that we need to do to lose the weight.  It's a simple matter of burning calories and staying at that net calorie goal each day.  "Simple," right? When we know what we need to do to hit a goal and we don't do it as a consious decision on our part, then we feel worse or more guilty than we would have had we not known how to lose weight.  Does that rambling make sense?  I am completely guilty of this sometimes.  I know EXACTLY what I need to do to lose weight, just sometimes my bad mood overrules my desire for my goal, and BAM! Welcome to funktown, but there ain't no disco playing here. 

I would love for you all to brainstorm and share how you all overcome that.  I know I'll definitely benefit from it even if the rest of you don't :)  How do you still find success?  How do you overcome chaotic days and wild children?  How do you overcome hubbies being out of town?  How do you overcome bad moods?  How do you overcome stress?  How do you overcome emotional eating?  How do you pump yourselves up?

For me, setting really exciting goals help me to lift up and out of funktown like an arcade game claw grabbing a stuffed animal.  I love finding a new race to train for or finding a new workout to experiment with.  Also, if I want a treat I negotiate with my self (I'm nutso and talk to myself regularly :) ) and tell myself I can have it if I complete a particular workout FIRST.  I've shared this before, but buying a new workout top or something workout-related cheers me up, too (Marshalls is great for that!).  I try to overcome emotional eating by working out.  Knowing how hard I work at working out, I'm less likely to want to "throw that away" by downing junkfood/fastfood.  And a good drive in the car BLASTING high-energy workout music really loudly and singing along- that always pumps me up and makes me laugh and smile :)  I've got a phenomenal workout playlist I adore.  Let me know if you ever want me to share- I can list out some good suggestions on here.  So those are my ideas, what are yours??????