Day 40 | 40 Days for Change

So we’ve made it through 40 days.  That is tremendously exciting to me.

I remember sitting down to write that first post, looking at a blank food journal thinking, “What am I doing?  40 days goes through Halloween . . . I’m going to miss all the candy!”  And then I thought about how inevitably after 40 days I would somehow force myself to continue with the routine and miss out on all my Thanksgiving favorites and Christmas goodies.  For a second I thought about shelving the whole thing for another day . . .

I’m so glad I didn’t.

For much too long my weight and my health have been on hold for another day – no more.  Weight loss and inches lost aside, in the past 40 days I’ve surprised myself by being disciplined enough to say “no” to foods I would have normally said “yes” to and in the process have reclaimed some very valuable things I had forgotten.  Self-confidence.  Self-Esteem.  Energy.  Drive.  Determination.  Vision.  Creativity.  Passion.

Hard to believe I’ve gotten that much out of watching what I eat for 40 days?  I don’t know.  I’ve been following Jon Acuff’s blog and reading his book Quitter - he would suggest that when you introduce discipline into one part of your life, it has a tendency to spill over into others.  I would have to agree.

I’m excited today is day 40 . . . and I’m excited for what is to come.  I’m not quitting now.  I have more goals and more dreams to share . . . but we’ll leave those for future posts.  For now I have some results to post . . .

• Weight: no change
• Bust: -0.5 inches
  
• Chest: -0.5 inches
• Waist: -0.75 inches
• Hips: -0.5 inches
• Arm: -0.25 inches
• Thigh: -0.25 inches
• BMI: no change

How did you do?  Are you still with me?  We’ll touch base back in 10 days . . .

About christinetrevino

I love Starbucks white mochas, Rookie Blue, and long afternoons with a compelling novel. I'm a wife, a mother and a writer, but more than anything, I want to be remembered as a woman of faith.