Pleasant Surprises

As I stepped on the scale this morning I was expecting a gain.  I even told my husband, "I'm expecting a gain." and then I laughed. He just smiled at me and watched my total bewilderment when I saw the numbers on the scale and walked over to where I write them down and saw that I LOST 2 pounds! I LOVE pleasant surprises! It happened again as I wrapped the tape measure around my belly for the forth time and asked him what the number said.  Needless to say, today has been a great day for this journey. I'm very happy with the results! I stayed pretty true to the new way of eating over the weekend even though we spent the day at Elich Gardens on Friday and had a smorgasbord of UNBELIEVABLE Filipino food my sister-in-law cooked for us. Can I just say, OH...MY..GOSH!!! It really was hard to stop eating it.

I was all set to post a "Setbacks" post today, but now I have to turn it all around.  Funny how, even though we are happy and life seems good, we tend to expect the negatives instead of hoping for the positive. Just like this morning before my walk, I weighed myself expecting a gain, but I lost.  Life is full of little negatives such as that.  They are minor, but play a significant part in how we look at things and how we think for the day.  The smallest little negative thought or saying can shape our day or our lives into something that we weren't destined to do or be.

Today is the first day of school for my girls. (We home school.) I wake them up at 6 to go for walks with me.  We walk for 2 miles and it takes us about 30-35 minutes. My oldest asked me this morning, "How can you walk so fast?".  I told her that, if you continue to think "How much longer?", "Why so fast?", "I wish I was done." then it will hold you back. I then replied, "My legs are tired too. I'm tired too, but I'm not thinking about those things. Think about things that keep your mind off of how tired you are and before you know it, we will be home." (Our son woke us up at 5 this morning.  Yes, I was tired.)  Keeping the focus positive will help you to enjoy those pleasant surprises more.  Then you aren't asking yourself, "How did that happen?!"

This was from our morning walk.  What a beautiful start to what I'm choosing to be a good day.  After all, I did get some pleasant surprises today.  ;)