I don’t know what to write about today; I don’t feel like I have any words of wisdom to share. However, I also don’t want to break my writing streak. There is something about committing to myself and sticking to that commitment that cements the idea of the type of person I wish to be.

These past two weeks have been all about getting back into a routine. I’ve been slowly but surely getting back into a proper training routine again, been back at work, and the children have started going back to school. As I wait for the dust to settle from the whirlwind of restarted activities so we can find our rhythm again, I try to take a step back and look at my life from the outside in, which looks like a completely different life than the one I had before.

Things that irked me in my previous life were the way I used to yo-yo diet all the time; I never exercised and developed an obsession with my scale, often weighing myself three times a day. I was also not a morning person and would often not sleep well and then oversleep.

Things that I feel proud of now are that I exercise hard according to a routine, get up early in the mornings (often without an alarm), and sleep well. I haven’t weighed myself in more than two years now. I cook most of our meals from scratch using fresh ingredients, as healthy as I can.

I am not perfect, and my weight is not perfect, but I have made peace with how I look and have respect for my strong body and everything it has achieved. I feel like I lead a normal healthy life. And I know for a fact that I never want to go back to a life of dieting ever again.

However, I am not complacent. There are still things I want to do and improve upon, new areas I want to grow into, and talents I want to develop. I believe it is important to acknowledge how far one has come and be happy with that progress but not to stop growing and working on oneself.

How have these past two weeks been for you?