Mindset

I have been thinking a lot about mindset the last few weeks and how that comes into this crazy weight loss ride I am on. For many years I was so tired all the time and in physical pain from the excessive amount of extra weight I carried (I have lost 173 lbs from my heaviest weight).  During all those years of lugging that weight around I just got adjusted to the idea that if I had a lot of things to do on Saturday I'd be too wore out to even go to church on Sunday and in too much pain in my legs and back. I still have weight to lose before I'm done but now my energy level is so much more then it has been in many years and the pain is pretty much all gone as well. Right now I am facing a lot of things over the next month, 3 birthdays, a graduation, and a wedding. Everything but one of the birthdays is for my kids and I am the family cake maker for everything. I love doing all of this but in my mind I keep thinking I don't know how I'm gonna make it and physically do everything that needs to be done. After doing the wedding shower this last week which included all planning, making two large cakes, and decorating then clean up - my younger daughter said well I guess we won't be going to church tomorrow mom you'll be too tired. Sad thing is a year ago that would have been right but now it wasn't right. After the shower I still came home cleaned up a ton of stuff around the house and did a work out. Needless to say we did go to church the next day. I am physically just so different now. I try to keep myself in check and make a new mindset that matches my new lease on life because many of my "I cant's" are now "I can".