3 weeks

I've been back on track as far as my healthy lifestyle for about 3 weeks now. I've been eating clean and exercising daily. I found a place to box. I've always wanted to do it. I've talked about it for years actually. Now I'm doing it and I'm loving it. I will do my damnedest to find a place to box when I move to Italy.
Anyway, I am pretty excited because I really am changing my life. I was on the right track about a year or so ago. I lost 40+ lbs and was really feeling and looking good. Then life threw me a curve I wasn't expecting and I got so down in the dumps. Instead of leaning on what I knew would make me feel good in a positive way I fed off of the things that made me feel good in the worse way. Some days I was able to remember my dreams but most of those days I didn't. On those many days I have to admit it was like I was out to ruin myself with my eating habits and negative thinking. It was just a bad time for me and I'm climbing out of that now. It feels awesome. It is a conscious effort inducing decision to do so but I keep lining the correct choices up right after another and they form a straight line. It's nice and invigorating.
Whenever a negative thought tries to grip me or stop my progress I take it captive and keep stepping forward on purpose even if I'm not 100% sure there will be ground underneath my feet. I'm just doing it (like Nike-that's gotta be the best marketing slogan ever). Anyway....
Yesterday, I went to the Cherry Blossom Festival with some friends. I packed my food. It was a smart choice and easy to do. We walked around the city for at least four hours total. It was great times and in the end it too was just something that reaffirmed the new choices I'm making and effort I am putting forth. I don't care if I have to become the even organizer. There was nothing like being out in the great nature and taking in the trees and God's beauty in the Earth with good peeps. Holleration.